Umesh
Rathod

Mentor-of-Change@AIM,Author,Speaker,Founder,Mentored 4.5+ lac Youth,Think Tank,Sociopreneur,Mentor @CII CIES,Mentor @MSINS,Mentor @ECell IIT Bombay,Visiting Faculty

A little about me

I love interacting with the youth about Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Sustainability & STEM.
This is New India & its about innovative methods, new products & ideas which can help sustain our world. Since 2010, through various initiatives I have impacted & addressed more than 4.5 lac students across South Asia.
I strongly believe Entrepreneurship is about the mindset & sustainability having learned it the hard way himself.
I am a faculty with an entrepreneurial background who loves teaching & researching about Entrepreneurship. Currently working towards making Indian Startup ecosystem better through collaboration and research with national & international institutions.
I mentors startups & corporates using design thinking & innovation models designed as per global standards. In my startup journey I collaborated/worked with nearly 250+ educational institutions.
As STEM plays a very important role in one's overall development & also it's hands-on, students love it & I have been vocal about this model of education at government as well as public podiums.
For work life balance I often love getting lost in nature to rejuvenate away from the unoriginal Metro life.
One of my gurus had quoted & I resonate it, "Spending time for your passion is important but spending it with your loved one's is more important with your share of opportunity cost.


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A poem fromThe Fun of being in a Start UpBook

Walk alone if you must, Keep walking,
अगर जरूरत पडे तो अकेले ही चलो, चलते रहिये,
You may fall, who doesn't? Keep walking,
आप गिर सकते हैं, पर यहां कौन नहीं गिरता ? चलते रहिये,
They will stop you, won't they? Just keep walking,
वें आपको रोकेंगे, क्या नहीं रोकेंगे? आप बस चलते रहिये,
Did you reach your goal? No? Keep walking,
क्या आप अपने लक्ष्य तक पहुँच गए? नहीं? चलते रहिये,
When people leave you, Keep walking,
जब लोग आपको छोड़ देंगे, चलते रहिये,
Everything will make sense, Keep walking,
सब कुछ समझ में आ जाएगा, चलते रहिये,
If you think your path is lost,
अगर आपको लगे, कि आप राह खो चूकें हैं,
Remember you have just created one!
याद रखें, आपने तो एक नई राह बनाई है!
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I do amazing things for the Youth, Startups, Corporates & India

Youth

Interacted with more than 4.5+ lac students across various demographies in India and South Asian region. VOcal about STEM Education & Startups at campuses.

Startups

Helping startups & startup enthusiasts to find market, develop new product, team building, business modelling, get incubated, etc.

Businesses

I help in answering critical business questions faster. With a customized design sprint to de-risk projects & incorporate business model innovation in the journey.

The Fun of being in a Start Up - Book

It is for startup enthusiasts, founders, researchers, educators & mentors. The content follows the startup chronology, it's crisp & to the point. It resonates with Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, "It's only when we are faced with failure do we realize that these resources were always there within us. This book is the blood & sweat from yesteryears & can accompany anyone at the various levels of their start-up journey. There are endless Entrepreneurial opportunities in India & hence I recommend it to all those who want to do something new, rare & innovative. "INDIA needs YOU, WORLD needs YOU".


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Startup Chanakya - Book

Startup Chanakya book is an amalgamation of Acharya Chanakya’s thoughts & my experiences in the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a learner, mentor, educator & researcher over the several years. It aims to ignite the spark in the startup founders, startup enthusiasts & youth to help them build their entrepreneurial mindset. As I strongly believe, Entrepreneurship can be taught as evident from Chanakya & Chandragupta’s Mentor-Mentee saga of how it can be achieved. I dedicate this book to my mentors & hopeful that the readers from various walks of life will find it engaging & enthralling.


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Startup Chanakya - Hindi Book

स्टार्टअप चाणक्य पुस्तक कई वर्षों से एक शिक्षार्थी, संरक्षक, शिक्षक और शोधकर्ता के रूप में उद्यमशीलता पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र में आचार्य चाणक्य के विचारों और मेरे अनुभवों का एक मिश्रण है। इसका उद्देश्य स्टार्टअप संस्थापकों, स्टार्टअप उत्साही और युवाओं में उद्यमशीलता की मानसिकता बनाने में मदद करने के लिए चिंगारी प्रज्वलित करना है। जैसा कि मेरा दृढ़ विश्वास है कि उद्यमिता सिखाई जा सकती है और यह आचार्य चाणक्य और चंद्रगुप्त की मेंटर-मेंटी गाथा से स्पष्ट है कि इसे कैसे हासिल किया जा सकता है। । मैं यह पुस्तक अपने गुरुओं को समर्पित करता हूं और आशा है कि जीवन के विभिन्न क्षेत्रों के पाठकों को यह आकर्षक और रोमांचकारी लगेगा।


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Entrepreneurship Research

Entrepreneurship for me is about the Mindset, since after my graduation I myself ventured into 1st generation Entrepreneurial journey, I can say I taught & prepared myself for what it takes to startup. With Entrepreneurship research I want to explore how we can teach Entrepreneurship as well as how we can better entrepreneurial ecosystems.


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Seminars | Panel Discussion | Keynote | Guest lectures

With the diverse experience in the field of education, startup & research for over a decade. I love to share my thoughts with the youth, organisations, government & public platforms. With over 1,000+ seminars & lectures delivered since 2010 you can be rest assured for an engaging speaker to match your needs.


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Workshops | Design Sprints | Hackathons | Hands-Ons

Introduce your team to the design thinking process, and give them hands-on experience with the different methods and tools it involves. Empathize, ideate, prototype, and validate. Get it done in under a week. Want to build innovation capability as a student, startup or business? You can select from our different modules. Talk to me to build a program that matches your needs.


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My Associations



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    Lean Campus Startups

    Propagating Entrepreneurship through education & research. As the founding member it is my responsibility to engage with the organisations to propagate #Atmanirbharta

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    Mission Catalyst

    Working towards life of differently abled better! With innovative teaching & educational practices.

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    Mentor of Change

    As a mentor of change with Niti Aayog, I am focused on training students to come up with innovative solutions for the global problems.

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    ECell-IITB

    Associated as a Mentor & Judge for National Entrepreneurship Challenge. Creating Job Creators in collaboration with E-Cell IITB

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    TiE Mumbai

    Assocaited with the "The Indus Entrepreneurs - Mumbai Chapter for several years now. Connecting & growing the like minded community

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    EDI India

    I was awarded with a Fellowship by EDII Ahmedabad, Gujarat with respect to Entrepreneurship research. Since then I have been associate with the people at EDII

What the readers & clients said
  • 5/5 stars - Perfectly blended Recipe for a startup.
    Mr. Rathod's book is short Bible for individuals who wants to venture into great heights in business environment. Umesh with his experience from various fields as poured his thoughts in making it a perfect ready recipe for someone who wants to venture into startup world. And being a covid situation it's right time to have 'Atma Nirbar' attitude which someone can achieve from a proper guidance from this book. Looking forward for more thoughts from him.
    - Yayati Jadhav

  • 5/5 stars - A must buy book.
    The fun of being in a start up book is a bible for those who are thinking of starting their own business. The author has tried to cover each and every aspect of starting up and everything has been explained well.I recommend this book to anyone thinking of starting up.
    - Mayur Donwalkar

  • 5/5 stars - Perfect concoction of ideas.
    I am happy to have come across this book as it ventures in to various aspects of starting up directly from someone who has been there done that. The writer's firsthand experience in a form of a story makes it a very interesting read and makes us ponder about the immense scope in starting up in the current ecosystem.
    - Amazon reader

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Mumbai, India

Phone

+91 9757426699