In this competitive age, it is challenging to establish your own venture. However, with options opening up in this domain, young professionals are venturing with their ideas with their startups. We at PSF Mumbai help in guiding the young entrepreneurs to develop good enterprise skills today. We play advisory roles in promoting and guiding the youngsters with business startups with a good understanding of different enterprises today. We help you transform your vision into realistic and an action plan.

Professionals’ Solidarity Forum (PSF) Mumbai on 22nd November (Sunday) organized their online monthly webinar around the theme of Entrepreneurship. Guest speaker for this Zoom session was Mr. Hamzah Muazzam Ali, CEO of Standard Touch, a successful organization in the field of Web Design & Development based out of Gulbarga, Karnataka.

Speaking on the topic of ‘How to Be Your Own Boss’, the experienced guest shared nuggets of wisdom from his 13-year journey as an entrepreneur. He traced his steps from the first start-up he founded, the mistakes he made and the learning he obtained. From the importance of marketing, being a micro manager when staring out, role of ethical & moral values, nitty gritty of partnership & trust within the team, art of delegation and concluding with idea of scaling up — Mr. Hamzah conducted a highly interactive session with a set of 50 active participants. Key qualities to develop for being a successful entrepreneur were voiced out as self-control, consistency, patience and focus.

Consistent with the topic, Br. Ajaz Ahmed, City Convenor of PSF, Mumbai also announced the establishment of Start-up & Consulting department in the PSF set-up which would be led by Br. Murshid Khan, an active Core Committee member of the organization and Associate Director at UBS.

To watch complete session, please visit: https://youtu.be/aUY5cGdpED8

About the Speaker:
Mr. Hamzah Muazzam Ali
CEO of Standard Touch
Co-founder of qSaudi & Founder of NjoyLife Portal
A domain expert in Monetization, e-marketing, SEO and Online Promotions
linkedin.com/in/hamzahali

The bimonthly meet of PSF Mumbai, held at Mahatma Gandhi Seva Mandir, Bandra began after sunset with the recitation and translation of a passage from the Qur’an by Mazhar Hasan.

Mr. Azhar Rizwan briefed the audience about ‘KAFALAT’, a flagship project of PSF that sponsors child education and other humanitarian aids, followed by the launch of the project website www.educatechild.in by the guest of honour, Mr. Suhail KK, Director of Quill Foundation. Thereafter, Mr. Abdul Qadeer demonstrated the functioning of the website showing its key features.

PSF advisory member Mirza Kamran Baig introduced Mr. Suhail KK and the Quill Foundation. Quill foundation, in a nutshell, is a policy think-tank and has been recently invited by United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) .

Mr. Suhail began his talk by appreciating the ‘Kafalat’ initiative; he said it is based on the idea of Ehsaan, perfection and professionalism. He gathered the audience’s views about the most common issues of our country, of which the learned speaker highlighted ‘hate’ against and ‘fear’ within the minorities and the other marginalized communities as the most important ones.

Quoting Swati Chaturvedi’s book, ‘I am a troll’, he explained how false stories are being cooked up and spread throughout the country through social media, by a group of people, against the minority community, hinting that the motive of all the fabricated stories is to spread hate and fear. He quoted various statistics and reports to elaborate upon the way in which the social fabric of India is being torn apart.

Citing various historians and scholars he took the audience through the pages of Indian history and the role community leadership has played in shaping the idea of the Indian nation.

He shared a 10 pointer 21st Century survival kit for the community and discussed each of them at length, its strategic importance, pragmatic measures and tangible goals.

1. Eradicate FEAR & instill CONFIDENCE –Eradicate “Wahn” Remove DEFENSIVE ATTITUDE and MINORITY MINDSET Muslims have always been minority – Achieved everything in this status 

2. UNITY & ALLIANCE –within and with the other communities of the nation

3. Strategic CHARITY (focused at Existential crisis)

4. Documentation, RESEARCH & Advocacy

5. Use Democratic Institutions (National & International): International & National HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS – Global alliance of Human Rights Institutes.

6. HINDU Religious Leaders – Maintaining good relations and make them CONDEMN Religious Fanaticism

7. Countering PROPAGANDA – Floating of positive thoughts in social media.

8. Guide the YOUTHS – Focus on +VE thinking – Leave EMOTIONAL reactions.. .Be CONTRIBUTORS as you were in History

9. Mutual ENGAGEMENT- with all communities of India.

10. EMPOWER: Education – Empower the Ummah through higher education’,

The session concluded with Q & A, Syed Farhan Husain and Kamran Mirza jointly hosted the event.A sumptuous dinner was served to the attending professionals and their accompanying family members and everyone departed with a new vigor, motivation and commitment to support PSF and contribute towards the cause championed by it.