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Hope you had a rejuvenating weekend. This is a quick overview of the week gone by on Network Capital. You can get access to all our offerings once you subscribe

🚀 Launch of the Sports Management Fellowship + Ed-Tech Fellowship

🧑🏻‍🏫 Network Capital School: Faculty for August-September 2021

🖇️ Masterclass Recommendation: Passion Economy Careers & the TikTok Boom with Journalist Chris Stokel-Walker

💌 Newsletters: What is it like to work from around the world, especially in challenging locations? and Alternate ways to build and raise capital for a company that lasts

Sports Management Fellowship

As the Indian contingent returned from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, I (Varya) got the opportunity to meet the Gold Medalist Neeraj Chopra and the Bronze Medalist Indian Men’s Hockey Team.

What seems like ‘over-night success’ achieved by the Indian athletes at Tokyo has been years in making with the supports of hundreds of people enabling the athletes. There is an entire invisible ecosystem of federations, support-staff, PR teams, data scientists, coaches, strategists, media professionals and administrators who make it possible for players to focus blindly on their training and practice. They work out the logistics, make sports financial feasible for the athletes and make sports entertaining for the viewers.

While we (Network Capital) may not be the best platform for training athletes, we are there to support the sports ecosystem by making careers in Sports Management accessible.

From business to tech to analytics to branding & marketing to media & entertainment - the Network Capital Sports Management Fellowships will make sure that we support our members build their ‘Category of One’ in the sports industry.

Ed-Tech Fellowship

Historically education was an amorphous bundle of core skills, soft skills, critical thinking, signaling value and networking (think of school as a place where kids go to socialize. What we are witnessing now is the great unbundling of education where different companies and communities are attempting to capture one part of the bundle. What that means is that education companies these days are fundamentally different than the educational institutions we are all familiar with.

In this 3 week-long fellowship, we will -

1. Unpack the trends in the Ed-Tech industry

2. Learn from insights the best Ed-Tech operators and investors

3. Help you build your Ed-Tech thesis

In the past, we have hosted people like Ronnie Screwvala (co-founder of UpGrad), Azeez Gupta (co-founder of Rocket Learning), and Mercedes Bent(Partner, Lightspeed Ventures).

Network Capital School

The Network Capital School designed to help students between the ages 8 to 18 build their category of one. Before we tell you more about the school, here are the graduating talks for the Network Capital Summer School students.

Our school complements the ongoing education in schools and focus on 4 key aspects -

1. Persuasive writing

2. Powerful public speaking

3. Critical thinking

4. Micro-experiments to figure your purpose in life

For August-September 2021, we will be focusing on critical thinking. In the coming weeks, our students will learn from some of the sharpest graduates of Oxford, Harvard Business School, INSEAD and Yale. They will also learn from top professionals from Economist, Boston Consulting Group, Facebook and Stripe.

Masterclass

Passion Economy Careers & the TikTok Boom with Journalist Chris Stokel-Walker

Chris Stokel-Walker is a British journalist whose work regularly appears in WIRED, The Economist and Insider.

He is known for breaking major news about YouTube and TikTok and often reports on the site for television, radio and podcasts. His latest book, TikTok Boom, includes scores of interviews from the biggest names in front of and behind the camera.

Newsletters

What is it like to work from around the world, especially in challenging locations?

I am Utkarsh, the founder of Network Capital. My middle east book tour is going well although it is way more adventurous than I had ever imagined. I am writing this newsletter from a small village in Lebanon. It is pitch dark as I type. Electricity is gone for 20 hours a day, the internet is mostly absent. When it functions, it reminds me of the internet of 1996. All adventures are not created equal. Hopefully reading this essay will give you a glimpse of my life here and leave you with practical insights of the remote-first work.

Alternate ways to build and raise capital for a company that lasts

While WeWork and other VC fueled models matter, a new trend of entrepreneurship is unleashing, one that is more interested in sustainability than exits. One that is interested in building for the long run instead of optimizing for the short term. We are excited by this new trend and think corporates, universities, customers and citizens will be as well. Venture Capital will still continue to fund certain kinds of companies but if you are not building such a company, it is ok. You can create a measurable impact in your own way, on your own terms. That’s got to count for something, don’t you think?

An Invitation to Network Capital

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✍🏼 Read our founder Utkarsh Amitabh’s Harvard Business Review articles here Building Your Category of One,Should You Choose Passion Over Paycheck, How to Make Envy Work for You?, and The Right Way to Make a Big Career Transition

💞 Read the Seductive Illusion of Hardwork and it’s foreword written by Klaus Schwab