Why this vertical and why you?

I am Yash Kala, an engineer who had been enthusiastic about entrepreneurship throughout his
teenage years. I have been part of E-Cell, IIT Jodhpur from the first session of E-Cell in my first year. I
carried out all student activities in E-Cell, like organizing workshops, sessions, calling speakers,
participating in startups, and collaborating with incubation centres.

I was also PR Head in entrepreneurial fest “IdeaSpark” of IIT Jodhpur. My work was to reach out to
the target audience interested in entrepreneurship and bring startups to the expo. So, through my
experience, I understand what motivates students of other institutes to participate in our fest and
the motivation behind the thinking of startups.

I choose this vertical because of my immense prior interest in entrepreneurship and exposure to this
work. Also, by joining this vertical, I will be polishing my communication skills, persuasion skills and
build more networks.
Suggest some routes to bring participation during a pandemic?

There may be 1000 students in a college, but in reality, less than 50 students are interested in
entrepreneurship. Therefore, it is very niche specific.

Some suggested routes are:

1. Collaborate with Youtube Channels such as warikoo, Hustlers Bay, Entrepreneur India TV,
beer biceps, Josh talks, business guruji etc.

2. Collaborate with Instagram handles such as Karostartup, startupg.in, The startup diary etc.
3. Make “Your Story” a media partner.

4. Organize the D2C quiz competition with a questionnaire so that participants need to visit the
i5 summit’s website, Instagram and LinkedIn handle. Currently, the reach of i5 summit’s
social media handles is significantly less.

5. Reach out to state and private incubation centres, venture capitalist groups.
6. Promote festivals in business and entrepreneurship groups on Facebook and LinkedIn.
7. Offer certificates of appreciation to student participants as perks.

8. Offer prize money in cash for startups, not such as AWS coupons.
9. Collaborate with event managing websites such as townhall.
10. Target tier 2 and tier 3 colleges more.

11. Collaborate with MHRD’ IIC. This festival can be the first activity for IIC in the year 2021-22. It
has a presence in more than 412 universities, 1982 colleges and 170 standalone.

12. Organize workshops and sessions in collaboration with the Ministry of Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprise.
13. Providing internship opportunities for students interested in entrepreneurship and startup in
need of interns.

14. Collaborate with E-Cell of different universities.

15. Focus more on faculties having E-cell related responsibilities.
16. Provide entrepreneurial content on the Instagram page of i5summit.
 Prepare list of 7 startups with their contact details:

SR Startup City Contact No. Email-ID

No.
1. STAGE Indore 0731 420 6247 parveen@stage.in
2. RackBank Indore 99930 99055 sales@rackbank.com
3. Walkover Indore 7312560056 info@walkover.in
4. Enginner Babu Indore 8225007007 mayank@engineerbabu.com
5. Feedyfy Indore 9827334544 support@feedify.net
6. Motiongility Indore 8827570974 hr@motiongility.com
7. Gramophone Indore 7314298730 info@gramophone.co.in
Prepare list of 10 Colleges:

1. E-Cell, IIT Bombay

Praroop – 7427023752
Neeraj – 7987604572

2. ED Cell, IIT Delhi

Amartya – 8005995622
Satwik Pandey - 9811091942

3. E-Cell, MA-NIT Bhopal

Dhairya- 9589255239
Azin- 975565863

4. E-Cell, NIT Silchar

Rahul- 982501964
Elvis Rahman- 9678129616
Agya Pathak- 626531985

5. E-Cell, IIM Udaipur

Aditya Mohapatra – 8895888826
Siva Brahma- 9177856512
Ithesh – 7013490844

6. E-Cell, IIT Kgp

Nayan Saluja- 8435131125
Vaishnav Lembhe -9307493772
Gaurav Garg – 7479223180

7. E-Cell, IIT Hyderabad

Sarthak Konher – 8103184900 – ce19btech11001@iith.ac.in
Md. Nazish Kaunain – 8690055966 – es19btech11006@iith.ac.in

8. E-Cell, IIFT Delhi

Harshit Dagar – 9560027579 – harshit_d21@iift.edu
Valli Priyanka – 9962254810- valli_d21@iift.edu

9. E-Cell, IIT Kanpur

Khushboo Sachdeva- 9650913301 – khushbus@iitk.ac.in
Tanmay Gupta – 9991166118 – tanmayg@iitk.ac.in

10. E-Cell, DTU

Uddeshya Khanna - 9818023103
Manik Verma – 9682513330
Criterion for choosing them:
1. Active social media handles on instagram and Likendin
2. Putting good entrepreneurial content on social media handles.
3. Have active websites, with all details about them.
4. Renowned E-Cell’s in their states.
5. Mentor other E-Cells.
6. Organising Entrepreneurship activities in coming months.