Recently, 149 women from 15 nations gathered in Delhi, India, for the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN) to learn, network and do business. Although the conference only lasted two days, in the words of one attendee, “That was enough time to cram in a lifetime of knowledge.” I agree. Here are five things I learned at the conference.
1. India is a fast-rising entrepreneurial global player. It is one of only three nations in the world with a “super computer.” Twenty percent of Fortune 500 companies have research facilities there. In a nation of 1.22 billion people, India has more than 121 million Internet users, the third highest in the world, and over 919 million mobile phone users (the second most in the world), making mobile marketing key to reaching most of the nation’s consumers.
This is good news, obviously for the Indians, but also for businesses, large and small, across the globe. Several years ago, Dell chairman and CEO Michael Dell said, “The next billion Internet users coming online will largely live in emerging countries, such as Brazil, Russia, India and China.” Steve Felice, Dell’s president and chief commercial officer, said these BRIC nations, plus Turkey and Poland, will “give birth to middle class growth, which spurs consumption.” All of which makes them a potentially appealing market for entrepreneurs.
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