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IIT-B’s E-Cell to hold pre-annual biz plan contest in Indore on Sept 25

INDORE: IIT-Bombay’s e-cell (entrepreneurship cell will be holding a pre-Eureka (annual business plan competition) workshop in Indore on September 25. the event has been named as ‘Illuminate’. The young entrepreneurs of Indore will get an opportunity to submit their business plan and on the basis of the merit it would be awarded accordingly in the main event which will follow later.

The workshop would primarily point towards the challenges in commencing a business, probing the mindset and set skills necessary for entrepreneurship. Ideating, executing, implementing and many more concepts will be corroborated with the highly energetic one-on-one discussions where the audience will be encouraged to candidly share their entrepreneurial ideas/thoughts. Along with this, the speaker would also be sharing his entrepreneurial success story.

E-Cell IITB, would be holding pre Eureka! business plan workshops in 12 cities, including Indore, across the nation over the span of next five weeks. Illuminate is being led by Shantanu Bhagwat of Udhbav Associates, who is a London-based diplomat turned entrepreneur, venture capitalist, seed investor and advisor to start-ups.

In an e-mail communication to ToI, Bhagwat said, “I am looking forward to these workshops because I firmly believe there is no other way to create jobs at a massive scale in the situation we find ourselves in, except by promoting entrepreneurship and by encouraging risk-taking. Entrepreneurship and job creation are fundamental to development and growth – two things we need badly.”

Founded in 2000, E-Cell has seen substantial growth and has been recognised as the ‘Leading Entrepreneurship Promoting Student Organisation in the country’, by the National Entrepreneurship Network.

The workshop would primarily point towards the challenges in commencing a business, probing the mind set and set skills necessary for entrepreneurship. Ideating, executing, implementing and many more concepts will be corroborated with the highly energetic one-on-one discussions where the audience will be encouraged to candidly share their entrepreneurial ideas/thoughts. Along with this, the speaker would also be sharing his entrepreneurial success story.

Participants at these workshops will be encouraged to write and submit their business plans to Eureka!

Monica Anand, who is the spokesperson for the event, said, “It will be a very good exercise for people who want to start something but don’t know how to go about it. Nearly 100 students, hailing from various engineering and management institutes in Indore are likely to attend the event.”

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