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Start Your Business Programme
The Start Your Business (SYB) Programme is a part of the Centre for Family Business & Entrepreneurship (CFBE) - one of SPJIMR’s four Centres of Excellence. The Centre has played a pioneering role in fostering and nurturing entrepreneurship among family businesses and startups.
The Start Your Business (SYB) Programme is a programme directed towards aspiring entrepreneurs and early-stage start-ups and seeks to provide knowledge and skills and instill in them the right attitude, which would help them create a sustainable venture. Crafted specially for those with an entrepreneurial streak, the SYB programme is a hands-on, practical course, designed to give you a head start within 13 weeks.
Why SYB?
Programme Features
- Conducted over 9 weekends in an online mode .
- A Business Plan Presentation (hybrid mode) in the 13th weekend.
- A well-designed curriculum especially for start-ups with an intent to scale
- Start-up relevant themes, sequenced in a manner so as to facilitate coming up with a Business Plan
- Concepts, tools, and techniques explained from a startup perspective
- Sessions/ Activities designed to foster an entrepreneurial and business creation mindset
- Mentoring
- Inputs from SPJIMR’s top faculty, industry experts, investors, and entrepreneurs
- Access to mentoring and funding networks through Vriddhi-a unique venture accelerator platform launched by CFBE
- Mentors assigned to each participant, with up to four half-hour mentoring sessions to help them prepare their Business Plan
- Business Plan presented and vetted by a panel of mentors and experts
- Opportunity to network with entrepreneurs from the startup eco-system and family business ecosystem.
- Opportunity to earn SPJIMR’s Executive Alumni Status after successful completion of the programme
SPJIMR Advantage
- SPJIMR, a Top Ten B School in India, has pioneered the MBA programme for Family Managed Businesses
- SPJIMR is one among five founding members of the National Entrepreneurship Network initiated by the US based Wadhwani Foundation, to promote entrepreneurship in India
- SPJIMR has faculty with extensive industry exposure and track record of teaching entrepreneurs from small and medium enterprises
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SYB Participants' Profile
The SYB programme over 15 years has witnessed participants from educational backgrounds, skills sets, professional experiences but with one common vision to start their own business. The average age profile of the participants range from 20-40years+ with educational background from degree to postgraduate, doctorate, engineers, lawyers, commerce background, doctors etc and from various parts of the country.
A glimpse of the sectors SYB entrepreneurs belong to is as follows
What Start your business participants can expect
- A programme that walks participants through every step of “Starting your business”
- Acquire an entrepreneurial and business creation mindset
- Develop ability to identify critical success factors for starting and running your business
- Mentor Sessions offered to every participant (**participants meeting criteria)
- Opportunity to interact with mentors / entrepreneurs for guidance on strengthening business proposition
- Present your business plan to a panel which has a mix of Venture capitalists / Investors / Faculty / Mentors
- Learn about all functions from Sales & Marketing, Digital Marketing, Funding & Valuation to Pitching skills
- Learn operations and develop go-to- market strategy
- Qualify for SYB entrepreneur-alumni membership, Attend networking events
- Receive a Start Your Business programme certificate having met all programme requirements.
- Opportunity to earn SPJIMR's Executive Alumni Status after successful completion of the programme
