TiE Inc

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• TiE Inc
• May, 2006
• Fostering Entrepreneurship Globally

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About TiE

• Chartered by individuals in Silicon Valley, in
  1992 TiE has come to represent Talent, Ideas
  and Enterprise
• 44 chapters in 9 countries including 19 in US,
  13 in India, 3 in Canada, 2 each in Pakistan,
  Australia and UK, 1 each in Malaysia, Dubai
  Singapore
• Over 1400 CMs 10000 members world-wide
• gt 500 events held world-wide with gt 70,000
  attendees
• Over 135 Sponsors world-wide across all chapters
• TiE Inc (TiE) incorporated in August 2002, is
  governed by a 15 member Board of Trustees (BOT)
• Five committees setup, each chaired by a Trustee
  broad based chapter representation bringing
  wealth of experience Separate India initiative

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TiE - Philosophical Framework

• Create an open, inclusive, and transparent
  organization
• Provide positive leadership role models
• Emphasize value-creation through informed
  entrepreneurship
• Maintain high ethical standards
• Display rigorous, intellectually honest behavior
• Pursue a modern, scientific, and forward looking
  approach
• Remain socially responsible
• Disdain pettiness, divisiveness, and corruption
• Strive to remain an idea and value-driven
  organization

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Where We Are Today 10 Years of Accomplishments
Some figures represent best estimates
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Evolution of TiE
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TiE Organization Structure

• TiE Inc
• Board of Trustees (BOT)
• Executive Director
• Management
• TiE Asia (India) Directorate
• TiE Chapter
• President
• Chapter Board of Directors
• Chapter Executive Director
• Chapter management
• Corporate structure well defined
• Governance at both Global Chapter level

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TiE Inc BOT

• BOT are elected by chapter presidents for a term
  of two years
• Role of the TiE BOT is to
• drive the organization strategically providing
  global vision and defining value proposition
• provide framework guidelines within which
  chapters can operate while maintaining their
  individuality
• manage and grow the chapter network
• manage the TiE brand and set standards
• Chapters are separate legal entities, managed
  independently by their President and Boards of
  Directors, operating within the TiE charter and
  the guiding principles formulated by the BOT

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TiE Inc Board of Trustees
Trustee Achal Ghai Anupam Govil Apurv Bagri
(Chairman) Ashok Soota Desh Deshpande C. K.
Prahalad Gautam Prakash Kanwal Rekhi Naren
Bakshi Rajat Gupta Reggie Aggarwal Saurabh
Srivastava Shivbir Grewal Sridar Iyengar
(President) Suhas Patil
Home Chapter Vancouver Austin UK
Bangalore Boston San Diego Boston Silicon
Valley Silicon Valley Tri-State Washington
DC Delhi Southern California Silicon
Valley Silicon Valley
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TiE Inc Organization structure committee members
Advisors

• Board of Trustees
• Chairman Apurv Bagri
• President Sridar Iyengar
• ED Suren Dutia
• Director Asawari Desai
• Director Asia Prajakt Raut
• Manager Krishna Kumar
• Manager Shaherose Charania

• TiE India Initiative
• Desh Deshpande
• Kanwal Rekhi
• C K Prahalad
• Rajat Gupta
• Saurabh Srivastava
• Ashok Soota

• TiE Foundation
• Desh Deshpande
• Apurv Bagri
• Sridar Iyengar
• Kanwal Rekhi
• Kailash Joshi
• Asawari Desai

India Advisory Board K. V. Kamath Dr. R. A.
Mashelkar Narayana Murthy Kiran
Mazumdar-Shaw Romesh Wadhwani
Chapter Representatives Additional invitees
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TiE Inc strategy 2005-2006

• To be recognized as the Global organization for
  entrepreneurship
• To create a healthy ecosystem for
  entrepreneurship globally by providing effective
  inter-connectivity between our members across
  chapters to leverage the network
• Fostering Entrepreneurship through
• Mentoring
• Networking
• Education

Vision
Mission
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TiE Programs initiatives across chapters
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TiE Mentoring

• Two types of mentoring for TiE members only
• ? Individual Mentoring ? Corporate Mentoring
• Individual Mentoring
• CMs provide one-on-one mentoring sessions with
  members through different models
• Corporate Mentoring
• Selected company managements mentored by a group
  of CMs and Sponsors
• CM-Member matching program
• Each member is connected to a CM for a year, for
  accessing mentoring, advice and friendship

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TiE Institute

• Objective is to provide ongoing value to all
  members and stakeholders by providing
  contemporary, expert knowledge
• Conceived in June 2002, operational in October
  2002
• Held about 60 workshops, covering both soft
  hard skills
• Some workshops designed to be web-cast
• Over 5000 people attended sessions
• Sessions replicated and customized across
  numerous chapters in US, UK and India

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TiE Other Initiatives

• Delegation to Pakistan comprising of business
  leaders from US India
• North America initiative to integrate chapters
• Consolidate activities in India ? Advocacy ?
  Awareness ? Assistance
• TiE and National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN)
  Partnership for India signed MOU for one year
  aligning their vision to help foster
  entrepreneurship in India
• TV Program showcase inspiring successful first
  generation entrepreneurs from different
  industries, across India, through a 13 episode
  series
• India Risk Capital Study to recommend models
  for overcoming constraints to seed capital
  generation in India
• Business plan competition in India Pakistan
  and VC Forum
• Participation in Harvard Business School Fellows
  Program

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TiE Foundation

• TiE Foundation is being incorporated as a 501c(3)
  US statutory registration
• Will fund projects that encourage global
  entrepreneurship and research on economic
  policies of different nations, with a major focus
  on South Asia
• Will also conduct educational and charitable
  activities
• Seek contributions from individuals and
  institutions and through proceeds collected at
  events
• Independent Board to monitor operations of the
  Foundation with appropriate mechanism to ensure
  transparency and proper usage of funds raised
• 20K contributed to International Red Cross,
  Pakistan for earthquake relief

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TiE Tsunami fund raising

• Donor advised Fund launched in collaboration with
  America India Foundation (AIF). AIF to match the
  funds raised by TiE
• Approx. 175K raised
• Deployment to be done in conjunction with AIF
• Specific projects identified by AIF to be
  evaluated by the TiE Tsunami committee to ensure
  that it matches TiE goals of rehabilitation and
  livelihood creation
• Maximum investment per project is 25 of funds
  collected by TiE and up to 50 of the project
  value Expect to fund 5-6 projects

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TiE - Achievements

• Largest pool of intellectual capital anywhere
• TiE Brand is synonymous with entrepreneurship
  globally with high quality standards
• TiE SVs annual conference (TiEcon), is
  considered to be the largest entrepreneurial
  forum anywhere in the world
• By facilitating ideas germinate into actual
  businesses, TiE has created wealth and helped
  boost the economy of the geography in which it
  operates
• Economic wealth creation (estimated gt 200
  billion)
• Significant involvement in social
  entrepreneurship
• Influenced liberalization of key sectors (Telecom
  VC investments) in India and Pakistan

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TiE - Future Vision

• Financially operationally independent and
  viable active chapters under TiE Board of
  Trustees
• Own the entrepreneurship space and facilitate
  in nurturing entrepreneurs world-wide
• Largest pool of intellectual capital anywhere
• Leverage access to intellectual capital to
  influence public policy, especially in the Indus
  region
• Objective is wealth creation by creating an
  environment for establishing global businesses
• Global associations with similar organizations
• Success is dependent on support initiative of
  all chapters and of each every individual
  associated with us

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