Megabucks '07 at
IIT-Kanpur to Provide Platform to Exhibit Entrepreneurship Ideas at 'Impresario'
'Megabucks' is one of the
biggest business and entrepreneurship festivals held in India. Over the years,
Megabucks has gained great recognition among the academia and the corporate
world and can boast of building a strong network of successful businessmen,
venture capitalists, angel investors and academia.
"A good showman is the best
salesman" - the proverbial wisdom stands true even when the item to be sold is a
good idea itself. How does one get a platform for the exhibition, though?
Megabucks '07 provides an answer in the form of Impresario - The
Entrepreneurial Expo. The Italian word 'impresario' means 'a showman, a
presenter of great shows'. The Impresario at Megabucks aims to help anyone who
wishes to present an idea to start an entrepreneurial venture - and everyone who
wishes to take a look at them!
The exhibition would consist of
twenty stalls set up in the Students Activity Center of IIT Kanpur which
will be the central hub of all Megabucks activities, providing a platform for
networking within a large pool of intellectuals consisting of venture
capitalists, prospective investors, business gurus, industry-active academicians
and students from across the nation. The exhibitors would, thus, avail of the
unique opportunity of interacting closely with prospective investors as well as
prospective employees.
The expo would provide the young
entrepreneurs an unparalleled opportunity to showcase their companies to the
representatives from the Megabucks associates like NEN (National
Entrepreneurship Network), TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and The
Boston Pledge Group, which aim to promote entrepreneurship.
The biggest new attraction is the
collaboration with McMaster University's Center for Engineering
Entrepreneurship and Innovation (XCEEi), Canada. ATCC, a seed fund that is a
very close partner of XCEEi is looking at investing up to 0.75 million Canadian
Dollars in the promising ideas!
The expo would be open to
assessment by dignitaries invited for Megabucks as speakers in conferences,
workshops and lecture-series. Many of these evaluators promote entrepreneurship
with a disposition to fund exciting entrepreneurial ventures. The five most
interesting companies / ideas as selected by these delegates would be given a
chance to give an exclusive presentation on 8th April 2007 to all the delegates
associated with Megabucks who might be prospective investors.
The participating companies would
be given the opportunity to interact with students through a two-hour exclusive
expo for students on 7th April 2007. The students of IIT Kanpur as well as the
huge pool of students from other participating institutes would provide the
perfect target group of students that many companies
would be looking for recruitment, summer placements, and/or semester projects.
Other perks for companies
participating in Impresario would be the setting-up of the company profile on
the Megabucks Website (more than a thousand hits on an average per day
during the festival), and coverage in MegaZine, the Megabucks magazine
that reaches out to more than 15,000 national and international students,
corporate officials and IIT Kanpur's huge alumni network.
Contact
Details
For more details on the event
and participation, contact: -
Mayank Jain, Festival Coordinator,
Phone: +91-9411079337 / +91-512-2594809
E-mail:
[email protected]
Ragini Hariharan, Head - Public Relations,
Phone: +91-9415511367 / +91-512-2584309
E-mail:
[email protected]
Check the website at: -
URL:
http://www.iitk.ac.in/megabucks
Or write to: -
E-mail:
[email protected]
