Any Body Can Do Entrepreneurship (ABCDE)
Since 2017, ABCDE has impacted thousands of students worldwide through bespoke talks and workshops in schools, colleges and youth festivals. We bring concepts to life with true stories of entrepreneurs and missionary passiopreneurs who had a dream, pursued their passion and chased their dream to build not just empires or enterprises but to create eternity with little or no resources simply with grit, determination, resilience, resourcefulness and passion. We bring the learning to life with true stories of real heroes who have transformed villages, cities and countries and created opportunities for livelihood and a life of dignity for the entire community. These stories are drawn from our first-hand research and engagement with real heroes from around the world. This unique approach enables us to teach through practical, pragmatic, and relatable real-life experiences.
The need of the hour: India and several other places in the world are experiencing an economic slowdown, leading to a significant reduction in available job opportunities. The lack of job opportunities and meaningful engagement threatens to dampen the energy and potential of India’s youth, putting them at risk of feeling defeated and disillusioned. Our shared responsibility is to empower youth as a demographic dividend, not a burden. The rising mental health challenges—depression, anxiety, and uncertainty—underline an urgent call for change. Unemployment, paired with a challenging sociopolitical climate, could make these young minds vulnerable. To unlock their potential, we need to guide them towards modern, fulfilling careers and teach them entrepreneurship.
Why ABCDE: Entrepreneurship is a learnable skill. The students, young entrepreneurs, and MSME founders/promoters need to be trained to become EFFECTIVE ENTREPRENEURS, who create value, jobs, and make positive. In India we have a huge population with many people but fewer job opportunities. Jerry sincerely believes that we need to train students to develop an Entrepreneur Mindset and become job creators and not just have an employee mindset and be job seekers. In 2018 we rolled out a training program for students titled "ABCDE - AnyBody Can Do Entrepreneurship" and have done this in several colleges and college fests around India. Our Youth can become whoever they want to become! Independent, confident, young adults who are ready to dare to dream and work towards achieving their dreams by unleashing unlimited Heroic potential. Youth who can shape their future by tapping into and harnessing their creative and entrepreneurial skills and pursue their passion.
Mission: To inspire youth to pursue their dreams, channeling their passions into a clear vision, mission, and actionable plan for achieving personal and professional goals.
Vision: To build a society of dedicated Missionary PassioPreneurs—entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs—who create value by embodying human values and contributing positively to oneself, family, organization, society, and beyond.
The ABCDE Solution: Our hybrid learning supports the youth to pursue their passion by creating a compelling vision and SMART GOALS to achieve it. It also provides them with creative ideas for action, innovative tools and disciplined execution plans. The ABCDE learning journey consists of 3 parts for students from Class 8 onwards who are curated and chosen for the Rex Karmaveer Global Youth Fellowship.
- The ABCDE Inspirational talk- This is a 4 hour talk by Jerry where he transforms students’ mindsets from employee to entrepreneur mindset, job-seeker to job-creator mindset, fixed to growth mindset. In the first talk in 2017 at a university auditorium in Bombay, where there were 1000+ students and 200 professors/lecturer, when Jerry asked the students how many of them wanted to become entrepreneurs. Only 11 students put their hands up. At the end of the 4-hour talk over 250 students wanted to become entrepreneurs.
- miLLLss- The moJOsh Inspirator Life, leadership and learning2learn success summit, which is online classes with over 100 missionary passiopreneurs and mentors from around the world. Our mascot mentor along with Jerry is Willim Kamkwamba – The Boy who harnessed the wind (a true story of a real hero who changed the fate of a nation called Malawi) and several other mentors.
- Entrepreneurship Masterclass with Jerry – Students get to attend the Leadership and entrepreneur learning that Jerry coaches CEOs, CXOs and Executives in Fortune 500 companies and Unicorn ventures.
Our Chosen Mentors: Youth mentors and experienced mentors-in-residence are carefully curated mavericks, mavens and magnificent personal brands who have walked the path less trodden and paved their own paths. These moJOsh inspirator mentors will steer our students and youth onto the path to becoming job creators and not just job seekers. The mentors, along with our co-founders and Jerry mentor our youth to help them create a win-win value for themselves and society by making positive contributions. The overall program focuses on
Mindset Shift- ABCDE - Anybody Can Do Entrepreneurship mind-grind.
Skillsets- Effective skill-pills and processes to become effective entrepreneurs
Toolsets- Cool-Tools to enable you to plan your vision and prepare students for their action plan as entrepreneurs.