Junior World Entrepreneurship Forum-Pakistan

Shaping the world of

2050 with an

Entrepreneurial Impact

The World Entrepreneurship Forum is a global think-tank of entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, experts and politicians, chosen for their entrepreneurial achievements and their commitment to society. As of 2010, 110 members of 55 countries are active in the World Entrepreneurship Forum

The think-tank aims at preparing a more entrepreneurial world, creating wealth and social justice through 4 key levers:

• Creating Innovative and High-Growth Companies to create millions of jobs around the planet
• Disseminating Entrepreneurship at the Base of the Pyramid to alleviate poverty and create new markets
• Shaping Entrepreneurial Cities, being tomorrow’s centers for innovation
• Implementing Entrepreneurial Education to disseminate entrepreneurial mindset, skills and competencies throughout society, on a lifelong basis

As a result of its works, the World Entrepreneurship Forum publishes an Annual White Paper, aimed at disseminating its findings and influencing the global agenda of entrepreneurship.The World Entrepreneurship Forum is active in 55 countries, through Regional Chapters, its members, and Junior World Entrepreneurship Forums, mobilizing hundreds university students around the world. Each year, through the “Entrepreneur for the World Award”, the World Entrepreneurship Forum recognizes outstanding international entrepreneurs for their entrepreneurial achievements and their commitment to society. It has been founded in 2008 by EMLYON Business School, France, KPMG France, joined in 2010 by Nanyang Technological University and Action Community for Entrepreneurship.

The Junior Forums

Junior World Entrepreneurship Forum is a junior chapter of The World Entrepreneurship Forum (WEF) based in Lyon, France. The Junior Forums are the students’ version of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, and bring together hundreds of students from different countries for events lasting four days. The aim of the Junior Forum is to empower the younger generation of students with entrepreneurial skills for the future. Currently they are 10 chapters of the junior league in the world, with Pakistan being one of the countries.

Last year’s Forums gave the students the chance to meet successful entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, academics and politicians, and work together to write their own White Papers on the main Forum’s four topics as will Pakistan do so this year. They then coordinated their findings with the other Junior Forums, and sent delegations to the main Forum to present their findings. 500 young people took part in events in China, India, Singapore, and France in summer 2010.
Pakistan Junior Forum will also nominate two students to go to Singapore this year to participate in the World Entrepreneurship Forum.

This year Pakistan is set to host its inaugural Junior Forum at Lahore, Pakistan in July and hopefully will participate in full range of activities.

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Review of Meetup with Kamran Rizvi

After a Mega event of Entrepreneurial Conference "Tiecon 2010" at Royal Palm on October 30, 2010, A meetup with Kamran Rizvi was arranged by a very talented guy Mr. Iftikhaar Hussain at Royal Palam Golf and Country Club, Lahore on October4, 2010. We were 3 friends from CIIT,Lahore.The timing was 2.30-5pm. We reached at 2.20pm.. The environment was great. All the sitting arrangement was properly organised. Good registration process confirmation at the entry. After the entry we had warm welcome from the organizer of the event. Before the meetup time started we had a nice networking before the session. As the formal time began all the participants were seated properly.

Business Ideas Competition:

In a very short time we were given a task of preparing a business plan just in 10-15 mins. For this purpose all the students were selected randomly to form a team. A team was formed with all the students who didn't know eachother. A team of 4-6 members was formed and total of 5 teams were formed. so, we had a great time of brainstorming with those who were having total different mindsets. 

 

 

After just 15 mins we were asked to present that business plan with helping material(A chart  containing name of business, the logo and the message)..So, it was too much difficult as we had to discuss, dicide a plan and then make a chart and display all the idea on it and present it in front of all. The most interesting thing in this activity was that the judge will call the presenter of his own choice. So, this made it more interesting as every team member was trying to have a full grip on idea. Some of the ides were

1-Business Hospital

2-Maasi

3- Success Institute

4-Unleashing Potential

After presentation everybody was admired of having good ideas and good presentation because it were all created in just 10-15 mins with unkown team members.And we learned how to interact with like minded as well as different minded people, About the conflicts and how to manage conflicts with unlike minded people(Conflict Management).

Speakers Discussions:

There were 3 speakers including the main body Kamran Rizvi and two other speakers Dr. Amjad and Professor Naeem Abidi

1-Kamran Rizvi Talk:

                        Kamran Rizvi started the talk with 3 main points of making an organization successful

                        i-   Profitalbility: How your work increase any organization profitability

                        ii-  Growth: How there would be growth in that organization with your decission

                        iii- Sustainability: How sustainalbility of any organization increases with your help.

To be successful as there is no shortcut to success so there is need of thorough study. He said," If you want something from any firm, study that organization,research and get what you can do to make that organisation better. You do research, meet employee of that organization to know more about that organization, and after doing such home work then you are capable to go for meeting with the executives which will give positive results.

He added, "If you can't give any tangible thing then you don't need to waste your time as well as others time".

2- Professor Naeem abidi:

                        He talked about personal development. How a person can develop himself to be successful.He added a quotation

"Tum ne Chaha hi nahi Chahnay walo ki tarah( You didn't love me as a lover)" so how it is possible that you can achieve a thing which you never loved. To achieve a thing you need to lose one.As if a man is thirsty he tries to get water.So, without the feelings and passion nobody can be succesful.Naeem sahb has run lots of zero business investment projects in pakistan and specially in Multan city where there almost no support to such persons.Some of his running projects are

1- A training Company

2- A psychological Institute

3-A security company

A very informative thing is that he made a website which is given below. In this website he has uploaded several youtube videos of different scholars of different foreign universities which are paid lectures. But you can access them for free just after registration on the floowing website

                        www.sforsuccess.com

3- Dr Amjad:

            Dr. Amjabd is from Akhuwat which is first investment organization in pakistan which provide interest free loans. His idea was to diminish poverty. He said its only brotherood that can completly diminsh poverty in Pakistan. If top 50% people support lower 50% people there will be no poverty.He started the organization with first interest free loan of Rs.10,000 and now the total number of loans of Akhuwat reached to Rs.1 billion.He shared the website of Akhuwat with following address

www.akhuwat.org.pk

After this a session of Q&A started. kamran rizvi gave an example of P&G of how they started there business. He told that P&G started there business with candle and soap because there was need of that time.So providing solution to a problem will led your business towards success. He added,if you start the business of soap and candle even todayyou can earn a lot because of current Pakistan's loadshedding problems and hiegene problems.

He gave the final advice

            A-

            1- Don't work with people you don't trust.

            2- Work there where there are trustd people.

            3- If you don't find such place create it.

            B- Secret to change is that if you work good talent will follow you and the most important asset today for any firm is the Human Resource

            C- You should be clear about you vission and passion .

In the end, it was a great session and i learned a lot. Thanks to the organizers and the speakers.Special thanks to Itfikhaar Hussain on arranging such a great informative event and to Kamran Rizvi for giving time from your very busy life. Had a group photo at the end.