Conquest’s Business Plan Challenge: “Innovate, Inspire, Conquer”

Conquest’s Business Plan Challenge is one of India’s better such student run competitions. Its is scheduled in August.

Conquest is a unique business event that helps transform ideas for into reality.Conquest is hosted by Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership of BITS Pilani Currently in its sixth edition, Conquest started as a business plan competition in 2004 and over time has grown into one of most eagerly awaited student entrepreneurship events in the India.
This year Conquest has evolved further it will not only feature the flagship business plan competition but will also host the Global Conference for Entrepreneurship-cells. Global Conference is an annual event supported by the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN). Apart from that Conquest will also host an Idea Café, a Startup Showcase and a host of other panel discussions and guest lectures delivered by some of the very best speakers in the world of entrepreneurship.
More about the Business Plan Challenge:
- Best business brains of the country on its mentoring panel.
- Best support system to its winners be it technical, financial or legal.
- Close to $200,000 as angel funding apart from a prize money of $6000.

“Innovate, Inspire, Conquer”

Deadline: The last date to submit your executive summaries to Conquest’s Business Plan Challenge is 17th April.

For more details check : www.celbits.org/conquest

A social enterprise in India delivering possibilities for deaf youth

“Mirakle Courier Company is courier company with a difference in Mumbai. We hire underprivileged deaf boys for pick-ups and drops and the sorting is done by deaf girls. In India people with different abilities have been discouraged for a long time as a result of this discrimination there is a strong sense in the minds that they are useless and not worthy of anything. I am just using the word “they” for reference, we are one team and there are no differences.

we will prove them wrong…” watch Mirakle’s website.

Source: Mirakle Curriers’s website

It is a for-profit organisation aiming to integrate deaf youth into the job market. Allocating the right person in the right place the company has been creating jobs and generating profit which will allow the business to expand and employ more people. A sustainable business that uses deaf’s skills which are often rejected by companies.

Small actions, big changes

How organized consumer purchasing can change business ???

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Source: CarrotMob.org