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Sep 1, 2010
Openings of CEO and Project/IT Manager

CEID received funding from DIT (Govt. of India) and has openings of CEO and project/IT manager (Advt.) as announced in Times of India on September 1, 2010.

Oct 8, 2007
IdeaCamp|DA-IICT Concludes

Not the Saturday nights alone will be awaited now, the days will be too! This was the impact the event IdeaCamp|DA-IICT could instill. The event, organized by CEID to provide a platform to facilitate exchange and generation of thoughts and ideas, witnessed insightful sessions, talks and presentations by emerging entrepreneurs, distinguished professors and students. Mr. Govind Agrawal talked about his venture Anaxee Technologies and answered the inundating audience queries. The Do's and Don'ts of Corporate blogging were discussed by Mr. Abhishek Desai, Co-Founder, DigiCorp whereas Web 2.0 was hashed out by his teammate Mr. Kuntal Shah. Mr. Abhay Panjiyar, CEON Solutions, explained his journey from a final year student to an entrepreneur and stressed upon the significance of a team and a Guru.

Prof. Anil Gupta talked about "Transformation of Ground-level Innovations to Sustainable Technologies" and discussed a few of his dream ideas. His interactive style made everyone spell-bound. Prof. Pradyumna Vyas, of Mini Mobile fame, talked about how a small investment in product design could increase revenue manifold. "Venture Capital Financing for Start-ups" was discussed at length by Mr. Vishnu Varshney, a pioneer VC. He also illustrated the screening process for funding startups.

Now, it was the turn of a few brainy students who presented their unique ideas. Archit Jain and Parul Sharma introduced the prospect of "DNA computing" which was followed by a short discussion on "Partial Caching of Web Pages" by Anurag Mehrotra.

The enthusiastic audience consisted of students, entrepreneurs, incubatees and professionals. The event was a huge success.

- Ankit Kothari

Sep 29, 2007
IdeaCamp|DA-IICT: A Technology UnConference at DA-IICT

CEID announces the much-awaited IdeaCamp|DA-IICT to be held on on Oct 6, 2007. Based on the BarCamp format, IdeaCamp|DA-IICT is a technology gathering to provide a common platform to budding entrepreneurs, thinkers, developers, technologists, professionals and students from across the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar twin city to come together. The theme for the event is "Technology. People. Ideas." The details of the event are available here.

Sep 28, 2007
Co(i)gnition Winners!

Co(i)gnition went off as another successful event organised by CEID. With a healthy paticipation of 12 teams, the presentations went on for almost 2 and a half hours. Cross questioning by the audience, in addition to the judges kept the event lively till the end. At the end of the session the judges, Prof. Sanjay Srivastava and Prof. Asim Banerjee decided the winning teams for the top 3 slots, with the 3rd slot being shared by 2 teams.

 

1st Prize

Ankit Agrawal & Nitesh Bhatia.

2nd Prize

Prakash Josyula & Sai Gopal Thota.

3rd Prize (joint)

Anuj Srivastava, Rounak Dholakia & Kapil Shahani, and
T.Vamsi Krishna & K.Nishanth

 

The winning teams will be provided mentoring by CEID, so as to groom them for the IdeaCampDAIICT being organised by CEID on Oct 6, 2007.

Sep 23, 2007
The 'E' Word!

And I thought I was acquainted with the heart and soul of this word…how cockeyed my thought was! A similar idea was shared by many attendees of this prolific event organized by CEID, which marked the beginning of the Entrepreneurship 101 series directed at generating awareness about entrepreneurship. The session was addressed by Mr. Vinod Sagar Dumra, a DA-IICT visiting faculty and a close friend of his Mr. Prem Kapoor, an IIT-K alumnus.

Mr. Dumra answered the queries received from the audience. He termed entrepreneur as a person creating NEW business activity in an economy. “Quickness in implementing the idea, spotting untapped markets, innovation and creativity are crucial to an entrepreneur’s success”, he added. Talking about the requisite personal characteristics, he stressed upon the desire for excellence and independence, self-confidence and readiness to sacrifice emotional properties. “An MBA degree is an added advantage for sure to help deal with the logical and financial aspects and therefore, should be pursued if time is not a constraint”, was his reply to the most common query. Thereafter, he elaborated a 12-step marketing process, covering all the facets of a business plan, which is necessary to go through before taking the plunge.

Mr. Kapoor talked about the life in technology land sharing his own experiences of the Silicon Valley. “One should be very much observant and mull over an idea from all the possible angles. Don’t refine your objective every time, don’t widdle around and try to go for small successes. Above all, think about the payback for your product because you are into entrepreneurship to earn profits and not for the fun of it or philanthropy.”

To inspire the audience, some light was thrown on the ideologies of late Dhirubhai Ambani followed by a brief presentation on a few young entrepreneurs who rejected plum job offers.

The event was a grand success, thanks to everyone who contributed to it. Watch out fellas, a lot more in store for you!

- Ankit Kothari

Sep 21, 2007
Co(i)gnition: Everything begins with an idea!

CEID, in its continued efforts to unearth entrepreneurial talent at DA-IICT, has come up with the event ‘Co(i)gnition’, providing an ideal platform to manifest ones ideas; those ranging from mediocre and mundane to the out-of-the-world and craziest.

The finalists will get an opportunity to present their ideas at the IdeaCampDAIICT being organized by CEID in collaboration with CIIE (IIM-Ahmedabad).

Sep 17, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 series launched. Session 1: The 'E' Word.

CEID announces the Entrepreneurship 101 series. Encapsulating the very essence of the motivation behind CEID, Entrepreneurship 101 attempts to focus at the very core of entrepreneurship and address the what's, why's and how's of it.

Launching its Entrepreneurship 101 series, CEID presents a talk-cum-exercise session titled "The 'E' word!".

Sep 10, 2007
Winners of The 100/10 Challenge announced.

The 100/10 Challenge was a tremendous success! The campus was abuzz with entrepreneurial activity for a better part of Sunday (Sep 9, 2007), with teams making profits in not just hundreds but even thousands by the end of the day. In a programme organised on Monday evening, the participating teams were awarded the Best Entrepreneurial Team prizes in three categories and a Consolation prize.

 

Best Entrepreneurial Teams:

Ankit Kothari and Sudhanshu Agrawal in the Maximum Profit category.
Jayesh Gumber and Vishav Vikram Kapoor in the Execution category.
Ashok J. and N. Srikanth in the Strategy category.

Consolation prize:

T. Sai Gopal and B.K. Nagarjuna for Opportunity Identification.

Winners share their experiences with us.

 

Best Entrepreneurial Teams were awarded Rs.500 each while the Consolation prize was Rs.250. All winning teams were given Certificates of Appreciation in recognition of their entrepreneurial efforts.

Prizes were handed over by the Director. The Director also shared his views and experiences on entrepreneuship with us and set the vision for CEID. An insight into the objectives of CEID was given by the CEID Convenor, Prof. Naresh D. Jotwani. Students were introduced to the CEID Coordinator, Naman Arora. He talked about his startup TempoStand, currently being incubated at CEID. Winners shared their strategies and experiences, some at great lengths! The programme was hosted by Anushree Goenka. The event was announced a great success!

 

Some facts about The 100/10 Challenge event:

A total of 28 teams participated, all with unique and very innovative ideas, which made deciding the prize winners an even difficult task. Only 3 teams suffered a nominal loss. Participation from the female section of the DA-IICT student community was abysmally low, with just one team.

Sep 7, 2007
Programme on Monday, September 10.

The following programme has been organized by CEID on Monday, September 10, 2007, at 6:00 pm:

1. Announcement of the formation of CEID, its objectives and facilities:
by Prof S C Sahasrabudhe, Director.
2. Brief introduction of TempoStand, the first student start-up at CEID.
3. Brief wrap-up of the event organized by CEID on Sunday, September 9.
4. Felicitation of the winners of Sunday’s event.

Venue: LT-1

We expect the programme to be over by about 6:45 pm. All interested members of DA-IICT community are cordially invited to attend.

Sep 5, 2007
CEID announces its inaugural event: The 100/10 Challenge.

To mark its inaugural, CEID has organized an event on Sunday, September 9, 2007. The basic idea of The 100/10 Challenge is that all the student teams will be given some seed money and are expected to raise as much profit as they can in one day, using their entrepreneurship skills and creative thinking. The prize distribution ceremony would be held on September 10, 2007.

Simple! So, feeling entrepreneurial yet? Click here for event details.

Sep 1, 2007
CEID launched. Student start-up TempoStand incubated at CEID.

DA-IICT has started the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Incubation at DA-IICT (CEID) with the motive of encouraging students with an entrepreneurial bent of mind to come up with innovative ideas and channelize their efforts to give birth to new ventures. TempoStand, a start up by students of BTech 2003 batch, has been given incubation at CEID.