Sunday, October 17, 2010

E for ENTREPRENEUR










ENTREPRENEURSHIP cell, an ESTUARY for ELITES who ENDURE to ENDEAVOUR an ENIGMATIC EDIFICE  under ISBR. The EMBERS are ready to EFFICACIOUSLY be ECCENTRIC under the ELMS of ISBR’s  EMINANTS.  EMULATING  the ERUDITES EMPERICALLY  being more  EMPHATIC  on  ENGENDERING E-CELL  in ISBR creating an EERIE  for others without any EFFIGY, ELEGANTLY ELICITED and EXPOUNDING EBBULIENTLY without being EDDY, EXULTING on the EFFORTS by EXPEDIATING our very EMBELLISHED  “INNOCENTIVE”.

ISBR’s E-CELL always tries something different. May it be writing or EXECUTING… creativity and the zeal of making different lies imbibed within us. We are thought twice to be 

EQUIVOCAL…because…………

ENTREPRENEURS are different…

E-DEVELOPMENT CELLS are different…

Our INNOCENTIVE is different…

& we are different…

& going for a different approach is risky and worth challenging…WE DO!!!!!

Entrepreneurs make some innovations followed by the caliber to take an initiative for it to get implemented. This very belief and the reason why twenty five founding members under the able guidance and mentorship of Prof. Amit Gupta ,Director (ISBR) with Yashpal Doshi and Sugandha Singh decided to name this new born E-development cell in ISBR as “INNOCENTIVE”.

E-CELL INNOCENTIVE” took birth on 23rd Nov 2007 instituting a formal inauguration in ISBR (bangalore) under the auspice of NATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK (NEN).Gracing the occasion many dignitaries like Prof. Panduranga Rao(director XIME.bangalore), Mr. Sameer Kanth(NEN coordinator of Karnataka), MrSuhashGopinath(CEO Global Inc), world youngest CEO Mr. Manish Kothari(ISBR), Mr. Prakash Kothari(chairman ISBR)& Mr. Amit Gupta (former director ISBR) decorated the dais.

Soon team “INNOCENTIVE” came out with Aids Awareness Programme on 1st december2007 keeping both the earning part and the social responsibility in mind thereby steering it to a great start.
E-WEEK Industry and academia (theme-2008) Then in the month of February, 2008 ISBR witnessed a mega event of E-WEEK facing all kinds of hurdles and challenges  that stood in front as great walls of china under the coordinator ship of Mr. Yashpal Doshi with a motive of trying to enroll  “INNOCENTIVE” in the list of ROLL OF HONOUR by NEN. Learning was tremendous in just a week. Patience, passion, persistence and perseverance are all that define entrepreneurship and it all was tested again and again in all those who worked for it. Various events like corporate walk, branding, group discussions, mad add show, elocution, case study presentations, mind mapping, and fun events like, Chinese whisper, 3 hint games, etc, were conducted. This triggered a positive change in the lives it touched. ISBR, Bangalore in its first year participated in this nationwide programme and won the Roll of Honor among the 275 odd colleges which participated in the event.

Mr. Yashpal Doshi  and Ms. Sugandha Singh the coordinators of the very 1st E-CELL team have been given the membership of the NEN Alumni Club. “INNOCENTIVE” has some very distinguished personalities as its Advisory Board Members. They are:-

·         Mr. Phanindra Sama (Founder & CEO,  RedBus.in)

·         Mr. Suhas Gopinath (CEO,  GlobusInc)

·         Mr. Nikesh Shah (Alacron India Pvt Ltd)

·         Mr. Gopal Bengeri  (Tastebuds)

·         Ms. Priyanka (Co-founder, Hungryzone.com)

·         Mr. Neeraj Harlaka (CEO, Store.in)

·         Mr. Karthik K.S. (CEO, 24x7 learning)

·         Mr. Manish Kothari (Managing Trustee,  ISBR)

·         Prof. Amit Gupta (Former Director, ISBR)

Since the Inception of our E-CELL we went forward in search of excellence of true entrepreneurial spirit. With the advent of a new day stars being the torch bearer  paved the way to the new morning making Ms. Soumya Satpathy  and Mr. Denzil Varghese hold the legacy and shone bright before meeting the dawn from 2008-10. Holding the post of coordinators leading a team of 23 students again created new milestones like organizing  an opportunity evaluation workshop that innovated their  marketing skills in front of other students and also the stalwarts like Mr. Azgar Khan (NEN consultant), Mr.  Sameer Kanth  (NEN consultant) and Mr. Vinod Shashtri (NEN Evangelist).

No doubt positive ideas are to come, but thinking negative or bad ideas might not be less challenging, especially if one has to sell the same…this thought carried the event of IDEA GENERATION WORKSHOP conducted by Mr. Vinod and Mr. Sameer Kanth. This really has brought the best among the individuals and teams.

The TATA NEN hottest startups the First ever ‘Public Choice Awards’ to recognize India’s young, dynamic, enterprising and innovative entrepreneurs started its journey from the ISBR campus. The Awards are a unique collaboration between the Tata Group, India’s most respected business conglomerate and NEN, the largest representatives of new and future entrepreneurs in India. The Awards aim to showcase and recognize high potential young companies in India, with the goal to attract visibility for over 800 entrepreneurs & their ventures in India and engage over 500000 people.

GO GREEN….2009 E-WEEK’s theme. Yet another level of the step to success after attaining the 2008s roll of honor was a head banging time for the team members to set another bench mark by winning the CHAMPIONSHIP AWARD. An impressive and diverse range of events covering renewable energy sources, alternate energy solutions, clean technologies, carbon emissions  and trading, global warming, and the whole panorama of going green. This again instigated this spirit of entrepreneurship within the campus.

Then in 2010 the torch bearer legacy got passed to the flocks of new born birds aspiring to fly selecting the coordinators to be Mr. Syed Shadab and Mr. Kushal Chakraborty. In the phase of learning to fly these new born brought another role of honor adding to the credits of high collared ISBR. Venturing into the activities like publishing real booklet real Bangalore, waste o mart, rain water harvesting, etc, under the mentorship of Ms. Soumya Satapathy and Mr. Denzil Varghese.

E WEEK 2010 - INDIA OPPORTUNITES WITHIN- Following the marathon chasing the achievers in order to win fame, Innocentive set sail for yet another challenging voyage in the mid of February 2010. Despite obstacles like limited funds, lack of student participation hitting the Innocentive crew like massive waves we managed to pull of the weeklong event quite efficiently to say the least. With many prominent guests like Suhas Gopinath , Joshua Rozario, Sabyasachi Bannerjee,and many more gracing the occasion we had a mix of highly intellectual  events like panel discussion on India’s future in INDIA 20:20, Entrepreneurial  experiences in Total Recall, Points on being a successful entrepreneur in Turning Point , Business Plan events like approaching a VC as well as fun filled activities like skits, treasure hunt, and many, This occasion also helped us to organize certain activities which was directed towards the welfare of the society as a whole. Whether it is creating   basic traffic awareness in the form of Traffic Campaign, Doing street plays in schools with the theme of instilling the values of education in tender minds and skits for working employees to help them get out of work stress in a lighter way.

The hard work of the team as well as the participants did reap some fruit in the end when the college was bestowed with the “Roll of Honor”. This was however not a very fulfilling result for the team considering the fact that we were champions in the previous E-week. But a significant achievement still because it was a hat trick of wins for ISBR , an infant institute compared to many other stalwart institutes in the ranks.


Now the trendsetters are setting the goals and expectations before the upcoming   generations is very high.  With many new challenges and hurdles cropping up day by day, the leaders’ and guides of the ship are clearing all the hurdles of problems and guiding them like the gardener, nurturing the shrubs to achieve the next milestone… 

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