Founders – greenworkforce.in

Transformation in the way we work

28/08/201828/08/2018

I was reading a publication from PwC about ‘Workforce of the Future’ which is a research report looking at four possible Worlds of Work for 2030 to help professionals kick-start their thinking. The report says “We are living through a fundamental transformation in the way we work. Automation and ‘thinking machines’ are replacing human tasks, changing the skills that organisations are looking for in their people. But what will the future look like?

This isn’t a time to sit back and wait for events to unfold. To be prepared for the future, you have to understand it.”

Actually, we at greenworkforce are focusing precisely on this topic. We address the problem of employability with the combinations of lifelong learning, gig economy work practices and entrepreneurship. In a way, we are encouraging independent professionals opting for gig jobs and helping them to succeed in the global marketplace.

I liked the key report messages for leaders from this PwC study report; This isn’t about some ‘far future’ of work – change is already happening, and accelerating. Act Now: No regrets and bets | Make a bigger leap | Own the automation debate | People not jobs | Build a clear narrative

The study also states a critical number – 60% think ‘few people will have stable, long-term employment in the future’.

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Collaborative Startup Culture

25/08/2018

I am sharing my learning by doing things at Founder Institute for their local semesters at Delhi and Noida. Indeed, it is a unique value proposition Founder Institute offer to the local startup ecosystem helping the stakeholders in many ways.

The Founder Institute is the world’s premier pre-seed startup accelerator. Since 2009, we have helped over 3,100 companies raise over $700M and build some of the world’s fastest growing companies. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 60 countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to “Globalize Silicon Valley” and empower talented and motivated people to build impactful companies that create one million jobs. Thanks to Adeo and his team for the great work.

Let me pick up one element of the system. The Equity Collective is an interesting part of FI system fostering the collaborative startup culture. As you can read it on their web page starting a company can be a lonely journey. In addition, too many aspiring entrepreneurs never start, and too many pre-seed businesses fail, because they lack expert feedback and proper focus during the earliest stages. To help entrepreneurs in the earliest stages of a business establish a critical support network of both like-minded and successful local entrepreneurs, the Founder Institute developed a groundbreaking Equity Collective where everyone shares equity in the companies formed from each program cohort.

Here’s how it works – each Founder Institute Graduate contributes 4% of their company equity in Warrants to a fifteen-year Bonus Pool with other peers from the current cohort. When a liquidity event occurs, the Pool returns are then distributed in parts to a) Founder Institute b) Local Leaders c) Mentors d) Cohort Participants almost equally.
3/4 of the Pool Returns come back to the Local Community
1/4 goes right back to the program Graduates, split evenly.
1/4 goes to the program Mentors, and each Mentor’s individual share is based solely on anonymous ratings received from the Graduates. This incentivizes Mentors to take an active role in each cohort’s success.
1/4 of the Pool Returns go to the Local Program Directors, where I belong to, for their efforts in organizing, building, and running the local cohort.
1/4 of the Pool Returns go to the Founder Institute, which provides operating capital for the business.

When one Graduate company succeeds, every participant from that program cohort receives a financial upside.

This is really fascinating to me to associate with Founder Institute. The thoughts are aligned with greenworkforce business model.

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Presentation at MGIEP UNESCO TECH 2017

21/08/2018

UNESCO MGIEP’s projects are designed to mainstream socio-emotional learning in education systems, innovate digital pedagogies and to put youth as global citizens at the centre of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development in order to achieve SDG 4.7. More details are available in their website I did participate in one of their international conferences during 2017 at Visakhapatnam presenting my paper on AI powered Lifelong Learning Exploration to spread the awareness about Artificial Intelligence.

Prof M M Pant has inspired me to initiate this project. AI2AI – The project is driven by two very powerful ideas. One is the observation by the subject authority Andrew Ng that ‘Artificial Intelligence is the new electricity’. And the other is the belief that ‘Teaching is the mother of all professions’. So, if we want to align all the existing professions in the emerging 4th Industrial Age to the era of ‘Artificial Intelligence’, then a suitable educational model is the answer. This project is about conceptualizing, designing, developing and delivering the new model invoking AI to deliver courses on AI awareness as a first step. We introduce Co-Learning spaces and TeacherPreneurs powered by utilities of AI. Artificial Intelligence was the favourite subject of Shashidhar during his final year of engineering studies at Mysore, way back in 1991. The sudden rise of AI in recent 3 years and its push by industry majors have fueled his interest to take up such projects.

Fortune Magazine asked all the CEOs of the Fortune 500 what they believed the biggest challenge facing their companies was. Their biggest concern for 2017: “The rapid pace of technological change” said 73% of those polled, up from 64% in 2016. Cyber security came in only a far second, at 61%, even after all the mega-hacks of the past year.
So, what does “technological change” entail? For almost all Fortune 500 CEOs, it means, in part, artificial intelligence. “Forget The Hype: What Every Business Leader Needs To Know About Artificial Intelligence Now,” AI is on the lips of almost every global CEO and Board of Directors.

A Lifelong Learning – Mobile First Approach: The marriage of Learning and Mobility has worked indeed! The simplest case, we have delivered more than 30 courses on WhatsApp with an audience more than 5000 from 20 countries on the topics like Computational Thinking, AI & ML, Learn How To Learn, Become a TeacherPreneur, Become a Lifelong Learner etc.
The proposed AI2AI is the Heutagogy based revised version of these courses to improve the delivery, impact and the credentials. In fact, we intend to pick the tools like IBM Watson and Microsoft QnA maker along with few AI startups from our network to enhance the learning experience. We are evaluating BlockChain technology for certification. We break the barriers for a seamless transformation in education as a preparation for the 4th Industrial Age!

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Women in Tech – a content session at Delhi

18/08/2018

It was a surprise opportunity for me to moderate a session on ‘Women in Tech: How to Keep Up With Generation Y Women in Tech’ at Delhi during 2016. We did conduct around six such content sessions on various topics related to entrepreneurship as part of the assignment from Founder Institute, USA, for their New Delhi chapter. The experience of organizing such events targeting the professionals and aspiring founders from Delhi – National Capital Region was an immense pleasure.

We used Meetup platform https://www.meetup.com/Delhi-Startup-Founder-101/events/236095998/ primarily to mobilize the participants. In fact, the startup ecosystem partners helped us to reach a wider audience to make it happen on every schedule with decent numbers. We acknowledge the higher quality of the interactive event and its credits to those women leaders as speakers who made it there. Of course, the diverse background of the audience was critical to bring in various topics for discussion on the same theme.

A full session of about 3 hours was well appreciated for the purpose we had gathered. The session was followed by a networking opportunity for aspirants over coffee.

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Founder Institute, Noida 2018

16/08/201817/08/2018

Shashidhar is leading the Noida chapter along with Rajesh Malik and Aviral Pal for the new semester launch on 23 July 2018. The 14 weeks structured program is scheduled between November 2018 to February 2019. Now we are recruiting a batch of 30 aspiring founders through a series of content events.

We did our first event at the prestigious management institute, IIM Lucknow Noida campus on 11 August 2018 with the support from L-Incubator. There were around thirty five participants and three speakers attended the session. Indeed, it was a great experience interacting with professionals on the theme of ‘The Leap from Employee to Entrepreneur’.

The registrations are open at https://fi.co/apply?target=Noida The Founder Institute focuses on founders instead of ideas. If you are talented and motivated to do the work required to build an enduring tech or tech-enabled company, then we want to hear from you. This includes aspiring founders with a full-time job, solo founders, teams, and founders of established companies that are pre-funding.

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Professionals opt for Independent Job

15/08/201815/08/2018

The 10 minutes Video in Hindi language highlights the value created by the Gig Economy professionals. Since 2015, there is a sudden importance for freelancers! Prior to that freelancers were struggling to get bank loans, matrimony proposals, club invites and such social acceptance was lesser. Only those freelancers who did an exceptionally good job or who made huge money were recognized, not the rest. …Now, the equation has changed!! The employment landscape is fast-changing where more professionals are inclined towards independent works, flexible timings, more freedom to innovate and finally, balance between personal and professional life. And this is the precise opportunity for all of us. Each one of you is capable to succeed as a freelancer, but, it is easier when we go as a team in the global markets. …Forgetting all distractions, let us focus on freelancing as a core activity and then lifelong learning as an aid to growing it. Whether you remain as a freelancer or build a sustainable startup or a venture to scale up your activities is the choice after being successful as a Gig Economy professional.

How you run your business is completely up to you, but here are some practices from successful freelancers to consider. a) Communicate early, communicate often, Be proactive — clients usually get concerned when they don’t hear from a freelancer. b) Respect deadlines Deliver your work on time, every time. If you think you’ll miss a deadline, let your client know so they can plan accordingly. c) When in doubt, ask. This will help clear up the confusion, save time, and keep the job going smoothly. d) Be a pleasure to work with. Listen to your client’s concerns and respond with a positive attitude. Developing a rapport can make for a great work experience for both parties. e) Set clear expectations. Provide honest and realistic project updates and quickly alert your client when you encounter a problem. f) Under-promise, over-deliver. Never promise more than you can deliver and consider giving a little extra to every job.

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GigTeams – explained

14/08/201815/08/2018

Shashidhar was speaking at an event hosted by Prof M M Pant at The Woods, Gurugram on the theme of ‘Educating Humans in the AI Era’. The relevance of GigTeam was to explore how a large population could be reached with the mission of evangelizing lifelong learning. There were other professionals sharing their thoughts too on related topics.

Prof M M Pant stated “My own major takeaway was that we need to explore lifelong learning as opposed to a finite diploma or degree oriented learning, helping us develop as ‘humans’ and not merely job-ready for the day. Which means pursuing the hard Sciences like Physics, Chemistry, Biology, but Sociology, Psychology and Anthropolgy as well. On a foundation of Philosophy and Mathematics which were said to be 2 sides of the same coin. Or perhaps on the same side itself as in a Möbius strip.
In recent times, we are swiftly moving forward having understood the world of atoms to a better understanding of the world in terms of bits, qbits and quantum Thinking and quantum computing. This is perhaps the current ‘obsession’ with AI, Machine Learning and allied Technologies such as Big Data, Blockchain, IoT, 3D Printing and so on.”

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A great Team behind GigTeams

05/08/201815/08/2018

Prof. MM Pant is a Ph.D. in Computational Physics with a professional degree in Law.
After a long innings of 50+ years as an academic researcher, a lawyer and an educational entrepreneur he is now exploring new pedagogy, technology and curricula for the future, with focus on the period heralding the fourth Industrial Age.
His special focus is on mobile Whatsapp-based lifelong learning, transcending traditional education, and blending personalised and social learning. Some of his current educational initiatives are: Making sense of Artificial Intelligence, Coming of Age in the 4th Industrial Age, Smart Parenting and Developing Teacher-Preneurs. To know more: https://mmpant.com/about-prof-mm-pant/

Shashidhar is a senior ICT professional turned social entrepreneur and small business advisor. Prior to getting into his own venture greenworkforce.in , he worked rigorously in ICT domain for more than twenty years introducing internet, messaging, security and networking technologies to the industry verticals on consulting approach. He has worked for Indian and multi national companies at various capacities adding values to their businesses.

He has attended Engineering in Computer Science from Shri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore, India during 1988-92 .More at https://www.linkedin.com/in/greenworkforce/

Raj K Pathak Proactive and creative media professional with a demonstrated record over 15 years of conceptualizing and producing content for SME and Startups across television, Print, Radio and Online channels. Well known for business Mantra TV series on DD and SME CEO Knowledge TV. He was also associated with CNBC TV18 and CNBC Awaz.

Raj is passionate about seeing the world and has traveled to 40 countries across all the continents. His personal website is http://www.rajkpathak.com/

Mahesh Bhat is a self made Tech Professional freelancing all his professional career catering to global clients. Coding, problem solving and digital world attract him all the time though trekking in Himalayas is his first choice.

Mahesh is a specialist in buiding web solutions to the small busineses. He has delivered more than 100 projects so far.

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Employee to Entrepreneur

05/08/201806/08/2018

Do you want to start your own technology company, but don’t know where to get started? You are not alone. Every day millions of people wake up to regular jobs, but few do something about it. At the “Employee to Entrepreneur” event, you can hear the stories, tips, and best practices of those who left their jobs to pursue their own startup company.

This event is sponsored by the Founder Institute startup accelerator. Founder Institute provides a step-by-step program that gives startup founders the structure, mentor support, and network of entrepreneurs they need to start an enduring company. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 60 countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to “Globalize Silicon Valley” and build sustainable startup ecosystems worldwide.

Who should attend? Anyone who dreams of launching their own company

Date: Saturday, 11 Aug 2018 Timings: 11am to 1pm

Venue: Lecture hall, L-Incubator

IIM Lucknow Noida campus, B-1, Sector 62, Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Limited seats, RSVP at https://goo.gl/m8kUKQ

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Transformation in the way we work

Collaborative Startup Culture

Presentation at MGIEP UNESCO TECH 2017

Women in Tech – a content session at Delhi

Founder Institute, Noida 2018

Professionals opt for Independent Job

GigTeams – explained

A great Team behind GigTeams

Employee to Entrepreneur

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