In the present days, the job market is becoming more and more competitive. Students need skills and experiences to help them stand out from the rest. Hence either you wish to start something your own enterprise or gain the critical employability skills, getting involved will put you on the path to success.
The ADYPU Incubator is meant to encourage student entrepreneurship with a practical, hands-on program that provides aspiring student entrepreneurs with the skills and knowledge needed to conceive a startup. There are:
If you are accepted into the program, you will be encouraged to think differently, work hard as a team, and pitch your project and your progress at the end of the program. The program is not for course credit, but we promise you it will be a rich and rewarding experience where you will come out with very practical skills.
This is an introductory program providing you with an entry into the world of startups. Through activity based challenges the program helps to develop your idea and evolve them into early-stage startup. The program runs for half a day each week over a five week period once in each semester.
You can register for the program even if you are with an idea or without an idea, with a team or all by yourself. You don’t need to have deep computing skills or knowledge about the startups or business. All you need is determination to succeed, creativity and unbounded passion.
This is a 14 weeks program. This is your first sure step in the world of startups. The program will help you shape the direction for your business based on what you will learn in the workshops and from the mentors.
It is a full-time commitment for you where you are driven to achieve your goals. You are extensively supported by way of learnings, mentoring, access to dedicated office spaces and money. There are no fees for attending the program instead we take equity of your business and partner with you for success.
The program requires full-time commitment from you, after all this is your business.
If you have an idea we can help you build it. The idea must help solve a problem, be scalable and should have a big impact on your target market. During the program you will have developed the first version of your idea and would have acquired your first customer. Then you wait for the Pitch Day where you will present your pitch to an audience of fellow students, investors and business people. After you have graduated from the program we will help you to go on to the next stage.
A panel of business leaders and entrepreneurs will evaluate your application.
During stage 1 and stage 2, we look for
Whether you have been able to precisely define the problem you are trying to solve
The process with which you intend to solve the problem
Your assessment of who your customers will be
Your competition and market
Your go-to-market strategy and
The outcomes you are likely to achieve in a passage of 3 months
Get ready to dive in, push the boundaries, ignore the doubters, scale the hurdles.
