Category: Student Connect

Plop: Stories that Pop This start-up being incubated at NSRCEL offers stories in a completely different, chat-based format.

Dhruva Jaishankar FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak  0

Penbound is a startup founded by Anushka Shetty and Vineet Shetty. They believe that their product Plop will re-introduce storytelling to the world. They decided to develop the idea when they pitched it to a group of publishers who, they say, loved it in the Delhi World Book Fair. Co-founder – Anushka Shetty Co-founder Vineet Shetty “Attention spans of the youth today have shrunk immensely with some studies claiming that it is only 7 minutes long. This is a product of our digitalized society and the shorter attention spans have…

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Taking the lead for happy feet

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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

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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?

Dhruva Jaishankar FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak  0

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.

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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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Going Truly Global – Part 1

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31 May, 2018, Bengaluru: The decision to join the one-year full-time Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP) at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) was not an easy one.   Coming from a middle-class family in India, it is never an easy decision to quit your job to pursue higher education, especially if you have a young family. Also, after working for eight years, I had doubts about how much I would be able to shift my orientation to a classroom model of learning. What finally tilted the scales…

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

Tridisha Goswami FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak Uncategorized  0

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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Business, Travel, and Tales with Turkish Delights Parul Aggarwal & Saurav Singh, who have just graduated from the one year full-time Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management share their Global Network Week experience at Koç University Graduate School of Business, Turkey, where they studied the challenges of family businesses across the world

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02 April, 2018, Bengaluru: The Global Network Week (12th to 16th March, 2018) for MBA students, organized by the Global Network for Advanced Management, provides a unique opportunity to pursue a focused, theme-based course in one of the 32 leading business schools of the world. The Global Network Week aims to encourage students and faculty members from different countries, cultures, and economies to learn together and to learn from each other, to build relationships, to enhance awareness about issues and arrive at solutions for global and complex issues. As representatives of IIM Bangalore,…

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Global Network Experience at Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT, USA EPGP student participates in Global Network Week at Yale University

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IIM Bangalore is a member of the Global Network, which includes 32 eminent business schools around the world, convened by Yale University. Being an active participant in the Global Network, IIMB hosts Global Network Weeks (GNWs) in the months of March and October every year when international students from partner schools visit IIMB. The GNWs feature sessions by eminent faculty, guest speakers from the industry coupled with company visits. Likewise, IIMB students enrol for the Global Network Weeks conducted around the world. Nikhil Dhar, from IIMB’s one-year fulltime residential Executive…

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

Shijo Joy FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak Student Connect  1

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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