IIM Grads Who Trashed Placements For A Startup Life


Bangalore: Many MBA graduates today skip their placements and start their own companies. Even graduates from the most sought after institutions in the country are doing the same. IIM graduates who pay lakhs for their graduate degrees are passing out of the institution to start their own ventures instead of taking a comfortable job with good pay. These IIM graduates decided that entrepreneurial ventures are the right way to go even though it means facing a lot of hurdles and challenges.

These 5 IIM graduates felt that they had to break out of the routine and to execute the plan they have been dreaming of for quite some time according to a compilation by ET.

#1 Gaurav Midha

Gaurav Midha an alumnus of IIM Lucknow along with his two batch mates, started a data analytics firm, Beyond Numbers, freshly within months of joining campus. His co-founders took up job offers during placements at the end of the their post graduate course in IIM Lucknow but this entrepreneur went ahead with Beyond numbers and decided to keep his dream alive. "Data analytics is still a relatively new concept in India but it's been growing at 20%-25%. I want a share of that pie," he says.

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