Freedom and Wealth An engineering student's guide to Entrepreneurship & Start-ups! By - Amit Haralalka (amit@xxxxxx.xx) Shrey Sehgal (shrey@xxxxxx.xx)

AGENDA Finding Your Niche Evaluating your options Discovering yourself Freedom and Wealth

AGENDA

Finding Your Niche

Evaluating your options

Discovering yourself

Finding your niche Amit Haralalka Heads an independent Business Unit at Quetzal Verify Worked with Cognizant for 2 years Completed Engineering from BIT Mesra Drummer and backing-vocalist for a rock-band Trained over 700 engineering students President, UNESCO Club at BIT Mesra

Amit Haralalka

Heads an independent Business Unit at Quetzal Verify

Worked with Cognizant for 2 years

Completed Engineering from BIT Mesra

Drummer and backing-vocalist for a rock-band

Trained over 700 engineering students

President, UNESCO Club at BIT Mesra

“ Finding your niche” Try different things Understand your mistakes Embrace failure

Try different things

Understand your mistakes

Embrace failure

"In business, you reward people for taking risks. When it doesn't work out, you promote them because they were willing to try new things. If people come back and tell me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to try a different mountain." “ Finding your niche” Mike Bloomberg, Founder – Bloomberg & Mayor, New York City

"In business, you reward people for taking risks. When it doesn't work out, you promote them because they were willing to try new things. If people come back and tell me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to try a different mountain."

Shrey Sehgal Heads an independent Business Unit at Quetzal Online Worked as Software Engineer at Aricent, Gurgaon Completed Engineering from NSIT Delhi General Sec Cultural Festival at NSIT Evaluating your options

Shrey Sehgal

Heads an independent Business Unit at Quetzal Online

Worked as Software Engineer at Aricent, Gurgaon

Completed Engineering from NSIT Delhi

General Sec Cultural Festival at NSIT

Evaluating your Options Higher studies MBA/MS Joining a BIG company Joining a start-up Entrepreneurship

Higher studies MBA/MS

Joining a BIG company

Joining a start-up

Entrepreneurship

A day in a… Financial planning for the next quarter Trying to get appointments for next day Planning for lunch 12:00-1:00 A meeting with a venture capitalist for funding Sending replies to business mails Coding 11:00-12:00 In meetings with business heads of companies to get clients Attending various meetings Reach office checking mails 9:00-11:00 Reached office preparing for first meeting Reached office preparing for first meeting Planning to go to office 8:00-9:00 Entrepreneur Start Up Big Company Time

A day in a.. ctd Preparing presentations and proposal. The day is not over yet. Market research and discussions which may stretch till dinner time Exercising in company gym and gossiping 5:00-7:00 Setting goals and targets for business streams and revenues Looking into new business strategies for existing products Wrapping up the work and leaving for home 3:00-5:00 Looking after the new recruitments, Making various proposals and presentations for next day Relaxing after lunch and checking mails 2:00-3:00 A lunch over a team meeting A lunch over a team meeting A lunch in a cafeteria 1:00-2:00 Entrepreneur Start Up Big Company Time

Working @ Quetzal Maj. (Retd.) Devashish Chakravarty 13 Years in the Indian Army IIM Ahmedabad – Batch of 2007 Rejected 1 Crore+ offer from Campus Vineeta Singh B. Tech ( IIT Madras ) – Batch of 2005 IIM Ahmedabad – Batch of 2007 Rejected 1 Crore+ offer from Campus

Maj. (Retd.) Devashish Chakravarty

13 Years in the Indian Army

IIM Ahmedabad – Batch of 2007

Rejected 1 Crore+ offer from Campus

Vineeta Singh

B. Tech ( IIT Madras ) – Batch of 2005

IIM Ahmedabad – Batch of 2007

Rejected 1 Crore+ offer from Campus

Put your hands up…

There once was a bunch of tiny frogs,... … who arranged a running competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower. The story about the tiny frogs….

Honestly: No one in crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of the tower. You heard statements such as: "Oh, WAY too difficult!! They will NEVER make it to the top." or: "Not a chance that they will succeed. The tower is too high!" The race began...

The tiny frogs began collapsing. One by one... ... Except for those who in a fresh tempo were climbing higher and higher... More tiny frogs got tired and gave up... ...But ONE continued higher and higher and higher... This one wouldn't give up! The crowd continued to yell "It is too difficult!!! No one will make it!"

At the end everyone else had given up climbing the tower. Except for the one tiny frog who after a big effort was the only one who reached the top! It turned out... A contestant asked the tiny frog how the one who succeeded had found the strength to reach the goal? THEN all of the other tiny frogs naturally wanted to know how this one frog managed to do it?

That the winner was DEAF!!!!

NEVER listen to other people's tendencies to be negative or pessimistic... … cause they take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you. The ones you have in your heart! The wisdom of this story is: Always think of the power words have. Because everything you hear and read will affect YOUR actions!

Therefore: ALWAYS be… POSITIVE! And above all: Be DEAF when people tell YOU that YOU cannot fulfil YOUR dreams! Always think: I can do this!

Amit Haralalka Email: [email_address] Cell: +91 98XXXXXXXX Questions? Shrey Sehgal Email: [email_address] Cell: +91 99XXXXXXXX

Amit Haralalka

Email: [email_address]

Cell: +91 98XXXXXXXX