Category: Business Ideas

Business Ideas, Calendar, Technology

Threads of partnership

Support

Bina Rao of Hyderabad-based Creative Bee foundation and Villoo Mirza of SEWA (Self Employed Women’s Association), Ahmedabad, have for been friends for years, bound by their passion: handlooms.

A vegetable-dyed kalamkari jacket adorns a mannequin in SEWA’s modest workspace in Ahmedabad. “This is for Bina Rao’s collection to be showcased at the International Workshop on Natural Dyes in Hyderabad. Besides, I will be presenting my own line,” Villoo Mirza says. The line will feature mosaic-like appliqué patterns Gujarat is known for.

The SEWA studio deals with a multitude of textiles and techniques, from Kutchi to Kashmiri embroideries and the coarse Japanese Boro yarn.

The establishment’s ability to cater to diverse requirements is its hallmark, says Bina: “Once I design the garments, the fabrication work is done at Mirza’s studio.”

 

Click to continue reading

 

Courtesy : Dara Acidwalla

Business Ideas, Business Plans, Calendar, Motivations, Networking

The Economic Times Young Leaders

yazdi

The Economic Times Young Leaders is the largest and definitive platform for the most promising young Indian corporate managers. It was born in 2011, in partnership with SHL (now CEB India), the authority on leadership-tests. The program has since become the national benchmark for talented youngsters, offering them an unfair advantage in the climb to leadership. Previous winners have received national recognition, and more importantly, glorious tributes from their supervisors and CEOs.

WHY PARTICIPATE?

  • To self-discover your own leadership strengths basis industry-endorsed standards
  • To feature in the coveted The Economic Times Young Leaders ranking, thus gaining recognition as one of India’s top talents
  • To meet and learn from India’s blue-chip CEOs
  • To network with the country’s best young managerial talent

Read testimonials of finalists of previous editions of The Economic Times Young Leaders.

So if you are between 26-32 years and yearning for your place in the corporate spotlight, here’s your moment.

To know more about participation and related details, read the FAQs

Click Here for more information

Business Ideas, Startups

Launchpad Challenge 2014

yazdi

Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad, and the National Entrepreneurship Network are delighted to invite you to take part in Launchpad Challenge 2014 – an initiative that celebrates and supports breakthrough innovations from students across all disciplines!

If you are a graduate or post-graduate student in India with an exciting idea/product/prototype to share, enter the Challenge to win national recognition and fast-track commercialization support, including:

  • An opportunity to attend an intensive business plan workshop tailored for you
  • An opportunity to pitch your idea/product to leading investors
  • Recognition at the Launchpad Challenge Grand Finale at EDII, Ahmedabad (to be held on 7th March, 2014)

To enter the Challenge, please submit your completed nomination form (available at link below), on or before 15th February, 2014.

APPLY to Launchpad Challenge 2014

Click Here for more information re: eligibility, etc.

Business Ideas, Networking, News

The Entrepreneurship Summit 2014

yazdi

The Entrepreneurship Summit 2014 – 1st -2nd February, 2014 | IIT Bombay www.ecell.in/esummit

The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay presents the Entrepreneurship Summit 2014- a confluence of industry veterans,business leaders, entrepreneurs,visionary students and anyone who wishes to be the one of those  bent on creating a dent in the universe.

The Entrepreneurship Summit 2014 has got UN patronage which is UNESCO’s highest form of support granted to demonstrate the Organization’s moral endorsement of an exceptional activity.

Speakers

The E-Summit ‘14 is proud to play host to yet another panel of esteemed guests ,renowned businessmen from across the world. Some of them include (Full list here):

Bharat Desai, Founder and CEO, Syntel

Sachin Bansal CEO and founder, Flipkart

Bharat Banka CEO,Aditya Birla Private Equity

Rana Kapoor CEO and founder, Yes bank

Mr. Anand Kumar – Founder Super 30

Varun Agrawal – Co-founder, Alma Mater

Steli Efti – CEO Elasticsales, San Francisco

Avani Davda- CEO, Tata Starbucks Limited

Susan Sweeney, Social Media Marketing Expert

Asher Hasan,Asian Entrepreneur of the Year 2011

Yu kai Chou, Gamification Guru

Mukund Mohan-CEO,Microsoft StartupAccelerator

Alexander Blass, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Wharton School

Prakash Amte , Social Activist

Workshops and Panel Discussions

It is not just our speaker line-up that we pride ourselves in, but also the quality of workshops, panel  discussions  we offer.

              Workshops

      Panel-Discussions & Trends Today

Lean Methodology

E-Commerce: The Inside Story

Gamification

Big Data

VC Funding

Mobile Space

Social Enterprise Bootcamp

Job vs Entrepreneurship

Design Thinking

These products for Mobile Gaming

Entrepreneurial Finance

Cleantech

User Experience and Product Design

How to get your startup  idea funded

Debt Funding

Education Technology

Business Model Canvas

Healthcare

HR for Startups

Social Entrepreneurship

Social Media Marketing

Social Campaign by E-Cell

Networking Arenas

1. Investor’s Arena: A platform wherein you get to pitch your idea to major VC firms in the ecosytem (Nexus Partners, SAIF Partners, Indian Angel Network) by filling in this form and getting an appointment with them on the day of the E-Summit.

2. Business Mentoring Hub: A platform wherein you can get expert mentorship on various problems you are facing as a startup. Fill this form, and if you get selected, you get a meeting scheduled with them on the day of the E-Summit.

3. Co-founder’s Arena: This is a team building platform for two kinds of people,

a.) ones who are looking for a design/coding/sales etc. team mate for their startup

b.) ones who are coders/designers/salesmen etc. and are looking to join a good startup idea

If you are either of them, you can register for Co-founder’s Arena here.

4. Idea Validation Arena: A platform where you can get your idea validated by the best experts in the Indian startup ecosystem. You can register for Idea Validation Platform here and if selected you will get to validate your idea with a mentor on the day of E-Summit.

Crowd Funding

Crowd Pitch: A crowd funding pitch competition wherein you submit your idea here and 15 ideas out of them get to pitch in front of a crowd and compete for a cumulative prize worth Rs. 1.3 lakhs.

The Lean Startup Machine Bootcamp
The Lean Startup Machine Bootcamp is a 9 hour long workshop where the participants will learn how to apply Lean Startup Methodologies to build products customers will pay for. This is not a Hackathon nor is it a conference. This is an immersive, 9 hour experience at the end of which you will have a working MVP (Minimum Viable Product) on hand.

Speaker & Mentor: Adam Berk, Director of Entrepreneurial Science at LSM, Entrepreneur

To know more, visit:http://ecell.in/esummit/leanstartupmachine

How to attend?

Register yourselves at http://ecell.in/esummit/register/

Join us on facebook: facebook.com/ecell.in

Tweet using #eSummit14

PRICING

Student (contingent) – Rs. 200/-

Student (Individual) – Rs. 300/-

Professional – Rs. 1000/-

Note that by registering for E-Summit once, you will get unlimited access to any of the 14 competitions, 16 workshops and numerous speaker sessions.


For Queries
Mahak Maheshwari
Contact: +91-9833429735
Business Ideas, Mentoring, Motivations, Networking

What’s Hot: Media & Entertainment

yazdi

Key Topics

  • Speaker focus introductions in the media and entertainment space
  • Opportunities for startups in media and entertainment space
  • Who are the various buyers of the various media focused businesses that are coming up? What are they looking for?
  • How can the start-ups gear themselves for more fruitful sales meetings?
  • Who are the investors in the media and entertainment space?
  • What are the recent deals that have happened? What are the investors looking for?
  • How can start-ups beef –up their pitch better?

Click Here for more details about this TiE program to be held on Friday, January 10, 2014 – 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Business Ideas, News, Training

Find and promote innovative and sustainable solutions in the skills ecosystem in India

yazdi

One winner and three finalists will be rewarded in each category. Winners will receive cash reward of INR 3.5 lakh in the Operations category and INR 1.5 lakh in the Idea Category by the Muthoot Pappachan Foundation, the CSR arm of the Muthoot Pappachan Group. In addition winners will receive access to the EMPRETEC capacity building program of the IBF and UNCTAD. The winner and finalists will receive the following:

  • Capacity building: access to renowned experts, training course
  • Network opportunities: introductions to investors, high-profile event passes
  • National visibility: online promotion

The first Connector of a Winner in each category will get INR 10,000 cash reward and the applicants with the highest public votes in each category will receive INR 15,000 cash reward by the Muthoot Pappachan Foundation, the CSR arm of the Muthoot Pappachan Group.

Click Here for more information. Last date 1 December 2013

Business Ideas, Innovation

The Future is – Mobile Money !

yazdi

Eko provides a low cost infrastructure powered by innovation and technology to enable instant, secure and convenient financial transactions.

Eko leverages existing retail shops, telecom connectivity and banking infrastructure to extend branchless banking services to the common man. Eko also partners with institutions to offer payment, cash collection and disbursal services. Customers can walk-in to any Eko counter (retail outlet) to open a savings account, deposit & withdraw cash from the account, send money to any part of the country, receive money from any part of the world, buy mobile talk-time or pay for a host of services. A low cost mobile phone acts as the transaction device for retailers and customers.

Eko provides a multi-modal (USSD, SMS, IVR and Application) approach to perform a transaction, hence the service works across all phones i.e. lowest to most sophisticated handsets. Eko also uses a two factor strong authentication to complete the transaction. It has created and patented a low cost One Time Password (OTP) generator called ‘OkeKey’. Performing a transaction only requires numeric literacy for number dialing. It has created a world-class transaction platform called ‘SimpliBank’ that is used by multiple partners.

Click Here for their website

 

Business Ideas, Innovation

National Innovation Foundation

yazdi

Building upon the Honey Bee network philosophy, the National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF), started functioning in March 2000 as India’s national initiative to strengthen the grassroots technological innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge. Its mission is to help India become a creative and knowledge based society by expanding policy and institutional space for grassroots technological innovators. NIF is committed to look for grassroots innovators who have developed technological innovations in any field of human survival without any outside help.

NIF helps them get due reward for their innovations and ensure that such innovations diffuse widely through commercial and non-commercial channels generating incentives for them and others involved in the value chain.With major contribution from the Honey Bee Network, NIF has been able to build up a database of more than 1, 81,000 ideas, innovations and traditional knowledge practices (not all unique) from over 555 districts of the country. Through the collaborations with R&D institutions, NIF helps in getting these innovations validated and converting them into value added technologies/products.

NIF has filed over 595 patents on behalf of the innovators and outstanding traditional knowledge holders of which thirty five patents have been granted in India and five in USA. Micro Venture Innovation Fund at NIF has provided risk capital for 186 projects, which are at different stages of incubation. NIF has succeeded in commercialising products across countries in six continents apart from being successful in materialising seventy cases of technology licensing to eighty licensees with the help of partner agencies.

NIF has proved that Indian innovators can match anyone in the world when it comes to solving problems creatively, where they perform better than rest is in generating greater sustainable alternatives by using local resources frugally. Those who see poor only as the consumer of cheap goods, miss the knowledge richness at grassroots level. The Grassroots to Global (G2G) model that NIF is propagating is all set to change the way the world looks at the creativity and innovations at grassroots.

Click Here for their website and more info