Building India’s most valuable growth ecosystem for small businesses
PayUMoney, an online payment solution by PayU India, is set to hold an inspiring event called “The Startup Growth Masterclass” for the first time in Hyderabad. It is a part of the series of high value events for small businesses that PayUmoney is organizing in different states all across India. The major highlight of the event happening in Hyderabad is the launch of “India Growth Drivers”, an initiative by which PayUmoney is building India’s most valuable growth ecosystem for small businesses.India Growth Drivers will also have an online presence as a platform where Startups and small businesses can engage, network and grow faster. The forthcoming event is to be held on June 6, 2015, at IIIT-H Foundation, Gachibowli, Hyderabad.
Paritosh Sharma, Head- SME business, PayU Money, commented, “We are incredibly excited for The Startup Growth Masterclass which we will be hosting for the first time at Hyderabad. We are partnering with the local small business ecosystem to ensure that they get maximum visibility and support and growth. We strongly believe, their growth is our growth. We are looking to partner with inspired startups, women entrepreneurs, SMEs mostly in Tier II and Tier III cities as our brand ambassadors to grow their local ecosystem. In view of this, our next events are already scheduled to be held in Coimbatore and Chennai. Our mission is to build India’s most valuable small business ecosystem where small businesses thrive and grow.”
The Startup Growth Masterclass will be a high impact 4 hour workshop led by seasoned professionals who have experienced growth across mobile apps to web technologies and in traditional offline businesses too. At the event, the experts will sharekey case studies and interesting examples of how small businesses around the world have grown without spending a lot of money.The Masterclass will also have angel investors sharing what growth metrics they look for before investing into startups.
PayUMoneyis using its own growth philosophy while hosting this event. Instead of spending money on spread-everywhere marketing, ithas partnered with existing ecosystems across India. This partnership ensures that the local ecosystems get the maximum impact, gain visibility and grow while PayUMoney“India Growth Drivers” becomes the enabler of this growth.
Some of the key partners at the event are 50K Ventures, IIIT-H Foundation, f1 Studioz, Learnmor, Startup Hyderabad and Unltd. Hyderabad. The first Masterclass at Hyderabad has clocked registration of more than 130 Startups which occurred within 10 days of announcing the event, without spending any money on marketing.
This idea of the growth masterclass was inspired by the challenges being faced by most startups and small businesses to grow as most of them do not have large marketing budgets. With this event, all startups and participants become partners in growth!