StartupCell promotes project-based learning in entrepreneurship to equip engineering graduates in India with essential skills and reduce unemployment rates. The program emphasizes the importance of entrepreneurial education, which fosters critical thinking, innovation, and prepares students for the global market. By providing support at each stage of the entrepreneurial journey, StartupCell aims to nurture young creators and innovators in an uncertain future.

1. Project-Based Learning in
Entrepreneurship
www.startupcell.org

4. Of the nearly 8,00,000 engineering graduates India produces every
year, a whopping 60 percent remain unemployed, according to the
All India Council for Technical Education.

5. "India needs a new generation of youth who are
risk takers and willing to chart out their own path.
Creating a startup along with engineering
education is a great way to gain industry exposure,
knowledge, and skills. This will help students to
decide whether they want to pursue the path of
being an entrepreneur or use the experience to get
good jobs in the industry"
 - Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-founder, Infosys.

6. Benefits of being Entrepreneurs
“To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t,
you’re going to regret it.”
– Catherine Cook

8. Why Entrepreneurship Education ?
Entrepreneurship education is critical for developing
entrepreneurial skills, attitudes and behaviors that are the basis
for economic growth.
Access and exposure to entrepreneurship within educational
systems at all levels are important as they are the outreach to
target audiences outside of traditional educational systems.
Learning entrepreneurship exposes students to numerous
opportunities to learn how to think critically and analyze the
pieces on the board. Being aware of all the important factors and
seeing how they affect each other is the foundation of a smart
decision-making process.

10. “ We are facing a transition, and we must take this
opportunity to provide today’s students and
entrepreneurs with the tools and the thinking that is
required for the future.
Collaborative technologies can fundamentally transform
both how we teach and learn. We need to harness the
power of the Internet and these new technologies for
creating and sharing knowledge that will prepare
students with the skills to compete in the 21st century.”
-- JohnT. Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco

11. What is Startup ?
Business
Idea Startup Company
A Temporary organization
to transform Business
Idea into Company

12. “ Most of what you hear about entrepreneurship is all wrong. It’s not magic;
it’s not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It’s a discipline and,
like any discipline, it can be learned.”
Peter F. Drucker

13. Factors in Startup Training
 Entrepreneurship cannot be taught in a day, week, and or
month theory classes.
 One person cannot clarify all doubts of a student
entrepreneur.
 Same course cannot suitable for all students as the startup
verticals vary.
 Biggest task in Entrepreneurship training is creating
Entrepreneurial mindset in students, which books cannot do.
 Startups needs constant support from various departments.
 Co-founders are most important factor for success of Startup
and they should have similar interest with complementary
skills.

15. “ Preparing today’s students for success and eventual
leadership in the new global marketplace is the most
important responsibility in education today…
Entrepreneurship education is an important tool to
achieving these objectives [and]… should be universally
available to provide all students with opportunities to
explore and fulfill their potential.”
-- Stephanie Bell-Rose, President, Goldman Sachs Foundation

18. How StartupCell help Students ?
StartupCell support students in each step of their Entrepreneurial Journey

19. StartupCell Project Based Learning (PBL) prepares students for
academic, personal, and career success, and readies young people to
rise to the challenges of their lives and the world they will inherit.

20. Education Institution
as Innovation Centre
StartupCell PBL
is an Entrepreneurship
Learning Program
Led and Taught by
Entrepreneurs
StartupCell PBL
The best guidance program
for young Entrepreneurs

21. What is “Project-based learning” ?
PBL or project-based learning
in which students identify a
real-world problem and
develop its marketable
solution. Students gain
knowledge and skills by
working for a longer period of
time to investigate and
respond to an engaging or
complex question, problem or
challenge and with support of
experienced mentors

23. Who can join StartupCell PBL ?
 Students of any discipline can participate.
 No previous knowledge or Experience required
 Students can attend without affecting their regular curriculum.
 Students can startup with minimum or zero investments
 The steps to become an entrepreneur:
 Step 1: FindYour Industry or Niche
 Step 2: ResearchYour Market
 Step 3: EducateYourself ( Login to StartupCell )
 Step 4: BuildYour Business Slowly (Get Mentor support)

25. “ Education is the clearest path to individual opportunity and
societal growth, and entrepreneurship education is especially
vital to fuelling a more robust global economy.
Entrepreneurs bring new ideas to life through innovation,
creativity and the desire to build something of lasting value.
Therefore, we must continually foster educational cultures within
our companies, governments and communities to keep the
entrepreneurship pipeline filled for generations to come.”
--Dirk Meyer, President and CEO,AMD

27. Why StartupCell PBL ?
We live in a world where the future is uncertain, and it belongs
to creators and innovators. And that’s why it’s important to learn
and study entrepreneurship.
StartupCell Project Based Learning program serves as an
excellent foundation for the types of creative, innovative ideas
we need to succeed in the 21st century.
“ Only by letting thousands and millions of entrepreneurs try
new ideas, to innovate, to create businesses that put those ideas
to work in a competitive and open way, only by doing those
things are we going to be able to tackle some of the world’s
big problems.”

29. M-learning on entrepreneurship?
StartupCell Project-Based Learning
program will lead students to
greater success in business, or to an
exciting new career.
Successful entrepreneurs need to
have the skills and determination to
see their dream work. Having the
necessary resources at disposal will
keep venture alive and can go
through the various elements of a
start-up business.

30. How to Start ?
 Login to entrepreneur account of www.startupcell.in
 Create a small team or get co-founders
 Submit basic project idea and have competitor study
 Get support from mentors
 Learn various free courses related to the project
 Develop MVP using lean startup method
 Participate in various Startup events and network.
 Get support to develop prototypes.
 Get support to identify suitable incubation center
 Update project for grants , seed funds.
 Support in preparing better Marketing plans

31. How to entrepreneurship ?
“ To promote entrepreneurship we must create a better
culture for innovation and creativity, and to accomplish this,
we must focus on our young. Children and young people must
gain confidence in their own creative powers and the ability to
see and use local resources as the basis for developing
businesses and employment.
They must be given the opportunity to see and experience
how creativity, personal confidence, drive and the ability to
cooperate are vital underpinnings of entrepreneurship and
also the basis for being constructive, creative and active at
school and home, and at work and play. .
StartupCell PLA is the ideal platform for young people to get
into Entrepreneurship.

32. For more details visit www.startupcell.in
Mail us : startupcell@2tion.org
StartupCell Converts Education Institution into Innovation Centre
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