UMT organized Startups today-Enterprise Tomorrow in collaboration with IBA Karachi. A total of 165 students from 4 universities have registered in this event. A big percentage of the students were from UMT studying the course on entrepreneurship, 13 students joined us from UVAS, 7 from Superior University and 1 from University of South Asia. Ms.Sundas Nazir from CENTIN moderated the session.The first keynote speaker was Professor Dr. Shahid Qureshi, who is currently director of Center for Entrepreneurship Development at IBA Karachi and has done his Phd in Entrepreneurship from Germany.
The highlights of his talk were the emphasis of clarity of vision (e.g. it should be noble, timeless and correct) while thinking about an entrepreneurial idea and five principles of Effectuation theory of Entrepreneurship that negate the basic assumption, (i.e. having resources at the first step), about starting any business. The second keynote speaker was Professor Dr. Manfred, who is a visiting faculty member at IBA-Karachi and has done his PhD in Entrepreneurship from Germany.
