Category: Motivations

Motivations

5 Tips for Young Entrepreneurs

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Brian is the founder of kiip (pronounced “keep”), a stealth startup focused on mobile in-game advertising, backed by True Ventures. Very recently, Techcrunch and the Wall Street Journal called him the “youngest person to ever receive funding by a venture capital firm”. Last year, at only 18-years-old, he was an early graduate from the University of British Columbia, after skipping four grades in elementary and high school.

Here are his 5 Tips for Young Entrepreneurs :

  1. You are the most powerful force in your life.
  2. Stand up for yourself: trust your gut.
  3. Think big.
  4. Use your youth.
  5. Build relationships, don’t acquire them.

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Motivations

Body Language Secrets of Confident Business Women

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You walk into a room full of people you’ve never met before. Someone hands you a ‘Hello my name is’ badge and away you go. As you walk around the room deciding who to speak to first, you notice people looking at you. What do they think when they see you?

If only you could read minds it would be so much easier! When people meet you for the first time do you make a positive first impression? Do people think, “Wow, that’s a confident woman”?

People are making assumptions about who you are and what you do before you’ve said a single word. Of course they notice your hair, make-up and the way you dress. In addition to that you are sending out, like radar, subtle non-verbal cues through your body language.

Here are five ways to send out the right signals.

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Courtesy : Jehangir Bisney

Calendar, Motivations, News

SME India Outlook 2011

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SME India Outlook 2011

Through SME India Outlook 2011-Capitalizing IT & Automation for Manufacturing Excellence, INK Business Media aims to provide the SMEs an opportunity to identify the tailor-made IT & Automation solutions designed specifically to meet the demand from the SME sector, in order to bring accuracy, speed & precision in manufacturing business. Our USP being our speakers, this will be an excellent platform to meet the stalwarts from the IT & Automation industry under a single roof and understand strategies to accommodate modern technologies in available budget.

We do not wish to talk about problems, We aim towards giving you solutions

‘SME India Outlook 2011’ will not talk about the three ‘I’s viz. Issues, Importance and Ignorance. We will talk about three ‘S’s viz. Solutions, Services and Success. We are aware that Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in India do understand the importance of IT & Automation in successful manufacturing enterprises and ignorance on their part to adopt this technology can hamper the overall productivity in any business. Thus, we do not aim to recite the same old story.

Take Aways :

Your chance to network with 200 + decision makers in SME sector
Meet the stalwarts from the IT & Automation industry
Get first hand information on customized programmes specifically for the SMEs
Meet funding agencies, banks & venture capital firms on one platform
Maintain a smooth cash flow effectively & learn to put a cap on unnecessary expenditures
Hear the right business mantra from the people who have been there and done that

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Motivations, Social Entrepreneurship, Startups

Creating Job Creators

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ICreateInc., started in 1999, as a non-profit, in a limited locality in India, to help the disadvantaged who could not get a job and joined the ranks of unemployed or worse, I Create has now become a major movement in India with five full centers (as of December 2009) and hundreds of affiliations. Like minded people have come to the fore to support the ideal of helping the disadvantaged become job creators instead of job seekers.

I Create has developed two main streams for accomplishing the task it has undertaken: “Creating Job Creators” and “Changing the Mindset: Entrepreneurship as a Career Option”

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Business Ideas, Finance, Motivations, News

Agri-Business Ideas

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Zonal Technology Management and Business Planning and Development Unit at CIRCOT, Mumbai in partnership with Ministry of Micro Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME), Govt. Of India invites application from entrepreneurs to help to commercialize their ideas. Selected ventures will be incubated and funded for prototype development and commercialization
under the “Entrepreneurial and managerial development of SM.E’s through Incubators” scheme of MSME.

ZTM-BPD unit at CIRCOT, Mumbai is an initiative of ICARINAIP “to create competitive agri-business enterprises through , technology development and commercialization”.

ABOUT “THE SCHEME” : The scheme aims at nurturing innovative business idea’s (new /ingenious technology, process, products, procedures, etc.) which could be commercialized in a year

LEVEL OF FUNDING : About Rs. 6.25 lakh per business idea flexible between Rs. 4 lakh to Rs 8 lakh per idea t unit as recommended by experts and Management Committee of ZTM- BPDUnit ,

WHO CAN APPLY: Any Indian individual / NRI / Startups / Micro & Small Enterprises having innovative business idea near commercialization stage.

HOW TO APPLY: For detail of the guidelines of scheme and application form please visit us between 1 0-5 pm on any working day (Monday to Friday) and also visit the website at the link www.bpdcircot.com and http://dcmsme.gov.in/schemes/Incubators10.pdf

Last date of submission of application 31st December 2010

For more details:
Contact: Dr. S.Pal, Business Manager,
ZTM-BPD Unit, CIRCOT
Adenwala Road, Matunga,
Mumbai ~ 400 019.

Telefax No: 022 – 24143718
E-Mail: bpd.circot@gmail.com

Motivations, Networking, News, People / Stories

TiE Entrepreneural Summit 2010

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It gives us great pleasure to announce one of the largest entrepreneurship symposiums in Asia in its fifth year – TiE Entrepreneurial Summit (TES) 2010: “Enterprising India – Changing the Nation, Leading the World”, a 3 day mega event that would focus on entrepreneurial opportunities in a wide range of domains; world renowned selection of speakers and gurus and an amazing networking & business development platform.

Enterprising India would aim to showcase, celebrate & encourage, Diverse, Dynamic and Distinct examples of Enterprising Indians.

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Education, Motivations

Research Fellowships and Young Investigator Awards

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Regional Centre for Biotechnology
an institution of education, training & research (Established by the Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, under the auspices of UNESCO)

Research Fellowships and Young Investigator Awards

Research Fellowships: Applications in prescribed format are invited from post-graduate candidates who have obtained M Sc in any discipline of the sciences/ MBBS / M Pharma / M Tech / MVSc, as Junior Research Fellows
(JRFs) leading to a PhD degree.

RCB-Young Investigator Awards: Young scientists  (below age of 35) having Ph 0 degree (or likely to complete in next 3 months) in any discipline of science are invited to send their application in the prescribed format to work under the mentorship of senior faculty as ReS-Young Investigator.

Interested candidates should see full advertisements on website (www.rcb.res.in). Last date for receipt of completed applications is 31 st December, 2010.

Business Ideas, Motivations, News, Startups

India’s first ever student startup showcase

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We are delighted to write to you about an exciting, new initiative at NEN: The NEN First Dot 2010-2011, India’s first ever student startup showcase!

An initiative of the NEN Entrepreneurship Cells in Chennai and the NEN Trust, the First Dot brings together student start-ups from across the country, providing them an opportunity to showcase their products and services to a panel of successful entrepreneurs, expert mentors, national print and electronic media, as well as a large number of peers.

The showcase will take place at the SSN College of Engineering in Chennai on January 10th and 11th, 2011.

NEN First Dot is currently inviting nominations from student startups across the country. If you are one, or if you know any one, we’d love to hear from you!

 

NEN First Dot 2010-2011 – Invitation to Apply

 

Who can apply:

Any student in India who is a founder/co-founder of a startup can apply to participate.

Note: All student startups that submit nominations to participate in NEN First Dot will be given a stall at the event for marketing and networking purposes. However, of all the nominations that are received, only 30 startups will get the opportunity to present to the panel of entrepreneurs and investors.

Benefits:

Exclusive national media coverage: Mint, Businessworld and ET Now (Starting Up)
 Access to expert mentorship for the 30 selected student startups
Opportunity to pitch to angel investors for the 30 selected student startups
Opportunity to network with other student entrepreneurs and peers

How to apply:

To participate in NEN First Dot, please apply here : http://nenfirstdot.in/founder-registration/

Applications open: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Applications close: Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Not participating, but want to attend the NEN First Dot event in Chennai?

If you are a student, faculty member, entrepreneur or professional, wanting to attend the event, pleaseregister here: http://nenfirstdot.in/attendee-registration .We have limited seats available. The last day for registering to attend the event is December 15, 2010.

We look forward to your participation and support in making NEN First Dot a success in the new year!

Warm regards,


Vijay Sharma
NEN First Dot Team
www.nenfirstdot.in
+91 9535509762

 

Business Ideas, Motivations, News

SME Innovation Awards

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The Indian entrepreneurs are very creative and innovate new products and processes as well as provide innovative services to remain competitive in domestic and global markets.

Small & Medium Business Development Chamber of India (SME Chamber of India) recognises these entrepreneurs for their outstanding innovations in product, process and services and by conferring awards to encourage them.

We are confident that this will motivate other existing and emerging entrepreneurs to succeed in their chosen fields and the award winners will act as role models for others to excel in entrepreneurship.

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