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Here is Falguni Nayar's entrepreneurship mantra for women

Nykaa Founder and CEO Falguni Nayar says women entrepreneurs must build networks and be ready to learn, unlearn and relearn to succeed in the constantly evolving business landscape in India.
Here is Falguni Nayar's entrepreneurship mantra for women

Sharing her entrepreneurship mantra for women, 58-year-old Falguni Nayar, Founder and CEO of India's biggest cosmetics ecommerce platform Nykaa, today said that one must be ready to learn, unlearn and relearn in the constantly evolving business landscape in India.

"Women should be open to learning not just their strengths, but if they are strong in finance, they should be able to learn marketing, technology, supply chain, because today's successful businesses need all of that and more,” Nayar said addressing FICCI’s Annual Convention & 94th AGM on the theme India Beyond 75, in discussion with Past President FICCI and Chairman Advent India Advisory Board Naina Lal Kidwai at the Power of Women Entrepreneurship session.

India's richest self-made woman billionaire, Nayar added that women entrepreneurs must build the right networks and relationships required to succeed and that they should pursue an extensive education, which does not mean formal education at colleges but on the job.

To ensure that women and girls thrive in the technology-oriented digital world, especially post-COVID, Nayar said that technology has become critical to businesses everywhere and gender disparity in education, especially at higher levels, needs to be reduced. “Quality of education across all levels needs to be improved. We need to inculcate critical thinking and analytical bent of mind, and fluency in critical languages like English,” she said, highlighting the family's role in ensuring girls' education.

Alluding to the remarkable progress on the sex ratio front as per the recent National Family Health Survey, she said:

"India has made a lot of progress to allow girls to be born, now, give them a right to dream."

Nayar said the country rightly emphasises technology education and higher education, which is visible in the high concentration of Indians in the global CEOs and the senior management pool. However, there is a need for equal opportunity for women.

"I would like equal opportunity for women and an acceptance of the fact that for them, their dreams are important", she added.

Sharing some key women entrepreneurship statistics Kidwai, said, women constitute 13.8% of the total entrepreneurs in India, of which 16-17% employ people; the balance 83% are self-employed. “Women entrepreneurship is skewed mainly towards small-size firms, with almost 98% being micro-enterprises and over 90% falling under the informal sector,” she added.

Nayar has been in the news since Nykaa’s blockbuster initial public offering (IPO) on November 10. The ₹5,352-crore IPO of Nayar’s FSN E-Commerce Ventures Ltd was oversubscribed nearly 82.5 times and the company’s market capitalisation touched the ₹1 lakh crore mark on the same day

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Topics: Entrepreneurship, Diversity

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