The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership is pleased to a announce a new course that'll be offered as Project Type Course : Sparks New Ventures next semester (Aug -Dec 2009) in collaboration with BITSAA International and EDIPRU.
It is a unique course in terms of the pedagogy that invloves leading entrepreneurs, VCs, academicians rom across the globe as speakers, mentors,judges and brings them into the classroom. The top Business Plans that come out of the course will receive seed funding and mentoring beyond the semester
It aims to let students
* Practice entrepreneurship
* Create a technology based startup
* Write business plan including all building blocks
* Attend guest lectures from entrepreneurs, investors and academicians
* Receive mentoring from an experienced professional
* Be eligible for seed funding to pursue idea beyond the semester
The lectures would be taken by speakers like
*Nickhil Jakatdar
*Satish Gupta
*Diaz Nesamoney
*Anurag Jain
*Anand Daniel
The confirmed mentors include
* Prasanna Krishnan, Associate, DFJ
* VT Bharadwaj, Vice President, Sequoia Capital
* Rahul Chandra, Director, Helion Venture Partners
* Abhinav Khushraj, Strategy & Biz Dev Mgt, Nokia
You (BITS Pilani students who would be on-campus during Aug-Dec 2009) have to apply to this course before 2359 hours, 19th April 2009.Only selected people will be able to register for this.
You can either apply alone or in teams of 3-5. You should write an essay(in less than 500 words) which talks about the following
* Entrepreneurship goals (Why entrepreneurship?)
* Entrepreneurship efforts to date (e.g. startup, CEL)
* Describe up to 2 business ideas you would like to pursue
In case you are applying as a team, each member of the team should apply individually.However, please mention the names and ID numbers of your team mates at the top.
The name of the file containing the essay should be.pdf (eg 2006A7PS012.pdf).
Mail your essays to Prof. Arya Kumar and Abhinav Khushraj at all these e mail IDs before the deadline.
For queries, call Rachit Chandra at +91 97844 61853 or Karteek Addanki at +91 97729 74577
It is a unique course in terms of the pedagogy that invloves leading entrepreneurs, VCs, academicians rom across the globe as speakers, mentors,judges and brings them into the classroom. The top Business Plans that come out of the course will receive seed funding and mentoring beyond the semester
It aims to let students
* Practice entrepreneurship
* Create a technology based startup
* Write business plan including all building blocks
* Attend guest lectures from entrepreneurs, investors and academicians
* Receive mentoring from an experienced professional
* Be eligible for seed funding to pursue idea beyond the semester
The lectures would be taken by speakers like
*Nickhil Jakatdar
*Satish Gupta
*Diaz Nesamoney
*Anurag Jain
*Anand Daniel
The confirmed mentors include
* Prasanna Krishnan, Associate, DFJ
* VT Bharadwaj, Vice President, Sequoia Capital
* Rahul Chandra, Director, Helion Venture Partners
* Abhinav Khushraj, Strategy & Biz Dev Mgt, Nokia
You (BITS Pilani students who would be on-campus during Aug-Dec 2009) have to apply to this course before 2359 hours, 19th April 2009.Only selected people will be able to register for this.
You can either apply alone or in teams of 3-5. You should write an essay(in less than 500 words) which talks about the following
* Entrepreneurship goals (Why entrepreneurship?)
* Entrepreneurship efforts to date (e.g. startup, CEL)
* Describe up to 2 business ideas you would like to pursue
In case you are applying as a team, each member of the team should apply individually.However, please mention the names and ID numbers of your team mates at the top.
The name of the file containing the essay should be
- aryakumar at bits hyphen pilani dot ac dot in
- aryakum at gmail dot com
- akhushraj at bitsaa dot org
For queries, call Rachit Chandra at +91 97844 61853 or Karteek Addanki at +91 97729 74577
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