{"id":4336,"date":"2012-11-10T12:36:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T07:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2012-11-10T12:36:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T07:06:01","slug":"us-entrepreneur-to-set-up-startup-school-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/us-entrepreneur-to-set-up-startup-school-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"US Entrepreneur to set up Startup School in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Freeman Murray<\/strong><\/em>, a legendary entrepreneur, angel investor and mentor from the United States has expressed his interest in setting up a start-up school for young entrepreneurs. The Startup school will be in collaboration with the <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\">Start-up Village in Kochi<\/a> which is the first telecom incubator in the country<\/p>\n<p>The start-up school which is going to be established at &#8216;Start-up Village\u2019, Kochi is first of its kind in India. The school will also have partnership with \u00a0<strong>Jaaga.in<\/strong>\u00a0a Bangalore based company which supports start-ups, designer, and digital freelancers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <strong>Startup School<\/strong> is a large-scale initiative to help young first time entrepreneurs in India launch successful Internet companies. It\u2019s a great time to start a technology company. The Internet has made it possible for smart people everywhere to create products and earn money online,\u201d said Freeman Murray.<\/p>\n<p>Initially the school will enrol 100 students for a duration of 6 month course, of which 4 months will be a residential class at the Start-up village campus. The students with good entrepreneurship skills and brighter ideas will be selected for the final 2 months course. Murray also said, students who have better communication skill with a good fluency in English will be given preference<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMurray\u2019s decision to launch a start-up school for young entrepreneurs is going to be a momentous event in Kerala. It has also to be viewed as the next logical step to the landmark Student Entrepreneur Policy, which has been promised by the State government,\u201d said Sanjay Vijayakumar, Chairperson of Governing Board of <strong>Startup Village<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Murray has been actively working with technology start-ups for the past 15 years in India and the United States and had run a similar incubation programme at IIM Ahmedabad. In addition to that, he has also set up a large art and technology space in Bangalore called Jaaga.in. <strong>Freeman Murray<\/strong> has been an angel investor for over 20 companies in the US and India since the last decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freeman Murray, a legendary entrepreneur, angel investor and mentor from the United States has expressed his interest in setting up a start-up school for young entrepreneurs. The Startup school will be in collaboration with the Start-up Village in Kochi which is the first telecom incubator in the country The start-up school which is going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,163,5],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-startups-technology","category-technology","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}