Schmidt to give start-up tips on India visit

Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt on his maiden two-day visit to India next week plans to give management tips to start-up entrepreneurs.  

Software industry body Nasscom is organising an interactive session between start-up entrepreneurs and Schmidt on 20th March, as part of its Nasscom for Start-up initiative, to be moderated by Nasscom President Som Mittal.

Nasscom would use the opportunity to announce its programme for mentoring start-up ventures.

On its Facebook page, Nasscom for Start-ups, the industry body has been exhorting entrepreneurs to post questions for Schmidt, which would then be directed to the tech czar. On getting started, future of technology, or how to get your business mojo up, Schmidt would take them head on, the Facebook post said.

Another incubator, Kochi-based The Start-up Village, too has been running a social campaign, giving them an opportunity to meet Schmidt in Delhi.

Interestingly, Schmidt had joined Google Inc in 2001 when still a start-up from Silicon Valley, and remained its CEO till 2011. Prior to Google, Schmidt was chairman & CEO of Novell, and CEO of Sun Microsystems.

As part of the itinerary, Schmidt would attend the Big Tent Activate summit that the search giant is holding in India for the first time that focuses on issues relating to internet and its impact on society at large.

Interestingly, soon after his India visit Schmidt is expected to fly off to Myanmar, another fledgling internet market - with 60 million online users – that is in the process of opening up.

 
Earlier in an interview to The Guardian, Google India head Rajan Anandan dwelled on the need for improving the internet infrastructure in the country for it to have an impact on healthcare delivery, job creation, and delivery of public services. India is expected to have 600 million internet users by 2020, from current level of 150 million.