Nirvaan Event details

Visionary’s World – Guest Speakers FORUM

In past Nirvaan has witnessed visionaries like Raman Roy (founder, Wipro Spectramind), Sanjeev Bikhchandani (CEO and co-founder, Naukri.com), Sanjay Bhargava (Founder, Paypal) sharing their valuable insights to make this world a better place to live.

bPlan Challenge – The Business Plan Competition

bPlan Challenge is a catalyst that can build careers, a chance to interact with the cream of India’s entrepreneurs and to be mentored by the best in the business. It is a journey to discover men with a vision, men who choose to make a difference, who nurture the undying spirit of entrepreneurship and the passion to innovate beyond perceptible boundaries.

This year in association with Zice Holidays, a leading adventure sports company started by two successful entrepreneurs, Ravi Dabbiroo and Anurag Mehra, the competition intends to select the best of young entrepreneurs by means of a tough process towards the finals where they ultimately present their business proposals to our panel of eminent investors, faculty, and entrepreneurs. bPlan Challenge at Nirvaan’10 is one of the biggest business plan competitions in terms of participation, prizes and resources. To know more about the event guidelines see attached pdf.

Take Aways

  • Total prizes to be won worth INR 1,00,000

  • A special award for best business plan in Social Entrepreneurship field

  • A free Camp Redstone (www.campredstone.in) awarded to the best business idea in Adventure Tourism industry sponsored by Zice Holidays

    “Zice Holidays is leading adventure sports company, offering both consumers and travel professionals an authoritative source of exciting and colorful activities to explore, plan and book”

  • Chances of funding given by our Angel Partner – Indian Angel Network

    “IAN is India’s first & largest business angel group with successful entrepreneurs and dynamic CEOs interested in investing in startup / early stage ventures which have the potential of creating disproportionate value”

  • Business Mentorship from the industry experts and Incubation facility

Stockezy - Socio-financial Investment Guru

This is a case study based competition. Write a business solution on how Stockezy can leverage the social networking for the mutual benefit of investors? Register with Stockezy (www.stockezy.com) online and analyze their existing business model. Your business solution should clearly recommend a strategy for Stockezy with following details:

a) Description of the service

b) Target Market and Intended Customers

c) Revenue Model and Marketing Plan

d) Risk Analysis and Financial Modeling

To know more about the event guidelines see attached pdf.

Prizes

  • Winner will be awarded Rs 5,000 prize money sponsored by Stockezy

    “Stockezy is India's first social investing community designed to connect Indian Stock Market investors. It provides an effective platform for like-minded investors to exchange ideas, share business insights and grow to make educated financial decisions”

Startup Showcase

Abhiyan in association with NSEF invites entries which have worked on delivering significant and explicit social benefits. The entries must possess a strong foundation based on four pillars: Business model, Measurable social impact, Feasibility of implementation, and Economic sustainability of the venture.

The entrepreneurs who wish to participate in the event should have had worked in the social entrepreneurial space for some considerable time. The members shall be presenting their work to eminent people in the industry and would get
mentorship from them.

Networking Session

Nirvaan with the presence of both established and budding entrepreneurs provides a forum for networking and socializing to the participants. Networking sessions are intended to enable participants to harness this unique opportunity that Nirvaan presents before them, wherein eminent personalities relate their personal experiences and their rendezvous with entrepreneurship.