Indian Incubators

This post was coming for sometime but never got around to write. My value add in this post is close to zero, just wanted to list again what Puneet compiled on Incubators in India. Its just a bit more detailed (lazy to write the entire post – Just putting it up for my reference!). But I guess I will have actually find out what they have to offer – need to do some research. If you really have any first hand knowledge about them do add in your comment.

• IIM A: CIIEIndia
  

• IIM B: NSRCEL
  

• IIM Lucknow

• IIM Kozhikode

• IIM Calcutta

• SP Jain Institute of Management and Research

• BITS Pilani

• IIT Kharagpur

• IIT Madras

• TENET – IIT Madras

• IIT Bombay

• IIT Kanpur

• IIT Guwahati

• IIT Delhi

• Nirma Labs

• FMS Delhi

• Entreprenership Development Institute of India (EDI), Ahmedabad

• K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai

• The ICFAI Center for Entrepreneurship Development, Hyderabad

• Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA)

• Wadhwani Center for Entrepreneurial Development, Hyderabad

• JSS Institutions

• NITIE

• Erasmic

• NIT Trichy

• Technopreneur list

Defining Success

Someone whom I know very closely, met Subroto Bagchi and has instantly become a fan of him. Mr Bagchi had a similar impact on me when I met him during my stint at ICICI. He had come as part of a presentation team for the consulting assignment Mindtree was involved with ICICI’s Rurual Initiative. My friend then mailed me one of his articles titled ‘Defining Success‘ – quotes from there:

It is not about what you create for yourself, it is what you leave behind that defines success.

Till date, I measure my success in terms of that sense of larger connectedness.

Imagination is everything. If we can imagine a future, we can create it, if we can create that future, others will live in it. That is the essence of success.

To me, success is about the sense of independence; it is about not seeing the world but seeing the light.

There I learnt that there is no limit to how concerned you can be for another human being and what is the limit of inclusion you can create.

In them, we learnt the power of disagreements, of dialogue and the essence of living with diversity in thinking. Success is not about the ability to create a definitive dogmatic end state; it is about the unfolding of thought processes, of dialogue and continuum.

Success to me is about Vision. It is the ability to rise above the immediacy of pain. It is about imagination. It is about sensitivity to small people. It is about building inclusion. It is about connectedness to a larger world existence. It is about personal tenacity. It is about giving back more to life than you take out of it. It is about creating extra-ordinary success with ordinary lives.

six Traits of a Leader

Kalam speaks out his thoughts about a Leader …

• First, the leader must have vision. Without vision, you cannot be a
  leader.
• Second, the leader must be able to travel into an unexplored
  path. Normally the tendency is for people to travel along well-laid out
  ways.
• Third, the leader must know how to manage success, and even more
  importantly, failure.
• fourth trait is that the leader should have the courage to make
  decisions.
• Fifth, the leader should have nobility in management. Every
  action of the leader should be transparent.
• And finally, the leader
  should work with integrity and succeed with integrity.