People in Manjeri have started calling their town “Silicon Jeri.” It is a catchy name. But one coworking campus with an accelerator program is not the same thing as a real tech hub, at least not yet. Key takeaways A single campus and accelerator is a...
A few years ago, Manjeri was known for its markets, its schools, and its quiet Malabar pace. Today, people are starting to call it Silicon Jeri. This is the story of how that shift actually happened, one stage at a time. Key takeaways Silicon Jeri began as an idea to...
Manjeri is not the only small town trying this. Across India, more towns are asking the same question: can we build a real tech hub without sending our best people to Bangalore, Hyderabad, or Dubai? Silicon Jeri did not invent this idea. But it has become one of the...
Most founder stories skip the part where the idea just did not work. Nobody wants to lead with that. But if you spend enough time around a coworking hub like Silicon Jeri in Manjeri, you start to notice a pattern in the ideas that quietly stopped moving forward, and...
A 16 year old from Manjeri walks into a coworking lounge and sees a whiteboard full of half-finished code, not a classroom lecture. That is the whole idea behind bringing school students into Silicon Jeri before they ever apply to college. Key takeaways Silicon Jeri...
A woman in Manjeri can now build a real company without moving to Bangalore, without living alone in a new city, and without losing the support of her family. That is not a small thing. It is changing who gets to start a business at all. Key takeaways Women founders...
