{"id":13905,"date":"2013-09-22T22:33:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T17:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=13905"},"modified":"2013-09-22T22:33:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T17:03:19","slug":"from-startup-village-to-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/from-startup-village-to-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"From Startup Village to Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Five student entrepreneurs from Startup Village have been selected by the Government of Kerala for a two-week long visit to Silicon Valley with the object of providing exposure to entrepreneurial culture of Silicon Valley &#8211; the cradle of global technology revolution.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"KSEB launches Innovation zone at Startup Village\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/kseb-launches-innovation-zone-at-startup-village\/\" target=\"_blank\">Recently\u00a0KSEB launches Innovation zone at Startup Village<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13908\" alt=\"svsquare\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/09\/svsquare.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Arvind Sanjeev, Jibin Jose, Vijith Padmanabhan, Akash Mathew and Nithin George Charuvila, all aged 22 years are the selected students who will leave for Silicon Valley. All are winners of the annual SVSquare- a program rolled out by Startup Village to send 5 members student team to Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The five students were selected from nearly 1,270 applicants. They will leave for Silicon Valley in the first half of November. \u00a0All expenses will be borne by the state government. \u00a0The programme will give an opportunity to the team to visit some of the world&#8217;s iconic technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc and to experience their work culture and functioning.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The student team will get to interact closely with at least five select mentors in their field of activity, including venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, who can give valuable advice to the youngsters for creating success stories of their own.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Chief Minister to address 2 million students via Google Hangout\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/chief-minister-to-address-2-million-students-via-google-hangout\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chief Minister addressed 2 million students via Google Hangout<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"30 Days to Freedom \u2013 To Support the next Steve Job\u2019s\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/30-days-to-freedom-to-support-the-next-steve-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\">30 Days to Freedom \u2013 To Support the next Steve Job\u2019s<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Besides the Kerala government, SVSquare is supported by Asha Jadeja, a Silicon Valley &#8216;Super angel&#8217;. Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation, Technopark, Vodafone, Intel and Amazon Web Services are partners of the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five student entrepreneurs from Startup Village have been selected by the Government of Kerala for a two-week long visit to Silicon Valley with the object of providing exposure to entrepreneurial culture of Silicon Valley &#8211; the cradle of global technology revolution. Recently\u00a0KSEB launches Innovation zone at Startup Village Arvind Sanjeev, Jibin Jose, Vijith Padmanabhan, Akash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":13906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,5],"tags":[395,149],"class_list":["post-13905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-startups-technology","category-technology","tag-startup-village","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}