Entrepreneurship Course Schedule 2013

Schedule for Entrepreneurship
 ( Paresh Masade, one of NITIE allumni and founder of Coherendz  enterprise wrote me.. 

  Sir,  Just an example for you to quote... one of my friend, about 2 years older to me, tried a business for about 4 years and finally had to close it down... Unwillingly he took up a job and is offered 25 Lakhs and a position of Head, India Operations. 
Just a note to all students in campus... the chance of them getting a better package after taking up entrepreneurship is very high, and that ... and more likely a more responsible position... any C*O .

 Jan 16

Course Coverage: ? ? ?


  Course assignment covered: Submit letter  for  NITIE Allumni Enterpreneurs Meet

 Videos to watch  :  
       
1. So you want to start a business .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9bnzetcD68&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC  -  Idea - Opportunity - 

2. Idea to Operating your company - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6NvA7eKCM&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC

3. Business idea Evaluation:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEomG_ffp7Y&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC

4. Art of Start :   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8X57eucxnI&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC

5. Getting your first customer:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih6Ez_nd4nI&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC

6. How to start a LEAN START UP:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNJHaFgEJ7U&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC

Jan23   

Course Coverage:   Start up Vs. Established enterprise - Business Model Vs. Business Plan - Customer Development process  

Customers - Core Business / Business Value proposed - Value  Delivery Process - Organisation creation process -  My Enterprise Name - Partners - Funding  - Enterprise Goals
 
Course assignment covered:  My Enterprise  Plan submitted -  Immersion Project Inventory Issued 
 
Videos to watch  :  
 

7. Start Ups Vs. Big Businesses :   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2OkLcOCjEs

8. Why accountants dont run startups:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CGPdJQ_oo

9. Customer Development: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t0t-CXPpyM

10. Democratizaiton of entrepreneurship: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n-H7TAcqGko#!

11. How to build great companies :   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RTcXwJuCaU

12. Failure , discovery and customer development:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkiHbRmKR4o

13. Startup Grind:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DjJay8-_pc

   
Jan 30  

Course Coverage:   ?   ?

Course assignment covered: Immersion Project done / Posting You Tube 1  video on Immersion Project experience

Videos to watch  :

14. . Iterating your product and Market strategy :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HOKObVbKcQ&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC

15.  What they dont teach you at B School about entrepreneurship:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHVJF9VaWfo


16.  Paying attention to details:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHM9uYjUCzc&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC

Feb 1 & 2..   

 Guest faculty session - Enterprise  Plan discussed ..

Feb 6   


Course Coverage: ?  ?  ?

Course assignment covered: NITIE Allumni Entrepreneurs Meeting - Posting You Tube 2  video submitted on My Enterprise

Videos to watch  : 

 GUY Kawasaki - 140 videos:  

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABo4JUIBxXs&playnext=1&list=PLA4F138C72CE0B16E

12 lessons for Steve jobs taught us by Kawasaki  :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR_wX0EwOMM

Feb13

Course Coverage:

Course assignment covered: Partnership Deed / Company  registration completed

Videos to watch  :

Feb 20

Course Coverage:

Course assignment covered: My Enterprise Website registered

Videos to watch  :

Feb 27

Mar 6

Mar13

Mar 20

1. Immersion Project :

• ( 15 students  @ Rs. 2000 = Rs. 30,000 /- worth of products will be sold in the market. Product  is Rhombod Elements .. making so many shapes and learning mathematics and structures  ) ..
• Time line - By the end of Jan 2013...

2. Your Startup Deed Registration

• Register your startup named deed  /   Notarize  Your Partnership deed. 
  

• Time Line - By Date:  Feb 13th    

3.  Your Startup Facebook page  / Website making

  

• Create Your startup related Facebook account..   

• Time Line - By Date:  Feb 13th 

4.  Making  videos uploading them on ON LINE

• Five You Tube Videos by each student :  ( 15 @ 5 = 75 videos on  the subjects Viz.,  Your Startup, Immersion project experience video, Supply Chain Management, Finance and Operations  etc.. ) 

• Create You tube channel 
• Post the videos on the Tube  
• Time Line - Every alternate week  ONE Video by each of the student  

 5. FIVE blogs related to your Startup  

• E  - Plan 
• Entrepreneurial discovery of yourself - Immersion project experiences 
• Enterprise experiences

6. NITIE  Allumni Entrepreneurs Annual Pannel discussion on -  START UPS  BY STUDENTS

It is planned to have one session with NITIE allumni entrepreneurs.  Let the day and date is finalised and the session is campaigned by the course students. This is part of the course.


I. Other Videos for this course: 

So you want to start a business .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9bnzetcD68&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC  -  Idea - Opportunity - 

Idea to Operating your company - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6NvA7eKCM&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC

PINTEREST CEO speaks -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JLc2PYyCa0&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC

Business idea Evaluation:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEomG_ffp7Y&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC

Art of Start :   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8X57eucxnI&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC

Getting your first customer:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih6Ez_nd4nI&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC

How to start a LEAN START UP:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNJHaFgEJ7U&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC

Iterating your product and Market strategy :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HOKObVbKcQ&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC

What they dont teach you at B School about entrepreneurship:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHVJF9VaWfo


GOOD VIDEO -  Paying attention to details:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHM9uYjUCzc&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC

 http://ecorner.stanford.edu / E Center Stanford

II. GUY Kawasaki - 140 videos:  

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABo4JUIBxXs&playnext=1&list=PLA4F138C72CE0B16E

12 lessons for Steve jobs taught us by Kawasaki  :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR_wX0EwOMM

III. STEVE BLANK  VIDEOS: 

 

Start Ups Vs. Big Businesses :   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2OkLcOCjEs

Why accountants dont run startups:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CGPdJQ_oo

Customer Development: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t0t-CXPpyM

Democratizaiton of enterpreneurship: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n-H7TAcqGko#!

How to build great companies :   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RTcXwJuCaU

Failure , discovery and customer development:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkiHbRmKR4o

Startup Grind:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DjJay8-_pc

IV. Lean startup - Book - E Copy ..  

http://www.stpia.ir/files/The%20Lean%20Startup%20.pdf

Student Enterprising - Concept

Student Enterprising - Concept

Concept of Student enterprising might be confusing to few people. Simply said, it means students  engaging  in enterprising. However, there are questions like How, when, what, where, and whys of student enterprising that always crop up. Here are few  simple principles that make the concept much more clearer. 

1.PLAN to do - What can be DONE by STUDENT by SELF, POTENTIAL focus 

2.ENGAGE - STUDENT SELF - Time and Energy, Student Capital , Diversity - Full and 100 % 

2.AVAIL and HARNESSED and MONETISED   - Student working on campus which is currently wasted

3.APPLY -  What all a STUDENT  HAS

4.OFFER ... What others NEED

5.ACHIEVE ... What STUDENT NEED

2. ZERO ADDITIONAL DOING  - NO ADDL. DOING AND EXTRA WORKING 

1. PLAN to do  - What can be DONE...

The message here  is that a student need to engage in what can be done here and now basis rather than wasting time thinking of what cannot be done. It is quite possible that students might not be able to arrive at what best can be done so easily.. However, it is the process through which they will find out.

2. ENGAGE - ONESELF

The message here is that  a student must engage oneself in what is planned to be done as enterprising. He cannot excuse himself on account of many a number of reasons saying that one cannot do  and try to pass on the enterprise mantle  to others.

The question what one can do, himself and herself can only answer. It also indicates that there is no limits what one can do.. Sky is the limit. Hence, anything and everything one can do.

This also means that there is no point in planning what one cannot do. Most of the times students plan things that they cannot do themselves and what they cannot do in present times. It might be futile for a student to focus on what cannot do himself.

Students also plan what others can do and  ignore and self neglect themselves. This way of doing  seems to be more personally convenient.

Engaging oneself in enterprising in no way undermines the role and contribution of others engagement for student enterprising.  A student in due course of time might plan to engage others in the enterprising, but at present one cannot ignore what one must do by self. 

3. APPLY -  What all a student ... HAS

Here the message is that a student must apply all that one is knowing and having. One need to know what all one has. One need to develop  competence and interest and also a need to apply  all that is there inside oneself. It is often said that there is so much with in oneself that one uses only a fraction of what one has. The more a student tries to do this more,  more and more can be applied out of oneself.

4. OFFER ... What others NEED

Student enterprising must not loose sight of the Lakshya of student enterprising. Focus of enterprising must be what others need. There is no point in enterprising what others DO NOT NEED. 

5. ACHIEVE ... What a STUDENT NEED

What is that student enterprising must serve ? Purpose of student enterprising is to  serve the REAL needs of the students. There are a number of needs for any given student. But the real need for a student  is to achieve  ECONOMIC  SELF RELIANCE. There is no other lakshya for any given student  except - Self reliance. This is the  lakshya even for the rich and economically well off students. 

Clearly the focus of student enterprising  must be  economic self reliance. It is the economic value creation by the student himself, by applying what one has and learned, by serving the others is the ultimate need that cannot be ignored. There is immense value when a student could achieve this even a small percentage of ones self reliance this way.

5. Why a student need to enterprise ? 

Best way to  answer this  question is to pose  a question back to those who asked this question  .. Why not ? Enterprising by the students has many advantages. Some of them are:

1.  Students time is used well and not wasted: Student  time is used productively. It will enhance students' learning.

2. Students gain better academic grades due to this. Some academic colleges award better grades to those students who enterprise. Such colleges consider enterprising as exam.  Enterprising is considered as an alternate  method of learning.

3. Student can also make some money due to enterprising. This is the most important thing I consder. Many people do not pay attention to this aspect - economic self reliance. I argue that education must promote economic self reliance of the students as sole objective. This rule might apply to not only to poor but rich students too.

4. In case, students  pick up their  enterprise idea  directly related to their academic studies, they benefit much more. In such a case, enterprising is nothing but putting to practice what they are studying in the college. In reality, students must be encouraged to enterprise only that which they are pursuing as part of academics. In other words, students should not be encouraged to pursue enterprising  that they are not pursuing as part of their academics.

6. Student Startups - Some questions? 

FALSE Statements:

- Student startups lead to divided attention of students. Dissipated attention will spoil both education and earning and career

- Student startups flouts the rule - Play while you Play and Work while you Work 

- Purpose of student startups is High achievement hence needs higher attention

- Student startups need lot of support, facilities and push 

- Student startups are risky.

- Startups by  Students is too early. Startups must be done by  mid age around 30 yrs

- Student enterprises is WRONG. . Either Students or  Enterrpreneurs  is RIGHT .. It is wrong to have students for being BOTH.

- Student entrepreneurship will help those students who are entrepreneurial and or having enterprising inclinations. But do not help ( ruin  / damage !) all those who dont have such inclinations.

TRUE Statements:

- Student startup ideas are usually picked up from academic experience .. hence they dont succeed. True entrepreneurs pick up ideas from Mandi.. 

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Student startups at  NITIE are..

-  1. NOT Aimed at those students who are talented, keen and interested to become enterpreneurs .. It is for all and every student.. not focused on any specific student... ADMISSION 

- 2. NO EXTRA EFFORT and EXTRA INPUTS except what is given in regular curricula at NITIE ONLY... THROUGH PUT PROCESS

- 3. Outcome of this is NOT to make enterpreneurs .. job givers .. OUTCOME of it.. 

 AND  ..

...  1. LEARNING Focus - Better and MORE during the studies by application of what is learning . 

... 2. ALL INCLUSIVE- OPEN TO ALL and EVERY STUDENT

.....  3. OUTCOME ENVISAGED IS.. BETTER PLACEMENT FOCUS  .. Placement Plus ...

... 4. SELF RELIANCE focus . Make little earning.... in learning, through learning and for learning - atleast 10 % program cost is retrieved in the learning 

STUDENT START UPS.. How it work at NITIE ! 

I. CURRICULAR EMBEDMENT OF STUDENT STARTUP 

1. MANDI field experiment........................................................0.5 credit 

2. Winter Project  - I Year End .................................................  Non Credits 

3. Summer Project  - I Year End ................................................. 3 credits 

4. Student Startup .. 6 Modules @ 6 Courses = 36 courses .. for each course one startup related project.. 56 projects ...................................................................... 36 credits 

5. Ent. Dev. Course  ..  ................................................................... 3 credits 

6. Final Project  / FIELD PROJECT ............................................. 9 credits / 3 credits 
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EXTRA CURRICULAR 

7. Empresario E Cell competitions .. Navkriti 

8. Case study competitions - By Corporates 

9. Samsmaran - Allumni projects 

10. Defered Placement Opportunity 

11. Allumni investment Opportuntties 

6 Lessons for Enterpreneurship

6  Lessons for Entrepreneurs

(  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcrVxBPkUv8&playnext=1&list=PL13D46C62CFD2B719&feature=results_main )

No Plan

Not Weaknesses

Not You

Persistence 

Do Excellent Mistakes

Impact

Entrepreneurship Videos for course

Videos for Enterpreneurship Course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEvKo90qBns
Enterpreneurs made Vs. Born: 

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/228273 

1. Peter Theil.Pay pal investor.. .  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6qm7vVB5so

1 Entrepreneurship course related 57 videos..

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjfDwz019vI&list=PL35AED26A17CFCB8B

2  Also .... Young Turks - CNBC  
  
2. Great  video:  

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rAzDPM7FFYQ#t=17

Steve Interview - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nMD6sjAe8I

Steve starting NEXT company -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHsHKzYOV2E&NR=1&feature=endscreen

3   Start Up lessons ..Steve Blank ..

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2OkLcOCjEs
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Zk-4Ml-s4

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-H7TAcqGko&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC&index=1

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GIbCg8NpBw

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t0t-CXPpyM&list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC&index=2

Steve Blank - Slides / Vidoes

http://steveblank.com/slides/

National Governess ( Steve Blank address )  conference video on YOU TUBE video  is too good.. Part 1 and Part 2 .. 

•  Passion startups
• 
  
• Social startups
• 
  
• Small Business - Startups
• 
  
• Scalable Start ups  fail 90 % of them... Hence RISK CAPITAL.. !   

          Culture - Infrastrucutre 

•   Buyable startups 

 Steve  Blank - 9 Step - Customer Development process;

 1 Value  propostion - 2 Who are customers - 3 Sales channel - 4 Customer relations - 5 Revenue streams - 6 Key resources - 7 Key partners - 8 Key activities -9 Key costs - Expense


Steve Blank - Slide share source: 

 http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=steve+blank

4. Stanford Business videos list.. 

  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0D55A133BC61D2CC


5 Mark Zuckerberg of Face book:  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWKUoabjjxg&feature=related

6 Stanford to Start Up: 8 Startup Myths exposed  :  

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qs3jTRzGXQ&feature=related )

7.  CNN... 100 Student start ups:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RL5BezzEdw

8. TED video .. You cannot have GREAT CAREER..

 http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_smith_why_you_will_fail_to_have_a_great_career.html

9.  National College of innovations .. 

 http://nciia.org/         or     http://nciia.org/theresources

A guide to student enterpreneurs:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Getting_Started_as_an_Entrepreneur

10... Design Thinking:   www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sXH5UVn9ms


9. Kishore Mahbhubani lecture on Asian Enterpreneurship: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7eX3f9YAvg


10. Vir Singhvi: Tycoons with Vir Singhvi


1 . You can be entrepreneur from a blog / book /  a academic course

2 . Startups can only started by Computer science graduates


3. Finding solution to the problem is hardest thing


4. Work for months, build a robust product in sec racy and then launch to the world


5. Stat a bidding war with VCs with slick pich deck

6 Stating a company = Building a product


7. Successful startups come from single good / great idea

8 . Great Start ups happen overnight

11. Saras Videos: 

1. Good - Video .. Why start a business ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_l_Sl7jMsY

 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5HZW4NqZ-E
3.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0qKdimc_bg
4.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWeWvvliQjs


12. Some internet articles   sources for the students :


http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html - Sent by Nikhil..

13. Business a new story .... FREEMAN..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7yjQzRcf-U

14. Horrible video .. boring one..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9bnzetcD68


15. HP Enterpreneurship LIFE program.. Good one. 

http://e-learning.life-global.org/getting-started

Entrepreneurship Development 2015 Course @ NITIE

Entrepreneurship Development 2015
Elective Course - NITIE, Mumbai

( Visitor to this blog are advised to read the other blog related to this course...
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1596884535076016222#editor/target=post;postID=8813390980031575564 )

Introduction

This course is ELECTIVE    for NITIE  II year students  in 5th module.. Course has THREE  credits weightage.

Course  Objectives

• To provide REAL FEEL of a commercial activity, imagined, implemented with its full impact on self
• To provide a platform so as to IMPLEMENT + INTEGRATE  the various course learnings. This  includes   that the students implement their  learnings from KG - Kinder Garden studies to  TO DATE .  
• Students may also DO and IMPLEMENT things that they have not LEARNT but with a view to to DO first and then followed by LEAR ! 
• Make the students to experience their entrepreneurial potential and 
• Make them to plan their future career more ENTREPRENEURIAL 

Contents

Course  try to full cycle of entrepreneurial journey. 

Learning in this course typically cover -  Idea generation -  Planning and working out  an Idea Implementation - Creating Enterprise  for idea implementation - Bearing the  Impact of idea implementation..

Unique things about the course

It is Practical course.

Self focused - Course is focused on student self. At the end of the course student must engage, experience and evolve..

Integration of what already a student knows and capable of is the focus of this course .. NO attempt will be made by the faculty to upload more information and or equip more techniques in the name of course learning. Present course expects the students to retrieve and pool together and what all the students learned / and what ever they are learning as inputs. 

Value creation - Course expects the students to create an economic value without fail. Economic value creation by the students is VALUED MOST.

Self Reliance  is focus..  

Pedagogy : DO EARNABLE way, and LEARN

This course  NOT focused for .... 

listening to lectures, knowing of the things and the processes , understanding  and  researching about the world .  These things might be there as part of the course but  these are NOT the FOCUS of the course.

Focus of this course is  EXECUTING,  EXPERIENCING the  ENTERPRISING in the form of  business activities. 

Learning is essentially imparted through the mode of  a  STUDENT  START UP .  Students are assigned to launch their own startup as part of learning the course. 

Pedagogy  followed in the course learning  is more STUDENT CENTRIC and STUDENT  DRIVEN. There will be less number of class room based learning. Much of the learning is targeted for providing the students experience of the business outside of the academic setting.   

Students are advised / guided to work on  an enterprise that they can launch without constraints. 

 Students are activiey guided to select an START UP that they can DO and IMPLEMENT along with their regular academic curriculum @ NITIE Mumbai.....Students are  specifically advised and discouraged NOT to choose and select an START UP IDEA that  they CANNOT implement during and as part of their academic studies.

Course Evaluation : T H R E E  components. ( A + B + C + D..  )

A. Earning My FIVE Square Meals  20 Marks

During the course each of the students are assigned to earn atleast  FIVE square meals that they eat. The experience of  earning the FIVE square meals will be one of the important inputs taken for course learning.  

Earning FIVE Square meals by the students must meet TWO conditions mentioned below:

1. Earning has to happen on their own... meaning self employed .  Employed with somebody / some shop or establishment is NOT acceptable. One has to visualize, imagine, plan and implement what one wants to do earn theie FIVE square meals..

2. For earning TEN square meals, students must  necessarily  use all that the knowledge + skills that they acquired all through their academic life. They must must make their earning by applying / utilizing   their  competences ( K + S )  that they acquired. Earning TEN square meals by NOT engaging their Knowledge is NOT acceptable. 


B. Enterprise Practicum:  40 marks..

Students are expected to complete minimum of  TWO of the following criteria related to their startup enterprise. Meeting the criteria is important to score marks. 

• Formal registration of ones own enterprise
• Launching a website for ones own enterprise
• Readying  the product and / or service for the enterprise
• Opening the bank account in the name of the enterprise
• Executing deeds and   or bonds with Business partners,  vendors, customers etc.
• Procuring the Business of Rs. 5000 /- 
• Achieving an Enterprise turnover Minimum of  Rs 5, 000  / -  

 More about the concept of  START UP as part of this course ....

The Start up students launch in this course may not be the ULTIMATE / DREAM Enterprise that they  want to start in their future.. Idea is not to make the future enterprise of yours make happen  now it self.

Purpose of starting a start up as part of this course is it to make the students to understand, to know what a start up will look like.  

' Enterprising that can be done as part of a course' is the single most important principle will be taken in to consideration

 - Deliberately, students will be assigned  to start -  Small, tiny, tenable startups rather than big, mighty, huge enterprises which are generally found NOT possible to be implemented by student entrepreneurs. It is not the size and scale that matter most for effective learning.. Rather enterprising activities having long and complete VALUE CHAINS in an enterprise are preferred.  )
  
C. Launching NITIE Allumni Enterpreneurs Annual  Meet:


This course students are assigned to launch  NITIE Allumni Enterpreneurs Meet during Feb / March months at NITIE. CIE and Empressario groups  will also support this initiative of by NITIE enterpreneurship course students. This meet will become annual event and every year NITIE Allumni enterprneurs will be invited to NITIE students will benefit from the interaction with such allumni.  

D. Final  End Term Exam : 40   marks

Assignment Submission: 

Students are expected to submit the following assignments. ON LINE

1. My TEN square meals earning experiences -  Entrepreneurial opportunities, Enterprising competencies,  

2. Experiencing of launching  my own startup

3. E Plan for my Startup 

4. Registration of a Start up

References and Books 

Steve Jobs biography

 http://steveblank.com/2012/08/27/vision-versus-hallucination-founders-and-pivots/

OKHLAMA ENTREPRENEURSHIP. CENTER VIDEO RESORUCES:

https://entrepreneurship.okstate.edu/theme/challenges/

Venkat Raman PPT on Ent. Edn:

http://www.isb.edu/SEE/presentations/EnablingEntrepreneurship-LocalSocieties.pdf

Babson vidoes on YOu tube:

 http://www.youtube.com/user/BabsonMedia/videos

Reference blogs:

 http://www.babson.edu/enterprise-education-programs/entrepreneurship-toolkit/Pages/entrepreneurship-101.aspx

 http://www.babson.edu/news-events/babson-news/pages/100831-babson-professor-heidi-neck-keynotes-at-entrepreneurship-conference-in-peru.aspx

 http://www.babson.edu/news-events/babson-news/pages/100120-entrepreneurship-pedagogy.aspx

 http://www.babson.edu/enterprise-education-programs/entrepreneurship-toolkit/Pages/entrepreneurship-101.aspx

TIE Mumbai Videos: 
 http://www.youtube.com/user/tiemumbai/videos?sort=p&view=0&flow=grid

Paresh Masade - 

Founder, Coherendz wrote this  mail to current students..

 Dear Rahul,  Please forward my mail to all the students of IE batch.

Dear Juniors,

Wish this mail finds you looking out for how to spend time effectively, am sure module 3 is when you get lot of free time.

To introduce myself, I am Paresh Masade, your senior (IE 37), working on to build the product company called - Coherendz. I started that while i was at campus and took it full-time after NITIE. I came to know from prasad sir is that none from IE have shown interest in Entrepreneurship Development Course, it was very disheartening and so i thought of writing mail to you guys sharing my experience. 

I am sure there would be many of you who want to start a company, sometime in future, and there are many who should be looking for a good placement. For either of you, this course is a real kickoff and a must opt in. I have put down the thoughts on why should you start a company while you are in campus...

Best time to try out things, learn from experience.

Lessons running a company cannot be thought, there can be no classroom knowledge that will replace your experience in working in startup. Given that most of the startups fail, and real learning comes from failure, it would be an opportunity for you to experience failure. Campus is the best place to fail, once you are out, it would be much costlier to fail. What it takes to build a company is ability to be resilient, being resilient can only be experienced. So, if you wish to start in future, sure do that after taking a job, but its worth experiencing it now. 

Helps in skills and placements.

Companies i have known, seek entrepreneurial job seekers. I was short listed in 7 companies for interviews based on my resume. I missed jobs as i was probably too frank in saying that i will stay with them for about couple of years. Companies are always looking for people who can come up and take up leadership positions. The salaries of over a million rupees are offered only because they feel we have the ability to take initiatives. And an initiative like starting a company on your resume would boast about your leadership skills. 

So, even those seeking better placements, it would be a real add on. 

Apart from that you get the first hand experience of subjects you learn, right from marketing management, finance to HR. You will understand what it takes to keep people motivated (HR), you will innovate on ways to position and market your product. You will learn what it means to lead a team/ work in a team. Be it supply chain or anything, you will understand that none of what you learn in books at NITIE can be directly implemented.

You will become more confident,

The best of my experience in working on a startup is it made me more confident, what startups give you is lot of challenges and as you work on them they make you stronger, it gives you the belief that however big the problem be, you will be able to find out a solution and not give up. A quality that will stay with you rest of the life.

So guys, go ahead and opt for the course, it will be the best experience for you. 

Here are a few blog posts about my experience:

http://virtualscientist.blogspot.in/2012/07/entrepreneurship-is-like-sport.html

http://virtualscientist.blogspot.in/2011/12/building-organization.html

http://virtualscientist.blogspot.in/2009/11/journey-of-9-months.html

feel free to shoot any questions you have at pareshmasade@gmail.com

warm regards

Paresh Masade

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