GUESSS India Cloud

What Is GUESSS India Cloud?

GUESSS India Cloud is a dedicated knowledge platform designed to inspire, inform, and engage Indian students on their entrepreneurial journey. This platform aims to:

Inspire students through real-life stories of Indian student entrepreneurs.
Create awareness by sharing diverse perspectives from entrepreneurship enablers, educators, and ecosystem leaders.
Inform policymakers and institutions with research-based insights drawn from the experiences and aspirations of student entrepreneurs.

By bridging the gap between student aspirations, expert perspectives, and policy dialogue, GUESSS India Cloud plays a vital role in shaping a more inclusive and dynamic student entrepreneurship ecosystem in India.

GUESSS India Cloud - Dimensions

GUESSS Cloud operates across four key dimensions, each contributing uniquely to the discourse on student entrepreneurship in India.

Perspective

Expert Opinions

Stories

Student Startup Journeys

Insights

Research-Based Contributions

Cases

Real-World Startup Scenarios

Explore GUESSS India Cloud

At the heart of GUESSS Cloud is Perspective—a series of concise, experience-driven opinion pieces authored by entrepreneurship educators, entrepreneurs, policymakers, mentors, and startup ecosystem enablers. These articles highlight specific theoretical or practical dilemmas, decision-making challenges, or policy issues relevant to the student entrepreneurship ecosystem. They aim to stimulate thought and dialogue on enabling student-led ventures in India.

Neha Jaswal
June 2, 2025
Perspective

Understanding Team Dynamics in Student Startups

Neha Jaswal highlights the often-overlooked challenge of team dynamics in student startups, revealing how early enthusiasm gives way to instability—and why building aligned, committed teams is crucial for venture success....

Dr. Hari Babu
June 2, 2025
Perspective

What’s Holding Back Student Entrepreneurs? A Closer Look at the Tech-First Trap

Hari Babu underscores the tech-first mindset of students that often leads to creating solutions in search of a problem, emphasizing the need for a user-first approach in entrepreneurship....

Devanshi Thakur
June 2, 2025
Perspective

Anybody Can Start Up: The New Era of Student Entrepreneurs

Devanshi Thakur highlights the transformative role of Indian universities in fostering entrepreneurship, showcasing how government policies and university support systems are empowering students to balance academics with startup ventures....

Stories bring alive the entrepreneurial journeys of student founders, both current and recently graduated. Through candid interviews and narratives, this section normalizes the challenges and uncertainties of entrepreneurship and shares student-centric solutions to overcome them. The goal is to inspire more students to start their first ventures while still in college.

Javeed Dar
May 28, 2025
Stories

Two Episodes That Changed the Way I Think About Student Entrepreneurship

As a first-year PhD scholar, I entered the world of research with a mind full of questions and curiosity. I knew I wanted...

Insights offer short, research-backed articles that explore emerging trends, challenges, and strategies in student entrepreneurship. Authored by faculty members and doctoral researchers, these pieces present academic viewpoints grounded in theoretical frameworks and empirical research, helping readers better understand the evolving student entrepreneurship landscape.

Oshin Goel
June 3, 2025
Insights

Seven Ideas for Designing and Delivering Effective FDPs

Javeed Dar
October 14, 2024
Insights

Why GUESSS India? Igniting the Entrepreneurial Spirit of Indian Students

Javeed Dar
October 10, 2024
Insights

Indian Students and the Entrepreneurial Spirit

The Cases section features in-depth case studies of both successful and unsuccessful student ventures. These cases provide a simulated environment to explore entrepreneurial dilemmas and decision-making processes, offering actionable lessons and practical insights for aspiring entrepreneurs and educators alike.