List Down Your Expectations

Setting Expectations

Gautham Co-Founder at SV.CO

Who powers SV.CO, India’s #1 startup incubator?

Sanjay Vijayakumar• Co-Founder at Mobme in 2006, one of the first

student startups from India

• Advises 4 different state governments (Kerala, AP, UP & Rajasthan) and Fortune 500 companies (BPPL) to craft their startup policy

• Launched Startup Village, India’s first PPP modelled incubator

• Thought leader in the Indian Startup Ecosystem with hands on experience of over 10 years

Vishnu Gopal• Slideshare’s first line of code was written by

Vishnu in college in 2006!

• As the first engineer who built Slideshare, witnessed it’s launch in Techncrunch and eventual growth to the top 5000 websites in the world with more than 100k users.

• Figured out the tech-hack that helped Slideshare grew virally in the initial days.

• Co-Founded Torque, the partnership firm which became Mobme, one of the first student startups from India

• Masters in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) from University College, London.

Gautham• Part of senior leadership team at Mobme, since

2009

• Donned various roles across product, bizdev, operations, sales, strategy, client-relations, recruitment.

• Co-founder at SV.CO, along with Sanjay and Vishnu.

• Hands on experience of working in startups across various domains.

• Mentor and adisor to over 10 startups across various domains

What do we collectively represent at SV.CO

• A team who has traversed the path you are starting on for over 10 years. We represent the cutting edge in terms of experience and access w.r.t the Indian Startup eco-system.

• Access to large network of founders, investors, mentors, industry connections

• Access to an eco-system of young entrepreneurs who started in college and went on to raise capital from angel investors and HNIs from Kerala, Middle East and Silicon Valley.

• We built a company that employed over 300 people, paid 25crores in taxes and raised money from top venture capitalists like Sequoia capital

The time we’re offering you is very valuable!

It’s what you paid for in the form of course fee

It’s sought by leading industry bodies, governments, venture capitalists and other

eco-system players.

We are going to help you succeed to the best of our efforts

We win only when you win!

We believe that the Indian education system is

broken

We are extremely driven about fixing. SV.CO is our attempt at fixing it.

We’re adopting the Action Learning framework at SV.CO

You should Google and read up more about ‘Action Leaning’

This means that we are going to do things

differently.

No, seriously.

We are not going to have a classic student-teacher relationship. We’re more like that friendly

senior who’s gonna guide you.

So never call us Sir, just call us our names :-)

• Handholding. We are here to guide you, not to do your job. You are doing this for yourself and for each other, not for SV.CO.

• Daily motivation. No, we’re not going to motivate you everyday on why you should work on your startup, You are doing this for yourself and for each other, not for SV.CO.

• Guaranteed results: We promise the best of our efforts. Most of the outcomes will depend on how much you push yourself. However, if you’ve done well, we.will.do.our.job.and.deliver.

What you SHOULDN’T expect from the programme

What are we offering you?

• Our TIME

• Our EXPERIENCE

• Our FEEDBACK

• Our CONNECTIONS

• Inputs on what worked for us and what might work for you.

What are we expecting from you?

• Proactiveness in action

• Proactiveness in communication

• Time commitment of at least 10 hours a week

• Proactive updating of timelines, that’s best way to get us to act for you.

• A mindset to unlearn useless things and ask great questions

• Be generous and helpful to your fellow batchmates and the entire Slack community

Let us know what your expectations from SV.CO are in a single slide?

I’m eager to know - Gautham