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IIT or <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Indian+Institute+of+Technology">Indian Institute of Technology</a> is India’s premier technology institute (as if you don’t know). Word of mouth is back in the Valley (<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Silicon+Valley">Silicon Valley</a>, San Francisco Bay), the world’s global tech capital, people utter ‘<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Indian+Institute+of+Technology">IIT</a>’ with the same reverence as ‘<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=MIT">MIT</a>’. 
 
Notable IIT alumni include <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Google">Google</a> CEO <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Sundar+Pichai">Sundar Pichai</a>, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Infosys">Infosys</a> founder <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=N.R.+Narayan+Murthy">N.R. Narayan Murthy</a>, and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Sun+Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a> co-founder <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Vinod+Khosla">Vinod Khosla</a>. However, with fame comes pressure. 
 
Here are some of the woes every average IITian deals with: 
 
#1 Social Media hate for ‘wasting public money’ 
Scan social media, and you’ll find widespread hate and animosity because of the amount of money the government spends on educating IITians. They are supposedly a liability for the nation. 
 
Comments like ‘Our IITs have swallowed 1000 Crores each year for 60 years and haven’t done any net real value addition to 1.3 billion people’, or ‘Ask for tenders from private people globally to operate and manage all govt run academic institutions under license for 30 years (without selling any real assets) and let govt stop interfering.’ 
 
Is it reasonable to hand over the country’s brightest brains to money mongers? Shouldn’t quality education be available to all? 
 Internet tolls, if you haven’t cracked <keyword id="1629952" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="JEE-mains">JEE Mains</keyword> and Advanced, it means you haven’t worked hard enough. IITians can be anything, lucky isn’t one of them. 
 
#2 Bhai, tera package kitna hai? (Dude, what’s your package?) 
The idea is ‘IITians mostly settle abroad. Those who remain draw annual salaries of over Rs. 25 lakhs.’ 
 
Reality is 80% of IIT salaries remain below Rs. 12 lakhs p.a. It’s easy to file an RTI and find this out, but spreading social media hate is just easier. 
 
Also, if you’re cribbing they’re ‘taking away’ your job, people like <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Infosys">Infosys</a> founder <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=N.R.+Narayan+Murthy">N.R. Narayan Murthy</a> and the Bansals of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Flipkart">Flipkart</a> are offering thousands of jobs. If you can’t land a job, you’re not good enough. 
 
Work hard, and by the way, get a life. 
 
#3 You must be Superman! 
Not every IITian wants to go to an IIM or join the IAS. 
 
The idea is that if you’re from IIT, you’re a master in everything. If your package is anything below Rs. 30 to 40 lakhs per annum, you spent your IIT days dating random girls, getting sloshed and smoking LSD. 
 
My idea is that IITs should feel like the Navy Seals training program. So much stress. They’re 18 year olds right out of school for god’s sake. They’re in college to study, not in a mission to kill <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Osama+bin+Laden">Osama bin Laden</a>! 
 
Bad parents, an IIT degree doesn’t come with a confirmed job offer from <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Google">Google</a>. Also, don’t salivate over the prospect of 30% hike on dowry. 
 
That’s just sick…and a crime. 
 
Love on Campus? 
IITians are blessed with a 10:1 ratio of boys to girls. 
 
If you’re a man, you may not find many girls to chat or date. 
 
If you found love on campus…you deserve respect. 
 
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The growing start-up culture has certainly grabbed the attention of investors across India and overseas. But it is these beneficiaries that have generously become the patrons of many budding entrepreneurs. BI India lists down the top four investors, who have helped several start-ups and new firms to realise their dreams. 
	 
	<keyword id="6360722" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="ratan-tata">Ratan Tata</keyword> 
	 Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus of Tata Group, turned a patron for start-ups in India in early 2014 when he invested in Boston based wind energy firm Altaeros Energies. He then went on to invest in several Indian eCommerce firms such as online jewellery retailer Bluestone, etailer Snapdeal, online lifestyle store Urban Ladder, online payment solutions <keyword id="6357120" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="PayTM">Paytm</keyword> and online car retailer <keyword id="2702185" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="CarDekho-com">Cardekho.com</keyword>. 
	 
	The 77 year old private equity investor has also invested in social welfare firms such as Swasth India, Grameen India that focuses on microfinance, education and healthcare among others that caters to the lowest rung of the pyramid. 
	 
	<keyword id="6419840" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Azim-Premji">Azim Premji</keyword> 
	 
	This tech titan has set up a investment firm called Premji Invest in 2006 that invests his personal wealth in both listed and non listed companies including startups. The investment arm has preferred to remain low key and has never made its investments public. However, the firm did make investments in Snapdeal, Big Basket, Amagi Media among several others. 
	 
	NR Narayan Murthy 
	 
	The Infosys founder’s investment firm, Catamaran Ventures, has been encouraging startupreneurs by funding their companies. He feels that India’s future lies with the budding entrepreneurs. His investment firm has invested in startups such as Innoviti Payment Solutions, an online payment company, and Coverfox, an online insurance portal. 
	 
	<keyword id="249393" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rajan-Anandan">Rajan Anandan</keyword> 
	 
	Search giant Google India’s MD, Rajan Anadan, is an angel investors for many startups. He primarily invests in technology startups and invested in 14 startups in 2014. Do we need to say more? 
	 
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