The document provides an agenda for a startup bootcamp with 10 sessions over 2 months. It introduces the instructors, Sreeram Pydah and Sunil Sabat, and outlines the topics that will be covered in each session, including outlook, creativity, passion, entrepreneur traits, turning passions into businesses, startup steps, financials, pitches, funding, patents, business plans, and app development help. It also shares biographies of the instructors and their experiences founding startups. The document discusses creativity and its importance for entrepreneurship, providing examples like Google, Apple, Tesla, and Netflix. It outlines ways to bring creativity into entrepreneurship such as asking questions, challenging assumptions, prototyping ideas,

1. Session 1
Outlook, Creativity and Passion
Sreeram Pydah | sreeram.pydah@gmail.com | @SPydah9

2. Master Agenda for Startup Bootcamp
Session 1 - January 22nd – Sreeram Pydah Outlook, Creativity and Passion
Session 2 - January 29th – Sreeram Pydah Behavior traits for a successful entrepreneur.
Session 3 - February 12th – Sunil Sabat Turning your passion into a business opportunity.
Session 4 - February 19th – Sunil Sabit Steps needed for your startup ... 1, 2, 3 GO.
Session 5 - February 26th – Sreeram Pydah Financials of the business opportunity.
Session 6 – March 5th – Sunil Sabat Presentation skills, successful pitches & Funding
Session 7 - March 12th - Bao Filing your patent and patent gotchas
Session 8 - March 19th - Team Tweaking business plans and getting it ready
Session 9 – March 26th – Team Pitch your business plan to VCs (12 spots only)
Session 10 – April 2nd - Team Programming help and guidance with App Dev
Instructors will pick the 12 teams that will pitch. Top 3 teams will be awarded a certificate.
Note: Final 3 teams that will be selected to represent the location may not be the teams that are
awarded a certificate because a lot of emphasis will be laid on the actual development and progress of
the application.

3. Who is an Entrepreneur?
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csYxR-lPMYE

4. What IS Entrepreneurship?
The activity of setting up a business or businesses, taking on financial
risks in the hope of profit.
"Most people think being an entrepreneur is all about coming up with an
idea, but that's just one part. It's also important to know, right from the
start, how you will reach interested customers in an effective and
affordable way." Elizabeth Amini – Entrepreneur & Adjunct Professor,
Marshall School of Business, USC
"At its core, it is a mind-set — a way of thinking and acting. It is about
imagining new ways to solve problems and create value." - Bruce
Bachenheimer, a clinical professor of management and executive
director of the Entrepreneurship Lab at Pace University.

5. Instructing Team’s Creative
Journey…

6. Amit Seth
Yahoo - 2,032 products – turned upside down to create 500 Million products instead (to
now a Billion).
Nielsen - Digital transformation – monetizing data held in silos, opening new business
lines via Innovation. Yielded $600M per year in additional revenue (10% of revenue).
Founding CEO of eJadoo – sold to Good, which got bought by Blackberry.
Board of Advisor of Trident Capital ($2+ Billion VC firm), specializing in Data and
Advertising startups funding.
Board of Advisor (EIR) of Plug and Play Tech Center, world’s largest Startup Incubator.
Mentored multiple startups, as Board of Director or Advisor, to raise VC money, pivot,
get sold, etc.

7. Sunil Sabat
- Family Turmeric Business
- Intel – Incorporating AI in next generation Chip Design
- Cadence – Innovative Circuit Design Technology
- Startups – Aspect acquired by I2, Eprise
- Founding CEO of Kbyte
- Startup – Ardent acquired Prism, Ardent acquired by Informix, Informix
acquired by IBM
- Created IBM Redbook
- Real Estate Investment Venture
- Big Data and AI Journey – Informatica and Protegrity (Security Space)

8. Sreeram Pydah
Intellution – Factory Automation & Robotics – Developed a multitude of innovative
technologies for Intel, IBM, Kimberly Clark, Hitachi, etc.
Founding CEO of Prosoft Systems, Inc. – Factory Automation & Robotics products for
Toshiba, EB Nera (Norway), Hershey Chocolate, Hoover Dam, Anheuser Busch, Amgen,
etc.
Founding CEO of MEDantex – Healthcare Services & Technology – Cloud based
technology for Medical Transcription, Teleradiology and Sleep Study.
Founder of CardiaNex – Cloud based Cardiac Arrthymia monitoring – Big Data, IoT and
AI.
Founder of multiple philanthropic organization including – Abhayam and Sri
Mahakaleshwar Mandir
Mentored multiple startups, as Board of Director or Advisor.

9. Entrepreneur’s Outlook…

10. Entrepreneur’s Outlook…

11. Creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality.
Creativity is the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden
patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena,
and to generate solutions.
What IS Creativity?

12. What is my Passion?
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate
about something, then you’re more willing to take risks. – Yo-Yo Ma

13. Why is Creativity Important?
Video Link: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2267

14. Creativity Can Change the World.
Lets See How….

15. Google
Revolutionized search by using a completely new approach to an old
problem. Today they have a market cap of $500B+.
Search Pre-Google Google
Google did not stop there. They continue to innovate with Android, Self
driving cars, Google Glass, among other products.

16. Apple
Most valuable company in the world today!
Apple’s Revolutionary Lineup
Devices Pre-Apple

17. Tesla
Pushing the limits of battery power. They proved that battery-
powered cars are not only possible but desirable. Tesla’s
valuation exceeds $30B, which is more than double the
valuation of General Motors, the largest U.S. automaker.

18. Netflix
Found a creative solution to the old Blockbuster model where consumers
had to go to a physical store to rent and return DVDs. Netflix made it easy
by offering a subscription model that allowed customers to rent as many
movies as they wanted - with no late fees.

19. Tom’s Shoes
A simple yet impactful idea that has helped both physical and mental well being among children!
Vídeo Link: https://vimeo.com/79833962

20. How to Bring Creativity into
Entrepreneurship?

22. 1. Ask Compelling Questions

23. 2. Challenge Assumptions

24. 3. Convert Ideas into Prototypes

25. 4. Execute

26. 5. Iterate

27. Class Exercise

28. Exercise: An App that can improve ‘Lives of the
Underprivileged’
1. Form Teams (all startups start with a Founding
Team – Co-Founders): 5 people per team, assign a
leader
2. A cool name for your team – write the team name
and team members’ names
3. 20 mins to brainstorm an ‘initial idea’, which will be
developed more as we progress through the camp
4. Submit idea and if time permits we will discuss a
couple

29. Appendix

30. Jugaad: A Word Taken from Hindi: Meaning Finding a
Low-cost Solution to any Problem in an Intelligent Way

31. Jugaad: India’s Way of Thinking Creatively: Constructively,
Differently about Innovation and Strategy.