A global CEO, a national founder, and one right here in Siliguri — all hiring on skill, not the certificate.
Your studies give you knowledge. Doing turns it into skill.
That’s why
We built Anveshan.
A place to become a doer while you are still in school: real problems, real businesses, real people.
Whatever stream you pick
Everyone is an entrepreneur.
Science
The doctor opens a clinic; the engineer ships an app. Both build a team, earn trust and spot the gap no one else sees.
Commerce
The founder or analyst doesn’t just track the money — they raise it, price it and grow it. Business is the whole game.
Humanities
The lawyer, designer or writer builds a name from nothing — clients, reputation and income, all self-made.
Any stream
Notice a problem, talk to people, do the numbers, convince others. Every path runs on the same four skills.
Play, don’t just watch
Quiz time.
Five quick questions. Vote with your fingers — one, two or three. No phones, no wrong-answer shame.
Warm-up quiz
Time for a real case
Now, a real business.
No theory. A real stall, real numbers, real pressure — your team has 20 minutes to save it.
Case study / printed copy for every team
Choudhary Pav Bhaji: the burger problem
Imagine you run Choudhary Pav Bhaji. (All numbers are imaginary.)
₹80 a plate · ₹50 to make
₹3,000 a day for rent, staff and gas
You sell 150 plates a day
New situation
A burger outlet opens down the road: ₹99 combos, AC, Wi-Fi
Now 100 plates. Most of the 50 you lost are college students.
Your mission
Get back to at least the same profit as before — or more. Use up to two ideas. Show your numbers.
First: what was your profit before? And now?
Case study / 20 minutes
Get out of your seats.
Round 1 · 4 minAt your desk
Read the case with your team. Work out profit before and now.
Round 2 · 7 minWalk and ask
One person from each team visits three other teams and asks: “What would you do?” Bring back one idea you had not thought of.
Round 3 · 5 minDecide
Back with your team. Pick up to two ideas. Do the numbers. Do you reach ₹1,500?
Round 4 · 4 minStand and defend
Teams pitch their plan in one minute.
Four moves. Which ones work?
Start from ₹0 a day with 100 customers.
Your turn: each team gives one new idea of its own, not on this list. Show the numbers.
You just learned by doing.
That is what the next five months look like.
Today, in 30 minutes
September to January
You questioned what you thought you knew
→
Question founders and faculty in 7 sessions
You solved a real business problem with numbers
→
Go inside 4 real businesses
You walked up to people, argued and changed your mind
→
Build your own idea and present it at Demo Day
What is Anveshan?
Anveshan means exploration.
A five-month, learn-by-doing programme for Class XI by NEXIS School of Business and G.D. Goenka School. Explore a problem, build an idea, show what you learned.
8
Learning activities
Orientation + 7 sessions
4
Industry visits
Real business questions
2
Demo Days
Your idea gets a stage
Planned Demo Days: 7 and 8 January 2027
Your sessions: October and November
People who build businesses and teach business.
Your sessions: November and December
Commerce · Science · Humanities
Whatever your stream, you build something here.
Science
In the sessions
Technology & AI and idea generation — turn a concept into a working prototype and think in experiments.
At Demo Day
Show something that actually works, backed by evidence.
Commerce
In the sessions
Finance, Go-to-Market and the Business Model Canvas — pricing, costs and how a business really makes money.
At Demo Day
Present a model with real numbers and a real market.
Humanities
In the sessions
Idea generation and Marketing — understand people, build a brand and tell a story that lands.
At Demo Day
Deliver the pitch that makes the room care.
Every idea needs all three: the science to build it, the commerce to sustain it, the humanities to make people care.
Four industry visits. Questions to take inside.
Which kind of business would you most like to see inside?
Between sessions / concept preview
Anveshan, after school.
A simple online companion for home. Sessions stay phone-free.
WatchShort videos that spark ideas
RevisitRecaps of every session, and what comes next
BuildYour idea map and your team’s next task
A concept for the school to approve. Details will follow.
Your journal
Your idea’s home.
Notice. Ask. Try. Build. Bring it to every session and visit.
Page 2My idea bank: start with a problem you noticed today
Pages 4–7How SNITCH and Zepto found their customers
20 pagesNotes from every session and visit
5 Idea MapsYour idea gets better five times
Page 33Your one-minute Demo Day pitch
The next five months
The climb ahead
From today to Demo Day.
The best time to start is now
It has never been easier to start.
To start a business you needed…
Then
Now
A shop or an office
Rent + a deposit
An Instagram page — ₹0
A website
₹1–2 lakh + a developer
Built free in an afternoon
To reach customers
Newspaper or TV ads
One reel — millions, ₹0
To take payments
Bank setup + a CA
A UPI QR code, same day
Staff for every task
Full-time salaries
Freelancers + AI, on demand
Every wall your parents had to climb is now free. You have no excuse not to start.