11/10/2025
This is the beginning of a collective program to pin down politicians in Bihar Election on Students' demand of a Jobs centric Education and bringing development to every nook and corner of the country.
Students, as a group, have a huge ability to technically resolve social and economical issues. They only need a TEAM & a GOAL to get started. kaun? yaani who?
To promote STUDENT STARTUPS, next big thing, we present STUDENT STARTUP-A TEMPLATE, only available HERE. निमंत्रण
While political parties, of whatever hue, are fighting for getting in to a winning mode, by whatever means, What are we The Janta or Masses, who are going to be their ultimate victims, doing? Watching the great tamasha and waiting for one of their nets to fall on us and entraps us?
जबकि हर किस्म की पोलिटिकल पार्टियाँ चुनाव में जीत दर्ज करने के लिए हर संभव तिकरम लगा रही है , हम जनता क्या कर रहे हैं? उनका तमाशा देखते हुए उनके जाल में फंसने का इन्तजार? Two points are to be understood very clearly - When & Who.
कब और कौन को ठीक से समझना होगा. Post election, no body listens to anybodyक्योंकि वो नशे में मदमस्त होते हैं. चुनाव के बाद कोई नहीं सुनता . Voting day is only for voting. Pre-Election that is NOW - is the time when the iron is hot.
चुनाव पूर्व ही लोहा गर्म होता है जरूरत है जनता का हथोरा बनाने की जो चुनाव के दिन हमारी सभी समश्याओं का हल दे सके. Who will bell the CAT? बिल्ली के गले में घंटी कौन बांधेगा?
एक ऐसा वर्ग जो पुरे भारत में हर जगह मोजूद हो, जिसके एक ही जैसे अरमान और सपने हो और जो जाती ,धरम, प्रदेश, लिंग, अमीर गरीब उंच नीच से ऊपर उठ सके. Which is that group- except Students - that fits the bill.
एक ही जबाब है - तुरंत और स्टूडेंट्स - हर स्कूल,कॉलेज,गाँव शहर बस्ती के, खासकर नौवीं से बारहवी के, इस टेक्निकल प्रोजेक्ट में iitk73 की देख रेख में Concept to Completion तक की यात्रा के लिए सभी सादर आमंत्रित है
31/01/2025
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05/01/2025
STUDENT STARTUPS - A TEMPLATE
Innovation is like Invention, It is friend of Imagination
- Arman (7yrs)
The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create it.”
– P. Drucker & A. Lincoln
INDEX
Description Page
1. Guiding Quotes 3
2. Preface 4
3. Chapter-1: Introduction 7
4. Flow Chart for Entrepreneurship 11
5. Chapter-2: Fast-Tracking NEP2020 12
6. MISSION 14
7. Chapter-3: Key Guiding Principles 15
8. Chapter-4: Harnessing Student Power 17
9. Chapter-5: Live Projects 19
10. Chapter-6:Proposed Template for Live Classroom Projects. 25
11. Chapter -7: List of Proposed Projects 30
12. Chapter-8: Implementation 35
13. Chapter-9: Mentors 39
14. Chapter-10: Venture Capital 41
15. Authors 42
PREFACE
In 2008, at the PanIIT meet in Greater Noida, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam challenged PanIIT alumni to focus on what IITians could do for the country. Inspired by this call to action, we at IITK73 reframed the proposition as "THE QUESTION - If we want to do only one thing for the country, what should that be?"
Our exploration led us to conclude that:
A. Holistic development of India requires inclusive growth, particularly in rural areas.
B. Developmental structures in rural India are weak or absent, except for village panchayats and schools.
C. Lack of employment opportunities ("ROJGAR") is the primary concern.
D. Mass entrepreneurship emerges as the obvious solution.
Our search for solutions led us to ITIs, workshops on rural computerization, panchayats, and schools. We aimed to channelize youth energy, leveraging fast-paced technology. However, creating another institution seemed ineffective. Instead, we decided to utilize existing infrastructure and reorient education toward mass entrepreneurship.
A novel concept, "Project Education thru Live Projects leading to Entrepreneurship," was developed and tested with students from classes VI-XII. This success culminated in the book "THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION- A BILLION ENTREPRENEURS" (2016). We launched UltaBhonpu in 2018 to offer online entrepreneurship opportunities.
In 2019/2020, we developed and introduced an entrepreneurship curriculum for school students, experimenting with concepts from "THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION." Many of these, such as project clubs and community-based projects, were incorporated in New Education Policy (NEP 2020)
To support and supplement NEP 2020's top-down approach, a combined bottom-up effort is necessary from students, schools, and society.
Concepts were developed & experiments conducted here on school students to focus on early stages, to be followed by upward integration with college students. However, college students will adopt them easily with better results and integration with nearby schools can follow.
This handbook for students' startups defines each stakeholder's role in achieving mass entrepreneurship, outlining a strategy for rapid, decentralized, collaborative development tailored to individual and regional strengths.
CHAPTER- 1
INTRODUCTION
ECONOMICS, POLITICS & TECHNOLOGY
“ROJGAAR” or lack of it, is the overriding national issue. Politics in India boils down to falling job opportunities and rising living costs, dominance of castes and resulting reservations or differences of religion or region.
Our inability to provide adequate job opportunities or decent work / income to our youth is threatening to turn our so-called demographic dividend into a demographic catastrophe. Crime among unemployed youth is rising fast.
Failures to address these issues convincingly has led to ‘rewari’ culture or competitive freebies which is expedient now but suicidal in the long run. This has resulted in a culture of entitlements, where freebies are offered to win votes, rather than fostering a skilled and hardworking youth force.
It leads to agitations; hunger strikes and riots for reservations of all kinds. Day is not far when demands for reservations for upper casts, local population and in private sector will gather momentum
The reason for this is our dependence on foreign solutions and imported prescriptions as well as our inability to repose faith in our own youth and trust them to do the right thing and create new work even under expert guidance. They have been branded unemployable, for ease of doing nothing.
Key Challenges:
- Jobless Growth: India's economic policy, reliant on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Big Capital, has failed to create sufficient jobs, despite technological advancements.
- Automation and Robotics: The increasing use of automation and robotics has reduced the need for human labour.
- Urban-Rural Divide: The expansion of cities has led to a stagnant rural India, exacerbating dissatisfaction and social divisions.
Efforts to carry development and its benefits to villages have succeeded only partially. However, New technology, in every hand holds great promise to carry its benefits to every nook and corner, but if and only if new entrepreneurial routes are opened.
Potential Solutions:
- New Entrepreneurial Routes: Encouraging entrepreneurship can bridge the urban-rural divide and provide opportunities for youth.
- Education and Skilling: Focus on meaningful work and skills development, rather than job seekers, can help address societal needs.
- Combining Needs: Integrating needs of students, society, governments, and unemployed youth can unlock new options.
Way Forward
- “ A technical solution to our political and economic problems” which is bankable enough to unite the nation behind it and gives enough degrees of freedoms to each student, school, panchayat and state to adapt to local conditions.
-Lack of jobs needs to be looked at as lack of work. Work is a function of societal needs, which are identified and fulfilled only by profit motives. Hence, need of creating large scale new productive work cannot be overemphasised.
-Look at unattended work: lots and lots of work in every field everywhere lying unattended for lack of profitability for private capital but can be made productive by combining needs of -
a. Students: for work to feed Skilling projects.
b. Unemployed youth: for local work or local jobs.
c. Schools’ : for meaningful life skills & education for its students.
d. Boards & Universities: to deliver benefits of NEP 2020 at manageable cost ASAP
e. Society: for solving unattended, seemingly unsolvable, problems, for ease of living.
f. Retired Professionals: need for meaningful social connect to pay back.
g. Governments’ need, for effective delivery of targeted outcomes to each citizen
h. Capital needs safe havens of technology-led startups as existing businesses are staring at massive disruptions led by, again, new tech.
By acknowledging these challenges and exploring innovative solutions, we can overcome our employment crisis and unlock our demographic dividend.
Flow Chart
CHAPTER-2
Fast-Tracking NEP 2020
NEP 2020 aims to address pressing education concerns, but its 2030-40 timeline limits its effectiveness for immediate needs. The goal of skilling 50% of students by 2025 seems unachievable. Despite initiatives, education remains constrained by curricula, timetables, exams, grades, and certificates.
Current Challenges
- Skilling programs are trade-specific, reliant on CSR funding, expertise, and trainers.
- Lack of jobs post-training discourages students.
- Physical Training (PT) has become an easy, albeit ineffective, solution to meet NEP2020's skilling targets.
NEP2020's Objectives:
- Encourage activity-based clubs for creativity and critical thinking.
- Foster project-based education.
Barriers:
- Boards and universities lack trained teachers and face curriculum pressures.
- Insufficient time allocation and grading for project-based clubs.
Solution:
- Empower students to directly use NEP 2020 without waiting for stakeholder processes.
- Allow self-training through live projects using open sources under guidance of a mentor, school and an authorized committee led by district education administrators.
- supplement top-down efforts with students' bottom-up approach through live projects, aligned with NEP2020, we can expedite meaningful education reform.
MISSION:
A LIVE PROJECT IN EVERY SCHOOL/COLLEGE BY/FOR EVERY STUDENT
A Live Project Classroom
CHAPTER-3
Key Guiding Principles
A. post-education, one must engage in projects to support self and their family, either through self-owned ventures or employment.
B. To succeed in their working lives, students require practical skills, work experience, and a demonstrable project performance record.
C. Students need meaningful project work to acquire and refine these skills.
D. New work opportunities are primarily driven by capital and profit motives, with governments limiting their role to regulation.
E. Students' activity clubs can create valuable work with altruistic motives for societal needs.
F. Entrepreneurial skills are lifelong skills that yield exceptional results by transforming mindsets, generating profitable work, and redefining one's approach to work.
G. NEP2020 aims to skill 50% of all students by 2025, emphasizing the urgency.
H. Emerging technologies, accessible to students, enable innovative solutions and empower them as carriers of technology.
I. By engaging students in Live Projects addressing local, unmet needs, we can:
- Find sustainable, feasible, and viable local solutions
- Ensure technology and development benefits reach everyone and everywhere
J. Live Projects can train incoming students to:
- Refine project outcomes
- Collect latest data for targeted results
- Use Tech to Enhance reach & spread.
K. Remember:
a. Work generates income.
b. Data holds monetary value.
c. Collaborative teams with clear goals drive innovation.
CHAPTER-4
Harnessing Student Power
Student possess unmatched strengths.
i. They form the positive national Youth Force.
ii. With fresh minds, unencumbered by populist slogans, they're welcome new ideas.
iii. They easily form groups or teams, facilitated by social apps, at minimal cost.
iv. They can establish teams and set goals, so essential for startups, without significant hurdles or expenses.
v. Their idealistic nature, altruistic motives, and holistic aims benefit the broader population.
vi. Their widespread reach, representing every home and locality, enables cost-effective information dissemination.
vii. Being from diverse regions, religions, castes, languages, they can unify the nation.
viii. They're early adopters of disruptive new technologies, a catalyst for startups.
ix. They seek escape from stifling, certificate-oriented education and reservation-based employment.
x. They're intolerant of unequal opportunities based on parental wealth and background.
xi. They thrive in competitive yet cooperative environments.
xii. They strive for excellence in every field.
Advancing new technology swiftly turns current knowledge redundant .Lifelong learning is now the norm. The crucial question is: which technology to master? The answer lies in "Relevant Technology" – technology aligned with your project. Unless you're in an entrepreneurial venture, relevant technology may change with your employer.
Will you ride the technology tiger or become its victim? The choice is yours.
CHAPTER-5
LIVE PROJECTS
“Live Projects” are Joint efforts to find and develop practical and workable solutions, products & services, to work on heather to unattended problems, perceived to be unsolvable, using available technology.
Every Live Project has potential to be the next Startup. Every Startup begins as a Live Project.
Live Project : Smart Health
Service Projects are human-capital intensive, need negligible investment and, hence, are more suitable for skilling large number of students.
Benefits:
1. Connects students with societal problems.
2. Fosters data-driven critical thinking and decision-making.
3. Develops team etiquette and collaboration skills.
4. Enhances communication skills.
5. Builds problem-solving and adaptability.
6. Encourages new productive work.
7. Provides experience under expert guidance.
8. Helps recognize strengths and weaknesses.
9. Bridges skill gaps.
10. Showcases initiative, ownership, leadership.
11. Integrates projects with studies.
12. Transfers professional experience from mentors.
13. Develops local solutions for local problems.
14. Cultivates opportunity-driven thinking.
Way2Go: Students led Live Projects for
i. Quick & comprehensive skilling
ii. Employing large working population.
iii. Developing outlying areas
Pre-requisites: Live Projects are
i. A Team (as diverse / cohesive, in terms of region-religion- cast-language or gender , as members are comfortable with )
ii. An idea (“think of a problem & solve it”)
iii. A Target to achieve, or a project goal.
iv. A Mentor (a retired professional ready to transfer his experience to The Team on processes for data-based decisions)
v. Sufficient time in school/college time table for project work, min 3-6 hrs/ week.
vi. Reward like better grades for entrepreneurship to create a pull factor.
vii. Funding, only on approval of The Mentor at each stage, is small change compared to
a. Current investment and expenditure by public / parents combine.
b. Public spend on freebies to compensate our failure to give meaningful employment.
c. Projected outcomes for the nation.
d. Finally, banking tie-ups.
Uncertainties : Funding & Income are over rated problems and inhibitive fears for risk averse, as
i. Funding will only follow and can’t precede project design.
ii. Students will gain immense critical knowledge before project design is finalised, at no cost.
iii. A good project will attract capital for itself sooner than later. Teams will be connected to various funding options, public and private.
iv. Income will follow successful ex*****on and focus should be to develop & master the process, for phenomenal incomes.
Measuring Success: Metrics
i. Team Work
ii. Initiative, Ownership & Leadership
iii. Usefulness, of targets set, for society.
iv. Technology & simplicity of Process used
v. Technical feasibility and economic viability.
vi. Number of Students engaged / benefited.
vii. Ease of living for targeted domain.
viii. No of Jobs created for unemployed.
ix. Income generated for members.
Additional Benefits :
a. Live Project experience will lead to interesting job invitations as well as open new paths for entrepreneurial initiatives.
b. Transform education from Learn&Skill2Earn to Learn&Work2Skill&Earn.
c. It may reduce cost of education partially, if not fully, offset by project earnings.
d. Take load off teachers by students, being collaborators and not hurdles to be overcome.
e. Transform schools in to Schools of Eminence by way of making its students Future Ready.
f. Will open new routes for teams of unemployed youth looking to create new work for themselves and be job creators instead of job seekers.
Project Teams Celebrating Success
CHAPTER-6
PROPOSED TEMPLATE FOR STUDENTS’ STARTUPS
A startup, by definition, ventures into uncharted territory concerning the field or area it addresses, the problem it aims to solve, the project team and its dynamics, and constraints. Startups can involve new products or services across various fields, including education, health, agriculture, and law and order.
It is foolhardy to prescribe a template for students’ startups, given their diverse backgrounds, capabilities, interests, and visions. No one has tried either.
However, aiming for mass entrepreneurship, we propose 3-phase approach, based on our experiments, which can be adapted to specific conditions by project teams under mentor guidance for better results.
1st Phase: Team Formation & Problem Identification (2-4 weeks)
1. Form a Project Team: Assemble like-minded group of individuals. The team can be homogeneous (e.g., all girls from the same class, same religion, or caste) or diverse (mixed gender, class, religion, language, and caste). Everyone anywhere can be talented.
2. Identify Common Interests: Share passions & narrow down to a field (e.g., education, health).
3. Define Problems and Solutions: Brainstorm to identify significant problems of the field and possible solutions. Encourage questions like “What if…?”
4. Find a Mentor: Select a mentor from an available list of retired professionals to:
o a. Guide the team offline and online as per project requirements.
o b. Discuss the pros and cons of team decisions and share their experience.
o c. Connect the team with a talent pool for assistance in to overcome technical and funding hurdles.
5. Form a Project Club: To Bond & Work
Note: AIM to achieve is: “A cohesive project team focused on impacting a field of common interest, guided by a mentor.”
In our experiments, the first phase completed in 2-4 weeks and students formed clubs for arts and crafts, student tourism, data collection and management, and English speaking, with defined targets.
2nd Phase
1. Select Your Project Domain: Identify a targeted group for your project within a defined area (e.g., all students up to class VIII in your school or elderly over 70 in your village).
2. Design and Conduct a Survey: Work with students to survey your domain to understand solutions they seek and their reasons. Surveys are critical. Seek input from your mentor when creating your questionnaire. Remember: conducting surveys for products, services, and businesses is an opportunity- data = money.
3. Focus on a Problem: Identify a problem that, if resolved cost-effectively, will benefit a large number of people in your domain and can serve as a viable business model for your startup.
4. Make a task-list : to be performed and delegate to team members after detailed discussion.
5. Design a Connection Process: Develop a technical process to connect individuals seeking project services with local service providers, identified, trained and developed by project team, assisted by The Mentor. This process of assured quality and price, will be facilitated upon request.
6. Launch a Pilot: Demonstrate proof of concept and its technical feasibility. Collect consumer feedback.
7. Manage the Back Office: The back office will be at school’s computer centre to be staffed by batches of students trained by project founders during their project period (3-6 hours/week), allowing them to gain practical experience without disturbing regular studies. Record User Feedback and take corrective steps.
8. Project Report: Compile actual data from the pilot to confirm technical feasibility and economic viability, including investment requirements, pricing, break-even point, rate of return, and locational and demographic needs.
3rd Phase
1. Verify Project Data: It should confirm to the project report over a period of time. Verify every week / month, record deviations and reasons thereof and corrections needed and applied.
2. Economic Viability: Consult the mentor and your banker for suitability and any other requirement for financing another unit by an unemployed youth.
3. Use the Project Report for Scaling Up: Identify areas and unemployed youth for scaling up with projected returns via a franchise model financed by a bank.
4. Conduct a Follow-Up Survey: Reconfirm project outcomes and adjust for the diversity of each project, team, region, and domain
Concepts and terminology used here may look tough or alien but it will be easy to perform under Mentor guidance. Average students, and even uneducated, have shown better entrepreneurial skills than high scorers. So, don’t give up before trying. BEST OF LUCK
CHAPTER-7
Live Projects with
Potential to be Students’ Startups
No doubt students can, should and are free to select any strain in any field for their startup. It is also unjust to confine them or their creativity to any given channel. That will be restricting, by suggestions, the young impressionable minds.
However, for a first live school project, taken up to learn the ropes of project education, it may be recommended that their school, its students and safe environment is selected as the project domain. Learnings from Live School Projects can be used to expand / extrapolate to include out-of-school domains too.
There are interesting school projects to propel them to schools to eminence and make education meaningful, entertaining, joyful, wholesome and productive, if bright students take the lead to reduce teachers’ load by bridging the gap between teachers and back benchers.
It is observed that
a. Peer to peer learning is helpful for all concerned.
b. learning is wholesome and reinforced by clearing doubts of / with friends.
Hence following live projects can be taken up by different student teams and offered to rest of students to join as per their liking or need. Each of these have a potential to be a startup in education and spread horizontally to other schools and regions, as well as vertically to include Universities, colleges and schools, each performing assigned tasks to impact the nation. Outlines here can be modified by each team, school under Mentor Guidance.
1. Data Club for conducting surveys and data mining, validating, processing and using to seed other Live projects in various field.
2. Tech Club to develop Applications for various Live Projects with workshops on practical skills like coding, graphic design, or entrepreneurship, giving hands-on experience.
3. Pear to pear and group learning, of difficult topics/subjects in student created subject labs to make it playful and interactive.
4. STEM labs like-
i. Integrated Labs for Physics and Maths to showcase varying cause and effects.
ii. Chemistry Lab to test food items for purity/adulteration.
5. Language Labs integrating grammar with speech via debates, drama and discussions.
6. Art & Crafts Club for soft skills and showcasing them via school exhibitions and workshops.
7. Tours & Travel club to combine history and geography with affordable student tours using student’s hostels, ‘dharamshalas’ and guest houses for a national perspective & integration.
8. Health and First-aid Club to measure student growth and segregate them to arrange for group specific help or activity, games.
9. Green Environment Club for school waste to energy, decorating school with flower baskets.
10. School Library with books from outgoing students, out of syllabus books and old books from the community.
11. Law & Order Club for promoting lawful behaviour and curbing illegal activities.
12. Aggrotech Solutions: Develop a platform to make farming profitable for smaller holdings by combining farming with storing and processing for Farm2Fork or Khet2Khana solutions.
13. Local Handicrafts Marketplace: Create an online marketplace for artisans to sell their handmade products, promoting local crafts and heritage. Or connect them to existing resources.
14. Personal Finance Management Tool: Develop a user-friendly app that helps students manage their finances, budgets, and savings.
15. Tech for Senior Citizens: Create simple tech products or apps that help senior citizens stay connected with their families and access services in need.
16. Second-Hand Textbook Exchange: Create a platform for students to buy, sell, or exchange used textbooks, helping reduce costs and promote sustainability.
17. Skill Development Workshops
18. Community Service Platform: Create a platform that connects students with local NGOs and community service opportunities, promoting volunteerism.
19. Online Career Counselling: Develop a service offering career guidance and mentorship for students, helping them navigate job markets and opportunities.
20. Interactive Learning Tools: Create educational games or interactive quizzes for school subjects, making learning more engaging and fun.
21. Fashion Rental Service: Start a platform where students can rent clothing and accessories for events, promoting sustainable fashion.
22. Pet Care Services: Offer pet sitting, walking, or grooming services for students who may be pet owners but lack time due to their studies.
23. Create an app that connects students with elderly individuals in need of companionship, fostering intergenerational relationships.
24. Remote Internships and Job Portal: Launch a platform connecting students with remote internships and part-time job opportunities, catering to their flexible schedules.
These ideas aim to address various needs and challenges faced by students, Schools & Colleges alike, making them both practical and relevant in the Indian context. Opportunities are plenty and everywhere. Choose any, Add more.
Chapter-8
IMPLEMENTATION
MISSION: Live Projects for Every Student in Every College / School
Introducing Live Projects for every student in every college/school is necessary to sow seeds of entrepreneurship in young minds. Earlier the better.
Live Projects is a concept, not well understood. It starts with –
A. Ideation, or exchange of ideas within a student group (it may be the Project Education class) to shortlist problems which, if solved, will positively impact lives of many people.
B. Short listed problems are further discussed, as part of Ideation, to find possible solutions, with or without Mentor’s help, to understand complexity, suitability, implications and opportunity offered by each. This part of Ideation is necessary to equip students with ability to turn problems into opportunities.
C. Firming up of Problem to be solved and the Concept to solve it.
D. This will lead to a Project Journey from Concept to Completion. Detailed steps are discussed in Chapter-6, The Template.
E. Implementation of Live Projects is full of uncertainties and may look daunting, but that only makes it interesting.
Live Projects are likely to be conceptualized by college students to create holistic solutions to cover and serve all willing citizens of a region, in a particular field like Health, Education, Food & Agriculture, Environment and Waste Management, Law & Order etc., and achieve its completion up to setting up of a Pilot Project as a technology demonstrator of a technically feasible and financially viable project report freezing the following-
i. The Services to be offered free of any charge
ii. The Services to be offered at a charge.
iii. Technology and process to be used.
iv. Number of students needed for the process and their assigned role in during project class, to be staggered in a way that clients get promised service without disturbing Studies of students.
v. Service Providers to associate with for quality of targeted services.
vi. Investment Needed for setting up another unit at another school/college.
vii. Number of Clients needed for breakeven.
viii. Creation of an App to enroll new clients with a module accessible to each school unit to serve clients in its catchment area.
ix. Spread to cover as many schools as possible from regions where clients enrolled in the App cross a threshold.
Thus, one curated unit of this Students Startup for a given field will be available to start a Live Project for each school for the number of students needed as per point ‘iv’ above.
Similarly curated Live Project Units from other Student Startups for other fields can be availed by students from any school as per requirement and number of students interested.
Chapter-9
MENTORS :
Retired Professionals have loads of valuable experience and spare time to offload and transfer their priceless experience directly to willing students through Live Projects.
We need an ecosystem to connect with willing retired professionals to ensure that our students pass out with valuable experience and confidence reserved for senior professionals to face life challenges effectively. They may be compensated on expenses plus basis for their time and effort.
This is necessary to fill the gap created by unavailability of trained teachers which is a misnomer in this field to start with.
A pyramid of Mentors may be formed where mentors and students can brainstorm to resolve any issue faced by any project team.
Teachers’ Role will be to encourage and hand hold Project Team for coordination with the Mentor and keep them focused on project goals. Student friendly regular teachers will be good for live projects.
CHAPTER-10
VENTURE CAPITAL & FUNDING:
Time has come when Capital is following Startups in search of new work to be accomplished using new technology as these may have great promise to be next great disruptor of existing businesses.
Financial Institutions and Venture Capitalists should be invited to continuously guide, evaluate and fund each Live Project transparently for its potential to be the next startup.
AUTHORS
Ashok “Ash” Agarwal is a system engineer-social entrepreneur & development coordinator in Noida with an eye for social action towards common good and immense faith in youth, especially students.
As hostel president at IIT Kanpur used student power to the long-term benefit of joint good of students and the institute, resulting in strike free campus for last over 50 years.
At Noida, as founder of Noida Entrepreneurs’ Association, he quickly foresaw gaps in policies for planned development of Noida, as an integrated industrial township, and proposed joint strategies with various stake holders, including Noida Authority and Governments at centre and state, to help Noida’s transformation from the verge of failure in 1977 to a thriving industrial and commercial success, able to give birth to Greater Noida, Yamuna Express Way, Jewar Airport and now New Noida.
Noida region has become a major contributor of revenue to both the state and the centre. Why couldn’t much older and prosperous metro cities like Gaziabad, Faridabad and Bahadurgarh match Noida’s progress and development?
This experience came handy in search of answers to “THE QUESTION”.
Gaurav “Gary” Agarwal is an MBA in marketing from Amity University having long experience of introducing new technology products in the market. His inputs about young minds helped shape the entrepreneurial product for students.
His contribution of time and effort in design of mentoring strategy was very helpful. He has a critical eye to identify deficiencies and is a reliable mentor with immense patience with restless young minds.
The Authors are a father-son combination.
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