Hyderabad: An Indian-origin delegate from the US to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit-2017, Sangeeta Agarawal, says, “My participation in GES reminds me of the World Cup wherein the home team has got an advantage. A player once told me that it feels so thrilling and yet so comfortable to be home and feels so lucky to have made Indians happy. That’s how I feel.”
As an oncology nurse and an Ayurvedic practitioner, she founded the start-up Helpsy. She is taken aback to see how many people in India still continue to struggle with health and quality of life issues due to chronic ailments.
“We need to empower people to take better control of their health by using the latest innovations in technology, to make improving health care easier. We are democratising access to healthcare by providing a free app with 30,000 rem-edies for common health problems,” she said.
Having worked with mostly men in the hi-tech world and then mostly with women in nursing, she has observed the difference in behavi-oural dynamics, and the way men and women perceive business.
“Women usually don’t get an easy pass when they make mistakes. So it makes us more conservative; we tend to prepare a lot more than men and wing it less, and tend to execute with perfection.”
She says women entrepreneurs must stop being so critical of other women and help each other more.
