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Business Plans, Motivations

Business Gaurav SME Awards 2011

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Dun & Bradstreet & Axis Bank present Business Gaurav SME Awards 2011

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have emerged as the backbone of the Indian economy. As a tribute to their achievements, Dun & Bradstreet and Axis Bank propose to felicitate leading SMEs of India for their invaluable contribution to our economy.

Business Gaurav SME Awards 2011 attempts to showcase the achievements of successful micro, small and medium enterprises from 12 SME-oriented sectors across the country. These are:

  • Auto Components
  • Chemicals and Petrochemicals
  • Food and Agro Products
  • Hospitality
  • Metals and Metal Products
  • Logistics
  • Textiles (including readymade garments)
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Engineering Goods (including machinery and instruments)
  • Plastic, Plastic Goods and Plastic Processing
  • Electronic Goods and Components
  • IT & ITES

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Last Date for receipt of Questionnaire is 7 October 2011

Business Plans, Motivations, News, Resources

Hatchlings 2011 – Entrepreneurship Competition

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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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Business Plans, Calendar, Motivations, News

ENTREPRENEUR INDIA 2011

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Entrepreneurship is more than a frame of mind or way of thinking. Entrepreneurship can be a way of doing business – whether it be starting one, sustaining one, or making one grow.

The Holy Grail of Entrepreneurship is building businesses and getting businesses to grow and develop. The fabric of the conference is accordingly woven around 7 I’s which we feel are critical to the lifecycle of Entrepreneurship right from a Startup to becoming a World–Class Organization.

Entrepreneur India Summit is aimed at helping entrepreneurs and owner managers and Professionals in India to harness and develop their entrepreneurial ambitions. If you wish to use more of the entrepreneurial spirit, Be there!

The Conference

Entrepreneur India 2011, is an attempt to advocate key need areas for Entrepreneurship in India. The two day mega event would focus on entrepreneurial new and growth business opportunities in a wide range of domain. This will facilitate to gather and share entrepreneurial endeavors and experiences of different stake holders across the nation with a view to elevate the entrepreneurship spirit to greater heights.

The Awards

Franchise India presents the country’s most prestigious awards in the Entrepreneur sector. The awards aim to recognize and felicitate Achievers, Innovators and Suppliers, who have contributed significantly towards the development of Entrepreneurship in India.

The Exhibition

Showcase your brand to the world of business and resource the new generation entrepreneurs to make their business grow bigger

July 15-16 2011, New Delhi, India

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Business Plans, Networking, News

The Entrepreneur Summit 2011

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The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay, is a conglomerate of individuals with a vision, a dream. It is a place for all those who shirk from taking beaten paths and believe in leaving trails in all walks of life. The Cell aims at manifesting the latent Entrepreneurial spirit of young students. Not only do we show you the doors of opportunity but we also equip you to walk through it.

India as a Nation has traversed a long way to be amongst one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The Entrepreneurs have played a major role in shaping the Indian economy. Today the Indian Entrepreneur is aiming high and big.

The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay presents Entrepreneurship Summit 2011, a conglomerate of eminent Speaker Sessions, highly efficient networking Events and nail biting pitching Competitions and much more.

Endorsing the theme of “Connecting the dots”, the 5th Edition of the E Summit ’11 will be hosting events specifically designed to facilitate efficient networking. It aims to empower you with all the necessary know-how required for you to prosper now and into the future.

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Business Ideas, Business Plans, Networking, News

Idea to Biz Plan in 48 Hours

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Entrepreneur India is the magazine partner of iWeekend – an event that has helped entrepreneurs form a team, create a business plan, a prototype and present it to angel/seed-stage investors in 48 hours. iWeekend started in Spain in 2007 and several business ideas that were developed at various iWeekend events are real companies today.

iWeekend is coming to Mumbai for the first time. 60 entrepreneurs will lay the foundations of 3 start-ups in one weekend. Join them at IIT Bombay on Feb 4-6 http://iweekend.org/mumbai

This event is for technologists, designers, marketers, business and finance professionals, lawyers, etc.with a passion for technology and the intention of founding a start-up or working in one.

At iWeekend Mumbai, you will also get an opportunity to meet and interact with our Editor – Mr Bipin Chandran who will be mentoring the participants of iWeekend. Other partners of iWeekend Mumbai include ET Now as TV partner, The Morpheus as an acceleration partner, TiE Mumbai, CIIE at IIM-A | Mentoredge and Springboard Ventures as mentoring partners, Headstart Network as the start-up ecosystem partners and a few more. All these partners will help the entrepreneurs transform the business plan and prototype created at iWeekend into real companies.

Click here to participate in iWeekend Mumbai: http://iweekend.org/mumbai/en/participate/

Business Ideas, Business Plans, Motivations, Networking

Eureka!2010, Asia’s largest business plan competition

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The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay presents Eureka!2010, Asia’s largest business plan competition as certified by CNN. With a total prize money of Rs. 21 lakhs (50000 USD), free legal and financial consultancy, intensive mentoring and an online platform to provide solutions to participants’ queries, Eureka! 2010 is truly a road to enterprise.

To register, visit: www.ecell.in/eureka
The winners of Eureka! 2010 will get a chance to pitch their idea in front of a panel of investors and Venture Capitalists from Indian Angel Network and Mumbai Angels. All the participants will also get access to the Knowledge Library of the Mentor Square by registering for Eureka! 2010. IBM has associated with Eureka! 2010 and will provide IBM softwares to the qualified teams for development, testing & training purposes, through the worldwide Academic Initiatives program. The top 50 teams will be provided intensive mentoring for a period of more than 6 months with free Financial and Legal Consultancy by Firms like Nishith Desai Associates, Sand Hill Counsel and India Nivesh. The final winners will avail extensive mentorship program by Mentorsquare for 3 months.
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Team E-Cell
www.ecell.in

Business Plans, Motivations, Startups, Technology

India Innovation Initiative -i3-2010

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Call for Application for India Innovation Initiative 2010 – Last date 15th July 2010

Call for Application for India Innovation Initiative -i3-2010

Objective
The objective of the India Innovation Initiative project is to create an innovation eco-system in the country by sensitizing, encouraging and promoting innovators and facilitating commercialization of the innovations.

Who can participate ?
Participation is open to all innovators in the age group of 18 years and above.

This includes :

All colleges, universities and Institutes.
Innovators from R&D Institutions and Labs.
Entrepreneurs, Industry professionals and Freelance Innovators.
Grassroot Innovators through NGOs and Rural development organizations.

Important dates in snapshot

1. Start Date of Registration May 2010
2. Last date for receiving entries 15th July 2010.
 3. Announcement of shortlisted names for the regional Fairs 3rd week of August
4. Regional Fairs 15-30 Sept, 2010
5. i3 National Fair End of October, 2010

To promote and inculcate a spirit of innovation in India, many steps have been taken by both the government of India as well as by Industry leaders to encourage application of breakthrough technology ideas in the society.

Addressing the need to expand the young innovators initiative to those above 18 years &include a wider scope of participation from all potential innovators, CII &DST have now joined hands with Agilent to launch the nation-wide innovation competition for all innovators above the age group of 18+, “India Innovation Initiative – i3″.

India Innovation Initiative

i3 aims to capture the innovative ideas from the Indian innovators in the age group of 18 years and above, including students, innovators from R&D Institutes &Labs, Industry professionals and individual innovators/Entrepreneurs, grassroots innovators etc.

After the last year’s great response i3 this year has decided to have four regional fairs for preliminary selection of innovations which it will receive from all over India. Each region will shortlist innovations based on creativity, innovation, implementation strategy and relevance.

We expect to receive over 500 innovations per region. Innovations will be selected by a Novelty search which will be conducted by APTDC and TNTDPC .Only those innovations which are patented or have the high potential of being patented will be selected for the Regional Fairs.

Further the most potent and relevant innovations ( approx.40 ) will be selected for the national i3 fair by a panel of expert jury. The winners will be chosen at the National Fair once again by a panel of eminent jury.
Their will be cash prizes, awards, recognition and support to winners.

Evaluation will be based on:

i) Maturity level of the innovation
ii) Business Potential

To participate and know more about this registration procedures visit – http://bit.ly/b2lUCY

Business Plans, Finance

Faulty credit report? How you can set it right

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All of us at some point or the other take loans like home loan, car loan, personal loan, etc, from financial institutions. You may, in some instances, also find that the loan does not get approved in spite of your satisfying the loan eligibility criteria. It is then obviously time to learn that financial institutions approve or reject loan applications based on your credit history as reflected by the ‘Consumer Credit Information Report’ (CIR) (http://www.cibil.com/accesscredit.htm) developed by the Credit Information Bureau of India Limited, CIBIL.

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