A woman joins a company based at Silicon Jeri as a junior engineer. Three years later, she is gone from the technical track, and often from the workforce entirely for a stretch. This is not a Silicon Jeri story. It is an industry story that also plays out here, and it...
A startup founder does not just need an office. It needs a trade license, a water connection, and a local government office that answers the phone. In a small town like Manjeri, that second part is still a work in progress. As Silicon Jeri has grown into a coworking...
A founder at Silicon Jeri once had a client call scheduled for 4 p.m. and a wedding reception across town at 5 p.m. Both were non negotiable. A few years ago, when the campus was a handful of desks, one founder’s scheduling clash barely rippled beyond their own...
Most tech-hub hiring talk starts and ends with engineering degrees. But at Silicon Jeri in Manjeri, a smaller and quieter channel exists too: ITI and polytechnic graduates who know how to wire a panel, fix a router, or debug a machine on the shop floor. Here is what...
A mentor flies in from Dubai on a Friday night. He loses a day of work, pays for his own ticket, and spends Saturday morning in a small room in Manjeri giving feedback on a pitch deck. No fee. No invoice. He does this three or four times a year. So why does he keep...
A founder’s startup shuts down on a Friday. By Monday, the desk is still there, the wifi still works, and the same coffee shop downstairs still knows their order. What happens next is rarely what outsiders picture. Most people assume failure means the founder...
