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

Cont..Example:

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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