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Koreel Lahiri
Program Director, South Asia, Media Development Investment Fund
INDIA
If you've found your way into entrepreneurship, it doesn't matter if you're a creative person or a journalist — you still need to figure out how to run the business efficiently.
Media businesses are no different from other companies. You'll still need to know the basic truths: product, finance, positioning, audience, access to markets.
Koreel talks about the who, where, when, why, and how of all that in his session. He runs MDIF’s investment and program mandate in South Asia, which gives him plenty of perspective into what works at media organisations.
He also helped start IPS Media Foundation, India’s first funding organization for independent media. He was also a VC at Springboard. He once led financial markets coverage at Bloomberg TV India and CNBC-TV18.
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