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Bangalore: Entrepreneurship is rising as a wave in India, with young startups, students and professionals keenly identifying opportunities and pursuing their dreams to start their ventures. Nurture Talent Academy, India's 1st institute for training entrepreneurs, identified the need for supporting, training and mentoring these budding entrepreneurs, and launched a series of workshops last year. The focus has always been on basics of business, like finance, marketing and business plan. In a year of its operations, it has already conducted 68 workshops, across 20 cities, attended by 1100 startups.
The recent workshop, conducted in Hyderabad last week saw 100 participants keenly understanding and listening to experts, which included highly successful entrepreneurs like Shiva (founder of Apalya Technologies, India's leading live mobile TV company), Murli (angel investor, TIE Hyderabad member and founder of Mandava Hotels), and Naidu (CEO, Versant, an outsourced software services provider). Amit Grover, Founder of Nurture Talent Academy, said, "It is our responsibility that we have to give the right kind of practical inputs to our budding entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurial energy across India is awesome and growing!". Grover,an IIT Delhi and IIM Indore alumnus himself, has been passionate about entrepreneurship. He is a member of Mumbai Angels, and a regular speaker at IIT business plan sessions, mentor in ET Power of Ideas and judge in various competitions. Nurture Talent Academy was also chosen as Hottest Startups of 2010 by a leading magazine.
The objective of Nurture Talent Academy is to enable 1000 ventures to start in next 3-5 years, which will in turn generate 20000 jobs in the country. You can visit www.nurturetalent.com for more details.