National Summer Camp on Entrepreneurial Adventures for Youth
The Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) Ahmedabad is organizing the 16th National summer Camp on Entrepreneurial Adventures for Youth (age group 17-21 years) from 7th - 16th May 2007.
The objective of the camp is to enable youth to develop and realize their hidden potential and to prepare them to meet challenges by fostering entrepreneurship in them. To date, 512 students from across the country have been groomed by the institute.
Activities included as part of the camp:
- Entrepreneurial motivation, development games and exercises to foster traits such as creativity, concern for excellence, leadership, problem solving, independence, goal- setting, etc.
- Formal and informal interaction with successful achievers and entrepreneurs
- Evaluation and development of entrepreneurial traits and competencies.
- Visits to institutions of repute to analyse the process of creation and development
- Self-assessment through specifically designed psychological tests, instruments and learning through recording presentation on self (Camera Presentation)
- Career and psychological counselling
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Entrepreneurship faculty fellowships from National Entrepreneurship Network
The National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) have roped in support from industry leaders like Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Vijay Mallya and Vijay Kirloskar to facilitate development of entrepreneurship educators in India via faculty fellowships. The fellowship program invites donors to invest in faculty development by funding faculty leaders.
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SMS based mobile social networks in India
Wow. Call it a coincidence ? Just a couple of days back, I wrote about an Indian Twitter like service - an SMS based mobile social network for India.
Close on the heels of that post, comes a story in the ET about several such existing services and more on the way.
- Placement cell of Jai Hind college has a SMS based social network where students receive updates related to placement dates etc on via SMS
- PagalGuy - the hub for Indian MBA aspirants - plans to launch their GPRS based mobile community within the next month. Currently, they’ve launched a service where community members can subscribe to SMS updates
- Mobile2Win and Hungama mobile are also planning to launch similar, mobile based communities
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Satya Prabhakar, Sulekha founder on the power of blogging
Penguin has published two books consisting of User Generated Content compiled from Sulekha. Satya Prabhakar, Sulekha founder is a strong believer in the power of blogging and says that bloggers form a niche testbed where marketers can reach out to other users in an unparalleled manner.
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Subroto Bagchi on High Performance Entrepreneurship
Subroto Bagchi, COO of Mindtree Consulting, has documented his entrepreneurial experience from the origins of MindTree to its latest IPO as part of a new book - The High Performance Entrepreneur - Golden Rules for Success in Today’s World.
Knowledge@Wharton has an audio interview with Subroto about these principles that define a high performance entrepreneur.
Reliance Retail plans e-commerce push
Reliance Retail plans to get into e-commerce in a big way. The online medium will serve as an extension to their brick & mortar stores.Depots will be setup at various points which will serve as delivery points for online orders.They project that e-commerce will contribute 5-6% of their overall revenues.
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10-15 age group driving Indian VAS market
The mobile value-added services (VAS) industry, whose focus is mainly on the youth in the age group of 15-30 years, is, however, witnessing a new trend—more kids in the age group of 10-15 years are getting hooked to mobile content downloads.
As per Rajiv Hiranandani, head - Mobile2Win:
“The maximum content downloaded by this segment is mobile games. As the youth and children are exposed to more entertainment options, their needs and wants for quick entertainment solution increases. Hence, the demand to own mobile phones and download more content increases”.
Gee..There was a time when I was still watching Mowglee/Bikram Betal on TV at that age. After reading this bit, I suddenly feel very old 
via FE
Indian Internet Service Providers - Bharti, Reliance overtake VSNL
Lack of broadband Internet penetration in India is cited as one of the key reasons why Internet hasnt become pervasive enough in India - causing a domino effect on growth and adoption of the medium and all the pitfalls that go with it.
Well, so how much growth and market share do the Indian ISP’s have ?
In terms of market share, BSNL leads the pack with 44.4% followed by MTNL with 19.3%, Sify - 9.3%, Bharti Airtel - 6.9% and Reliance at 6.2%.
Bharti saw a growth of 14%, Reliance saw a growth of 22%, BSNL & MTNL reported 7% growth, VSNL grew by 1.3% and Sify dropped by 7%.
Internet subscriber base was 85.82 lakh for quarter ending Dec 2006 - 6% Q-to-Q growth.
via Hindu
Chintee.com - another Reliance venture ?
Reliance seems to be on the offensive when its comes to Internet ventures. First they announced Zapak, followed by BigAdda, then came BigFlicks. Now, there’s another site: Chintee (read as ‘ants’ in Hindi). The domain name servers for Chintee point to Zapak and currently, the site redirects to BigAdda.
However, the DNS propagation happened very recently. And I was able to capture a screenshot of the prior landing page on Chintee before the propagation actually happened.
Rajesh Sawhney is president of Reliance Entertainment.
Wonder what Reliance has in store next. Any guesses ?
Thanks to Gaurav for this tip.
Indian Twitter
Twitter - call it a mobile social network, a group SMS service, a micro-blogging service or just another way of killing your time - has caught the fancy of the Silicon Valley residents. TechCrunch has a Twitter channel, Gigaom has one and the list just goes on and on.
If you are completely clueless about what Twitter is, here’s how it works. You create an account and your own Twitter channel. You then send updates via SMS / IM to your Twitter channel. These updates are displayed on your profile on Twitter. Moreover, people can also subscribe to your channel and receive the updates via the website, SMS, RSS or IM. Essentially, you try to answer one simple question via the udpate - “What are you doing ?”.
Now that introductions are out of the way, lets switch focus to an Indian version of Twitter. No, this is not a review for an Indian equivalent of Twitter. Instead, I want to explore into such a scenario.