#1. Volunteers: They deserve beyond a standing ovation. They have not only just volunteered- they passionately executed – Awesome job, and hats off.
#PNgrowth thank you volunteers @sharads@skiranipic.twitter.com/Yswrgk81c0
— Prabakaran Murugaiah (@prabamurugaiah) January 10, 2016
#2. Participants: They are the best part of this program. Everywhere there is energy, and everyone wants to meet someone new. Great listeners who are wholeheartedly and passionately pursuing their dreams. Everyone of them will be a great leader and make India very proud. They think, live, breathe, every moment about how they can make a meaningful difference to someone’s life. Their ideas are amazing and are solving very specific problem.
Good to see so many first time entrepreneurs with over 15 years of professional experience. The domain knowledge brings completely different value to the ecosystem. Instead of building completely different and disruptive ideas, they are optimizing and creating an incremental value by solving problems in the current system itself. These are big opportunities especially with country over a billion population, great opportunity for many category leaders.
What does it look like when 200 founders are developing empathy? #PNgrowthpic.twitter.com/Ckqe0RhgMI
— Prasanna K (@prasanna_says) January 8, 2016
#3. Speakers & Coaches: Amazing delivery. Very interactive and precise. Rather than being on the stage, they walked around showed us that the were with us and available within arms-reach. I enjoyed every second.
Selfie with the lead anchor @pallavn and the team !! #PNgrowth@prasanna_says@avinashraghava@sharads@ahimanikyapic.twitter.com/ZGfeTiAVmE
— Manjula Sridhar (@manjulogic) January 9, 2016
#4. Program: It was planned, designed and delivered well by accomplished entrepreneurs and top academicians. The simple and easy workflow streamlined thoughts and reiterated quickly, brilliant!
#PNgrowth thank you volunteers @sharads @skirani pic.twitter.com/Yswrgk81c0
— Prabakaran Murugaiah (@prabamurugaiah) January 10, 2016
#5. Discipline: There was Pin drop silence many times during the workshop- hard to do with 200 high energy founders in one room. No cell phone rings, no side conversations, or laptop clicks. It was a bold idea to use whistling many times to override the energetic tea breaks
Folks at work @PNgrowth #pngrowth pic.twitter.com/0cgLRLYIBc — Ankur Agarwal (@annkur) January 9, 2016
#6. Campus: It was inspiring and majestic. Every inch was sparkling clean and amazing positive vibes everywhere. The choice of this campus was brilliant as it was designed and built to create great leaders. Thanks to Infosys for the opportunity. #7: Food: There was a question once about how many of you are still following your new year resolution diet and only few hands were up. I think most of us took diet as one of our resolutions and we gave up these three days. Believe me, it was hard to resist.
#PNgrowth bootcamp days 3. @Ashwinizer @arvindax pic.twitter.com/0WcDDwl3wM
— Prabakaran Murugaiah (@prabamurugaiah) January 10, 2016
#8. Brutal Feedback: Many may disagree about the first day “Brutally Strong” feedback, but it was a needed one to push out of the comfort zone and give more power to the peer-to-peer learning. The next two days were completely unbiased and brutally honest discussions. We are warriors and came here to train to win the battle. If we get hurt ,we don’t look at our wounds or worry about the bleeding-we will swing our sword stronger and push the enemy back so we took it in the right spirit.
#pngrowth conducted a Campfire session on growth hacking pic.twitter.com/Ig0QUGF7sG
— Ankur Agarwal (@annkur) January 8, 2016
#9. Schedule: The program was designed for 16 hours a day, from 6 am to 10 pm. After that we caught up on burning issues or socialized beyond midnight and showed up at 6 am next day. We are all entrepreneurs and used to the 18 hours days, so thanks to the organizers for your confidence in us to give our all.
#10. Giving back: The camp is giving back to the country by highly successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders to create more winners and more jobs. It refueled and reignited the startup engine for a long journey.We all have an opportunity to give back every day by sharing the knowledge and mistakes or feedback to the fellow entrepreneurs as participants. What I’ve realized in my last 8 years as an entrepreneur is giving back is actually getting back in bigger value. (Mostly in the form of knowledge of do’s and don’t’s.) We all have an obligation to support the great initiatives of iSpirt to make India a great nation.
Guest post by Prabakaran “Praba” Murugaiah, TechFetch.com
