A startup school will be launched for entrepreneurs in collaboration with the Startup Village, India’s first telecom incubator in the PPP model, said entrepreneur, angel investor and mentor from the US, Freeman Murray.
He was speaking at a press conference in Startup Village, Kalamassery, on Tuesday.
Murray’s school, the first-ofits- kind in India, will come up at the Startup Village here in partnership with the telecom incubator and Jaaga, a digital creativity hub in Bangalore.
The school is a large-scale initiative to help first-time entrepreneurs in India to launch successful internet companies.
The full-time residential programme has online classes for students to improve the startup skills, said Freeman who has been working with technology startups for the past 15 years in India and the US.
Murray had earlier run an incubation programme at IIM Ahmedabad and has also set up Jaaga.
He said that the school would enrol 100 students initially for a six-month course, of which four months would be residential classes in the Startup Village.
The bright students with better ideas and entrepreneurship skills would be selected for the final twomonth course.
Preference would be given to those with better communication skills and good command over English.