August 18, 2012, Bangalore
Third edition of SportsMeet was a huge success - most engaging and attended edition so far. The SportsMeet August event of How to kick start your sports venture, attracted a number of entrepreneurs, management students, and sports enthusiasts.
Vishal Gupta used his venture Sports365 as a model to give the audience an insight about How to kick start your sports venture. With a vision of building and fostering the spirit of sports and fitness activities in the country, Sports365 aims in making sports viable and sustainable for the masses.
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As an e-commerce venture for sports equipments, consumables, and infrastructure, Vishal Gupta started Sports365 along with Tennis maestro Mahesh Bhupathi as Director, and Chandra Sekhar Reddy. However, with time they also started offline marketing.
One of their specialties includes ‘consultative selling’ where the products are provided to the consumer after a discussion on their requirements. Sports365 is aiming high with a long term goal of providing a support system for young and unknown talents and roping in some popular sporting figures in the company.
Earlier, the event kickstarted with TENVIC representative Shruti Venkat. TENVIC, co-founded in 2011 by legendary cricketer Anil Kumble, strategist and entrepreneur Dinesh Kumble, and international Table Tennis player Vasanth Bharadwaj, with a vision to develop a sporting ecosystem and culture in India, whereby every Indian is involved in sports.
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They have initiated work at multiple levels:
Grassroot - reaching out and training young talents in schools Lessons from Sports - using the knowledge gained from sportsmen to train people of other professions Sports branding - finding new avenues to reach customers and brand sportsmen) and Sports retail
At the moment they have focused on Cricket, Table Tennis, Chess and Badminton. At grassroot level, they have been able to start programs in various schools, mainly in Southern India and NCR. The programs contents are created by reputed players for each disciplines and kids who have shown promise are given opportunities of intensive training with their coaches to take their talent to the next level.
They have also used the experience of sportsmen in areas like ‘pressure handling’ and conducted training programs for people of different professions. TENVIC harbors in-house coaches, mentors and psychologists for their programs.
Sports meet happens on every 3rd Saturday of the month at Christ University, Bangalore.
