Was invited to NIT Surathkal (previously KREC) to undertake a workshop on Entrepreneurship. 8th September 2007.
The workshop was planned as a whole day event called Ignition 07, planned by E-Forea (Ecell of NIT-K).
The workshop started with a key note by Ms Alka Goyal, VP Tavant Technologies and Founder Social way.
Our sessions started with the "Birthday Exercise" which had an excellent response.
The fact that 47 people in a crowd of 165+ shared their birthdays, reinforced the belief that at the heart of heart we are not that unique or different from one another as we expect to be.
Followed this workshop with a "Trigger your Imagination Game" where people were asked to come with unique offerings/services/products from "two pieces of A4 size paper".
The imagination and enthusiasm of the crowd was to be seen to be believed. Some of the products which were dreamed were e-lottery, Degree Certificates, Auctions of Legendary Painters like Picasso, Ozone cutting ball.
Also had a great learning that we have made our education system so rigid that any "game based" teaching is perceived to be non formal and hence non serious, found that the students missed taking notes and hence were slow in appreciating that "entrepreneurship is everywhere concept"
Did an immediate course correction with 13 slides on Seven Domains of "Road Test your business Idea" and lead it towards the "Bad Idea - Good Idea" Game.
This was the highlight of the evening with an excellent response and witty exchanges between the ideas ( both bad and good) and all of us realized that there are no bad ideas and Any Bad Idea which has a customer is a Good Idea.
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