Some start-ups in the city will open up their offices for aspiring entrepreneurs during a dawn-to-dusk ‘Start up Walk’ in July. During the one-day walk, entrepreneurs can interact with founders of start-ups, observe co-working spaces and witness how incubators function.
Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision start-up, Mad Street Den, social media intelligence firm, Unmetric and SaaS-based recurring billing startup Chargebee are among the firms that will be participating. Vijay Anand, CEO and founder of The Startup Centre, the brain behind the Startup Walk, said, “A lot of aspiring entrepreneurs never get a chance to witness a real start-up - they read about these founders in the media, or see them in panels. We wanted to show them how real start-ups function.”
“We have also got confirmations from Hasura, India Property and Indix. We are reaching out to more start-ups to take part in this walk,” said Mr. Anand.
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Even before the registrations opened, more than 600 people found a place on the waiting list this year. There are requests from tier-II and tier-III towns too. In 2015, 165 participants and 21 firms took part.
Three groups of people can come for this walk — aspiring entrepreneurs looking to find a ‘connect’, early stage entrepreneurs who want to interact with the founders of some of these successful start-ups and people who are looking to encounter start-ups in their own environment and apply for opportunities.
“We heard there were plenty of connects with all the three groups of folks last year. Looks like the participating start-ups were very happy with the people they got to hire when an intro or connect happened via the start-up walk,” Mr. Anand added.
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