Taking the lead for happy feet

TheVerb Studio is a startup founded by Ilangovan K S and Bharath Kumar J – two NIT Trichy tech grads with a passion for dance. They are revolutionizing the way dance is taught, by introducing technology into traditional dance classes. Founders Bharath Kumar J and Ilangovan K S TheVerb Studio was started when the two founders realized that it was very hard for people to get access to quality dance lessons in India. Being “70% dancers and 30% engineers”, as co-founder Ilangovan says, and knowing that the world was shifting…

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GoCrackIt! The start-up, incubated at NSRCEL, provides mentoring services for students in MBA schools and working professionals who are trying to make a major career shift. They connect working professionals with mentors who have undertaken a similar career shift

Suhruta Kulkarni, Alok Shrivastava and Siddhartha Banerjee form the core team of GoCrackIt, a startup that provides personalized mentoring services for students and working professionals. The startup was founded in 2015 by Suhruta Kulkarni, an IIM Ahmedabad alumna. Alok, her husband, and an IIM Bangalore alumnus, supported her while pursuing his job in a management consulting firm. Harshit, Alok’s batchmate from IIM Bangalore, actively supported them in the initial phase and is now their advisor. In 2017, the company started to gain traction and Alok joined in full time. Soon,…

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Effective sales talent: No longer an elusive dream?

Ntalents.ai is a startup created by engineers Mayank Sharma, Deepika Anu and Varun Narula. They are developing an evaluation tool which identifies behavioural and soft skills in salespersons. This test gives their clients useful data to identify whether prospective employees will be good salespeople, or will simply know the theory of sales. The company was formed when Mayank Sharma observed that tech companies had proper evaluation techniques but sales The founding team – Varun Narula, Mayank Sharma, Deepika Anu companies didn’t. He believed that there was a need for such…

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Seed to stitch: Fabric Monde shows the way Fabric Monde is a B2B player that brings low carbon footprint fabrics of Indian origin to mainstream fashion brands. The company came into existence when the Co-founder & CEO Jyothi D, from IIM Lucknow, discovered that the space of homespun fabrics like khadi was only 2.5% from 2001-14 but had leapt to 35% in 2016-17. After studying the sector and working on several pilots in their business model, the co-founders, Jyothi and Hemalatha, believed they could build an enterprise based on sustainability that has now taken the world by storm.

Co-founders Jyothirmayi Dakkumall and Hemalatha Kanneganti Fabric Monde works on addressing market linkage for 95 weaver units out of 4859 leads from across 16 states within the first year of establishment. They are a sourcing partner for 30+ brands and hope to grow this portfolio to 350 brands in the next year. “There are many start-ups in the area of handlooms and sustainable fashion, but they are based on the B2C model. The real challenge lies in sourcing these fabrics for all the small and large labels,” says Jyothi. Accolades…

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The One-Year Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management at IIM Bangalore: A Journey to Remember

It has been four weeks since EPGP Batch IX completed its programme at IIM Bangalore. While some of us are looking for accommodation and booking the services of packers and movers, others are enjoying some precious family time. As I glance through our Convocation Day pictures that celebrate the ‘we did it’ moment, I pause to reflect on this one-year roller coaster ride. When I joined the one-year fulltime Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management at IIM Bangalore, I fretted that competing with the best minds in business would wear…

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Work-Life-Study balance for a PGPEM student of IIM Bangalore

Joining the Post Graduate Programme in Enterprise Management at IIM Bangalore has been one of the best decisions I have ever made, and the experience at IIMB the most rewarding! PGPEM as a course, focuses on the ‘back to college’ theme. On Friday and Saturday, all of us executives morph into students, complete with assignments, case studies, pulling one another’s leg, fighting for that extra mark, etc. So, picture this, we have executives with more than ten years of work experience, balancing three lives – that of work, family and…

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Online vs. Offline Study Meghana Manay | PGPEM 2016

To answer the question on whether online or offline classes work better for a Master’s level programme, we need to go back to the fundamentals of communication. Each individual works differently and has differences in understanding and in learning. Finance may seem like a cakewalk for some while Operations may not be as simple. We take time observing and picking up the momentum. We have been taught and have understood the need to communicate important, sensitive information in person rather than over a phone call or an e-mail unless absolutely…

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‘My journey as an entrepreneur’ A first person account by Suhruta Kulkarni, who is being incubated at IIMB’s NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) under the Women Startup Programme (WSP) 2016-17

Suhruta Kulkarni – GoCrackIt 08 January, 2018: Today, the Women Start-up Programme 2017-18 was launched at IIM Bangalore, and I got nostalgic about the day I received the email in November 2016 and the roller coaster ride thereon. I had just quit my job after we had got a little traction for our business idea with two paying institutional customers and 200 satisfied students. The Goldman Sachs Women Start-up Programme seemed apt to take the business to the next level. I completed the MOOCs and got into the Bootcamp, and…

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What women want…. Worksera, being mentored under the Women Startup Programme (WSP) 2016-17, at IIMB’s NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL), helps women find work opportunities

Meeta Verma – Worksera 10 January, 2018: Meeta Verma, an alumnus of NIT Raipur, is a Product Manager with expertise in engineering and product development in iOS applications. Meeta has been working as a freelance Product Manager on the international platform Elance (Upwork) for more than 10 years, and has now started on an entrepreneurial journey, having been selected among the top 15 in the Women Start-up Programme for incubation at NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL), IIM Bangalore. Meeta’s brainchild, Worksera, aims to tap the vast and underutilised…

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12th edition of sports contest ‘Sangharsh’ concludes on Jan 7 with IIM Calcutta lifting the trophy

09 January, 2018, Bengaluru: ‘Sangharsh’, the inter-IIM sports fest, between IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta and Lucknow, was hosted by IIM Bangalore on the 5th, 6th and 7th of January, 2018. The three days of Sangharsh 2018 were filled with enthusiasm, excitement, competitive spirit and passion. The fight for the prestigious trophy managed to bring out the best out of all contingents as well as the crowd. Day 1 The 12th edition of Sangharsh was inaugurated at IIM Bangalore on January 05, 2018 with Anshul Kothari, member of the Indian swimming…

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