TheRodinhoods Mumbai Open House (19 July, 2014) – LIVE Coverage!!

Hello Rodinhooders!!

 

The stage is set for TheRodinhoods Open House in Mumbai. The NSE auditorium will be filled with enthusiasm, energy, excitement and entrepreneurial spirits, once again! The source of all – Hundreds of Rodinhooders who’ll be gathered here and will be eagerly waiting to be a part of jamming, some boot-tapping, understand the Business of Bollywood and the incredible power of crowd-funding, take part in the exciting CAS discussions, witness the matchmaking and the launch of a venture.

 

 

Stay tuned – I will be bringing you all updates right from the venue, LIVE 🙂

 

 

Plugged-in @TRHOH

 

Shawn & Samarth are on the stage; ready, and all set to fire up the atmosphere at NSE auditorium. A little about them – Samarth is known for his extract and pure vocals and Shawn for his vibrant and ecstatic guitar and keyboard tunes. 

 

 

All eyes on the duo!

 

Here’s a poem for them –

 

The Mumbai Rodinhoods Open House kick starts,
An amazing display of talent by Shawn and Samarth.
Energy in the atmosphere, freshness in our mind,
Every moment of their performance was worth!

 

Pure bliss. Thank you, Shawn and Samarth 🙂

 

– Next up on stage, is a person, who is an inspiration to many and a ‘guru’ for all, has a huge fan-base and has done his post-graduation from ‘Marwadi Business School!’ By now, you must have already guessed who the person is. The world has gone frenzy playing his company’s games – He is our very own Rodinhood – Alok Kejriwal!

 

 

It’s a treat to hear him speak – always.

 

My Cute Office Launch –

 

The Rodinhoods Open House has served as an amazing platform for a number of budding entrepreneurs to launch their start-ups, put it in front of the world and get some brilliant feedback from the participants. Today’s OH will mark the launch of ‘My Cute Office’. That’s Abhishek Barari in the picture below talking about his ‘cute’ venture.

 

 

-Want to monetize an office space that is currently not being utilized?

 

-Tired of running a startup from coffee shops and looking for a nice, cost-effective office space?

 

My Cute Office to your rescue!! This cute venture is not going to leave anyone unimpressed. The world will love it. Abhishek looks delighted with the feedback that he’s got during this session. We wish him all the best 🙂

 

KeyChat –

 

Next up is an interesting segment – The Business of Bollywood. Presenting, KeyChat session with Rohit Sobti, Vice-President, Licencing & Merchandising, Yash Raj Films Pvt. Ltd. Yes, we’ve added some Bollywood tadka in today’s OH for you guys. But, we won’t be talking about movies! Then what are we gonna talk about? Stay tuned…

 

 

 

 

What a vibrant conversation! We spoke about the various revenue sources for Bollywood movies. Licencing movies abroad, merchandising movie products, in-film advertising, ‘kiddifying’ the movies to target that segment, brand extensions, etc. 

 

Lending a brand is easy, doing to damage-control is difficult!

 

Boot-tapping

 

Yes, you heard it right. However, we’re not gonna dance. But an amazing story that Yogesh Karikurve is going to share with us about his life promises to sweep everyone off their feet. We’re all eagerly waiting to hear from him.

 

 

 

 

Two-time MBA, worked with big multinational companies, big roles, teacher in MBA schools, traveled lots of places. Leaving a fat pay-package and a respectable designation of a senior executive is not easy. Especially when you’re absolutely clueless about what’re you going to do for living. Yogesh did it, found and followed his passion effortlessly.We are all inspired! Oh, by the way, Yogesh made us dance too! Thank you, Yogesh 🙂

 

 

 

 

Matching Making

 

Santa- Mere paas tech ka background hai, coding ka knowledge hai. Tere paas kya hai??
Banta- Mere paas business idea hai!

 

Wow, this looks like an awesome combination. Presenting, in today’s OH, right now, with over 400 eyeballs witnessing this matchmaking – Chetan Kaushal, who’s a fantastic techie, is looking for a co-founder with a business idea.

 

 

 

Animday Awards Launch – Mukesh Dube

 

 

Mukesh did a tea-business, got caught by his dad selling tea, had to shut down. Enrolled for CS exams, failed. Did a job, got fired. Opened his own VFX and Animation company, good business. Did a campaign ‘Save The Future’ for India Post with support of Maharashtra Government on ‘Save the Girl Child’ & ‘Save The Environment’ which got booked in Limca Book of Records. Mukesh’s dad is an electrician. A brilliant entrepreneurial story!

 

The incredible power of crowd-funding

 

“Creativity surrounds us but funds restrict us. I aspire to find new ways to support creative groups/individuals in India” – Rajat Das, co-founder, TheHotStart

 

Have a business idea but don’t have funds? Don’t worry. We’ve got Rajat Das amongst us. He’s one of the co-founders of thehotstart and he’s come all the way from Delhi to share his insights on the incredible power of crowd-funding. His session promises to be exciting.

 

 

 

Wow, Rajat so easily explained a way to address the problem of lack of funds that every aspiring entrepreneur faces. Some takeaways regarding crowd-funding –

 

• Steps – Create an idea, receive funding, distribute rewards

 

• Opportunity for creative minds to raise funds

 

• A great validation point for business ideas

 

• Resources can be routed to the right ideas

 

 

Thanks, Rajat!

 

Create a startup –

 

This has been one of the most-awaited segments ever since it started in the Mumbai OH earlier this year. Two ideas have been shortlisted for today’ OH for Alok and the audience to blow up, build upon and help take it forward. Power to Audience!

 

• First up is Farid, founder of GossHip, an ‘anonymity in the network’ app

 

 

 

 

• Next on stage is Rohan Parmar, founder of ‘Heera Bazaar’, the app

 

 

 

 

At the end, two mompreneurs shared their amazing business story with the Rodinhooders. 

 

 

 

 

 

That’s all, folks. Thanks for joining. But that’s not all. Stay tuned for lovely photographs and videos and amazing blog posts about today’s OH. Till then, take care and keep up the entrepreneurial spirits! 🙂

 

Check out all the photographs here.

 

Also, don’t forget to watch this video. All the Rodinhooders are on their feet, dancing, the auditorium was guzzling with energy!