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VMAG hosts second Inspire weekend
Trusting your instinct and having the courage to follow is where most successful entrepreneurs in the world start from. Two of the speakers in event, Subu Shrestha and Dipendra Tandon, did just thatThe second iteration of VMAG Inspire Fridays was held at Radisson Hotel’s Terrace Garden on September 23. The event featured five inspirational figures—Bir Bahadur Ghale, Founder of Hydro Energy Concern; Hajuri Bista, Proprietor of Hajuri Khadya Udhyog/Navaras Pickle; Khem Raj Lakai, CEO of GATE College; and Subu Shrestha and Dipendra Tandon, Cofounders of Business Advantage.
At the event, the speakers spoke about their entrepreneurial journey and the challenges they faced. Later, they took turns answering questions asked by the members of the audience. The speakers mainly spoke about how persistence and willpower are the chief ingredients of success.
According to Hajuri Bista, persistence was all she had to depend on when she started her venture from a scratch in her late thirties. She talked about how on many occasions people had told her that she was too old to start a business. Three decades later, she employs 20 women and her business is thriving.
Trusting your instinct and having the courage to follow is where most successful entrepreneurs in the world start from. Two of the speakers in event, Subu Shrestha and Dipendra Tandon, did just that. Bored by the mundane nature of their nine-to-five jobs, the duo, who wanted to do something bigger and something on their own, took a risk by quitting their jobs to try a hand at entrepreneurship, and started their own advertising company. They talked about trusting gut instinct and the importance of taking risks.
Bir Bahadur Ghale, a social entrepreneur, has made it his mission to power far-flung villages with his company Hydro Energy Concern. Through his company, Ghale builds micro hydro plants, and has thus empowered the villagers of many villages. He did what successful entrepreneurs do, recognised a void that’s not being filled, and came up with a viable solution and filled the need.
Khem Raj Lakai talked about how in a country like ours, which regards conventional education as the only way to become successful in life, people needed to understand the importance of vocational education, too. Armed with a vocational education, which equips people with practical skills, he said, people can then turn into entrepreneurs. After the speaker shared their experiences, the floor opened for a Q&A session, during which the audience—comprising a mix of aspiring as well as established entrepreneurs—asked questions and sought answers to their doubts regarding their own ventures.