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account right now? Did you try for incubation or your personal dreams as well. I strongly believe in
funding? Steve Jobs philosophy " You can connect the dots
Ans. Never ask this question to an entrepreneur. looking backwards" and I recommend that
Social Entrepreneurship Competition When I started, I had nothing in my account, but everyone should read the speech that he made at
now from borrowings and some freelancing I have Stanford in 2005.
Our country is progressing leaps and bounds. With Incentives: some money in my kitty. I tried getting incubated at
rapid industrialisation, our economy is moving > Cash Prizes worth Rs 60,000 are to be won. IIMB but that was far too costly and cumbersome, Q7.Please Describe 'Dietz' in 2 lines.
ahead at a pace as never before. But the > Abstracts of Winning Entries to be printed in so I chucked the idea. Ans. Through dietz I aim to make people healthy.
development, to a larger extent, has remained recognized journals We would be setting up food outlets in Bangalore,
confined to the cities only. The rural India still faces > Booklet containing winning entries will be Q3. How long have you been thinking about this where each food item would be specially designed
a lot of problems due to the lack of basic circulated in major corporate houses, educational idea? How did it materialize? by dietitians.
infrastructure. Development needs to be done in institutions, NGOs etc. Ans. The Idea struck to me when I was in
these areas in the fields of housing, roads,
electricity, health & medicine, education, transport Important Dates:
“E News ”
and communication. > Submission of Executive Summaries:
There's a very thin line between a crazy person and entrepreneur. While the former believes in
25th September something which the world doesn't, the latter makes the world to believe it as well.
The heart of India still lies in the villages as more
than 70% of our population lives there. We can't say > Declaration of results of 1st round: 15th October
ours to be a developed nation until the fruits of
development reach our rural population. In the wake
of problems faced by people living in the rural areas
> Mentoring: 18th - 28th October
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due to lack of basic amenities, SAMADHAN invites > Final Presentation at IIT Roorkee: 2nd November
b-plans in the field of RURAL Outside Insti Inside Insti
INFRASTRUCTURE. For further details, contact:
Ashish Agrawal (09411500848) > 46 students from Electrical Batch of IIT Bombay, > Two winners at ISIS - the EDC, IIT Roorkee
For the first phase, only the executive summary is to Saikat Gupta (09997020405) passing out this year opted out of placement to start organized Business Plan Competition have
be submitted. The shortlisted entries would be given out in labs, incubator and from home. started their companies.
mentoring by industrialists and social entrepreneurs. Website: www.edciitr.com
The final entries are to be submitted alongwith the > TiEcon Delhi 2008, TiE Delhi’s annual flagship event This is the second consecutive year that the
financial details, market scope and analysis, Write to us at: samadhan.iitr@gmail.com is scheduled in October 22nd-24th. The theme of winners at ISIS have gone on to start their
milestones with stages of implementation, risk and this year's conference is "Entrepreneurship Comes ventures.
competition & intellectual property strategy. of Age"