Startup Saturday with Mr. Sameer Desai in Mumbai

The session is scheduled to be held at S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research on 12thNovember

Pune, 11th November, 2016 (GPN) : After done with your currency conversions, you can look forward to an exciting Saturday when Mr Sameer Desai, Founder and the Chief Strategy Officer of the Brand Launch Centre (BLC), shares his unique insights with the participants of the Startup Saturday session at Mumbai’s S P Jain Institute of Management & Research. At the event, Mr Desai, a well-known name in start-up mentoring in Western India, will speak on his favourite topic and something that every entrepreneur today is keen to learn about – “the brand strategy”. If you are an entrepreneur or a young mind with innovative business idea/s, you can dare to miss Mr Desai’s session at your own risk!

Mr. Sameer Desai Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Brand Launch Centre (BLC)- Photo by GPN Network

Mr. Sameer Desai Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Brand Launch Centre (BLC)- Photo by GPN Network

BLC, a specialized start-up mentoring wing under the aegis of Seagull Advertising, is a first-of-its-kind Start-up Launch Accelerator set up to help consumer-focused Start-ups to go to market like any MNC, through a well-structured process phrased appropriately as Wings for Profit™. Working with numerous successful start-ups under BLC, Mr Desai is a well-known expert on brand building and mentoring.

Startup Saturday, Mumbai (SSMUM) is a session organised by the Headstart Network Foundation, a Sec 25 company, established in 2008. The upcoming SSMUM is its 103rd edition, the central theme of which is Branding Basics for Start-ups. The programme will cover marketing and branding challenges of the fledgling start-ups including Brand Strategy, Brand Design and Brand Communication. The session will begin with an introductory session at 2:30 PM, followed by Mr Sameer Desai’s speech at 3:15 PM. A Knowledge-Sharing session will follow that will continued till 6:00 PM, where experts in multiple domains from the industry will be joining.

Speaking about the need to build strong consumer brands in the country, Mr. Sameer Desai says, “There is no death of individuals with creative and innovative ideas that can be turned into profitable businesses. Unfortunately, not every idea gets converted into a sustainable, game-changing business proposition. What is needed for our start-up community is a focussed way of managing all the risks and hurdles that come in the way of brand building. Indians entrepreneurs are full of innovative ideas and BLC offers to provide them the wings and a sustainable position that these ideas deserve. All that is needed for these start-ups is an expert direction so that they can prevent any sort of breakdown. BLC not only helps these start-ups in taking the right path, but it helps them in creating a successful and strong brand name with great recall value.”

Also, at SSMUM, addressing the gathering on the subject of Brand Design will be Ms Urvi Bole, Director (Design), Seagull Advertising, who will offer valuable insight into the design elements of branding to the budding entrepreneurs.

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Sachin Murdeshwar
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