Subject: Startup Association of India Update

From: President - Startup Association of India <info@avocadoservices.com>

Date: 30-07-2020, 23:37

To: president@startupassociation.in

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Greetings Startup Association of India,

Thank you for your continued support.

During this challenging time the team has done a lot to continue our mission of supporting anyone doing business in the Indian startup ecosystem.

During this time, some of our members saw how joining our insurance group helps the ecosystem acquire and retain its talent. The program also supports the latest advisory from the Government of India, Home Ministry - all companies operating during the lockdown should cover their employees.

The update also details other initiatives we have managed under the guidance of our Chairman - Mr Mahendra Swarup.

CoronaVirus Advisory

The world is dealing with a difficult time. We hope you have read our advisory on the pandemic and are taking care of yourself and your employees.

A few things were completed after we shared our advisory -

RsTV Interview on Startup sector with Government of India, DPIIT
Suggestions to government
Reminded members of Group Insurance Program and COVID-19 specific plan - supports Government of India, Home Ministry's guideline to cover all employees during this trying time if operating during the lockdown
Reminded members of 'quarantine reading list' for businesses in the ecosystem

CoronaVirus Items

Group Insurance Program

SIA - Max Bupa Health Insurance Group Mediclaim Policy

Companies in the startup ecosystem are not in a position to get quality insurance services due to their smaller size and lack of experienced personnel in insurance matters. SIA has partnered with Antworks and Max Bupa Health to provide group health cover to all employees of SIA members and their dependents.

Group Health Insurance

No Restriction on Size of Group - company of any size can apply

Coverage for pre-existing diseases from day 1

Coverage for part-time employees

CoronaVirus Insurance

Employees and eligible dependents

Coverage only for CoronaVirus, not for pre-exisiting diseases

Quality Care in Network Hospitals

Purchase Health Insurance

Our partners, The Personnel Lab, have announced two new services to support our members -

Virtual Team Mentoring program
HappyCustomers A2Z Video Series

Mr Rajiv Khurana, Founder of Personnel Lab, is inviting our members to take advantage of the Startup Association of India Virtual Team Mentoring program. Interactive sessions will take your team through a performance journey customized to their NEEDS (Nudging, Empathy, Deliver-ability and Support) with the SMART 7-Cs Way Forward framework.

Look at the post for more details. The current pandemic has made it essential that your team(s) function effectively on both onsite and virtual commitments.

Virtual Team Mentoring Program

Personnel Lab has released episode 1 of their 26-part HappyCustomers A2Z Video Series. This short and simple weekly series in Hinglish takes you through the thoughts and actions needed to create and sustain HAPPY CUSTOMERS in SMART organizations - strong players in the LOCAL scene and VOCAL about their success across the globe.

Episode 1 is 'A for ATTITUDE'. Please subscribe to the channel to see the latest episode or like, share and press the bell icon to receive intimation of updates.

HappyCustomers A2Z Video Series

Projects in Collaboration with MNCs

We updated the list of projects as our friends at Collaboration Capital told us of some new ones. These collaborative projects enable our community to work with corporations based in France (many are MNCs). Please let us know of your interest.

Their application is pretty simple - section on venture's key skills and an optional section on your suggestions for this project - optional but I recommend this section be filled because lots of successful applications have it.

Another piece of good news - these projects are free for startups and small businesses.

Given the popularity of these projects we are thinking of starting some in collaboration with companies based in India. Would you be interested in that?

List of Collaborative Projects

Starting-Up

We get a lot of questions on starting a business. We can help but we recently published our research including the additional benefits of registering with Startup India (Government of India Initiative).

Research on Starting Up

Startup Events

See our website for Featured events (eg. Start Me Up HK, Startup Milaap 2020 and Startup Vidarbha).

List of Startup Events

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