India

Content Design

Product Design

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree

H.S.C.

S.S.C.

CEng. Nikhil Chhaya Lilakar Kulkarni

Head and General Manager

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Presentation skills

Canva

ChatGPT

Probability

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

Playing a critical role in driving the success and growth of the organization by providing strategic leadership, managing operations effectively, and fostering a positive work culture.

Playing a pivotal role in fostering innovation, supporting entrepreneurship, and driving economic growth by providing resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities to startup founders.

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MAARG Stands for
                    Mentorship
                    Advisory
                    Assistance
                    Resilience
                    Growth
	The MAARG Portal by Startup India is a one stop mentorship platform to facilitate mentorship for startups across diverse sectors, functions, stages, geographies, and backgrounds.

For more details, Please visit https://maarg.startupindia.gov.in/

Looking forward to delve deep into contributing towards development of Startup Ecosystem!

Oversees the ongoing operations of all sections in the organization.
Manages and directs the organization toward its primary goals and objectives.
Oversees employment decisions at the executive level of the organization.
Leads a team of executives to consider major decisions including acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, or large-scale expansion.
Promotes communication and cooperation among divisions to create a spirit of unity in the organization.

Director in the Board of Directors of NETRARIT Foundation RIT-TBI (NRiT), Rajarambapu Institute of Technology, Sangli (An incubator supported by Maharashtra State Innovation Society, Mumbai)

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets

2. Develops training and development programs and objectives for startups, students and industry fellow on entrepreneurship.

3. Conducts annual training and development needs assessment.

4. Create and execute learning strategies and programs

5. Creating proposals for CSR, Government grants so that organization can get funding for the same.

6. Coordinating with corporate and Incubation centre's and various organization such as IIT, IIM, NIT and various other Academic institutions so that organization can sign MOU with them.

7. Creating strategies for doing partnership with investors companies including Angel and VC investors.

# Development and execution of the strategies for outreach, hunting, attracting and boarding aspirant entrepreneur for start-ups.
# Designing & managing Incubation programs of KCIIL with high-quality advisory support to the aspiring startups.
# Strategic business planning and implementation of startup policies of KCIIL along with operational guidance to the aspirants and overall setup of innovation ecosystem.

Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets
Develops training and development programs and objectives for startups, students and industry fellow on entrepreneurship.
Coordinating with corporate and Incubation centres and organizations/Academic institutions in the division so as to engage with them for ecosystem growth. 
Creating strategies for doing partnership with investors companies including Angel and VC investors.

PREFERRED STARTUP STAGES
Ideation, Validation, EarlyTraction, Scaling
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FOCUS INDUSTRIES
Education, Food & Beverages, Internet of Things, Robotics, Social Impact
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FOCUS SECTOR(S)
E-learning, Education Technology, Skill Development, Coaching, Others, Restaurants, Microbrewery, Food Processing, Others, Smart Home, Manufacturing & Warehouse, Wearables, Others, Robotics Technology, Robotics Application, Others, NGO, Others
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SERVICE AREA(S)
Enterprise Mobility, Marketplace, Platform, Research, Social Enterprise

Facilitate strategic planning for stakeholder. 
Develop informational sessions and programs for clients on issues relevant to startup companies.
Act as liaison between public and private sectors in application and implementation of business development programs.
Keep accurate files and records of each client company and any related correspondence.
Keep current on all services of the Incubation Center in order to cross-sell its services to students, faculties and the public, at cost.
Promote the Innovation Center, its programs, and employees at every available opportunity, with specific responsibilities for recruitment and promotion.
Developing strategic goals and objectives;
Assisting in preparing the annual budget; 
Facilitating the negotiation and structure of client agreements and leases; including the collection of rents and fees; 
Perform as a liaison between the clients, businesses and the Incubator throughout the region.
Assisting in screening issues for attention/action; 
Monitoring progress of incubating Startups; 
Establishing linkage for client funding opportunities via venture capital/equity firms and angel networks; 
Coordinating and planning advisory team and mentor meetings; 
Assisting in planning and organizing events related to entrepreneurship; 
Coordinating the activities of various committees; 
Presenting operating results to CEO; 
Serving as a primary interface for SANDIP Incubator Association’s incubator/accelerator programs; 
Providing leadership and establishing criteria to monitor program performance; 
Developing tools and processes for program management and innovation efforts; 
Managing projects and/or personnel; 
Working to improve professional capabilities and personal knowledge in incubator management by attending workshops and conferences such as those presented by the Business Incubator Association of National repute
Attending Organization meetings as required; 
And other duties as assigned by the CEO.

Computer Forensics and Cyber Applications Subject In-charge
Object Oriented and Multicore Programming Subject In-charge
Employability cum Empirical cum Entrepreneurship  Skill Development Cell In-charge
Value Addition Course In-charge

CEng. Nikhil Chhaya Lilakar Kulkarni🇮🇳