STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES ON BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION 2018 LAUNCH ..................................................................................................... BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION 2017 AWARDS ANNOUNCED!!! CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS IIT Roorkee Heritage Foundation strives to keep the entrepreneurial fire burning in the IITR students and alumni. To facilitate this, Entrepreneur Mentoring program connects established business leaders with the budding entrepreneurs to support them by providing guidance and insights to be successful. Listed below are a few alumni who have been spectacularly successful in the entrepreneurial world and have offered to help IITR students and alumni. Please feel free to contact them. Also, if you are one of them, please send us your information so that we can publish it here. Program Chairs : Job Description
The IIT Roorkee Heritage Foundation (IITRHF) has been organizing Business Plan Competition under the Entrepreneur Mentoring Program since year 2009. This year IITRHF has collaborated with TIDES Business Incubator to hold BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION 2017. The IITRHF-TIDES Business Plan Competition (BPC) aims to foster entrepreneurship among IIT Roorkee students and recent alumni, and provides an integrative learning experience. It provides them a platform for refining their business ideas and strategies to bring them to fruition. Awards Announced for 2017 Based upon several rounds of assessments, workshop and presentations, TIDES and IITRHF unanimously decided the winners for BPC 2017. It was a difficult decision to choose top 3 teams out of a total of more than 45 applicants, all of them of high quality. Following are the winning teams:
The winners of Best Overall Plan and Most Innovative Idea (one person from each team, preferably a founder) will be sponsored for 6-day Acceleration program to either USA, Canada or Europe and a 3-day Acceleration Program to Bangalore. Entrepreneurs will get opportunity to visit accelerator meet and interact with startups and mentors. The winners of Judges' Choice Award will get prize of INR 45,000. Further, winning startups will be mentored by TIDES and will be evaluated for Incubation at TIDES & funding support. For further details visit: http://tides.iitr.ac.in/BPC2017.html The cash awards are made possible by a generous grant from Mr. Raj Singh (EE, 1968).  Thanks to Dr. Sanjeev Manhas, Faculty-in-Charge (TIDES Incubation Center) for partnering with IITRHF.  We appreciate support provided by Azam Ali Khan, CEO TIDES Incubation Center for all the support.  ========================================================== Students' feedback for our efforts Notable IIT Roorkee Entrepreneurs: If you have ever been a part of a start-up, served as an executive (VP or above), or been a partner in a venture, we would like to hear from you and share your success story with our patrons. Please follow the link below to share your information. |
Entrepreneur Mentoring / Business Plan Competition (BPC)
| Name | Branch | Year | Company | Founding Year | Industry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manoj Goel | Mechanical | 1981 | Internet Junction | 1995 | Telecommunication |
| Praveen Gupta | E&C | 1978 | Accelper | 1990 | Business Intelligence |
| Naveen Jain | Industrial | 1979 | Intelius | 2003 | Identitiy Services |
| Sarvesh Mahesh | E&C | 1982 | Tavant Technologies | 2000 | IT Solutions |
| Harish Goyal | Civil | 1979 | TGO Solutions | 2000 | Sevice |
| Sanjay Nagi | Mechanical Engineering | 1983 | Market Insight Consultant | 2002 | Marketing Consulting |
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