Students, Technology Trends, Entrepreneurship
Prakash B Pimpalepimpalepatil.googlepages.com
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Share Experiences, though fewDoing the Best Possible in Student LifeTechnology TrendsPractical Entrepreneurship
Doing the Best Possible in Student Life
Study Well – What you are supposed to study!Have a topic of Interest and follow itCurrent Affairs of your field - Technology and MarketStrong Application Oriented Projects
Relating to Fundamentals Relating to Hot Applications Innovation
cont…Extra Curricular – Communication, Courage, LeadershipFocused Preparations for Job – One/Two Subject/s, Aptitude and General Interview Skills Try hands at innovating and commercializing something
cont…Utilize time well – We can’t expect anything more than this in
globalized world!
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Courses like: Artificial Intelligence : Programming a Robotic Car Programming Languages : Building a Web Browser Image and Video Processing Digital Signal Processing VLSI CAD: Logic to Layout Machine Learning Natural Language Processing From fields like Medicine, Biology, Economics …..
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Programming
Technology TrendsArtificial IntelligenceData Mining/Machine Learning and StatisticsCommunication DevicesWeb and Mobile ApplicationsIntelligent Transport System, Agricultural and Environmental Electronics ...
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http://deity.gov.in/ : Department of Electronics and Information Technology
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Diabeto : Shrikant Pawar
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Sensors will be in everything, and everywhere.
- Reid Hoffman,
LinkedIn Founder
VC at Greylock
Entrepreneurship
Can't skip even a line of itMore and more students are realizing that they can’t pass their degree in for a job upon graduation anymore. The old promise made by our education system was that if you worked really hard in school, you would be almost guaranteed a job as a reward for your efforts. Furthermore, corporations used to hire most of their interns into full-time positions. Both of these promises have been broken due to economic constraints and global competition. Based on a recent report by my company, we found that employers expect students to have at least one internship, yet only half of them are bringing on new interns and few have hired them into full-time positions. The normal path to growing your career is non-existent. In today’s world, you can’t rely on anything or anyone to make you successful – you have to be accountable for your own career and create your own path.
- Dan Schawbel, Why Students Should Gain Entrepreneurship Experience Before Graduating, Techcrunch
Entrepreneurship: Act of being an entrepreneur - wikipedia defines entrepreneur as one who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods
Entrepreneurs
Skills
Entrepreneurial skillsRisk-seeking InnovationChange-orientation PersistenceVisionary
Technical skills Domain specific hard skillsCommunicationCo-ordinating in team Interpersonal relations
Biz Management skillsPlanning, formulating Goals, decision-making, motivating, marketing, accounting, negotiation
How It Goes For 'some' reason you think of starting on your
own You get a chance to work on it You start You fail and succeed iteratively You raise funding [Angel/Venture Capital] You scale You sell or you are all set for an IPO
What Exists and What may Excel
Contemporary Startups Flipkart, Infibeam : Books, Electronic Stuff, Gifts, etc. Bookmyshow, Bookmytrainings : Bookings Makemytrip, Cleartrip, Redbus : Travel Booking Dealface, Groupon : Group Buying, Daily Deals Facebook, Twitter : Social Naukari, Jeevansathi : Hunt Paypal : Payment Gateway Desicrew : Rural BPO RangDe, Inkfruit, Airtel, Google, JustDial, NIIT
Next big Analytics - Mu Sigma (Rs 580 crore from Sequoi and
General Atlantic) Online Docs – zoho Social Net - Custom social nets Electronic Commerce – Buildabazaar, firstcry.com Daily Deals/group buying – Groupon, mydala, daily deals,
snapdeals Telcom – Internet, applications, low cost services [?] Non Tech- Agriculture, Health Care, Human
resource/staffing, transport, banking, food, Clean tech (Solar, environment friendly products)
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Where to start
Online forums
NASCOM Emerge Community National Entrepreneurship Network Pluggd.in iamstarting – interviews with founders TechCrunch open Coffee clubs / POCC Paul Graham Essays (Y Combinator)
Offline Stuff Magazines : Entrepreneur, DARE, Udyojak
(Marathi) Books: Many out there, For starters- books by
Rashmi Bansal
Read anything and every thing that interests you : An entrepreneur always looks for an opportunity in everything, almost everything!
Events Startup saturday Proto.in StartUp city iWeekend Startup Garage, pune NASSCOM Emerge TiE – The Indus Entrepreneurs Tata Jagriti Yatra
Funding Venture Capital: Sequoi capital, Cannon
Partners, (Vinod) Khosala Ventures Incubators (SINE IITB/CIIE IIMA) Angel Investors – Mumbai Angels, Indian
Angel Network Public – NSE/BSE
Seed.Early.Growth
Government Initiatives National Science & Technology
Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), DST India
Technology Development Board (TDB), DST India
Incubators at IIMA, IITB, NCL Pune and many more by TDB
National Innovation Foundation – Competitions, Joint Product Development, ideas, Patenting
Why is this right timeto start for technology startups – opensource,
digitisation, user maturity, funding for non tech startups – low cost processing
with automation, focus on core business, consumerism and growing incomes, awareness about the standard of living, funding
Startup Jobs
http://punestartups.org/
http://www.dreamstarts.in/
http://themorpheus.com/startup-jobs/
http://headstart.in/headstart-higher/
Any ideas?Thank you!
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