Nurture Talent conducts programs for startups, students and professionals on business plan, finance, marketing, android app development. It is the organizer of Startup Yatra, Techunt and aims to enable 1000 ventures to start and create 20000 jobs. It was set up in Jan 2010 by IIT-IIM alumnus.

1. Introduction
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Nurture Talent Academy
By Amit Grover, Founder and CEO
Dated – 17th Jan, 2014

2. Snapshot of Nurture Talent
Team
2 Co-founders – IIT/IIM
>100 Experts/Mentors
1000+ Campus
Ambassadors
Customer
College Students
Startups/Professionals
School Students
Product
Mobi/Webpreneur/Idea2Exec
Startup Yatra
Innovation Camp
Partnerships
IIT/IIMs E-cells/CSI
Media – D2C/LMK/EDEX/YKA
.CO/OfficeYes
Achievements
30000+ Students
125+ cities since start in 2010
425+ workshops

3. Company Profile
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Nurture Talent Academy was started in Jan 2010
 Vision to enable start 1000 ventures and 20000 jobs
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Conducts entrepreneurship training and development programs
 Solving the problem of lack of right kind of information, awareness,
knowledge and skills to start a venture for students, professionals and
startups
 Programs are short term, hands on, experiential and delivered by
entrepreneurs
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Market of over 150 crores
 Estimated 1 lakh Pvt Ltd companies started every year
 Over 15 lakhs students in Engg+MBA
 Over 10000 Engg+MBA colleges
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Over 200+ ventures have started
 Intouch – Pune (Mobile App for Contact Management)
 CleanFanatic – Bangalore (Organized Mattress Cleaning)
 Automotion – Lucknow (Ads on 3-wheelers)
 Buzzinno Solutions – Nasik (BPO and call center)

4. Team
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Founded by Amit Grover
 IIT IIM alumnus with over 10 years of experience
 Worked with Infosys, Asian Paints, Onida - Led over 20 deals at Mumbai
Angels
 Handles content development, delivery, and relations
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Co-Founder – Ishank Joshi
 Engineer from IP University, Delhi with over 5 years of experience
 Worked with education/activation ventures – Encompass/Robosapiens
 Responsible for Sales and Marketing
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Team members
 Meera – Head - Relationships (Masters in Social Welfare), Chandigarh
 Jayant – Team Leader handling sales, marketing and new business,
(Hotel Mgmt)
 Aakanksha – College relationships, operations (B.A. in Psychology)
 Network of 100+ Trainers as Visiting Faculty (including leading VCs)
 Over 100 Campus Ambassadors (1-2 in each leading college of India)

5. Customer
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Students
 Engg, MBA, Undergraduate students across colleges
 Have passion and energy to start but lack support
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Professionals
 Have ideas but lack systematic approach
 Need help on issues like making business plans
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Startups/SMEs
 Started ventures and committed full time
 Need short term training on areas like raising finance
Gap in current offerings
 Lack of quality trainers and content in entrepreneurship in colleges
 Too much focus on networking and motivation but not skill development
 Future - Entrepreneurship Education will move from Extra-curricular to
Curricular
Extra-curricular
Co-Curricular
Curricular

6. Product
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Training programs of short duration
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Highly practical approach
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Typical 1-2 day program for professionals/startups
 Advance presentations and excel send to participants
 3-4 hours of training, Q&A, discussion
 3-4 hours of personal mentoring, hands on exercise
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Typical 1-2 day program for students
 Idea generation exercise, Team building and working on ideas
 Training cum Presentation on business plan, finance
 Movies like Band Baaja Baraat, 3 Idiots, Guru etc.
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Startup Yatra
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Upto 25 startups, professionals and students invited as Yatris to visit
Guru’s office
Monthly theme/topic based approach to learning, sharing and networking
Already hosted at Makemytrip, Indiamart, Ixigo, Payu, Satnav, Tlabs etc.

7. Partnerships
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NTA partners with IITs/IIMs entrepreneurship cells to promote their events in
Tier 2/3 colleges and at the same time reach out to more student
entrepreneurs
 IIT Bombay – Eureka
 IIT Delhi – Vishishth
 IIM Ahmedabad – Masterplan
 IIM Kolkata – Launchpad
 Computer Society of India - Techunt
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Media focusing on students
 Dare2Compete/Letmeknow
 Regular blogs for New Indian Express Education section
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Sponsorships
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.CO domain marketing ventures
.net by Verisign
Windows Azure by Microsoft
OfficeYes
KAE Capital

8. Achievements
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NTA has achieved significant milestones
 Trained over 30000 students on entrepreneurship
 Conducted 425+ workshops
 Across 125+ cities including Ongole, Kuttipuram, Hindupur, Ropar, Solan,
Tezpur
 Over 100 entrepreneurs have already started and few raised investments
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Awarded India’s Hottest Startups of 2010 by Business Today magazine
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Invited by SBI Chairman for meetup with US Senator on entrepreneurship

9. About Starpreneur Program
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Campus Manager program launched in 2011
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500+ students across India in Batch 1, 2 and 3
1000+ students in 2014 batch
What you get as a Starpreneur
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FREE access to StartupYatra, Mobi/Web/Idea workshops
Networking meetups with other Starpreneurs
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Schedule in metros next month starting with Delhi on 4th August
Part of an exciting group of students in the community
Free Kits, goodies and gifts from our partners
FREE webinars on variety of business and technology topics
Internship opportunities in NTA for best performers
What you give back to the community as a Starpreneur?
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Conduct entrepreneurship workshop in your college
Invite your friends for entrepreneurship events via emails, FB, twitter, posters and
blogs
Take interviews of startups and businesses around your city and publish on Nurture
Talent blogs
Write articles and blogs about topics related to business and technology

10. Contact
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Amit Grover
Web – www.nurturetalent.com
Email – amit.grover@nurturetalent.com
Mobile - +91 98334 10822
Like our FB pages
www.facebook.com/starpreneur
www.facebook.com/startupyatra
www.facebook.com/investoryatra