Headstart Workshop on Startup Ecosystem - How you can leverage it. Delivered at IIM Bangalore during Eximius 2016 by Ujjwal Trivedi. Guest Entrepreneurs Subrat Kar (CEO - Vidooly), Bhupinder Khanal (CEO - Dogsee Chew), Navaneet Sharma (CEO - Artifacia) shared their startup journeys and interacted with the audience to answer their questions during the session.

1. Startup Ecosystem
How YOU can leverage it?

2. Story
Begin Thinking!
Why Startup?
Why Startups fail?
What is Startup Ecosystem?
How can you leverage it?
True Parables

3. Bite your nails, shake your legs - Think!
Rules of the game!
- Don’t hold back
- Don’t judge, focus on learning
- Stay hungry, stay foolish

4. Why Startup?
What is a Startup?
Why should you Startup?
- Create value
- Explore yourself
- Better control on life (= less risk)

5. Why Startups Fail?
21% fail due to Team, Personal withdrawals
18% fail due to Funds/Money
61% due to lack of leverage
- Created something no one wants
- Out competed/Poor strategy/marketing
- Did not Pivot
- Constraints: Location/Legal

6. How to avoid failure?
Right approach - answer your WHYs
Leverage the Startup Ecosystem

7. What is Startup
Ecosystem?
People
Support Mechanisms
Funding & Finance
Education & Training
Government
Culture
Markets
You

8. Support Mechanisms
Incubators & Accelerators
Communities - Headstart, TIE, NEN, iSpirit, Startup Clubs
Co-working places/communities
Online Communities - Headstart, Bangalore Startups

9. Education & Training
The Sam Altman class
Startup with UpGrad
SLP
Winner’s Circle by Career Confidence
NSRCEL, BHive

10. Government
Startup India Initiative
Karnataka’s Startup Booster Kit
Subsidised Internet
Free credits from Cloud companies, Software tools
Investment up to 50L

11. Culture & You
Being Fearless - share your ideas
Being Shameless - sell
Being Action Oriented - Do versus wish
Being Symbiotic
Don’t set out to change the world or boil the ocean or make a dent in the universe - make the first sale, create the basic version of the
product. The most important rule of thriving ecosystem is - If you can give, you can take. Think from that perspective, whenever you
need something. First think what can I offer. Maximise that, and you’d see that people in the ecosystem will go out of their way to help
you achieve your goals.
More - http://uvtimes.blogspot.in/2016/08/how-to-leverage-startup-ecosystem.html

12. Thanks
Contact:
Ujjwal Trivedi
City Lead - Bangalore Chapter
Headstart Network Foundation
ujjwal.trivedi@headstart.in
bangalore@headstart.in