TiE-UP creates big buzz at the BizBuzz 2010 event, inspiring budding entrepreneurs to discover their mantra and vie for the top slot.
The UP Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE-UP) along with Uttar Pradesh Technical University(UPTU) organized the final session of its business plan competition, “The BizBuzz 2010”, at Gaur Hari Singhania Institute of Management, Kanpur with the objective of stimulating and nourishing spirit of the budding entrepreneurs through competition open to the engineering and management colleges at PAN India level.
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Mr Anil Gupta, President TIE UP welcomed the dignitaries, participants and guests to the program. The program was inaugurated by Mr B.V. Chaubal, Chief General Manager, State Bank of India, Lucknow Circle. At his inaugural address, Mr Chaubal laid stress on the success of entrepreneurship on time management, quality and competitive prices, besides chasing a dream with a passion. During his keynote address, Professor Kripa Shanker, VC, UPTU emphasised on the skills required for developing entrepreneurship and gave importance to the real learning from the failures. However, according to him successes are only documented. In addition, he said that entrepreneurship is not necessarily taught in books and classes and it is all about team effort with junoon.
The highly learned and effective panel and jury comprised of Mr Pradeep Gupta, Chairman, Cyber Media Group, Mr Rahul Shukla, Senior Consultant, TCS and Professor Jayanta Chaterjee of IIT Kanpur. The panel deliberated on Entrepreneurship: Mantra for India's global stamp, giving their valuable opinions on development of entrepreneurship by advising to spot the right opportunities, have strong decision making powers, convince others to your ideas, besides believing and backing their own dreams till the goal is accomplished. Mr Pradeep Gupta cited his own success mantra despite having a lucrative career in the corporate world.
The event was sponsored by State Bank of India as the Platinum sponsor while Lohia Group and Rimjhim Ispat Group of Kanpur were the Silver sponsors. DARE was the media partner and mentor for the event.
Thereafter, the final presentations by the seven finalist teams were conducted before the jury members. The seven participating teams were from IIM Lucknow, Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune, IIT Roorkee, HBTI, Gaur Hari Singhania Institute of Management and Research and Institute of Technology and Science, Ghaziabad. Based on the presentations made by the finalists, the jury assessed their performance and decided the winners as follows:
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Winner: ITS Ghaziabad team, comprising of Mayur Agarwal, Anjana Mathur and Pradyumna Kumar. Their business plan was on PET care.
1st Runner up: VIIT Pune team, comprising of Ketan Deshpande and Mayur Deshmukh. Their business plan was 'STUDENT FUEL', promoting education and counselling for 10 and 10+2 students for deciding their apt career paths.
2nd Runner up: GHSIMR, comprising of Faraz Javed, Najeeb Khan and Mohit Dwivedi. Their business plan was on retailing of tailoring.
The winner was given a cash prize of Rs 50,000, first runner up Rs 30,000 and second runner up was awarded Rs 20,000.
The program was anchored by Manoj Agarwal, Secretary TiE UP and the vote of thanks was given by Amit Tiwari, Convener of the event.
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written by nilabh kumar , April 08, 2010
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