Start-up Village to launch free online course

The recently launched SV.CO, the digital makeover of Start-up Village, will launch a free online course on all aspects of entrepreneurship on August 15.
The course is aimed at bringing the best start-up industry practices to engineering students for building woorld-class start-ups.
"Students can register online at www.Sv.Co/startincollege for the free course that will be launched on August 15. The online registration will be absolutely free. Students in any year can take the course," said a release here.
To create high quality start-ups from campuses, SV.CO has also designed a highly competitive and intensive six-month Silicon Valley Programme for ambitious students to build a real product and launch it to customers while in college. Sanjay Vijayakumar, Chairman, Startup Village, said.

Being online allows the digital incubator to increase its capacity to provide online courses to five million students in 3,500 engineering colleges across the country on the skills required to set up an enterprise straight from colleges.
Billed as Phase 2 of Kochi-based Startup Village that was set up in 2012, the digital incubator was launched by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at Thiruvananthapuram on July 13.

"While #StartInCollege creates mass awareness, the Silicon Valley programme helps bring the best startup industry practices to engineering students to build world-class startups," said Vijayakumar, who set up MobME, one of the first college startups in India.

The Silicon Valley course structure is different from mainstream education as only teams are accepted; there are no textbooks to learn from or any exams to write. SV.CO can take up to 100 Teams to Silicon Valley in its first year.
"In the world of internet, students don't have to learn formulae by heart or write exams but can show real products using real technology to real customers. A global exposure to Silicon Valley will tremendously enhance confidence of our youth that they can build truly global Indians companies," he pointed put.