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BENGALURU: Girish Mathrubootham had his first brush with entrepreneurship in 1999, just a year after finishing his MBA, when he started a training company that specialised in teaching coding languages to his friends, students and graduates. At a time when the dotcom bubble was about to burst, his company was making profits.But he went on to work for software product company Zoho for nine years, before returning to entrepreneurship by launching Freshdesk, an enterprise company that is now
counted among the most successful startups in the country.
This is how Mathrubootham, an engineering graduate from Sastra College of Engineering in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur district and an MBA from the University of Madras, started the San Francisco-headquartered company that provides customer support software and tools to clients.
"At that time, even placements in companies were not at all that much.
I had a friend who travelled from Thanjavur to NIT Trichy to apply for companies that were visiting their campus," said Mathrubootham, founder and CEO of Freshdesk, which recently raised about Rs 317 crore ($50 million) from Tiger Global Management, Accel Partners and Google Capital, the company's fifth investment. Did college play much of a role in his startup journey? Not really, said Mathrubootham. But things are different now, he said. Magic words such as 'startup', 'entrepreneur' and
and 'funding' have penetrated college classrooms, with students looking at their ideas and inventions from a business perspective, and colleges getting bullish on capturing this entrepreneurial spirit.
Mathrubootham and his alma mater, now called Sastra University, tied up to introduce a range of courses as part of the curriculum, to not just prepare students to become entrepreneurs but also arm them with the skills and knowledge required to work in a startup.The courses, which will be rolled out this year, will involve social media engagement, digital marketing and management tools, and new coding languages such as python.
Mathrubootham has shown that it is no more just the IITs, NITs, IIMs and other such 'premier' institutions, often viewed as startup hubs with high throughput, that are doing their bit towards fuelling founders.Secondrung engineering colleges, those that form the larger chunk of the engineering talent pie in India have slowly, yet surely started introducing organised methods of promoting entrepreneurship among students.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
BENGALURU: Girish Mathrubootham had his first brush with entrepreneurship in 1999, just a year after finishing his MBA, when he started a training company that specialised in teaching coding languages to his friends, students and graduates. At a time when the dotcom bubble was about to burst, his company was making profits.But he went on to work for software product company Zoho for nine years, before returning to entrepreneurship by launching Freshdesk, an enterprise company that is now
counted among the most successful startups in the country.
This is how Mathrubootham, an engineering graduate from Sastra College of Engineering in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur district and an MBA from the University of Madras, started the San Francisco-headquartered company that provides customer support software and tools to clients.
"At that time, even placements in companies were not at all that much.
I had a friend who travelled from Thanjavur to NIT Trichy to apply for companies that were visiting their campus," said Mathrubootham, founder and CEO of Freshdesk, which recently raised about Rs 317 crore ($50 million) from Tiger Global Management, Accel Partners and Google Capital, the company's fifth investment. Did college play much of a role in his startup journey? Not really, said Mathrubootham. But things are different now, he said. Magic words such as 'startup', 'entrepreneur' and
and 'funding' have penetrated college classrooms, with students looking at their ideas and inventions from a business perspective, and colleges getting bullish on capturing this entrepreneurial spirit.
Mathrubootham and his alma mater, now called Sastra University, tied up to introduce a range of courses as part of the curriculum, to not just prepare students to become entrepreneurs but also arm them with the skills and knowledge required to work in a startup.The courses, which will be rolled out this year, will involve social media engagement, digital marketing and management tools, and new coding languages such as python.
Mathrubootham has shown that it is no more just the IITs, NITs, IIMs and other such 'premier' institutions, often viewed as startup hubs with high throughput, that are doing their bit towards fuelling founders.Secondrung engineering colleges, those that form the larger chunk of the engineering talent pie in India have slowly, yet surely started introducing organised methods of promoting entrepreneurship among students.
Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
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