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WELCOME
TO THE SECTION ON NURTURING IDEAS. THIS
SECTION DISCUSSES OUR MENTORING OF ENTREPRENEURS AND HOW
WE FACILITATE THEIR TRANSITION FROM A “BARE IDEA” TO A “COMPANY”.
THIS IS THE INTRODUCTORY PAGE OF THIS SECTION & PROVIDES A
BRIEF OVERVIEW. THE
OTHER PAGES IN THIS SECTION CAN BE ACCESSED IN SEQUENCE BY CLICKING
ON THE RESPECTIVE LINKS PROVIDED IN THE GREY BAR (AT THE LOWER RIGHT HAND
CORNER OF THIS PAGE AS WELL AS THE SUCCEEDING PAGES).
We believe that innovation deserves nurturing.
This belief
is the basis for what we call our I2C activity –”Ideas” to “Company”. In
this activity segment, we focus on people with great tech ideas which they
want to take forward and eventually commercialise. This section (in a
later page) describes the kind of mentoring, advice and assistance etc
that we provide to such prospective entrepreneurs to assist them
in opertionalising their idea.
We are not a
conventional incubator however. The services we provide go much beyond a
conventional physical (“Brick & Mortar”) incubator. These are
described in a later page in this section.
An example
of how innovative (and ambitious) we expect our nurtured entrepreneurs to
be can be seen from the picture above. This is the
first logo of a company using a technology called (at that time) “Backrub”
– because it was based on the incoming (i.e. “Back”) links to a given
web-page. This logo was created very simply (and economically) by one of
the founders – he just put his left hand on a scanner and converted the
resultant image to Black & White!! The founder’s name was Larry Page, and the company later came to be known as:-
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