Life at The Entrepreneurship School is full of new ideas, exciting ventures, fund raising, business growth and everything about start-up life. When you step into TES you would see program participants engaged in their product development, discussions about venture valuation, customer interactions, prototype refinement, closing their first ever sales deal, and planning for the next phase of their start-up. We invite program aspirants to live few hours of this life with us at TES. Do let us know when you would want to come - Saturdays are best!
We would be glad to share some of the success stories from TES so that you know more about how we help program participants.
Siddhartha joined The Entrepreneurship School (TES) to pursue the Postgraduate Entrepreneurship Program (PEP). Before joining PEP he had 1 year stint as Marketing Head in an online Medicine Delivery Start-up called Mera Medicare.
"The one year spent at Mera Medicare was phenomenal. Previously I led AIESEC, Delhi and I always wanted to have my own business. TES was the only school which was offering immersive program in entrepreneurship therefore, it was an easy choice for me."
He was excited about building a workplace solution for start-ups - a coffee house which could double up as an office space, where people could work as well as have fun. He discussed his idea with TES Mentors, who guided Siddhartha shape up his idea in a more concrete form as a co-working space.
At the TES KYC Marathon, Siddhartha validated the opportunity and worked on the concept of co-working spaces, a hot emerging opportunity and conceptualised INNOCUBE which is now known as DESKOPAD, his start up. At his launch party, Siddhartha met a few customers when he realised the need for aggregating vacant desks at all co-working spaces.
The TES Team worked with Siddhartha to define the product, helped him acquire his initial customers and within 6 months of joining the PEP, Siddhartha found his first paying customer.
In the words of Siddhartha,
"I had the passion and dream of becoming an entrepreneur but needed the skill-set, mindset and courage to take the leap. PEP gave me tools of design thinking, start-up marketing, operations and entrepreneurial mindset. I learned these from a start-up practitioner's point of view. I am more confident now on launching any business venture and doing business deals. TES Faculty also taught me to believe in myself."
Siddhartha is at advanced stage of closing his angel investment with a TES Networked Investor.
Nishant
is the founder of a fashion jewellery venture TWISHQ.
Nishnat was selected to join the TES Wannapreneur to Entrepreneur Mentoring Program, from where he was selected for TES Acceleration Program.
The Acceleration Program is meant for ventures which have been in revenue for atleast 6 months and the goal is to work with these ventures to accelerate their growth.
TES Mentors worked with Nishant to quickly take the traditional business online. A community of jewellery designers got built through the novel jewellery design workshops and TWISHQ products are available in different countries of the world. The TES Team and its partner SoftLayer also worked with Nishant to setup the technology platform for Twishq. Twishq is also getting supported by Knowlarity, a TES Partner for Cloud Telephony solutions.
"Right from Day 1, TES Mentors worked with me to find ways and means of increasing the customer base. Their understanding of startup challenges is very very good. The mentors know their stuff and in most short meetings we discuss issues threadbare to find the way forward. TES has also supported us with seed funding."
Ambar Srivastava is an Alumnus of IIT Delhi. He developed point of care haemoglobin testing technology as a part of his graduation project. During this project Ambar met TES founders, who encouraged him to quit his job and pursue his entrepreneurial dream. TES connected him with his angel investor to develop the full scale product, which has been brought into the market. In 2013, he figured in MIT Sloan's Global List of Innovators, "Top 30 Under The Age of 30". Later, TES helped him take his product to market and find customers.
"TES Mentors helped me think through the entire product development phase. Initially, I had multiple product ideas but TES Mentors made me focus on just one product - Haemoglobin Testing Meter, which is now doing well in the market.TES Mentors also helped me close my first funding followed by another round of funding."
Manoj Kumar is an alumnus of St. Stephens College, Delhi University. Manoj was part of Fast Track career with SBI, when he got bored and was hit with an idea to do meaningful work to impact the lives of ordinary people in Assam, his home state. He came to TES to franchise out skill building programs to Assam, but the discussions with TES faculty motivated him to join a 3 month entrepreneurship course, where he experimented with bringing Assamese Craft to the world. TES team worked with Manoj to refine his ideas, test the viability, and identify routes to market. In less than six months, the footprint of FabricPlus has reached more than 22 countries.