Mr. Pramod Yadav, Director – Projects & Senior Faculty- Fashion & Textiles
- Mr. Pramod Yadav has held different positions in last twenty-seven years, focusing on the area of Skill Development and implementation of Projects under Integrated Skill Development, on a pan India basis for the Ministry of Textiles.
- His career span includes 7 years in the industry, 8 years of administration experience and 12 years of teaching experience.
- He has authored three books in the domain of apparel production and technology, pattern making and designing. In one of his previous roles, he has served as the Principal and Joint Registrar of ATDC (Apparel Training &Design Centre).
- He has contributed to the Diagnostic Study for Garment Cluster Development and identification of thrust areas for the sector. He has also worked on developing linkages between Institutional Course contents and the Garment Sector and continues to do so.
Startups need mentoring, funding, networking and resources to succeed. Arch is built to create truly design adept professionals, within an encouraging, supportive and nurturing environment and Arch Incubator provides them help to cross the initial hurdles in starting up a business. These hurdles include office space, funding, legal support, accounting support, technology support and other prerequisites to running the business. Arch is in process of launching the College Incubator as well as the Design Business Incubator which would provide support to designers from various domains who are entrepreneurial in nature and will help to turn their ideas and concepts into successful businesses. The Design Business Incubator (DBI), the first of its kind in India will give the “DesignPreneurs” all sort of essential business, management and technical skills that would help them to become “Leaders of Tomorrow”.
Question: How does the Incubator promote collaboration and Networking?
Answer: The incubator is the central body where all the action happens. The incubator helps and support startups by connecting them with relevant mentors, investors, service providers and other domain experts who can help startups at a various place through their journey. Incubator will provide necessary hand holding to startups wherever necessary. Also, the incubator will be conducting various programs like workshops, knowledge sessions, talks etc to provide necessary knowledge to incubatee companies. All of this combined will be able to help startups to cross collaborate and eventually will build the ecosystem. Also because of all these activities startups will be able to build a network with relevant mentors, investors and service providers.
Question: What is the application and/or selection process?
Answer: The applications will be taken in various formats – Students of Arch can apply to the incubator who have a business idea in which they have a ready prototype or have a customer validated business model. – In various programs that the incubator conducts startups can also apply to directly be the part of the cohort. Startups will be selected on the basis of team quality, quality of the idea, product readiness, customer validation, product innovation and scalability.
Question: What resources are at my disposal?
Answer: The incubatee will get access to various kind of resources. – They will get access to physical infrastructures like office space, internet and other basic facilities to build the startup. – They will get access to mentors, domain experts and also to various programs, events, workshops, knowledge sessions conducted through these mentors/domain experts. – They will get access to investors via Demo Days that will be happening on a quarterly basis or half yearly basis where in investors from across India will come to see the Investor Pitches by incubatee companies and will invest in startups.
Question: Are mentors easily accessible?
Answer: Yes, the mentors would be easily accessible. We are trying to create a pool of mentors who can help the incubatee startups as and when required. The mentors will come from the diversified background like business, design, finance, tech etc and will be able to provide mentoring across various domains so that startup can be guided.
Question: Why parent should encourage his child in doing a start-up?
Answer: ‘Start-up makes you early starter’. This means you become professional even before you actually get into professional life. When we talk about start-up in college the first advantage is that your entire risk is mitigated which means you have no financial burden as well any family pressure. You have to study and along with if you can explore you will get experience and get complete understanding of respective domain. The second biggest advantage is while you are in college you have a huge pool of crowd where you can experiment your prototype. Risks get real once you get into real world. You need office space, electricity, water, and internet whereas in college while you are studying you are getting almost everything free of cost. So being in college you get these resources easily and all you need is support of college which Arch would be giving you. The most important thing in start-ups is to develop customer validation and proof of concept which while in college you have an easy access due to huge pool of crowd whereas in real world you need to approach people and get validation which takes lot of time as people are not readily avai:lable.
Question: How does the Arch Incubator promote collaboration and Networking?
Answer: The incubator is the central body where all the action happens. The incubator helps and support startups by connecting them with relevant mentors, investors, service providers and other domain experts who can help startups at various places through their journey. Incubator will provide necessary hand holding to startups wherever necessary. Also the incubator will be conducting various programs like workshops, knowledge sessions, talks etc to provide necessary knowledge to incubatee companies. All of this combined will be able to help startups to cross collaborate and eventually will build the ecosystem. Also because of all these activities startups will be able to build a network with relevant mentors, investors and service providers.
Question: Why Design Business Incubator?
Answer: Design is Universal and has vast application. In fact, every domain has “Application of Design” in some way or other. Modern-day problem needs modern approach. To solve the problem of both today and tomorrow we need to establish a World Class Design Business Incubator. The Design Business Incubator would provide support to designers from various domains who are entrepreneurial in nature and will help to turn their ideas and concepts into successful businesses. The Design Business Incubator (DBI) will give the “DesignPreneurs” all sort of essential business, management and technical skills that would help them to become “Leaders of Tomorrow”.