Kashmir based Tabish Habib gets US Fellowship for entrepreneurship

After opening Kashmir’s first shared officer space venture in Srinagar, Tabish Habib gets an invitation from the United States for a fellowship organised for the Indian women entrepreneurs. Habib has won ‘International Visitor Leadership Program’ (IVLP) for a three-week programme entitled "Indian Women Entrepreneurs as Drivers of Economic Growth". The program will run from February 26 to March 16, 2018.

It will showcase various initiatives that facilitate women entrepreneurs' access to business capital and other resources.

“This program will illustrate the impact of women-owned small businesses on the US economy. You will discuss the social, economic and political factors that influence and encourage the development of women as entrepreneurs, owners or managers of small, medium and large businesses,” reads the letter sent to Habib by the US Embassy in New Delhi.

“It will showcase various initiatives that facilitate women entrepreneurs' access to business capital and other resources. We will also exposed you to social, economic and political factors that influence and encourage the development of private enterprise in the US.”

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Habib recently founded ThinkPod Business Incubation spread in 2000 square feet. It is a place where young entrepreneurs can work out of when they don’t have funds to establish their own office structure. She also owns Prism Creationz, a company providing branding, marketing and printing services in Kashmir.

"It always is special to have something of your own and to see it excel. What makes me happy is that the company gives a means of earning to few more people as well who are associated with us, and the more we, as Prism Creationz, increase, the more meaning the word entrepreneur will make sense to me," Tabish said during an interview with Saddahaq.

Habib had always had the knack for entrepreneurship as even during her growing up years, she organised a number of exhibitions and photo-walks.

Sponsored by US Department of State, IVLP first came into existence in 1940. It is a prestigious US Government's professional exchange programs for international opinion leaders.

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