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The Entrepreneurship Development Cell – IIT Delhi

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

EDC-IITDAbout EDC:
The Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC, IITD) was initiated in January, 2007 with a vision to promote Entrepreneurship amongst IIT Delhi students and to build an exhaustive resource pool to aid potential student entrepreneurs.

Since its inception, EDC have organized various events ranged over social entrepreneurship events on campus to PAN IIT business plan contests.

Team:

Faculty Advisor: Prof. Shashi Mathur
Chief Industry Advisor: Mr. Sanjiv Sethi
President: Ankur Khetan
Vice-Presidents: Karan Gupta, Mehak Gupta, & Neha Jindal
CORPORATE AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Abhishek Jain, & Rachit Gupta
EVENTS AND PROGRAMS: Nikhil Tiwari, Poem Kabra, & Ramandeep Babrah
MARKETING AND FINANCE: Aakash Tulsani, & Gagandeep Singh
MEDIA AND PUBLIC RELATIONS: Lalit Bihani, Sachin Verma, & Vishwesh Singh
STUDENT ENTREPRENEUR HELPDESK: Kunal Goel, Kush Goel, & Shreyans Singh
EDITORIAL BOARD: Siddharth Bhattacharya
DESIGN: Akshina Gupta, Rohit Chaudhary, & Vishal Jain
WEB AND TECHNOLOGY: Sachin Agrawal, & Sangeet Aggarwal

EDC Website

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Indian Regional League for Basketball and Volleyball

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

IndiaKhelo announces Indian Regional League for Basketball and Volleyball in association with CommonFloor.com

Indian Startups are not shying away from going offline and touching all part of the ecosystem. Indiakhelo, India’s premier sporting site, announced Bengaluru’s first ever Indian Regional League for Basketball and Volleyball for teams from schools, colleges and apartment complexes. Commonfloor, India’s biggest online apartment community will be co-organising the tournament for apartment complexes. The tournament will host more than 150 teams across 35 colleges, 35 schools and 20 apartment complexes. Some of the apartments who have confirmed their participation are IDEB Springfields, Ferns Rainbow Drive, Sobha Jasmine, Purva Fountainsquare, Suncity Corporate Leisure, L&T Southcity Apartments, etc. The teams will play their matches on Dec 5th and Dec 12th at Jayanagar stadium to announce the final winners across various categories.

While the tournament will be a very important addition to the school and college level sporting competitions, it will provide apartment level players a first ever chance to move ahead from local level matches and compete with the best players across the city. Sumit Jain, co-Founder, Commonfloor.com said, ”Our association with the IRL is a win-win situation for apartment teams to move on from gully-sports and play in the highest competitive form and the most authentic professional setting. Moreover, it is yet another opportunity to reaffirm the community spirit that we stand for.”

In case your team still hasn’t registered, kindly contact:
For Schools & Colleges: Aman Prakash, Indiakhelo.com (aman[at]indiakhelo.com, Mobile: 8050973479)
For Apartment Complexes: Vikas Malpani, Commonfloor.com (vikas[at]commonfloor.com, Mobile: 9886063375)

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Morpheus Venture Partners (MVP) announces its third Batch

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

The latest batch has a diverse set of startups ranging from apparel, financial services, automotive, advertising & education domains

Morpheus Venture Partners (MVP) (www.morpheusventure.com) an India based venture firm, which works closely with selected startups as a ‘limited co-founder’ announced names of 10 progressive startups participating in Batch 3 of its four month Business Acceleration Program (BAP).With this addition, MVP now has 20 companies in its portfolio.

MVP Batch 3 Portfolio:

  1. Adscoot: Yet to launch, outdoor media startup, envisioning a new medium of advertising targeted at SMEs
  2. EasySquareFeet: A full service real estate company, serving over 150 clients each month, with a mission to make the experience of renting / buying that all important SquareFeet ever so memorable!
  3. InterviewStreet: A beta platform that facilitates students’ preparation for their placement interviews via mock interviews for the companies they intend to work for.
  4. Naabo: Their flagship SaaS based product TurboDoc helps doctors manage their clinics & medical practice, and is used by more than hundred paid customers and growing.
  5. Picsean: Aims to be a comprehensive online and offline magazine rack, with content being aggregated from photographers – professional and amateur across the world! At an idea stage currently they are yet to launch.
  6. ReachTax: Envisioned to be the H&R block of India, they help individuals and businesses manage their finances and taxes. 10% of Small Businesses based out of Chennai, India filed their annual tax returns via Reach Tax in the last financial year.
  7. Retail Vector: A mystery shopping venture that aims to measure and help clients enhance customer satisfaction by leveraging real shopper experiences!
  8. RobotsAlive: With a dream to create a Robotics revolution in India; they make Robots and reach out to Education Institutes to use Robots to teach Robotics efficiently.
  9. Scopial: A hi-fashion Apparel Company powered by a strong community of International Designers who showcase their designs via Scopial. The top rated designs are made into best quality tees.
  10. VeriCAR: A used car verification and certification company started by two automobile geeks, with over 250 verifications and counting! They also help in Sale / Purchase of used cars.

Companies from earlier batch include Commonfloor, Crederity, Instablogs, DeskAway, Sutra People, Fachak, LifeMojo

Complete press release here

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Xtreme Startups team announces Startup Morning in Bangalore

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

“Start-up Morning/Evening” events are organized with the support and help from a lot of friends in the startup community. Previous editions of the event have been held Mumbai, Bangalore, Chandigarh and Pune. In all events we were more than houseful on the capacity, participation was intense and interesting discussions took place. Read coverage here.

Recently, these events are organized under the Xtreme Startups banner. Xtreme Startups is a Non-Profit initiative to support /promote entrepreneurship. This edition of Xtreme Startups is supported by NSCREL, Chitkara University , Morpheus Venture Partners (MVP) and Startupnews.in.

The first Xtreme Startup event was organized in Chandigarh a couple of weeks back, details

Date: 24 May, 2009 (Sunday)

Time: 10:00 am – 01:00 pm

Venue: North Pergola, NSCREL, IIMB, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore 560076

Contact: Indus: indus[at]morpheusventure[dot]com, Vikas: info[at]startupnews[dot]in

Speakers: Three start-up founders will share their experiences of starting a venture, sustaining it and taking it to the next level.

Phanindra Sama, Founder & CEO www.redbus.in

Prateek & Nithya Dayal, Founders www.muziboo.com

Himanshu Khurana, Co-founder & CMO www.lifemojo.com

Audience: Start-up founders / entrepreneurs

Format

  • Event will be attended by 30-40 start-up founders / entrepreneurs
  • The event brings together Startup Founders to share experiences and interact with other start-ups in an informal manner
  • The other guests, like you, will typically be experienced entrepreneur / investor / a person from the start-up ecosystem
  • Participation is “invite only”, concentrated group of Startup Founders and others in the startup ecosystem
  • There is no fee for attending the event
  • Refreshments will be provided at the event

What will you gain from the event?

  • Opportunity to interact with others in the startup ecosystem
  • Share and learn from each others experiences in running businesses
  • Potential to meet a business partner, investor, employee, etc.
  • Opportunity to build a strong startup community

Please confirm your participation by commenting on this blog post. If you want to bring a guest or a fellow entrepreneur along, do let us know. You can also write to us at startupveda[at]gmail[dot]com

See you on Sunday!

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Startup Ecosystem in India

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Startup Ecosystem in India

Early Stage Mentoring & Incubation

1. Morpheus Venture Partner (MVP)
2. Mentor Partners
3. NEN
4. TIE- EAP
5. IIMA – iAccelerator
6. IIMB – NSRCL

Early Stage VCs:

1. Ojas Venture, Bangalore
2. Accel India Venture Fund (Earlier Erasmic Venture Fund)
3. Seed Fund

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