Mentorship portal

I mentor the people building what comes next.

Three tracks, run in quarterly cohorts — school students, college and university students, and founders in their first three years. Applications are read personally.

Safeer mentoring
Track one10 seats
School students

For school students under 18 who want to start early. Guided projects, mentorship, and a first taste of shipping something real — at a pace that fits school.

·  Under 18, school students·  Guided build projects·  Weekly group session, Malayalam or English·  A first shipped project

No fee. By application only.

Track two12 seats
University students

For university students, 18 to 25, who want to build something real before they graduate. Weekly sessions, a build project, and a route into the ecosystem's companies.

·  18 to 25, university students·  12 weeks, one cohort per quarter·  One shipped project by the end·  A route into the ecosystem's companies

No fee. By application only.

Track three8 seats
Early founders

For founders in their first three years, with something already shipped. Monthly 1:1s with me, a working session with an experienced operating team, and warm investor introductions.

·  6 months, rolling intake·  Monthly 1:1, quarterly operating review·  Warm investor introductions·  Something already built is a requirement

No fee. By application only.

The programme
01WEEKS 1-3
Find the real problem

Most first ideas are a solution looking for a reason. We take yours apart.

02WEEKS 4-6
Build the smallest thing

Something usable by a stranger, shipped, before we talk about anything else.

03WEEKS 7-9
Find ten real users

Not friends. Ten people who would notice if it disappeared.

04WEEKS 10-12
Decide honestly

Continue, change shape, or stop. Stopping well is a skill worth learning early.

Open Q&A

Ask anything. I answer publicly so the answer is useful to more than one person.

Sreejith P1 day ago

I am in my final year and have an idea but no co-founder. Is it worth applying to the student track alone?

Safeer Najumudeen replied

Yes. Roughly half of each cohort applies alone, and a good number leave with a co-founder they met inside it. Apply with what you have built, not with who you know.

അമൽ ജോസ്3 days ago

ഫണ്ടിംഗ് ഇല്ലാതെ ഒരു സ്റ്റാർട്ടപ്പ് തുടങ്ങാൻ കഴിയുമോ?

Safeer Najumudeen replied

തീർച്ചയായും കഴിയും. ആദ്യത്തെ പത്ത് ഉപയോക്താക്കളെ കണ്ടെത്താൻ പണം ആവശ്യമില്ല. പണം ആവശ്യമായി വരുന്നത് വളർച്ചയുടെ ഘട്ടത്തിലാണ്, തുടക്കത്തിലല്ല.

Nadia Thomas5 days ago

How much time does the founder track actually take per month? I am running a team of four already.

Safeer Najumudeen replied

One 1:1 with me, one operating review per quarter, and whatever you choose to bring to the group thread. Call it four hours a month. If it needs more than that, we have designed it wrong.

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Resource library

The frameworks I actually use, free to take.

Book a 1:1

Thirty minutes, Thursdays. Six slots a week, first come.

Application

Tell me what you are building.

Applications close the last Friday of each quarter. Everyone gets an answer, including a no.