Students Becomeing CEOs
Engineering students who have turned entrepreneurs.Fifteen engineering students doing their third and fourth year will turn Chief Executive Officers (CEO) on Sunday when they come together to launch their respective companies. The companies will be formed as subsidiaries under the aegis of the Students Software Solutions to be run wholly by students themselves. The company was started by Anmol Vij, an engineering student, some time ago. “Since it turned out to be a successful venture, I decided to make it a group of companies, with like-minded students (after an aptitude test) from different colleges,” he says. Once they launch their respective companies, they will start taking up projects from clients. Each CEO will employ 25 students of their choice and depute them to work on the projects. They will devote roughly three hours everyday. They also plan to employ MBA students to get them clients. And, it is not all about software. Some are interested in electronics too. What if one company goes defunct? “The one that is doing well will absorb it or will outsource from it”, pat comes the reply. The ambitious group seems to have all the answers. They might be students; but the approach they have adopted is very professional. They will soon register the companies.
They have even decided what they will do once they get their degrees. “Once we complete college we will relinquish the post of CEO to a student and we will only function in the capacity of a consultant. This will enable others to learn how to run a company,” says V. Ashyanth. The students are ready to go full steam, what with full support of their faculty, college and parents. They plan to have a healthy competition amongst themselves, while providing stiff competition to outsiders. They believe that their services and pricing will make them succeed. “We want to be examples to show what college students can do. College life should not be viewed upon like school life. It is different. We should be willing to experiment with our knowledge,” says D. Saranya.
The students as a whole feel that most of the youth are not given the go ahead for experimenting. “We have a lot of ideas. Most of the time faculty or parents do not support such attempts. Through this we want to prove that given the right opportunity we can also prove our mettle,” they say in unison.
They are: Anmol Vij, R. Vivek, and S. Srinivasan from Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, K. Ajay Naveen, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, N. Alagendran, Karpagam College of Engineering, V. Ashyanth, PSG College of Technology, Ashish Vij, SNS College of Technology, A.P. Sathish, SNS College of Engineering, Dilipkumar S.N., Tamil Nadu College of Engineering, G. Mugundha and Robin Tyagi from Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Nivedita Murugan, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, N. Radhasubramanian, Vellore Institute of Technology, D. Saranya, Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, and K. Arun Prakash, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology.
