The Meritorious

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CHECK MATE!

OPPORTUNISTIC APOCALYPSE!

Humanity has been enthralled by innovations ever since inception. Our planet has been a subject of innumerable works of sci-fi and has inspired countless dreams of adventures and exploration. Now, after decades of repeated attempts, research and breakthroughs; we’re finally ready for the challenge to improve Earthly Conditions. There are a lot of compelling reasons to pursue such an endeavor.

The distressed conditions on Earth have now propelled the humans to find a new resort to survival. The large gap between how human civilization started and how it has reached summits today is mind-boggling. It is not just technology that has grown by leaps and bounds but Terrorism, Drug Abuse, Human Trafficking, Rapes, Racism, Global Warming, Unemployment, Poverty, Homelessness and other paradigms have seen unforeseen changes. The system has become evil. Are you fed up with the way the state of the world is often bemoaned while no one actually seems to be doing something about it? News bullets abound in shocking statistics concerning the high prevalence of gender violence or the many persons throughout the world who still do not have access to adequate medical care. Yet seemingly, our society is content to simply retell these stories, while the problems continue unabated.

Entrepreneurs! This is your call for awakening. With depletion of scarce resources and exploitation of natural habitats, survival has become difficult.. This is the perfect environment for an Entrepreneur to develop an idea to address this upfront crisis, while ensuring it is a profitable business in such a hostile condition.

PITCH PERFECT:

The Entrepreneurs will be pitching the idea to a panel of three INVESTORS, each of whom represents a Government Official, An Angel Investor, or raise a Public Issue the people. Entrepreneurs must choose any one of the above three  (as their investor) wisely.

DELIVERABLES:

1. Introduction

- (Executive Summary, Vision, Mission, Objectives, Core Values)

2. Implementation Strategy

- (Phase wise operational plan, feasibility study and market analysis)

3. Marketing Plan

- (SWOT Analysis, STP Analysis, Conventional and unconventional marketing strategies, 4Ps)

4. Detailed Finances

-(Source of funds, allocation of funds, Investment amount, Break Even Point, Revenue model with Monthly Revenue and per unit Revenue, margin per unit/ profit per unit if it’s a product, expected downloads and subscriptions if it’s an App, number of clients/customers acquired if it’s a service)

5. A Presentation not exceeding 10 slides!

NOTE: Please make a Table of Contents, Correct Page-Numbering, Borders, Justified alignment and other requisites for the report!

PLEASE REPORT AT 7:45 AM TO AUDI BLOCK #903 WITH TWO COPIES OF YOUR REPORTS! EMAIL YOUR PRESENTATIONS FOR THE SAME.

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Be Pitch Ready !

That’s an Entrepreneur ^ when he makes it to TOP 5 ..

Don’t let the enthusiasm die tonight :) Do not quit. Let the night serve you with the best ideas.. :) Tonight is yours! Ace it Meritorians!

Give in ALL

Keep checking the Blog!

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Bhaiya 2 Photocopy Dena!

24 hour printing at Manipal Center.

Manipal Center M G Road, North Block Shop 5, Manipal Centre, Manipal Centre Bangalore, Karnataka.

Contact: 08025597340 / 08025581779

Call the shopkeeper and tell him that you will be present in the morning at a time suitable for you! This shop is your last resort in case you can’t get a print out. To avoid last minute troubles get your work done as soon as possible :)

Be well groomed tomorrow and maintain the Christ University Rules. Be crisp with your pitches and maintain a tone of confidence and positivity when you speak. What you say is what they’ll believe! :)

Grind well !

Make Us Proud!

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The Stage is Yours!

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR TOMORROW: 

1. Participants are requested to come properly groomed/well-dressed in Department Formals (Blazer Compulsory) 

 2. Please prepare a power point presentation of your round and include all the important information pertaining to your report.

 3. Make the presentation interactive yet simple for judges to enable them decipher it easily. 

 4. You will have to carry your own pendrives/laptop/chargers and devices required by you for the final completion of the project. 

 5. (Contingency) carry extra stick files in case you are asked to present the report in a file at the last moment.

 6. Reporting Time: 7:45 AM Audi Block (903/904) 

 7. Get two copies of your reports for tomorrow! KEEP CHECKING THE BLOG!

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Best Meritorian? Goodluck !

Congratulations TOP 5 Contestants for making it to the Stage Round of Vistas 2018. We are extremely delighted with your hard work and dedication! The road, however close to the end is still untravelled! It’s time for you to put your best foot forward :)

NOTE: “Entrepreneurs the night is young, keep checking the blog for rounds and updates.”

A common WhatsApp group for communication is to be devised for the purpose of the TOP 5 Contestants and Event Heads. Participants are required to send their WhatsApp contact number to the following contact ASAP:

Abhishek: [phone]

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Venue for today

Block 4, fifth floor - #510 #511

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Bazaar Call !

As an entrepreneur investing in an offline or online shop requires a lot of money. Investments aside, it is also a risk factor. Therefore, participating in these flea markets helps entrepreneurs get a taste of their business without shelling out many cash. What works out best for entrepreneurs is that at these flea markets they are able to build a rapport with the customer. These flea markets also help in the market research for these startups. The beauty of a flea market is that people get to spend an entire weekend in one place where there is food, shopping and entertainment. When the event overall provides great atmosphere for the crowd, each start-up automatically benefits as well. They get to know about people’s taste and reach their customers for a much cheaper price. They get an understanding of what the market is demanding and learn how to deal with customers as well. This helps them improve their product over time as well. In India, Flea markets have been unorganized since ages and this is because of the illiterate class owning the stalls, illegally at these places. Some of the major Flea markets in India being Colava Causeway, Mumbai; Sarojini Nagar, Delhi; Johari Bazaar, Jaipur; Chor Bazaar Mumbai, etc. At all these places, outside the established shops, are a large number of unregistered, stalls, that work by providing commission to the local authorities. There stalls keep on shifting their locations depending upon where it is safe to put up the stall. Apart from this, there are no current opportunities for micro entrepreneurs to display their products and services on a small scale before launching it in the market. An organized flea market would provide these entrepreneurs an opportunity to test market their business and get a review before scaling up their productions.

TASK AT HAND: You have to create a privately owned, organized sector of Flea markets, keeping in mind the governmental policies and laws, to provide open opportunities to the small and micro entrepreneurs present locally and nationally.

-The Flea market must be organized and legal, and must cater to experienced shop owners who own these shops at the illegal markets.

-The Entrepreneurs must provide incentives to these shopkeepers to leave the unorganized sector and be a part of the organized sector, in a way that benefits

1. The shop owners,

2. The government,

3. You as the promoter of the Flea market.

Deliverables

A full-fledged business plan comprising of the following: 1. Executive Summary 2. Implementation Plan (Phase-wise) 3. Marketing campaigns (Depending on the implementation phase) 4. Incentives provided to the shop-owners of the unorganized sector 5. Financials comprising of: -Cost Sheet -Revenue Model -Projected Income Statement -Cash Flows -Balance Sheet

Submission:

Soft copy before 2 pm

Hard copy before 2 pm

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LIFE IS A RACE...

Better Late Than Never! Gear up Meritorians ... The battle is tougher ahead. Pitch Well Today!

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Update!!

Submission for the hard copy of the Education round should be done before 2. In Audi block, 1st floor, 901 or 903.

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Right To Education Returns!

Education is a powerful instrument for reducing poverty and inequality. The Indian education system has made significant progress in recent years to ensure that educational opportunities are available to all segments of the society. According to the 2009 Right to Education Act, schooling is free and compulsory for all the children from the ages of 6 to 14.

However, most of the provisions guaranteed in the Act are yet to be fulfilled, like the availability of trained teachers, high student pupil ratio, books/stationary not coming in time, technological advancements in education, lack of basic infrastructural facilities like functional toilets with water facilities, safe drinking water, electricity, library, laboratories, etc. These gaps lead to many children, especially girls to drop out of school as they grow up. The Government of India and other private organizations are taking various measures to motivate the people of the country to send their children to schools. However, improvements are slowly being made and disadvantaged groups may still not have adequate access to education. The Indian Education System is explained in the following diagram. Primary education is from the age of 6 to 11, secondary education is from 11 to 15, higher secondary

education is 16 and 17 and graduation in any field of interest can be done after 17. So the Indian education system is focused on giving basic education to all the segments of our society. In a recent report “The World Bank” has warned of a learning crisis in global education particularly in countries like India. The report talks about how schooling without learning is not just a wasted development opportunity, but also a great injustice to children worldwide. The report says that millions of young students are affected in their present business world as they are unable to match the knowledge of the current business competitors as they lack a good foundation from primary and secondary schooling. The report says that India ranks second after Malawi in a list of 12 countries wherein a grade two student could not read a single word of a short text. India also tops the list of seven countries in which a grade two student could not perform two-digit subtraction.

The situation is even more worse in rural India as three-quarters of students in grade 3 could not solve a two-digit subtraction and by grade 5 half could still not do it. Even after several years of schooling millions cannot read, write or do basic math.

The social divide which should be narrowed with the help of education is now widening due to the lack of Learning. The report also said that the kids who are already disadvantaged by poverty and other socio economic crisis will reach their adulthood without the most basic life skills.

Task in Hand:

As an Entrepreneur looking at this opportunity come up with a detailed Business plan in order to overcome the learning crisis in India.

a) You are required to come up with a practical Business plan to increase the efficiency of the education being provided to the pupil at large

b) You are also required to bring in a touch of the AI ( artificial intelligence ) in your Idea and execution.

Your B plan must comprise a minimum of the table of contents which will be provided in the next update.

DELIVERABLES:

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

2. IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (PHASE WISE)

3. FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS 

5. MARKETING (CONVENTIONAL, UNCONVENTIONAL, 4Ps, STP)

6. SWOT ANALYSIS

7. DETAILED HR PLAN

8. PR STRATEGIES

9. FINANCES (SOURCES AND ALLOCATION)

10. PRINT AD

SUBMISSION:

Soft copy - Tuesday 10th July, 9 am

Hard copy - Before 2pm in 901, 903

Give the Indians their Right To Education to earn your right to top 5!

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TOP 10: ASSEMBLE!

Date: 9/07/18 Event: The Meritorius Venue: Block IV (6th Floor- 4603) Gear up for the ultimate challenge of your B-FEST. 10 participants, 4 days, 3 Meritorians.

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ATTENTION!!!

Your previous task has been scrapped off. So sit back, relax and have a fruitful weekend.

Remember to give feedback to the teachers as to how this is affecting your journey in becoming a successful entrepreneur.

Regards.

The Entrepreneur.

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Guide Your Mentors

We request all the participants whoever sees this blog irrespective of eliminations to give us a feedback of how we serve the purpose as your event heads on the following factors:

Pros

Cons

Feedback

Suggestions

Please feel free and open and give us your true feedback’s so that we can work on ourselves to serve and train you better. We are waiting your response, so please do WhatsApp us on our respective numbers:

Adam- 9886024576

Abhishek- 92397 28058

Sachi - [phone]

Or simply mail it to us on [email protected]

Brownie points for honest reviews without any buttering ;)

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Right To Education

Education is a powerful instrument for reducing poverty and inequality. The Indian education system has made significant progress in recent years to ensure that educational opportunities are available to all segments of the society. According to the 2009 Right to Education Act, schooling is free and compulsory for all the children from the ages of 6 to 14.

However, most of the provisions guaranteed in the Act are yet to be fulfilled, like the availability of trained teachers, high student pupil ratio, books/stationary not coming in time, technological advancements in education, lack of basic infrastructural facilities like functional toilets with water facilities, safe drinking water, electricity, library, laboratories, etc. These gaps lead to many children, especially girls to drop out of school as they grow up. The Government of India and other private organizations are taking various measures to motivate the people of the country to send their children to schools. However, improvements are slowly being made and disadvantaged groups may still not have adequate access to education. The Indian Education System is explained in the following diagram. Primary education is from the age of 6 to 11, secondary education is from 11 to 15, higher secondary

education is 16 and 17 and graduation in any field of interest can be done after 17. So the Indian education system is focused on giving basic education to all the segments of our society. In a recent report “The World Bank” has warned of a learning crisis in global education particularly in countries like India. The report talks about how schooling without learning is not just a wasted development opportunity, but also a great injustice to children worldwide. The report says that millions of young students are affected in their present business world as they are unable to match the knowledge of the current business competitors as they lack a good foundation from primary and secondary schooling. The report says that India ranks second after Malawi in a list of 12 countries wherein a grade two student could not read a single word of a short text. India also tops the list of seven countries in which a grade two student could not perform two-digit subtraction.

The situation is even more worse in rural India as three-quarters of students in grade 3 could not solve a two-digit subtraction and by grade 5 half could still not do it. Even after several years of schooling millions cannot read, write or do basic math.

The social divide which should be narrowed with the help of education is now widening due to the lack of Learning. The report also said that the kids who are already disadvantaged by poverty and other socio economic crisis will reach their adulthood without the most basic life skills.

Task in hand:

As an Entrepreneur looking at this opportunity come up with a detailed Business plan in order to overcome the learning crisis in India.

a) You are required to come up with a practical Business plan to increase the efficiency of the education being provided to the pupil at large

b) You are also required to bring in a touch of the AI ( artificial intelligence ) in your Idea and execution.

Your B plan must comprise a minimum of the table of contents which will be provided in the next update.

Submission :

Soft copy - Sunday 8th July, 8 pm

Hard copy -Monday 9th July, 8.45 am in 901 , 903, 905

Give the Indians their right to education to earn your right to top 7

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So Meritorius!!!!

These are the top 10 is no particular order:

CORP06

CORP15

CORP48

CORP50

CORP51

CORP52

CORP59

CORP62

CORP67

CORP70

Participants who got eliminated please don’t be disheartened. Don’t be disappointed that you didn’t win be proud that you tried and didnt give up. It was a very tough competition, Keep up the spirit and you will be “Meritorious”

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Submission deadline

Hard copy- 1 pm

Soft copy - 1 pm

Additional Deliverables - 4pm

Venue - block 4, 6th floor, room 4603.

Note - submission after the deadline would lead to deduction in 5 points for every 15 mins.

“Time never waits for anyone”

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Get Set for a Change!

They say change is the only constant. And with you entering top 15 get ready to mold yourself. You’ve no friends in this competition, cause every person is trying to over power you with one or the other force.

From tomorrow there would be no lineance so ensure you follow all the criteria:

Be on time

Proper dress code

Try getting deliverables for every round

Proper formatting ( Font - Times New Roman, font size ( heading -14, body -12), alignment - justified. Line spacing - 1.5

Report should be stapled in the centre ( one staple on mid top, one on mid bottom )

Reports should include a cover page, index along with proper page numbers

Do not make assumptions and call your event heads regarding any doubts

Note: you’ve made mistaken till now, your true entrepreneur journey begins when you don’t repeat this mistakes.

NO MISTAKES AND ERRORS WILL BE TOLERATED FROM TOMORROW