How to make NITT great again?!
Imagine a situation where you and your close friends are building one of the most brilliant idea that popped in your group’s mind a few days ago.
You are all pumped up, annihilating your brains with your geeky friends to build the most beautiful product this world has ever seen! Simultaneously, your non-geeky mates are structuring the perfect way to deliver your product to this world.
Just the rush, the excitement, the nervousness about your product being successful, all of it is just too good for you to take. The more proof you find for the necessity of your service/product for this world, the more you’re just driven towards building and scaling it further.!
“The above cited example is not fiction. Any resemblance to real
life characters are completely intentional and are from a bustling startup ecosystem.”
Some eminent examples…
One such place where students are dynamically engaged in entrepreneurial activity, is the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. A location brimming with ideologies and innovation. More about this could be googled or read about in this Yourstory article.
Many others such as IIT Madras, BITS Pilani, IIT Kharagpur, etc. fall right behind IIT Bombay for this topic at discussion.
E-Cell NITT, functioning for over a decade in this drought prone campus of NIT Trichy, has tried to achieve the same. Our year-long initiatives, although intended to bring such an ecosystem to our campus, has been of benefit majorly for numerous startups and entrepreneurial firms coming from all over India and even outside it!

We do take pride in this fact and have mustered a decent brand image externally. Everything regarding our initiatives and achievements can be seen on our Facebook Page and our Website.
Awesome! But..?
Have we actually set up such an ecosystem within this 800 acre campus? Are students, on a daily basis solving and looking for any kind of solution to problems around them? Let’s dive into NITT’s rich history and statistics.
We have had some successful personalities emerging from our campus and gaining positions of National importance. Multiple names can come up in the links below:

Quora: Who are the best known alumni of NIT Trichy?
RECAL : The official Alumni group of NIT Trichy.
Have we stopped with only producing good graduates? What about Startups? Which is actually the topic at discussion..
E-Cell NITT recently published a Facebook post compiling the 150+ startups that originated from NIT Trichy. So is this a good improvement from a Regional Engineering College (NITT’s former identity) which had very
little resources for students and barely enough water?
HELL YEAHH!
But are we satisfied with this mediocre ecosystem where the world’s startup news is read and shared but not sincerely thought upon?
NO!
NIT Trichy is still a community of students who think of gaining a good amount of technical knowledge on subjects and land with a good university or placement offer to pursue, after their tenure here. We do research on core subjects during our vacations to help us achieve the same by the end of our 4 years.
Enter, IIT Madras.
This is a beautiful place where entrepreneurship and academic development function in a synergistic way. There are many student-run startups which have research professors as a co-founder! More about such startups can be read about in this link here.
We, the students of NIT Trichy, are yet to get there. Slow, but steadily getting there. E-Cell NIT Trichy is the catalyst that ensures that this change is happening.
Hence, after a lot of brain-storming on how to approach this situation, we came up with this initiative INCEPTION.

In association with the college’s tech clubs Robotics and Machine Intelligence (RMI), 3D aero-modelling and Designers Consortium (DC) we have decided to reach out to the over populated nerds of this institute and tell them,
“With the technical knowledge you posses, you will be the most important entities in any entrepreneurial organization. By entering the startup world today, your academic development and entrepreneurial growth will crop up simultaneously.”
What’s the proof?
A serious scrutiny of today’s academic and entrepreneurial scenario is required. No matter how merrily we enroll in post-graduate programs in top-tier universities, our academic progress will not be as much as that in a startup venture.
Sounds like a bold statement to say right? But this is said and preached by today’s experienced personalities.
“The life of an academic scientist is really hard , You’ve got to really , really want it . And even then , for many people it just does’t work out”, says Dave Messina who holds a phD in computational biology and now serves as the COO of Cofactor Genomics , an RNA sequencing software startup. With governments new policies, the grants for researches is continually decreasing whereas startups are facing a boom in the opposite direction.
Here’s the link to Y-Combinator’s article on Dave Messina as to why research inclined people should startup and why they will be self-satisfied with the progress they make there.
The proof for this just keeps adding on and just for you to read on this, here are a few more articles:
Forbes: Giving Academics The Skills To Start Up
Science-Union: Academia vs Start-up: as a research scientist, what would you choose?
Labcloud: The decline of Academic Research and the rise of startups.
A little too much to take in huh?
“What should I do now?!”
You can start slow. Just try internships in startups instead of doing a research project in a reputed university. You will see actual application of technical knowledge from which you can generate money. E-Cell NITT arranges Startup Internship Programs (SIP) every vacation to encourage students in the same.
Read more about startup news and inspiring books of leaders of the entrepreneurial world. Well known entrepreneurial websites are the best one-stop place for anything and everything about the startup world.
Here are 35 must know websites for student entrepreneurs.
As a student of NIT Trichy, you are well covered in any support that would help you start your entrepreneurial journey.
If you’re a lazy chap of NITT, and want an amazing entrepreneurial experience within campus, in just 3 days, take part in “Startup Weekend Trichy”, happening this September 15th to 17th, 2017.
SWT 2017 is a wonderful start for anyone just wondering how dynamic a startup ecosystem is. All the testimonies confirm the same.
Thus, with sufficient proof handed to you (students of NITT), we at E-Cell NITT would like to conclude by saying,
We are always there to help you.
Stay tuned for Inception, Startup weekend and all other initiatives E-Cell NITT has in store for our beloved students.
Always and every ways promoting entrepreneurship.
Yours,
