“Challenges,
challenges, challenges
Difficulties, difficulties, difficulties …
Avoid
repeating such words; otherwise they will become the part of your life”
said by
Hammad Siddiqui-a blogger, social media strategist and Deputy Country Director
at Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), during Global
Entrepreneurship Week celebration.
In all over
world, this week is being celebrated as Global Entrepreneurship week (GEW); the
reason to celebrate it, is to promote entrepreneurial activities in the region.
Every year,
this week of November brings enterprises, entrepreneurs and future
entrepreneurs on one platform, where they share different ideas with each
other.
In Karachi, GEW
was organized by CIPE and celebrated at Marriott, where the lead speakers of
the session were Hammad Siddiqui and Talha Ansari (Director at Xenith PR &
event). Later, the session joined by Kamal Faridi (CEO at 22 four), Fahmina
Arshad (Instructor at Beaconhouse School System), faculty members of IBA and
others.
Throughout
the session, different thoughts were shared by mainly the students from IBA
& Indus Valley school of Art. Not only this, but their queries were taken
on the floor and addressed by the lead trainers.
Some of the
points which were shared by Hammad Siddiqui related to the theme of the event
are:
ü
There
are two kinds of persons in the world, map creator and map follower.
ü
Entrepreneur
creates his road map himself.
ü
There
is 90% risk in own business and 10% in job.
ü
Pakistan
has the lowest entrepreneurial activity in South Asia.
ü
There
are almost 110 multinational companies in Pakistan but no of entrepreneurial
opportunities.
