Every minute, every moment, the human mind is abuzz with millions of ideas. But there is just one that creates a bang and leaves an impact. If you have the one big business idea, WagonR Think Big Challenge is the perfect platform for you. Click Here to know more
Idea to Biz Plan in 48 Hours
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/
Creating Job Creators
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”
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.
Crunchy numbers
A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 9,900 times in 2010. That’s about 24 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 102 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 255 posts. There were 8 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 2mb.
The busiest day of the year was April 7th with 154 views. The most popular post that day was “Have Breakfast… or… Be Breakfast!” .
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were zoroastrians.net, facebook.com, mail.yahoo.com, mail.live.com, and google.co.in.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for hot breads mahadevan, sbi smile scheme, tata second career 2010, india innovation initiative, and mahadevan hot breads.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
1
“Have Breakfast… or… Be Breakfast!” February 2010
4 comments
2
SBI launches new scheme to encourage SMEs April 2010
3
Tata Jagriti Yatra July 2010
3 comments
4
Hot Breads Mahadevan November 2009
5
India Innovation Initiative -i3-2010 June 2010
Schemes for Women Entrepreneurs
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
The TED Commandments
Fellowships for Outstanding Persons in Culture
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA – MINISTRY OF CULTURE
SCHEME FOR THE AWARD OF FELLOWSHIPS TO OUTSTANDING PERSONS IN THE FIELD OF CULTURE
Ministry of Culture operates the Scheme for the Award of Senior/Junior Fellowships for undertaking research oriented projects in the fields of Performing, Literary and Plastic Arts as also New Areas related to Culture. The Scheme has recently been revised and, starting from the year 2010-11, 400 Fellowships (200 Senior Fellowships of the value of Rs. 20,000/- per month and 200 Junior Fellowships of the value of Rs. 10,000/- per month) will be awarded every year.
Applications are invited from eligible persons for award of Senior/Junior Fellowships for the year 2010-11. Details of the Scheme, instructions for applicants and format of the application form can be downloaded from the website of the Ministry: http://www.indiaculture.nic.in
Applications, duly completed in all respects, may be addressed to Section Officer (S&F), Ministry of Culture, Government of Indi.a, 2nd Floor (Backside), NAI Annexe Building, Janpath, New Delhi-11 0001, with “Application for Junior Fellowship” or “Application for Senior Fellowship”
clearly superscribed on the envelope, and sent only by Registered Post or Speed Post, so as to reach on or before the last date of receipt of applications. For any clarification, please contact Section Officer, S&F Section at Telephone No. 011-23389608.
28th February, 2011 is the last date for receipt of applications.
Agri-Business Ideas
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
TiE Entrepreneural Summit 2010
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.
Click Here for the website and more details
Working Capital Loans for SMEs
We take this opportunity to introduce ourselves a team of qualified professionals providing customized solutions to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) & midsized corporates at different levels of growth. With strong relationships in banks, we provide an excellent choice to companies looking for working capital & term loans in aggressive time frame.
We specialize in:-
1. Conventional loans
I. Cash credit / Overdraft limits. II. Term Loans / Machinery Loans. III. Import finance (L/C) & Buyers credit limits. IV. Export finance (pre & post shipment credit). V. Bank guarantees. VI. Private finance through NBFC’s.
2. Non conventional loans
FACTORING (Sales Bills Discounting)
I. Unsecured sales bill discounting (Factoring) for domestic as well as exports. II. Interest rate at par with CC A/c. III. Instant credit upto 90% of your sales invoice within 24 hours of submission. IV. No collateral security required. V. Can be availed in addition to your existing working capital limits.
Sectors serviced by us:-
Pharma, Instrumentation, Infrastructure, Engineering, Waste water management, Textiles, Chemicals, Electronics & many more.
We would like to see you excel by allowing us to take care of your financial requirements.
Bhavin Dadia
Capital Solutions
—————————————————————————————————————————–
#6, Ground Floor, Siddhivinayak CHS, Building No.19, Tilak Nagar, Chembur, Mumbai 400 089
Phone: (022) 322 322 10 Mobile: 9619191951
finance@capitalsolutionsindia.com | smeloan@capitalsolutionsindia.com
Enterprisers.in 