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The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay SAC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai – 400076 Email: [email protected] Website: www.ecell.in

AWARENESS

The Story of Facebook

(50 points) Task Code: AW01

Description

Write an article on : What makes Mark Zuckerberg an Entrepreneur and Facebook a phenomenon ?

Guidelines

FB is not the first social networking platform, so why has it become such a phenomenon? What is it that Zuckerberg did that makes him an entrepreneur?

Submission

One article

Marking Scheme

Based on the credibility of the article, and ingenuity of the same , our judging panel will judge the entries. The best entry will get bonus points and will be featured on our blog.


Basics of Entrepreneurship Session


Description

Conduct a session/ presentation, of minimum 15 mins, in a class of minimum 30 people on the topic : Basics of Entrepreneurship.

Guidelines

You can choose to follow the following headers. You will have to search on the Internet for relevant information 1) What is Entrepreneurship ? 2) Some famous Entrepreneurs"

Submission

1. 2 min video of the session 2. 5 photographs 3. Names and email ids of people who have participated in your session for our confirmation in an

excel sheet. 4. A full report on the points discussed.

Marking Scheme

Based on the points you discuss on, and how well you convey it to your audience, our judging panel will award points.

Job vs Entrepreneurship



Description

Conduct a GD/ debate for minimum 30 minutes , with participation from minimum 10 people as participants, and 20 as audience.

Guidelines

You can start with discussing about the pros of having a job and the cons of the same. You should refer to the pros and cons of Entrepreneurship. You can also refer to how families affect the attitude of people to towards the same. How is the general psychology of people towards Job and Entrepreneurship.

Submission

1. 2 min video 2. 5 photographs 3. Names and email ids of people who were the part of the GD for our confirmation

on an excel sheet. 4. Report

Marking Scheme

Based on the relevance of the points you raise, and the quality of the GD/Debate, our judging panel will allot points.

Description of Startups


Description

You have to do a survey of startups in your college based on the questions given below. Each pointer below should be covered in a different column of the Excel Sheet.


Guidelines

1. Name of the startup 2. Names of the founding members of the startup 3. Phone numbers of the founding members of the startup 4. Email Ids of the founding members of the startup 5. Website link of the startup 6. FB link of the page of the startup 7. Description of the Startup( What does it do, in which sector are they involved) 8. Since when has the startup been functional 9. Did they start when they were in college

Submission

EXCEL sheet

Marking Scheme

Each start-up 20, and max 100

India Vs Silicon Valley


Description

Prepare a report about differences of the start-up ecosystem in India,and Silicon valley.

Guidelines

You may refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley.

Submission

One article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley


Marking Scheme

Based on the credibility of the article, and ingenuity of the same , our judging panel will judge the entries.Bonus points of 200 for best article and will be published in ENspace, IITB's annual Entrepreneurship Magazine.

Survey: U NO Become

Entrepreneur?


Description

Why don’t people do entrepreneurship in your college? You ll have to float a google form, based on the questions given in the guidelines.

Guidelines

1. Name 2. Email ID 3. College 4. City 5. Phone number 6. Have you heard about the Entrepreneurship? 7. If No, go through the following link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship and go to the

question number 8 8. Now, since you know what entrepreneurship is, will you be willing to pursue Entrepreneurship ? 9. If the answer to the 6 question was yes, are you pursuing entrepreneurship ? 10. If the answer to the ques 8 or 9 is No, then what are the reasons that make you unwilling to

startup ? o Too much money involved o Parental pressure o Academic pressure o Dont know where to start


Submission

Spreadsheet of the responses of the google form.

Article in College Magazine


Description

You can publish an article which can be one of your already submitted articles in this challenge. Or you may chose to publish an article of your choice based on Entrepreneurship.

Guidelines

If you are looking for ideas for a new article, you may refer to the internet for trending topics. You may also follow some blogs for a good article.

Submission

Photograph of the page where your article is published.

Discuss!


Description

You have to fairly active on the E-Cell blog by liking, sharing on fb, commenting on the articles and take active part in discussions that are held on the blog.


Guidelines

The link of the blog is ecell.in/blog. For more informed discussions you may chose to visit websites like mashable.com, entrepreneur.com.

Submission

No submission. Your activity will be gauged by E-Cell ,IITB.

Marking Scheme

Full 50 points if found satisfactory.

Start-up Visit!


Description

This task will take you to the life of an entrepreneur. You will have to interview a start-up in your neighbourhood. This task will carry bonus points if your article gets published in your institute magazine.

Guidelines

To complete this task you have to:

1. Visit the office of a startup in your neighborhood. 2. Interview one of the Co-founders in the office. You can choose to ask him/her the following

questions: o What is your startup about? o How do you delegate work among your employees? o How do you get the best out of your co-workers?

Submission

1. 10 min audio clip of a part of the interview 2. Report on on startup 3. 5 Pics of your visit 4. Photograph of the article published in the college magazine


Marking Scheme

100 + 50 bonus if it gets published


IDEA GENERATION

Identify Problems

(30 points) Task Code: IG01

Description

Analyse problems based on facts and figures in the sectors mentioned in the guidelines, and submit a report. Remember, guidelines of this task are there just to guide you . You'll have to think of problems on your own, affecting your college.

Guidelines

1. Academics. Eg-There is a problem that seniors have books for donating to juniors, juniors need the books but there is no common channel to facilitate this transaction.

2. Services. Eg-No laundry service available. 3. Infrastructure. Eg-Pains such as inadequate lighting, damaged benches etc. 4. Leisure. Eg-No common platform for people with similar interests to come

together and interact.

Submission

A detailed report . It must consist of relevant facts and figures.

Marking Scheme

Judged on the basis of complete and analytical description by our judging panel.


Solve the problem!


Description

Provide the solution in the format of:

1. Description 2. Implementation 3. Impact of your solution

Guidelines

Think of solution(s) to the problem

a. Identified in 1. b. Any other solution you can think of, of a problem existent in the society*

*Give a brief description of that problem in case of 2 b.

Submission

One article (Min 300 words).

Marking Scheme

Judged by our judging panel on the ingenuity of the solution, and the impact it has.

SWOT Analysis


Description

Do a SWOT Analysis of your proposed solution, under the format:

1. Strengths of your solution. 2. Weaknesses of your solution. 3. Opportunities from your solution.


4. Threats to your solutions.

Guidelines

To know more about SWOT analysis, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis orhttps://depts.washington.edu/oei/resources/toolsTemplates/SWOT_analysis.pdf.

Submission

One article under the prescribed format.

Marking Scheme

Judged by our judging panel on the accuracy of the analysis.

Let’s play with some money:

Revenue Model


Description

Think about how you can make money out of the idea you thought, or a revenue model of any other original idea (for which you will have to provide a brief description of the problem it is solving and SWOT analysis (see Task 2c)).

Guidelines

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_model Think on the following lines:

How are you going to make money? How are your competitions making money (if there are not any direct competitors,

find indirect competition)? How are you going to start finding customers? How will you retain your customer base?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis

http://depts.washington.edu/oei/resources/toolsTemplates/SWOT_analysis.pdf

http://depts.washington.edu/oei/resources/toolsTemplates/SWOT_analysis.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_model


Submission

An article under the following headings:

1. Revenue Generation 2. Competition Revenue Model 3. Traction/attracting your first customers 4. Customer Retention

Marking Scheme

Judged based on the accuracy of you analysis, by our Judging panel.

B-Plan your Model!


Description

You can either 1) Make a B-Plan for the revenue model you did in the previous task OR 2) Make a B-Plan of any other model that you can think of.

Guidelines

To know what a b-plan exactly is, please refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_plan.

Submission

DOC

Marking Scheme

Judged by our panel of experts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_plan


What an Idea Sirji!


Description

You have to organise a workshop of atleast 30 people. You need to divide people in groups of 2 and hand them over a newspaper each . They will go through the newspaper, and pick out a news item that they are interested in , and brainstorm about the possible solutions for the same.

Guidelines

The document should consist of 2 parts a) The news item that was the basis of the idea b) The idea(s) Each team can give more than one news item and corresponding idea(s). In such a scenario, please number your News items and ideas.

Submission

1. A 2 min video 2. 5 photographs 3. A pdf file documenting the ideas 4. An excel sheet with names and mail ids of the 30 people that participated.

Marking Scheme


Start your Eureka! Journey



Description

Eureka is our business plan competition with a vision to promote ideas and help these ideas in the journey to startup. All the above tasks have equipped you with your own unique idea, and a b-plan for the same. You have to register your idea in Eureka! - our annual b-plan competition.

Guidelines

Visit : http://ecell.in/eureka/. You can register one idea only once. Multiple ideas will have to be

registered separately.

Submission

Eureka id for all the entries that are sent from your team for verification.

Marking Scheme

Each registration fetches you 5 points. MAX is 250. The team with the maximum number of registrations will get a special prize.

The next step!


Description

If your idea is good enough to enter the semi-finals of Eureka!, you will be awarded 400 points.

Guidelines

Wait for the results in November.

http://ecell.in/eureka/


Submission

Eureka! ID of all team members.

Marking Scheme

Judged by the judging panel of Eureka!


CLUB ACTIVITY

Create an FB page of your E-CLUB

(30 points) Task Code: CA01

Description

Create a Facebook page of your Entrepreneurship-Club, where people can interact and discuss and also to notify people of any upcoming events by the club.

Guidelines

Like and follow E-Cell IIT Bombay's Facebook page to get regular updates from our side.

Submission

Link of the page.

Marking Scheme

Full points awarded if page exists.

Publicise your page

(30-150 points) Task Code: CA02

Description

Publicize about the clubs page in your college and garner likes on it.


Guidelines

Publicity reach is measured by number of likes of the page.Each member who likes your page has to like Ecell IIT Bombay facebook page.

Submission

Link of the page

Marking Scheme

Minimum likes - 100 (30 points), Maximum likes - 1000 (150 points), for intermediate likes points will be awarded proportionally.

Connect!


Description

Identify any collegiate Entrepreneurship promoting bodies in your region/state and get in touch with them.

Guidelines

1. Name 2. Location 3. College name if they are a part of a college 4. Activities they conduct 5. Phone number of the members of the contacted e-cell 6. Email ids of the members of the contacted e-cell

Submission

Spreadsheet with the details mentioned in the guidelines.

Marking Scheme

You will get points if you contact a minimum of 10 Entrepreneurship promoting bodies in your region/state.

http://www.facebook.com/ecell.in


Design Challenge: LOGO


Description

Organise a competition for designing a logo for the club (Min. 10 entries).

Submission

Submit photographs of your designs.

Marking Scheme

Marks awarded if atleast 10.

Design Challenge-Shirt


Description

Organise a competition for designing a club t-shirt representing your e-club (Min. 10 entries).

Submission

Submit photographs of your designs.

Marking Scheme

Marks awarded if at-least 10. Max. Points 50 even if more entries.


Online competition


Description

Participate in our online competition, min 40 people should participate in it, submit their details.

Guidelines

Link : Will be posted soon

Details : Name, phone number, email id.

Submission

Names of the participants of our online competition.

Marking Scheme

100 points for 40 entries

Offline competition (120 points) Task Code: CA07

Description

Conduct an offline event named Ideablaze. Click here for the details of the event.

Guidelines

Links : Send name, phone number, email id of participants.

Submission

Submit 5 pics & a video of at least 5 minute of the event spreadsheet of event.

http://ecell.in/ecnec/docs/IdeaBlaze.pdf


Marking Scheme

120 points.

AD-making

(150 points) Task Code: ca10

Description

Make a promotional advertisement of max. 2 minutes for any product (Min. 5 entries).

Submission

The videos of all entries.

Marking Scheme

judged by our panel of experts.


ENVIRONMENTAL

CONSERVATION Consumption Sources

(30 points) Task Code: EC01

Description

Pick up one of these resources & look out for the major sources of consumption of that resource in your campus.

Guidelines

Prepare a detailed report with proper statistics and data. You can take help of your college authorities

Submission

PDF File

Marking Scheme


Estimation



Description

Survey with the authorities and estimate the amount of that resource being used in your campus.

Guidelines

Give a report clearly stating the amount of resource consumed and it’s monetary value.

Submission

PDF FILE

Marking Scheme


Suggest Measures


Description

Analyse the above task and suggest measures to conserve the resource. Submit a pdf document listing down all the measures to conserve that resources.

Guidelines

It could be anything ranging from repairing leaking taps to rain water harvesting.

Submission

PDF File

Marking Scheme



Draft a plan for effective use


Description

Do a study of feasible measures that you could take for effective use of that resource.

Guidelines

The report should list down measure you have taken with their impact.

Submission

1)Report 2) Video and 5 pics of you executing the event.

Marking Scheme


Awareness via FB page


Description

Launch an awareness drive in your campus, include maximum people(min 50) and promote it via social media.

Guidelines

Promote your campaign through social media networks like Facebook and Twitter and keep your page updated from time to time. Bonus points for exceptionally well planned campaigns.


Submission

1. 2 min video showing the execution 2. 5 pics of the event 3. Excel sheet containing details(Name/contact/email id) of participants 4. FB link of the campaign.

Marking Scheme

Judged by our panel of experts. Bonus points for exceptionally well executed campaigns.


SOCIAL ISSUES Identify the most prominent problem

(30 points) Task Code: SI01

Description

Look out for the most adverse problem existing in your surrounding. Give a report showing the impact of the problem on society and explaining it in depth.

Guidelines

The problem can be anything, as long as you feel that it should be rooted out of the society.

Submission

PDF File

Marking Scheme


Get to the roots of the problem


Description

Submit a pdf file along with proper references.


Guidelines

These problems have been existing in our society since time immemorial. When did they originate? Why do they have such deep roots in the society?? etc.

Submission

PDF FILE

Marking Scheme


Suggest Measures


Description

Prepare a report about how you think that this problem should be tackled, how society and government have tackled in the past, and why they failed.

Submission

PDF File

Marking Scheme


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Views of People

(100 points)

Task Code: SI04

Description

Meet people around you and ask them how adversely has the problem affected them. Prepare a documentary taking views of all the people.

Guidelines

Make an impactful documentary. The best entries will be released from the Facebook page of E-Cell.

Submission

10 minutes video

Marking Scheme


Collaborate with NGOs


Description

Organise a rally with Minimum 40 People, with the help of any local NGO working on the problem you are targeting.

Guidelines

There must be bodies around you working for the same cause as you are. Join hands with them to make your campaign more impactful.


Submission

1. An Excel sheet with name, mail id and contact no of participants 2. A 5 minute video of the rally 3. 5 Pics of the rally

Marking Scheme


Publish an article in local media


Description

Let the city know about your efforts and be a part of your awareness campaign. Contact local media bodies like newspapers and TV channels and make your voice heard by a larger audience.

Submission

Pic of the article on newspaper /story on TV Snapshot and link of the E paper

Marking Scheme


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