Category: Resources

Innovation, Resources, Startups

10 College Business Incubators – USA

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College campuses are ripe with innovation, as students grow through education and experimentation in school. To help foster this innovation, many colleges and universities have opened business incubators, helping students and others in their community to help make their innovative dreams a reality. Whether they’re offering tricked-out labs or incredible funding opportunities, these incubators offer a great opportunity for students who are smart (and lucky!) enough to participate. Follow along as we explore 10 of the most exciting college business incubators around today, and be sure to share your own favorites in the comments.

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Mentoring, Portals, Resources

Finance your business with Knowledge

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There are many ways to grow your business, but knowledge delivers the most handsome results. It’s free, priceless and available in abundance at SME MENTOR. An online platform for business leaders of small and medium enterprises, that aims to empower with intelligence, market knowledge and the latest news. All in one place.

Visit SME MENTOR today, and let knowledge be your working capital

Motivations, Networking, News, Resources

10000 WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

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Launched by Goldman Sachs, 10,000 Women is a global initiative that will increase the number of under-served women entrepreneurs receiving a business and management education. This initiative is built on the premise that partnerships between education, development, and business experts can help bring about significant change through improved business education for women entrepreneurs.

PARTICIPANT PROFILE
To ensure that the initiative benefits the most deserving candidates, the program targets businesses and businesswomen that satisfy the following criteria:

  • The business is owned or co-owned by the applicant
  • The business has been in existence for at least a year
  • The business has the potential to grow through the infusion of management techniques and know-how
  • The revenue turnover of the business is between Rs.5,00,000 and Rs.75,00,000 per annum
  • The entrepreneur who runs the business is proficient in English
  • The entrepreneur is preferably not a post-graduate in business or a PhD in any discipline
  • The entrepreneur is underserved in terms of family income and family circumstances

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Mentoring, Motivations, Resources

Business Incubators and Facilitators in India

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The main goal of most business incubation programmes is to produce companies that create jobs and wealth in their communities. Business incubators nurture the development of entrepreneurial companies, helping them survive and grow during the start-up period, when they are most vulnerable.

Once established, model business incubation programmes commit to industry best practices such as structuring for financial sustainability, recruiting and appropriately compensating management with company-growing skills, building an effective board of directors, and prioritising management’s time to place the greatest emphasis on resident assistance.

Click Here for the full list of India’s Best Incubators, with their contact details, including those from IIMA, IITB, NID, etc.

Legal, News, Resources

Setup your company online

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CompaniesInn makes Company Incorporation and Limited Liability Partnership Incorporation easy for entrepreneurs. CompaniesInn professionally registers Private Companies, Public Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) faster than anyone else. CompaniesInn is headquartered in Bangalore with satellite operations around the country.

CompaniesInn India is the first Online Company Registration and LLP registration portal committed to help entrepreneurs and small business owners to learn about online Incorporation and its benefits, as well as helping them easily and affordably undertake this important business step without sacrificing quality. Apart from Incorporation Services, CompaniesInn provides Corporate Law Compliance Services, Book Keeping and Accounting services and Tax Compliance Services.

Why CompaniesInn

CompaniesInn is the right and trusted choice for online Company Registration, LLP Registration and other business setup services. Our professional team, comprehensive services and exceptional value make CompaniesInn your ideal partner – not only for incorporation services, but for the support you need throughout the life of your business.

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Mentoring, Motivations, Resources, Social Entrepreneurship

Sustainable Development

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The CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development is an institution that creates a conducive, enabling climate for Indian businesses to pursue sustainability goals. It creates awareness, promotes thought leadership, and builds capacity to achieve sustainability across a broad spectrum of issues.

A pioneering effort by CII, the Centre is the fountainhead of ideas and practices to promote Sustainability. It enables Indian businesses become sustainable, and channels the potential of Indian industry to power India’s agenda for inclusive growth and sustainable development. It enables businesses transform themselves by embedding the concerns of sustainable development into their own strategies and processes.

The Centre recognises businesses that make outstanding contributions to sustainable development. In the process, they become role models for India’s corporations in adopting cutting edge practices to promote sustainable development.

The Centre of Excellence :-

  • Conducts advocacy and awareness generation on triple bottom line issues
  • Conducts professional training for capacity building on sustainable development not only for the large companies but also the medium and small companies.
  • Recognises and rewards companies that contribute to sustainable development and promote role models in different sectors of the Indian Industry.
  • Encourages sustainability thought leadership.

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Business Plans, Resources, Social Entrepreneurship

INDIAN INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE

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INDIAN INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE

Transformation to sustainability is the biggest business challenge–and opportunity–in the history of capitalism. World population has grown 3 times in approximately 60 years. United Nations projects the world population to reach 10 billion by 2100! Most of the products currently developed are for the affluent 1 billion people and give very little attention to environmental issues. As we gear up to serve the needs of the several billion aspiring middle-classes and BoP customers, we are on a path that is environmentally unsustainable. If growth in consumption rates continues at its present pace, we could literally destroy the natural systems‚ soils, watersheds, fisheries, forests, and climate‚ that underpin all economic activity, and indeed, human existence.

MISSION

The mission of the Indian Institute for Sustainable Enterprise is to dramatically increase the number and success of intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs focused on socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable business development for the 21st century. We aim to make the Kanakpura campus in Bangalore the hub for these activities, along with field-based affiliates in India and partners around the world.

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Business Ideas, Resources, Technology

Pay with a Tweet !

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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.

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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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