Young Entrepreneur

The StartupYou Young Entrepreneur program is a meticulously crafted roadmap to entrepreneurial success. This program empowers students to transform their ideas into reality through a strategic series of modules, participants progress from ideation to investor pitching, enhancing their problem-solving skills and business acumen along the way. With personalized mentoring from industry leaders, students receive invaluable guidance on this learning journey.

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Ongoing Batch

Jan 2025

Monday & Wednesday

Duration

16 Weeks

2 sessions per week

Target Audience

Grade 9-12

Teaching Mode

Zoom

Online Live Classes

Price

Rs.14,999/-

( Excluding GST)

Key Skills developed by Young Entrepreneur

What will Young Entrepreneur learn?

Understand the fundamentals of Entrepreneurship. What differentiates entrepreneurs from Business Owners? Can everyone become a successful entrepreneur? Debate the traits that make up an entrepreneurial mindset.
Understand the elements of a business model. Explore St. Gallen’s 55 business models through an interactive classroom exercise and understand them through real-world examples.
Revisit Observation, empathy and self-empathy. What are some of the heuristics and biases that come into play while observing the world? Understand the difference between simple, complex and wicked problems, circles of influence and control, and their role in exploring problems.
How to define the problem in a non-ambiguous way that leads to productive ideation and solution creation. Learn how to avoid common mistakes while defining the problem to solve.
Explore the creative ideation processes and divergent and convergent thinking techniques. How to channel creativity, group thinking and lateral thinking to come up with innovative solutions to problems.
Understand the tools and techniques involved in building pretotypes and prototypes. Learn to define testing protocols, measure objectives and milestones during experimentation,
Understand the developing world of social entrepreneurship and its implications to the world around us. How does social entrepreneurship differ from for-profit and not-for-profit businesses and NGOs.
Learn the fundamental tools of market study, customer and competitor study. Understand how to calculate TAM/SAM/SOM for the domain in question.
Understand the 4Ps of marketing and branding strategies. Explore a myriad of topics ranging from understanding customer persona to building a marketing and promotional plan for personal ventures.
Explore the various tools involved in building a digital marketing campaign for a product or service. How to leverage social media to promote one’s product?
Understand the fundamentals of entrepreneurial finance such as revenue recognition, fundraising, pricing strategies, and profit planning. Through expert interactions, the students understand frameworks of startup valuation. Students are also sensitized to the risk-reward matrix, market fluctuations, and equity planning. The module culminates with an assignment where students prepare a financial plan for their personal venture.
Understand the various risks involved in entrepreneurship. Through interactive lectures and real-life examples, explore the various strategies that can be used to identify and mitigate entrepreneurial risks.
Learn the legal fundamentals that apply to incorporating ventures, establishing NGOs or social enterprises and protecting different elements of intellectual property.
Learn valuable lessons from the experiences of real-life entrepreneurs and their tips and tricks for making a successful elevator pitch. Seasoned mentors and experienced entrepreneurs review business plans from students and offer valuable feedback during the last few sessions leading up to the mini – Shark Tank contest
A live event modelled after the TV Shark Tank, the students present their investment pitches to experts from different industries posing as Sharks while coveting various awards.

Program Outcomes

E-portfolio for college application
Letter of Recommendation on Request
Exclusive membership to StartupYou Fellowship

What our students have to say?

My memorable experience in the program was that moment when me and my group were presenting our idea, we were not actually confident about that but somehow we managed to present and we got a good feedback from the judges and even won the 'BEST PITCH' award

Rohith Kancharla - Indus International School

My favorite moments was when i had gotten the opportunity to have a problem statement definition session with Mr. Darpan, and the individual session with mrs Priya, I found it very helpful since i was able to get feedback and keep my idea in track. My favorite session was the financial fundamentals session with Mr. Gopalan Natarajan, both of the sessions where both expremally immersive and there where a lot of takeaway points and tips and tricks to remember in the future

Saanvi Kurade - 10X International School
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Frequently Asked Questions

Interested students from grade 9 and above must have an idea or rough framework for their business/venture or a goal that would help us mentor and guide them through their entrepreneurial journey.

With a prior heads up given to your faulty in charge, we will be sure to share a recording with you or you can also request a one-on-one follow-up session with us.

  • A mini Shark Tank experience, incubation support for entrepreneurial ideas, mentorship from subject matter experts and entrepreneurs, practicing and exploring exercises investor pitching and presentation, networking and interpersonal communication and team building and people management will help the student develop their entrepreneurial mindset.

Overall, the program is designed to be highly practical. Students will be constantly applying the concepts they learn (problem definition, investor pitching, financial metrics, go-to-market strategy, team building, etc.) to their own startup ideas throughout the program. This hands-on approach allows them to see the real-world application of their newfound knowledge and make adjustments as they go.

No prior knowledge is needed to enroll. We will share pre-reads with each cohort for all students to access. Reviewing them will be beneficial for interactions during the sessions.

For this particular program, 70% attendance is essential for the student to understand their journey in StartupYou.

It is a unique learning experience for each student and attending classes and student and faculty interaction will facilitate that child’s development in the journey