Grow Together with Business Networking
Overview
What is First Circle
First Circle is a network of Circles formed by Businessmen, Entrepreneurs, successful Professionals and Bureaucrats to build a strong business community development. Currently focussing in Bangalore and state of Karnataka, each new Circle caters to the networking needs of the people residing in the nearby areas.
First Circle facilitates social and business networking following a disciplined approach that consists of
- Bi Weekly meeting for business exchange.
- Face to Face meetings among members to improve bonding and business expansion.
- Sector specific forums and brainstorming sessions by bringing external experts.
- Technology platform to strengthen the networking.
Let us build our community through brotherhood development.
What do we do ?
First Circle facilitates a structured relationship building among businessmen, professionals and government bureaucrats for improving the business opportunities for the members.
- Bi-weekly Breakfast meetings - Spend quality time with the members every alternate week for a couple of hours so that members know each other.
- Leads / Business Exchange - Members keep an eye to pass on leads to each other so that circle members make more money.
- Sector Specific Competency : Improve your Skills, Opportunities and Best Practices by participating in sector specific panel discussions.
- Face to Face meetings with members to help exchange leads and opportunities.
Membership
Circle Membership
First Circle members have a unique opportunity to build strong relationships with other entrepreneurs, businessmen, professionals, startups and government officials.
Benefits of Membership
- Business generation by the leads exchange among members.
- Visibility to the business through Bi Weekly Meetings, Visitor participation and sponsored events.
- Support through Government Liasoning team created with retired government employees.
- Support startups by bringing in the first few customers to enable them for bigger ideas.
- Facilitate group sourcing to reduce costs of material.
FAQs
First Circle is a group of entrepreneurs and businessmen who meet bi weekly and grow their businesses together. Each Circle has only one person from one business category.
Any business owner or entrepreneur can become a First Circle Member. Membership team does a due diligence before approving the membership. And preferably the membership request should be recommended by an existing member.
Identify the nearest hotel where the First Circle Bi Weekly meeting is happening. Register as a Visitor and participate in one of the meetings to get a first hand experience. And then fill the Application form and pay the membership fee. The membership team does basic checks and on-boards you as a member.
First Circle conducts circle breakfast meetings twice a month – 8AM to 10:30AM. And members are encouraged to have one to one meetings with other members and visit their business premises. Apart from that members are encouraged to participate in training and events.
First Circle membership comes with a commitment of Rs 10,000 per annum and additionally you pay the breakfast venue fee bi weekly. Considering the strong relationships that are facilitated and leads exchanged, the investment gives good returns over a period of one year.