Start Up Prep First session on 30th January 14

Get, set, ready, Go..

We are all set to start your business venture on this Thursday, 30th January 2014 at 6pm, Our first session will be at Seminar Hall No. 2, near Main building.

Class Schedule

Next 4 weeks, you will be studying and working upon tasks which will prepare you for a 5 day full time boot camp which is due to start on 25th February. During these 4 weeks following lecture and workshop meetings will be organized at COEP.

Week 1 Introduction  (30th January)

Course Introduction

Participant Intro 60 sec each

Ideation

Home work prior to next session

Week 2 Intro to Business Model ( 6 Feb)

Fundamentals of Business Model

Team Finalization

Preliminary Business Model per team

Home work for next week

Week 3  Business Model Deep Dive (13 Feb)

Rightside of the model

Leftside of the model

Home work for next week

Week 4 How to build a Lean Startup (20 Feb)

Intro to Lean methodology

MVP

Differentiators and Risk validation

Key Metrics

Home work for Boot Camp

Text Books

For the course, you will need to use the following textbooks extensively.

1. Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
2. Lean Startup by Eric Ries
3. The Start Up Owner's manual by Steve Blank

In addition there are some more books recommended for reference. A complete list of books is attached with this message. If you have requested Prof Ashok Saraf to buy these books for you, then you can pick the books on 30th Jan. We will also have few more copies of books for purchase on 30th January, 

Laptop

Please bring your laptop with you for every classroom meeting. Please also bring a virus free USB key for easy exchange of files at the classroom.

Presentation about your business idea

On 30th January, each one of you will be required to present in 60 seconds, what is your business idea. You do not need to prepare any powerpoint presentation. Just describe, what is your business idea? what activities you have already performed to start this business? who are in your team? what do you expect to achieve in this course?

Look forward to meeting you on 30th Jan.

Ashok Ranade

Professor (Enterprise Systems)

Production Engineering Department

College of Engineering, Pune

Shivajinagar, Pune 411005

Phone: +91 (20) 2550 7586

Cell: +91 9910104046

email: erp@coep.ac.in

course blog: http://startupprep.blogspot.in/ 

Welcome

Welcome to Bhau Institute of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leaderhip at College of Enginering, Pune. we look forward to working with you in the next few months to take your dream of starting new business to the actual execution stage.

We have already discussed the details of the course, which are presented in the course brochure and can be referred to any time at http://goo.gl/svbw3K

Following participants have submitted their application forms and majority have paid application fees.

Team	Name	Email	Phone
1	Prachee Lokhande
1	Sachin Lokhande	sachinchemba@gmail.com	83800 64309
2	S. Venkatachalapathy	chalapathy7515@rediffmail.com	93710 10743
2	Sarang Joshi	sarang.dcapl@hotmail.com	98221 97020
3	Abhishek  Bhat	amar.bhat@oriental-software.com	99450 90803
4	Rutul Jambhekar	rutuljambhekar@gmail.com	98606 93496
5	priyamvada Bavadekar	priyamvada@chetanasystems.com	90110 55047
6	Ankur Sharma	ans4ever4u_009@yahoo.com	78752 02324
7	Manish Patil	mmpatil@gmail.com	98810 92811
7	Shrinivas Gramopadhye		94235 67614
8	Avinash S Kulkarni	avisk71@gmail.com	95525 46680
8	Kiran P Wani	kiran_wani17@rediffmal.com	90114 52317
9	Nimish Dange	nimish.dange@primustechsys.com	97308 82093
9	Sambhaji Chawale	sam.c@primustechsys.com	95450 55566
10	Vinay Ninave	ninavev@gmail.com	98810 99759
	Ameet P Tadokar	ameet.tadokar@gmail.com	97663 61174
	Aniruddh Kawade	aakawade9@gmail.com	89835 44204
	Diptesh Parmar	diptesh.parmar@gmail.com	98602 56454
	Pravin Bhokare	pravin.bhokare@gmail.com	98901 48152
	Saurabh Yewalkar	saurabh.yewalkar@gmail.com	95525 22602
	Shailendra Savardekar	shailendra.savardekar@gmail.com	94204 81358

We will have 10 or more teams. Each team will have 4 team members and some students will join in to make the team size to 4 persons. Following is the short introduction to the businesses being developed.

Sachin and Prachi Lakhande are practicing software consultants and would like to develop ERP consulting services business.

Sarang Joshi is a practicing architect and developing business software solution for typical Architect firms. Neethi Venkatachalapathy, a recent graduate architect is teaming up for this project.

Abhishek  Bhat represents the company which has developed high tech engineering design simulation software and would like to take it to global markets.

Rutul Jambhekar is building a web based Skills exchange for easy collaboration among highly skilled professionals.

Priyamvada Bavadekar runs a successful software development and export business and would like to develop North American office.

Ankur Sharma is planning to start an online Scrap trading business and also considering a service for Helmet dry cleaning. 

Sambhaji Chawale owns a fast growing SAP consulting firm and would like to start North American operations.

Vinay Ninave is developing an eCommerce /mobile solution and would like to prepare for Canadian StartUp Visa.

On 30th January, you will listen from all participants more details about their plan.

With this message, I would like to introduce you to various ways in which you can communicate will all course participants, faculty, mentors and organizers.

You will be able to find all instructions related to course in one place at my blog at http://startupprep.blogspot.in/. In addition, these instructions will also be sent to your email addresses listed above. I would encourage all of you to respond with your comments to this blog as well as reply all by email. On 30th Jan when we meet, let us decide whether we should also form a Yahoo or Google or Facebook group for our communications.

I will send you further updates on Monday and instructions for advance preparation for our first class.

Best wishes for your new business venture!