The two day entrepreneurship fest of IFMR, STRIDES’12 was a huge success among the corporate and the students. The theme of this year’s STRIDES is “Comenzio – Transforming Dreams into Reality!” The event partner was “TiE Chennai” and the print partner was “The Hindu”. The event was aired live in the strides website by Purple Streams.
February 3rd 2012, Day-1, at GRT Grand Convention Center, commenced with an inauguration ceremony. The Chief Guest for the morning session included Mr.K.R.Bhaskar, Consul of Education Affairs, Mr.Srinivasan Vishwanathan, Director - TiE Chennai and Dr.Bobby Srinvasan, President - Institute of Financial Management and Research (IFMR).
IFMR, for the very first time, introduced “Launch Pad” wherein 12 start-up companies from different sectors were invited to pitch in about their venture or product, in a time span of 5 minutes to a panel of venture capitalists, investors and incubators. The audience who witnessed consisted of corporate, entrepreneurs and students. The start-ups were interrogated by these panel members by interesting and thought provoking questions.
Post Lunch, there were two panel discussions. The first panel comprised of well settled and established entrepreneurs, who shared their experience of starting a firm, the risks they faced during their journey and how they were able to convert them to opportunities. The topic under discussion for the first panel was, “Transit Risks to Opportunities – Entrepreneurial Journey so Far!!! “.
The second panel had Venture Capitalists, Incubators and Investors, who dwelled upon the constraints involved in evaluating the start ups before they decided to fund them, their success stories and their expectations from the future entrepreneurs. The topic under discussion for the second panel was, “Funding – the other side of the table!!! “.
Day-1 ended with a closing ceremony. The Chief Guest for the closing ceremony included Dr.P.Senthilkumar, Special Secretary to Government – Finance Department, Mr.N.S.Shankar, Former District governor - Lions Club and Professor G.Balasubramanian, Dean - Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR).
Day-2 saw participants from other B-Schools in India who took part in two events. The first event was a case based business plan - Build Ur Impressa. The second event was a debate - Dwandwa. The total cash prizes for both the events were worth Rs.70000.
It was a great pleasure in having the above mentioned guests who served as an instrument for the success of the event.
For more info visit :
Strides Facebook page
Strides12 Website
Article written by Bala Srinivasan
February 3rd 2012, Day-1, at GRT Grand Convention Center, commenced with an inauguration ceremony. The Chief Guest for the morning session included Mr.K.R.Bhaskar, Consul of Education Affairs, Mr.Srinivasan Vishwanathan, Director - TiE Chennai and Dr.Bobby Srinvasan, President - Institute of Financial Management and Research (IFMR).
IFMR, for the very first time, introduced “Launch Pad” wherein 12 start-up companies from different sectors were invited to pitch in about their venture or product, in a time span of 5 minutes to a panel of venture capitalists, investors and incubators. The audience who witnessed consisted of corporate, entrepreneurs and students. The start-ups were interrogated by these panel members by interesting and thought provoking questions.
Post Lunch, there were two panel discussions. The first panel comprised of well settled and established entrepreneurs, who shared their experience of starting a firm, the risks they faced during their journey and how they were able to convert them to opportunities. The topic under discussion for the first panel was, “Transit Risks to Opportunities – Entrepreneurial Journey so Far!!! “.
The second panel had Venture Capitalists, Incubators and Investors, who dwelled upon the constraints involved in evaluating the start ups before they decided to fund them, their success stories and their expectations from the future entrepreneurs. The topic under discussion for the second panel was, “Funding – the other side of the table!!! “.
Day-1 ended with a closing ceremony. The Chief Guest for the closing ceremony included Dr.P.Senthilkumar, Special Secretary to Government – Finance Department, Mr.N.S.Shankar, Former District governor - Lions Club and Professor G.Balasubramanian, Dean - Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR).
Day-2 saw participants from other B-Schools in India who took part in two events. The first event was a case based business plan - Build Ur Impressa. The second event was a debate - Dwandwa. The total cash prizes for both the events were worth Rs.70000.
It was a great pleasure in having the above mentioned guests who served as an instrument for the success of the event.
For more info visit :
Strides Facebook page
Strides12 Website
Article written by Bala Srinivasan
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