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Eureka! Mentors’ Meet at IIT Bombay
The top-50 teams of Eureka! ‘09 will meet mentors on 13th December on the IIT-Bombay campus, who will guide them in refining their business model. During this meet, the teams will have the opportunity to network with leading industry professionals. The teams have been receiving online mentoring all this while but what makes this mentors’ [...]
Full StoryVulture’s Nest Grabs Headlines!
Here’s the article that was published on 7/12/2009 in The Hindustan Times:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/IIT-B-s-reality-show-for-budding-entrepreneurs/H1-Article1-483718.aspx
IIT-B’s reality show for budding entrepreneurs
This reality show is not about finding the perfect bride or landing a role in a movie, but attracting a venture capitalist.
Called the Vulture’s Nest, it is a contest to be hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay [...]
Startup co-founded by IITian wins Red Herring Asia Top 100 Award!
Voicetap is a start up co-founded by Vivek Khandelwal, a fourth year IIT Bombay student. Voicetap connects individuals seeking knowledge, to relevant experts who can help them instantly. This start up recently won the prestigious Red Herring Asia Top 100 Award. Here Vivek talks about the journey of Voicetap so far:
I can distinctly recall our [...]
Full StoryInnovation@Campus: Garbage-seeking dustbin
The interactive dustbin developed by the six IIT-Bombay students will not only approach people and tell them to put trash into it, but it is also programmed to say ‘thank you’ when they oblige. The device has three sensors programmed to detect the nearest person, align the wheels towards him/her and ask the person to [...]
Full StoryBootstrapping to Billions!
By Sramana Mitra
Gone are the effervescent days when Silicon Valley entrepreneurs bragged at cocktail parties about the millions they raised from venture capitalists. Gone are Super bowl ads and glitzy launch parties. That was so 1990s.
Now, entrepreneurs boast of funding their start-ups all by themselves, without help or hassle, from venture capitalists. I encounter more [...]
First stage results of Eureka! 2009 released
The first stage results of Eureka! 2009, were released on 4th November 2009!
50 teams have been selected for the next stage, based on the questions that they had answered about their business plan. Each entry was judged by the Indian Angel Network and by a distinguished corporate panel. The complete results can be seen at [...]
Virtual Stock Market and Stock Market Workshop
The virtual stock market is an online event which was started last year by The Entrepreneurship Cell exclusively for IIT Bombay students. At that time it was only a stock market simulation, this year a workshop was associated with it to support the event and make it more effective.
The response to the game was overwhelming. [...]
IDEAZ workshops and online mentoring
As a part of IDEAZ, the Business Idea Competition organised by The Entrepreneurship Cell, six workshops were carried out across 4 prime IITs. The workshops educated the students on various facets of idea identification. They aimed to make the students aware of the various ways and domains in which opportunities can be identified and what [...]
Full StoryHow to Lose a Customer in 5 Ways
John Jantsch (Duct Tape Marketing)
Getting a customer is hard work. Keeping them, or more importantly turning them into repeat and refer customers, requires an equal amount of strategic thinking and tactical action, but it’s where the real business building momentum is generated.
It’s important that you understand what makes a customer logically and emotionally thrilled and [...]
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