Startup to the End Game is a live experiential course that explores real-world case studies of startup ideas and journeys, makes a deep dive into India’s buzzing entrepreneurship ecosystem, and unlocks the power of tech in building ventures. The course enables you to seek answers to some key entrepreneurial questions – How to solve a problem around you? How to come up with ideas? How to test the viability of the idea? How to find a product-market fit? How does the funding game work? How to launch a venture from scratch?
The course will imbibe the critical skills of entrepreneurship in you, which transcend companies, industries, global locations etc.You will participate in hands-on experiences for solving real-world problems, validating ideas, and developing products or services that could shape the future. As a capstone project, you will get to work on your business idea and take it to the launch stage of a startup. The capstone project will culminate into a mock investor pitch, where you will present your startup idea to a panel. This project will synthesize all the course concepts, from ideation to building customer personas to prototyping and help you find the product market fit for your own business idea, with the goal of creating a startup that can be taken to market.
What’s more? You will get an opportunity to win exciting rewards and a chance for mentorship with angel investors.
Nikhil Sud is a technology professional with 10 years of work experience at diverse firms, from startups to multinationals, across sectors and geographies. He holds a BS in Management (with IT) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MS in Computational Science & Engineering from Harvard University. While at MIT he was able to teach in schools in Italy, China and Israel, spent a semester studying abroad in Paris, and was involved with a biotech startup in Germany. He began his career in the US with GE’s Information Technology Leadership Program (ITLP), and later moved to the Bay Area as an early member of the product team at ad-tech startup LiveRamp, which was acquired during his tenure. Following this, he was a founding team member at Bangalore-based CoWrks, where he set up and led technology product development and IT services teams, and scaled them to support 25 coworking centres pan-India. CoWrks was acquired by Brookfield. During the pandemic he joined ThoughtWorks in Singapore as a consultant to the Singapore Government on a healthcare mobile app with 2.5 million users. Most recently he was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in Bangalore, where he was the product leader for a proprietary internal platform that was selected as a flagship project of the firmwide Digital Strategy Office.
Aditi Nemani
Teaching Fellow, Entrepreneurship
Aditi has been an entrepreneurship educator with 8+ years of experience working at institutes, schools and startups. She is a B.A from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore University and M.S. in Management and Entrepreneurship from Babson College, U.S.A. She has developed high school curriculum and textbooks on entrepreneurship for CBSE board, during her work tenure at Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India. She ran her own startup called "NurturePreneurs" for 3 years where she designed and facilitated multiple offline and online workshops for middle and high school students across Dubai, Delhi and Ahmedabad. She has even taught semester-long entrepreneurship courses at University level, some of these include courses at JK Lakshmipat University, Fortune Institute of International Business and Ahmedabad University. Apart from her experience as an entrepreneurship educator, she also worked at Upgrad as a Senior Manager to develop training programs for enterprises.
