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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 [...]
Bootstrapping 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. [...]
How 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 [...]
Eureka! Launch 2009
www.eureka.ecell.in
Eureka! - Asia’s largest Business Plan Competition, was launched on 1st September, 2009 at the F.C.Kohli auditorium in the Kresit building.
The session was started off by giving a brief description of what Eureka! is. Eureka! is a journey comprising of 3 major milestones: Idea validation, Consolidation of ideas (comprising of mentoring sessions and all [...]
Where Do Venture Capitalists Find Their Companies?
via VCCircle feeds
To-be-entrepreneurs often wonder how to get noticed by venture capitalists and where exactly do VCs look for their investment companies. So here’s an attempt to answer some of those doubts…
VCs get their deal flow from the following sources (in no particular order):
1. Personal Networks;
2. Repeat Entrepreneurs;
3. Other VCs;
4. Email / Blog / [...]
Entrepreneurship… Really?
Many individuals at some point of time, have definitely coveted the riches, comforts and respect being enjoyed by entrepreneurs. They want each of those things and more for themselves. Tell them to go down the path of entrepreneurship and the one question that they have is “Is it my cup of tea?”. The word itself [...]
Full StoryEureka!
What is Eureka! ?
Eureka! is the biggest Business Plan Competition in India and one of the Top Five in the Asia-Oceanic region in terms of participation, prizes and resources. It is intended as a platform to encourage youth from across the globe to flesh out their ideas in business terms and form global enterprises [...]
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