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Students of Entrepreneurship Development Centre of MICA welcomed an august audience, consisting members of TiE’s Mumbai, Ahmedabad and students’ chapters, for a mentorship programme that was held on-campus. The session had students presenting over 30 ideas to their “mentors”—all of them a major industry player. On their turn, mentors chose students for a one to one discussion. They provided inputs and related personal experiences to the students to help them with a particular problem.

Parag Desai, the CEO of Wagh Bakri Group, said, “I am impressed by the quality of ideas presented by the students. The amount of work that was put in by these students was commendable.” “The MICA meet was a brilliant concept. I wish I had received such an opportunity when I was younger. This is the first time I have heard of such a course,” said M. Hariharan of Savoir Faire—one of the several mentors. Other mentors included leaders like Pramod Gothi (Northstars Advisors), S. Hariharan (Savoir Faire Management Services), Rajesh Solanki (Energos Technologies), Jay Ruparel, (Azure Technologies Ltd), Parag Desai, (Wagh Bakri Group) and Kaushal Mehta, (Motif India).

Professor Ashok Ranchhod, the director of MICA, professor G.R. Jain, the chairperson of MICA’s Entrepreneurship Development Centre, and faculty, staff and students from Entrepreneurship in Media and Communications postgraduate programme were also present. Jain began the proceedings. He highlighted the programme strengths and shed light on its need and focused on co-creation of ideas. Jay Ruparel, COO, Azure Technologies, shared his views on new platforms of entrepreneurship. “This event was ideal to foster entrepreneurship and bring budding entrepreneurs together and with venture capitalists, management consultants, advertisers and seasoned entrepreneurs,” observed Kaushal Mehta of Motif India and the president of TiE Ahmedabad.

“We witnessed an energetic meet. The collaboration between TiE and MICA heralds a significant step,” praised Ruparel, COO, Azure Technologies Ltd. Manek Singh, executive director of TiE Mumbai, applauded every entrepreneurial effort.

Singh said, “The enterprising India movement took another step forward with MICA today. Mentors from TiE Mumbai & Ahmedabad have been left impressed. These ideas have the potential to change the nation.”