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Pay with a Tweet !

yazdi — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:48:09 +0000

Sell your products for the price of a tweet.

In today’s world the value of people talking about your product is sometimes higher than the money you would get for it. ‘Pay with a Tweet’ is the first social payment system, where people pay with the value of their social network.

It’s simple, every time somebody pays with a tweet, he or she tells all their friends about the product. Boom.

Click Here for the website and how to proceed.

Hatchlings 2011 – Entrepreneurship Competition

yazdi — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:21:32 +0000

There are those who sit comfortable on their laurels. Then there are those who get uncomfortable the moment they achieve a milestone. Because, for them standing on achievements is like looking at nowhere. For them, every milestone, is simply Work-in-Progress. To move beyond. To do more. And better. Again and Again…

HATCHLINGS 2011 is an Entrepreneurship Competition amongst the Management students in your city aimed to promote new and innovative ideas of the youth so as to give them ground on how they want to contribute to the economy and/or the society at large.

There are 2 tracks from which the students can choose to register:
Social Venture or Commercial Venture

HATCHLINGS 2011 involves 3 rounds to select the Best HATCHLINGS, one from each of the tracks, which will be selected by an eminent panel of jury members from the Venture Capital industry.
The Best HATCHLING from each of the tracks will be awarded Rs. 1 Lac to help them get their ideas off the ground. Mentoring support to each the winning ventures will be given by DeConseil, Singapore

The Award money of Rs. 1Lac for the Best HATCHLINGS is sponsored by IndiaSocial Fund.

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Schemes for Women Entrepreneurs

yazdi — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:18:30 +0000

Government policy since last two years is giving more emphasis to SSI units and many easy and innovative schemes are launched through commercial banks/ financial institutions. Promoter’s equity/margin are reduced for women. Click Here to view the full story

Networking Opportunities – Centrallia

yazdi — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:01:30 +0000

Centrallia event is based on the internationally recognized business to business match-making forum called Futurallia, which has successfully brought thousands of businesses together since its founding in 1990.
Core of the concept are a series of 30 minute, pre-programmed, one-on-one meetings that allow businesses to quickly connect and find ground for common opportunity. It is an intense, yet friendly and cooperative environment, that allows delegates to meet with up to 12 potential trade partners over two days. Pre fixed meetings are organised based on the profile of the participant.
Further opportunities to meet and network are abundant through Centrallia’s tradeshow and social events. It is simply one of the fastest, most efficient ways to expose your business to new markets and opportunities worldwide.

More than 500 small to medium sized businesses from around the world will gather in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, during Centrallia to form new business relationships of mutual benefit. This global business to business forum gives the opportunity to forge profitable alliances with companies located in the Americas and across the world. Participation from more than 20 world economic regions are expected.

Click Here for the Brochure

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Mentoring for Startups

yazdi — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:07:12 +0000

Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship

We know that it takes more than just early stage risk-capital to get a company off the ground – we enable most of what may be required by entrepreneurs through incubation, training and best practice research.

Our activities therefore revolve around forging new ways of helping budding entrepreneurs in India – typically through:

Incubation and seed-funding of innovative start-ups
Research on industry trends and best practices – enabling our start-ups to focus on relevant problems while learning from other’s mistakes
Disseminate knowledge through conferences, publication and training a new generation of practitioners
Forge linkages with partners, globally, to support the above activities

Recently, we set up CIIE Initiatives as a Section 25 Company to give our incubation model more flexibility and enable us to provide risk capital to aspiring entrepreneurs.

Click Here to know more about this unique initiative

How to enable credit to the poor?

Support — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:16:57 +0000

Karmayog CSR Dialogue Series 2010

We would like to kick-off the first of the “Karmayog CSR Dialogue Series“, that is a continuing set of of discussions on Corporate Social Responsibility in India.

The discussions will be based on the learnings and results from the Karmayog CSR Study and Ratings of the 500 largest Indian companies, that has been undertaken since 2007. (See www.karmayog. org/csr2009 for more details)

Our objective is to both broaden and deepen the understanding and implementation of CSR in India, by including more people from different areas of work and experience in the dialogue on CSR. So far, Corporate Social Responsibility is discussed and debated largely by corporates, industry associations and some departments of government that have a direct connect. But because what corporates do (through their products and processes) affects all citizens, it is important that all types of stakeholders from citizens to NGOs, media to academia, and corporates and government, together interact and engage on Corporate Social Responsibility.

Solutions to the issues and problems that confront society today need the contribution and involvement of all stakeholders, especially corporates, that form a large, influential and resource-rich group, but also the contributions of all other stakeholders. Karmayog, through the CSR Dialogue Series and through the networking platform that it provides, aims to bring together inputs, contributions and suggestions from all, enabling these to be used in finding and implementing solutions.

We welcome suggestions from you for topics to be covered in the “Karmayog CSR Dialogue Series”.

Karmayog CSR Dialogue Series 2010 – 1

How to enable credit to the poor?

Mohammed Yunus, the pioneer in microfinance and Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2006, says that “Microcredit should be about helping the poor to get out of poverty by protecting them from the moneylenders, not creating new ones. A true microcredit organization must keep its interest rate as close to the cost-of-funds as possible. My own experience has convinced me that microcredit interest rates can be comfortably under the cost of funds plus ten percent, or plus fifteen percent at the most.” (See http://www.grameen- info.org/ for details)

Several Indian micro-finance companies are shortly seeking listing on the stock exchange, and once listed, will be seeking and working towards huge and increasing profits for their investors. This means that they will be lending money to the poor at higher and higher interest rates, and justifying the same as there is currently no other way of reaching credit to the poor. This method of maximizing profit without any other social objective is a way of cashing in on poverty, and is contrary to the objective with which micro-finance insititutions were started, which was to provide credit to marginalised sections of society at the lowest possible rate of interest, with the objective of bringing them out of poverty, and not with the objective of earning profits for the lender.

Some questions:

- Should companies with no social objective be permitted to lend money to the poor?

- Should only government organisations and non-profits be permitted to lend to the poor?

- Should there be a limit set to the profits that can be made from micro-finance activites?

- Should the rate of interest be fixed by government, as is done for banks?

The Government of India has framed the Draft Document on Regulation and Development of Microfinance Sector. Please send your suggestions and ideas on ‘how to reach credit to the poor?’ . All responses received will be displayed on Karmayog as well as forwarded to the Ministry of Finance and NABARD.

Please respond via www.karmayog. org/messages/ message.aspx? id=2554

Regards,

Vinay

www.karmayog. org — creating collective conversations

Technopreneur Promotion Programme (TePP)

yazdi — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:46:59 +0000

The “Technopreneur Promotion Programme” (TePP) was launched in 1998-99 by the Ministry of Science and Technology. TePP is operated by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) to tap the vast innovative potential of the citizen of India. TePP is a mechanism to promote indivudual innovators to become technology-based entrepreneurs (Technopreneurs).

Objectives

The TePP has the following objectives:

To promote and support untapped creativity of individual innovators
To assist the individual innovators to become technology based enterpreneurs
To assist the technopreneur in networking and forge linkages with other constituents of the innovation chain for commercialization of their developments.

Activities

The activities under TePP include providing financial support to selected and screened individual innovators having original ideas for converting them into working models , prototypes and so on. TePP assistance is provided to the innovator to meet expenditure on the following:

R&D/Engineering consultancy
Procure small equipment,tools etc. required
Raw Material/ Accessories (for prototype/process trials),
Fabrication cost (for prototypes)
Patent guidance and support
Manpower
Testing & Trials
Any other relevant costs

TePP support to the innovators is limited to 90% of the total cost of the project & remaining 10% is to be borne by the innovator/inventor.

Click Here for more information on this unique program

Click Here for Technology Development and Innovation Programme (TDIP)

India Leadership Network

yazdi — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:40:30 +0000

Leaders’ Summit – April 2010

India Leadership Network is an action network. Year 2010 is the Year of Action where we will launch nationwide initiatives for key areas. Each of these initiatives have the potential for leadership, entrepreneurship, collaborative participation as well as for commercial involvement and investments.

Key initiatives to be launched this year are related to :

Renewable energy & clean technologies
Healthcare
Safety & security
Rural development
Leadership development.

See complete list of 16 initiatives to be launched over the next 18-24 months.

The Leaders’ Summit is curtain-raiser event for the planned evolution of India Leadership Network and to know about the planned initiatives. We are inviting individuals and organizations for taking a lead, in associating, operating or investing in these initiatives.

The event is planned for 9th April 2010 in Mumbai. If you are interested, please RSVP event listed on LinkedIn.

If you cannot attend in Mumbai but are interested, RSVP and post a comment about choice of city (Delhi or Bangalore). Based on response (and sponsors), we will organize events in April in these cities. Based on response, details of events and registration will be announced in the week of 22nd Feb.

Click Here to visit the website

Online Resources for Entrepreneurs

yazdi — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:31:29 +0000

Gone are the days when you had to run from pillar to post to figure out the most efficient ways to fire up your business. While starting a venture is still far from being “just a click away” the internet has certainly ensured that you literally do have enough information at your fingertips and that once you’ve sorted regulatory issues out, you can tap into several online resources to get yourself up an running. DARE takes a look at some of the best online resources, including some India-specific ones, that budding entrepreneurs can tap into.

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Clusters for SME growth

yazdi — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:22:08 +0000

Jagat Shah - Chief Mentor

“A cluster is a geographically proximate group of companies and associated
institutions in a particular field, linked by commonalities and complementarities “

Cluster Pulse , an ISO certified economic development agency is a professionally managed, self-sustaining, autonomous institution with excellence in implementation of Cluster Development initiatives as its main objective through the twin approach of market intervention & technology upgradation in SME’s.It has worked in 82 clusters in partnership with GTZ, UNIDO, USAID, IFC, World Bank, The commonwealth secretariat, Govt. of Canada, Govt. of Brunei, Government of India – Ministry Of Textiles, Ministry of MSME, Ministry of IT & communications & State Govt. all over India & in 10 other countries including USA, Canada, Brazil, Sweden, UK, Croatia, South Africa, Oman, Brunei, Turkey & Afghanistan. We have worked in 80 industry vertical like Textiles, agro, engineering, pharma, consumer goods, ICT etc.

Click Here for more information for SME training, marketing and growth