The 2010 batch of IIML has the 'unique' feature of having 92 per cent students with work experience and a number of them exhibited great enthusiasm for working with start-ups and utilising their experience to help guide these budding organisations to success, IIM sources said.
Student placement coordinator Shashank Mehta said the students here had experience which start-ups value and all the projects there would be live projects, which would decide future course and orientation of these organisations.
More than 20 start-ups, including Inkfruit, Rupeetalk, Redbus, Lifeblob and Netprice from the IT sector, Printo from the printing sector, Merit Trac from the personal training and evaluation business, Great Place to Work Institute from the management consulting vertical and Elements Akademia from the profession training sphere also participated in the summer placements, IIM sources said.
Entrepreneurship Day was another highlight of the summer placements concluded recently to nurture entrepreneurial talent of students, Chairman IIML Placements, Prof Sushil Kumar said.
He said that IIML had been a breeding ground for many a great entrepreneur in the past and this year's batch had several entrepreneurs as students. "The confluence of alumni and current students gave us the confidence of starting this great initiative," Prof Kumar said adding that this is probably for the first time that such an initiative has been hosted in a separate slot by a B-school campus in India.
