Just as the African proverb, “It takes a whole village to raise a child”, we believe it takes an ‘Entrepreneurial Village’ to raise a successful startup. The FLAME Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (FCEI) promotes the practice of entrepreneurship by providing aspiring entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders access to mentoring programs, networking events, speaker series and competitions. It aims to bring together entrepreneurs, students, professionals, business leaders and investors to form a community that fosters a culture of entrepreneurship. It’s a systematic approach to build the basis for an excellent future. Initiatives of the FCEI include the speaker series, networking events and competitions.
FLAME Entrepreneurship Lab
The aim of the Entrepreneurship Lab is to give the students hands-on experience about the creation, inception and management of an entrepreneurship venture. The Lab aims to prepare students to become competent in the areas of management viz. finance, accounting, marketing and production. The Lab helps build students’ capacity to think and develop an entrepreneurial idea for a micro enterprise. It also strives to develop effective teamwork abilities in students.
FLAME Finance &s; Investment Club
The FLAME Finance & Investment Club (FFIC) aims to provide its student members skills to help them improve their understanding of the financial markets. It is a medium that bridges theory with practice. FFIC tries to mimic and show, as closely as possible, how investment decisions are made in the real world.
FFIC organizes interactive sessions with investment gurus. This forum gives students the unique opportunity to interact with giants in the investment world and benefit from their insights. Given the importance of investment in today’s world, students of all majors and NOT only finance are encouraged to attend so as to bring intellectual diversity and multi-disciplinary viewpoints to the club.
FFIC entails classroom learning, book reviews, case studies, presentations, industry interactions, investor conferences and most importantly the stock market challenge. Even though classroom content includes topics like financial statement analysis, valuation, behavioural finance and technical analysis, the emphasis of the FFIC is on personal initiative and sharing content with other members for mutual and inclusive growth. Reviewing investment-related classics, analyzing successful and unsuccessful company case studies, participating in investor conferences and competing in research challenges enables members to apply academic learning to the investment world. Once equipped with these tools, student members channelize it to the stock market challenge. Thus, the FFIC is a platform to harness a student’s investment acumen, help them understand risk, and analyse the market as a whole before they become active participants.