IDEAS are never born in void. They are thoughts that bounce off the boundary walls of inquiry, cradled in the dialectical process involving one and all. For K Ganesh, the founder of TutorVista, an online tutoring firm that has made headlines across the globe for its innovative business model, “It all starts with an idea.” Indeed, the power of ideas continues to fuel India’s growth story. And organizations like National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), MentorSquare, Mobile Mondays and Proto.in have harnessed this power by bringing together entrepreneurs from diverse fields to share, cultivate and develop ideas.
TiE supports emerging businesses and startups. The organization provides access to the entire stakeholder community (entrepreneurs, corporations, investors, academia and support services) and can be visualized as a one-stop-shop.
TiE is the world’s largest entrepreneurship organization of its kind, with over 12,000 members and 1,800 charter members in 53 chapters spread across 12 countries. There are 14 chapters in India, which serve a member base of over 6,000.
Interestingly, mentoring is much more in demand, in the overall ecosystem of offerings to startups. Take MentorSquare, an online mentoring portal, which only tackles mentoring. Here you publish your query and pick your mentor. Your idea remains fully confidential. Every mentor comes by invitation and consequently becomes shareholders in the company. MentorSquare is targeting SMEs all over the world in different sectors such as manufacturing, trading, hospitality, retail services etc. The company with 50 mentors is now guiding 600 members in their quest to scale up and sustain innovation.In next four years it is expecting to have 4000 mentors covering half a million SMEs.
http://www.tie.org/
http://www.mentorsquare.com/
http://www.nenonline.org/
http://www.proto.in/
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