Startup Essential Training Series - Financial Training - 3 Nov 2016
Financial Planning can be a daunting task for entrepreneurs. To help them with this crucial task IITMIC organised the workshop on #financialplanning for the #startup #entrepreneurs as part of the #startupessential training series.
Workshop was conducted by Mr Subra Iyer, Co-President of #KeiretsuForum Chennai & Singapore chapter.
Stay tuned for the video
Amazon Web Services Thought Leadership Session - 5 July 2016
Co-hosted by IITMIC
Cracking the Code - Digital Content Monetization and Customer Delight
Are you an entrepreneur or business executive dealing with the challenges of building and delivering a seamless digital experience for your end users? Are you grappling with the following challenges:
· How can I deliver fast and reliable content to my customer?
· How do I ensure content is delivered seamlessly at scale?
· How do I secure my web applications?
· How do I increase monetization via better customer engagement?
Date : 5th Jul, 2016 (Tuesday)
Time : 3 pm to 6 pm
Venue : IIT . Madras Research Park 1, Kanagam Road, Kanagam, Tharamani, Chennai 600113
E-summit 2016: 1-3 April
Techsaloon - 10 Mar 2016 - "Innovation at IITM Incubation Cell'
IITMIC and Research Park co-sponsor The Tech Saloon - 'Innovation at IITM Incubation Cell' - an evening with Satish Kannan, Co-Founder CEO of DocsApp and Tanuj Jhunjhunwala, Co-Founder CEO of Planys Technologies - 10 Mar
Two IITM Incubated companies: DocsApp and Planys Technologies were showcased. - a great audience followed by a vibrant High Tea!
Satish Kannan from DocsApp
THINK LIKE A STARTUP series - Third session - ''How do you find the right Mentor?" - 10 Mar 2016, 430pm @ MRC, IITM campus
Third session in the "Think Like a Startup" In this series of Think Like A Start-up, the start-ups at IIT Madras discussed "How to find the right mentor"
Panel: Varun Sridharan CEO of Greenvironment Innovation & Marketing India
P. Senthil Nathan, Core Alumni Mentor at IITM Entrepreneurship Forum, Co-founder, Benchmark and Relagant
Anikt Poddar, Founder and CEO of Swadha Energies
Mr. Thirupathy Srinivasan, Founder - Ariv Technologies and Mentor- Swadha Energies.
Key take away: Good mentors are one of the most valuable resource an entrepreneur should tap in. Start- ups should find mentors with domain expertise to help with specific problems.
The mentor has a big role to play in helping you keep the faith during the storm.
THINK LIKE A STARTUP series - Second session - ''Startup Asks: Have you found your Co-Founder?" - 3 Mar 2016, 430pm @ MRC, IITM campus
Second session in the "Think Like a Startup" where the IITM start-ups at shared the good and not -so-good experience in finding the right co-founder and sustaining it.
Panel: PiBeam Labs, GUVI and Vital Bioscientific Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Key takeaway:
A common passion, ability to resolve conflicts by putting the vision of the start-ups ahead of personal goals, complementing each others skill sets and working towards common goals are the key to a healthy and balanced relationship among the co-founders.
And of course, it's fun to have a co-founder to share the bumpy start-up journey.
Don't miss our next session on 10th March, 430pm @ MRC - How to find the right mentors? Block the dates.....
THINK LIKE A STARTUP series - First Event - ''Startup NOW or LATER" - 25 Feb 2016, 430pm @ MRC, IITM campus
Inaugural session of the "Think Like a Startup" series: great show by IITM students & Incubatees.
Our kick-off session 'Startup Now or Later' held on the evening of 25th Feb at MRC, IITM campus was a grand success.
The session was launched by Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala (faculty-in-charge, Incubation IIT Madras), followed by an overview of the Startup/Incubation ecosystem at IITM Research Park by Dr Tamaswati, CEO, IITM Incubation Cell.
Our panelists for the evening were Founders of Airwood, Fib-Sol Life Technologies and Uniphore. 1hr fireside chat with our incubatees was moderated by Ms Suma Prashant, Director, IITM's RTBI. The session was attended by over 70 students (BTech, Masters & PhD).
A great evening, with insights into what, how & when should students think about starting a Venture. Short stint in Industry post graduation certainly adds to the experience & wisdom of young entrepreneurs: need to understand the potential/target market and finding the right 'idea-market' fit, raising enough risk capital from 3Fs (friends, family & fools) to test your idea (proof of concept) are essential. However, a supportive ecosystem as in IIT-Madras has allowed many students to embark on the entrepreneurial journey, while or immediately after graduation due to exposure to innovation hubs such as Cfi, Iitm, C-TIDES, Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Madras, joint technology development (or/& mentorship) with Faculty members, interaction with our Alumni body (serial entrepreneurs & Industry heads), IITM Incubators and existing IITM incubated companies.
Look forward to seeing you all at upcoming sessions (details to follow soon) - "hear it from IITM incubated companies"
Good article to read up: http://yourstory.com/2015/10/starting-up-after-college/
Launch of 'Think Like a Startup' series in IITM
Techsaloon - 12 Feb 2016 - Prof Jim Libby: "Higgs Boson - the God damn particle'
IITMIC and Research Park co-sponsor The Tech Saloon - 'Higgs Boson- the God Damn particle' - an evening with Prof Jim Libby - 12 Feb
A layman introduction to Higgs Boson, CERN, LHC fascinating the world - a great audience followed by a vibrant High Tea.
"On 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announced they had each observed a new particle in the mass region around 126 GeV. This particle is consistent with the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model. The Higgs boson, as proposed within the Standard Model, is the simplest manifestation of the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. On 8 October 2013 the Nobel prize in physics was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider."
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Prof. Jim Libby is an experimental particle physicist working at IITM since 2009. Dr Libby received his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Oxford. His PhD work was with the DELPHI experiment at the Large Electron-Positron Collider at CERN. Since completing his PhD in 1999 he has worked with accelerator experiments at CERN, Stanford, Cornell and KEK (Japan) that study the metamorphosis of quarks and antiquarks experiencing the weak interaction. He also participates in studies related to the Indian-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) to be built under the West Bodi Hills, Tamil Nadu.
Reunion Day 2015, IIT-Madras - 28 Dec 2015
Prof. R. Nagarajan, Dean, International & Alumni Relations (I&AR), IIT Madras welcomed all alumni and their families and took great pride in the rapidly-increasing level of engagement between the Institute and her alumni.
Business Model Canvas - 31st Oct 2015 @ IITMRP
I N V I T A T I O N
Workshop title: Shaping up your Business Idea
(Conducted by Ennovent)
Date: Saturday, 31st October, 2015
Time: 10am – 2pm
Venue: Auditorium, Ground Floor, IIT Madras Research Park
Agenda: https://goo.gl/6KflbG
Samanvay- IITM Lecture Series | 19-31 Oct 2015
Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
19th - 31st October 2015
9 - 13 March 2015: E-Week
Tuesday, March 10th : An Interactive Talk by Shiva Subramanium : (Creativity and Innovation), Speaker at various national and international forums, Coached the Indian National Cricket Team on creativity, Culture expert specializing in solving cross cultural issues at the workplace, Member of Tata Group Innovation Forum, Visiting Faculty at Tata Management Training Centre
Specialties:Master Trainer (Six Thinking Hats), Master Trainer (Lateral Thinking), Qualified Buzan Instructor (Mind mapping), Accredited facilitator, Cross-cultural Expert. The speaker will be addressing the students on creativity and innovative thinking in entrepreneurship and then there will be an interactive session with the students.
Wednesday, March 11th : Innovation Clinic: Here any student with slightest of idea for starting up can validate his/her idea by an expert panel of judges. It will be a pre- registered event and registered candidates will be given slots in which they can clear all their doubts about their idea.Kindly register herefor the event.\
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Venue : CRC 201, 202
Thursday, March 12th : Intrapreneurs : In this event few of the institute student startups will speak about their startup journey. This would be most helpful for students who aspire to be entrepreneurs.
Time : 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Venue : MRC
Friday, March 13th : Q&A Session from Incubation Cell : This will be short session with Incubation Cell where entrepreneurs who want to get their startups incubated in Incubation Cell, can clear their doubt pertaining to the same. Dr. Tamaswati Ghosh, head of the Incubation Cell will be addressing the queriesregarding the same
Time : 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Venue : MRC
Friday, March 13th : Introduction to accelerators :This will be a short 3 hours workshop in which the startups will be introduced to accelerators and information regarding it will be given.
Time : 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Venue : MRC
Branding Challenges for Entrepreneurs | 29 Jan 2015
Workshop: BRANDING CHALLENGES FOR ENTREPRENEURS
Hosted by IITMIC
Date: Thursday, 29th January between 3 - 5 pm
Venue: Hall # 5, IIT Madras Research Park
About the Speakers: Varadharajan R works at the Chennai office of Brand Capital and focuses on building long term relationships with leaders in emerging B2C categories. He has more than a decade of experience in financial services having worked across investment banking and corporate banking and has worked with more than 10 start-ups in more than $ 100 MM of M & A/Private placements. He is an alumnus of IIT, Madras and is passionate about helping entrepreneurs scale up to the next level.
Balaji K works at the Chennai office of Brand Capital and has extensive relationships with the start-up eco system in Chennai - with incubators, investees and with private equity funds/VC funds. Prior to this, he was involved in investment banking where he helped SME’s raise debt/equity and help structure synergistic alliances.
* Things we need to consider when building a brand from the start.
* Foremost challenges faced by the entrepreneurs before the success of the brand.
* Money handling in building a brand.
* Channels of communication.
Key points highlighted:
* Brands are cohesive story told to the world and when done well, can be a differentiator.
* Formalization of a viable and lasting brand begins with the clear understanding of the customer and well-defined business.
* Build a product that is a necessity to a customer. Consequently this will reduce the marketing cost. The more unique the product is the lesser one requires branding.
* Follow the 3 Ds –
> Build a strong Differentiating brand from the competitors.
> Disrupt the whole system of the opponents and the new entrants.
> Dominate
* Keep the customers engaged for a long time.
Tips for start-ups:
* Keep notes on the customers views on the brand. Jot down their adjectives.
* Seek help from branding experts.
Amazon Web Services - benefits extended to IITMIC Incubatees
IITMIC incubatee companies will have access to the AWS Portfolio Package with AWS credits, special offers and more!
$1000 in AWS credits valid for 1 year
Premium AWS Business Support for 1 month
Free access to the AWS Essentials 1 day web-based or instructor-led training (normally ~$600/course), plus 8 tokens for self-paced labs (normally ~$30/lab)
Free access to 1:1 virtual office hours with AWS solutions architects
Special offers from other companies that help startups, including Chef, Bitnami, Amazon Payments, SOASTA, Podio, CopperEgg and more.