Design your Ahmedabad
Design your Ahmedabad Challenge was an initiative by EDI & eChai Ventures that took place on 8th March, 2014 at EDI campus as a part of the Empresario 2014 to address the civic issues in the city. Its aim was to make Ahmedabad a better place to live in by engaging entrepreneurs, professionals, academicians, students, and civic authorities to build solutions for the civic challenges faced by the people of Ahmedabad.
Entrepreneurs, professionals, academicians, students and civic authorities came together to
build a better Ahmedabad
Initially all the participants pitched their ideas that included problems, potential solutions and how they are willing to contribute. Some of the ideas suggested were for promoting responsible traffic and parking behavior, clean air awareness campaign, clean public toilets and waste management among other issues. These ideas were then brainstormed upon and finally thirteen projects were selected and the participants who proposed these ideas will lead the projects in implementation.
Out of all these projects, top 5 were voted as winners by the participants.
The projects are:
1. RIDE SENSE. PRIDE SENSE –
Sticker Campaign for promoting responsible traffic and parking behavior by Pathik Jhalavadia, Tech Entrepreneur
2. LET’s GO!–
Car Pool/ Ride Sharing for events by Deep Patel, Budding Entrepreneur
3. CLEAN KAR CAMPAIGN–
Clean air awareness campaign. On-ground activities with volunteers + videos, pamphlets, social media etc. by Nishit Jariwala, Student Entrepreneur, Founder, BuddyBits.com
4. KAKA PROJECT–
Text and/or voice enabled mobile app to access information about institutions, processes etc. starting with Public Transport by Shivam Dhruva, Tech Entrepreneur
5. MENTOR VENTURES–
Online and Offline resource to link mentors & New Ventures – by Vishesh Bansal, Lawyer
These five shortlisted teams will be invited to present their work at ‘Design Your Ahmedabad’ conference to be hosted on 5th April where prominent people from the city are expected to participate. Top 2 winners judged by the jury will be given the Rs. 10k cash prize each.
Know more about it: http://designyourahmedabad.com/
EDI – Library
EDI Library and Information Centre (EDILIC) was set up way back in 1983. Enriched with updated information resources on Entrepreneurship and related subjects, it is an information resource centre of national and international repute.
EDI’s library is equipped with a large number of text and reference books on entrepreneurship and related subjects. The EDILIC endeavors to support the teaching, research and academic needs of the faculty, students and participants of the programmes, through books, journals and other reading material. The total collection of EDILIC is more than 25000 which includes books, CDs, back volumes and other materials, selected after carefully scrutinized by the Library Advisory Committee.
Reference material includes:
- Text Books
- Reference Books
- Research Reports
- Handbooks
- Directories
- Serial Publications
- Encyclopedias
- Dictionaries
- Working Papers
- Economic and Industrial Surveys
- Newspaper Clippings
- Biographies of Entrepreneurs
- Project profiles on products
- Business Opportunities
EDILIC has been fully automated through LibSys Software. All the library holdings are accessible through Institute’s website. EDILIC uses Bar Code Technology for its housekeeping and lending service.
It has been subscribing 150 national and international journals in the field of entrepreneurship and related subjects. EDILIC also subscribes to 25 Newspapers published within the country.
EDILIC has a collection of 200 videocassettes and more than 2000 CDs/VCDs. The EDILIC has in-house viewing facility for videocassettes and CDs.
EDILIC is an institutional member of Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, Indian Library Association (ILA), Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC), Management Libraries Network (MANLIBNET) and The British Library, Ahmedabad. Apart from this, EDILIC is regularly using services of Ahmedabad Library Network (ADINET) and Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET).
The library functioning hours are 08:00 AM to 12:00 AM (midnight)
(It will be closed on the public holidays observed by the Institute)
External Membership
EDILIC membership is primarily given to the EDI faculty, staff members, students and programme participants of the Institute. In order to fulfill the demands, raised by several institutions and individuals, the EDILIC extends membership to outside users such as Academic Institutions/NGOs/Entrepreneurship Development Cells/outside faculty/entrepreneurs/corporate executives/students, EDI Alumni and OLPE Alumni on payment basis.
You can apply for an external membership here: http://www.ediindia.ac.in/Doc/MembershipFormforExternalUsers.pdf
EDI Empresario: Gavisti
Gavisti is a business competition, where teams are in combat to innovate, to compete in technical, technological, financial feasibility and to attract investment and customers.
SCENARIO
The participating teams would get a feel of live market condition and decide on strategy of how market behaves, it would be more like live dynamic market condition, where maximum 10 teams would be competing with each other in market economy of not more than 10 crore where teams would raise funds and sell their products as well.
1. Maximum economy size would not be more than 10 crore, in that teams have to raise funds for their fixed asset.
2. The investors who will invest in your idea would be students, thus it becomes duty of the teams to convince investors to invest in your firm.
3. For purchasing of product also there would be different set of participants who would judge your product by customer point of view and would judge on your team’s vision and marketing skill.
4. Teams need to work out finance very well, that is they need to work on their fixed cost and working capital, teams would only be allowed to raise their fix cost from the market, and the working capital required for production would be done through bank financing.
5. Also there is Price Money for the Investor that would be judged on how wise the investor makes their decision.
6. Teams should see the unit product price need to be range of 500-5000.
Role of investors will also be played by the students:
1. There would be total of 50 participants who would act as investor and customers both.
2. We would divide these participants in two batches of 25 each and at single point of time one batch would act as investors and other would act as customer, after some time we would change the role and vice versa.
3. To make things more interesting the level of money supply would be controlled by us and money would be supplied in parts.
4. There are price money for investor as well and would be defined in predefined equation set by us, for declaring the winner for investor we would consider dividend paid by company, their market capitalization, and total number of shares.
5. For investor to become winner there would be parameters to judge on.
6. It is to be noted that in 50 investors there would be group of 25 who at a point of time would act as investors and other buyers.
7. After each round the groups would exchange their roles. Thus everyone would get opportunity to buy products and be a part of investment.
8. Participants who would like to participate as investors can also take part, prior registration would be required.
You can be a part of it too! Last date to register: For Team – 17th February, 2014 | For Investors : 28th February, 2014
Find more details here: http://bit.ly/1ou1ajm | Register here: http://bit.ly/1eqdfxo
[Top]EDI – Empresario (7th – 8th March, 2014)
Empresario is an entrepreneurial event at EDI, connecting entrepreneurs with Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Bankers, Industry Professional and common people.
As known ” the world is a stage & we the players” thereby this platform is to propel those who know they can & who know they will achieve, to sense what is not sensed & to create what is not created, so this Empresario fragrance will not fade till one slogans ” I have promises to keep & miles to go before I sleep”
Who is it for?
-Innovators/Patentees
-Startups
-Students from the technical & non – technical background
-Industry experts
-Mentors
-Venture Capitalists, Investors, Bankers
-Networking Companies
Events:
- In Innovator to Entrepreneur (I2E), we will be identifying and inviting several innovators who hold or have applied patents for products/ processes that have the potential to be commercially viable. A platform to showcase their product/ idea to the team of experts, Venture Capitalists and Financiers. (Register here : http://bit.ly/1eTgQZt)
- The participants will also get an opportunity to get Counseling from experts from various fields like Financing, Taxation, Etc.
- Participants who are eligible and interested to get financial support for their ventures will get support to make business plans and an opportunity to pitch their product/idea before a group of Venture Capitalists and Financiers. (Register here : http://bit.ly/1j1whPm | Last date : 15th February 2014)
- The proposed business ideas will have stalls put up in the format of a Start-up Fair that will be more convenient for participants to network and find the right business partners, mentors, industry association leaders and investors/financiers. (Register here: http://bit.ly/1g83TxB )
- EDI-NEN Launchpad Workshop 2014. National Entrepreneurship Network is an organization working towards fostering entrepreneurship amongst students of India. If you are a student innovator with an idea/prototype/proof of concept to share, then EDII-NEN Launchpad 2014 platform is for you. The platform will provide you with first-hand exposure to entrepreneurship through workshops on commercialization.
- Gavisti is a business competition, where teams are in combat to innovate, to compete in technical, technological, financial feasibility and to attract investment and customers. (Register here: http://bit.ly/1eqdfxo | Last date: 17th February 2014)
Contact:
Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India
(Via Ahmedabad Airport & Indira Bridge),
P.O. Bhat 382 428, Dist. Gandhinagar,
Gujarat, India.
Vibha Natraj, Coordinator
Phone-+91 97220 55999
vibha@ediindia.org
Aashish Jhamb , Coordinator-Events
Phone-+91 9638140707
aashish16@ediindia.org
Shiva Mehta, Coordinator-Sponsorship
Phone-+91 99999 26399,
shiva16@ediindia.org
For general queries, e-mail us at empresario@ediindia.org
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Advisory Council
Srihari Patel,+91 87580 37085
Ritu Kedia ,+91 87582 98869