Hackathon TechCrunch Bangalore 2013

All popular Hackathon is back in Bangalore. This event is scheduled on November, 15th, 2013. Hackathon will bring together developers, designers, coders, who will create fantastic products without batting their eye lids.

The best two team will qualify for the TechCrunch grade finale in Delhi. Learn more details about Hackathon Bangalore or register for the TechCrunch Hackathon.

Start Mushroom Farming Business In Kerala

Swadishta Mushrooms by Janaki Sreekumar ( Pic Source: yentha.com)

Interested in mushroom farming? Here's a feature in Yentha.com. Janaki Sreekumar, from Trivandrum took the less beaten path to start mushroom farming from her house. Her venture, Swadishta Mushrooms now employs few people in her locality. Way to lead, Ms Janaki.

Role Model to Women Entrepreneurs
How can you try similar adventure? We see more examples of women ditching their 9 to 5 job by setting cafe's, boutiques, home bake, etc.

But, change is not easy!
Despite the high literacy rate in Kerala, our society and people has conditioned to - Take a Day Job. But, now people are breaking from this mound. Thanks to Internet, social networking sites, all these young people are able to find a way to connect.

Problem right now with us is our steeped socialistic ideologies. For most of Keralities, they equate business people as TATA's and Birla's. Probably, our cemented Socialistic or Communist ideologies.

Apart from the great work Ms Janaki is doing, she can adopt these in her business

• Start a website, business page on Facebook ( To start get help from an expert)
• Publish a book with a step-by-step process on mushroom cultivation & sell it
  ( Probably around Rs 150.)
• Convert the book into a PDF and sell the ebook overseas ( sell it for $ 4 or $5)
• Sell all items required to setup a mushroom farming from the scratch 
• Learn to make tasty mushroom recipes and teach neighbors, groups and side-by-side promote mushrooms. I feel, most Keralites are not familiar with mushroom based recipes
• Start a blog on mushroom farming and share her tips to other. It could be forum for her to sell her merchandise, book, etc
• Show others how to take license to set-up similar venture
• Conduct classes at gram-panchayat level

I believe knowledge transfer (KT) of any disciple has immense potential. Be it any craft, language, or any skill, you can train others for a charge.

Start Blogging & Start Sharing Your Big Idea
Get the word out through blogging. Use words and pictures to share your idea or promote your business to the world ( blogger, or WordPress).

New to Blogging?
You can get my assistance to start blogging.and social media. In the module, I cover the basics of blogging, social media and help you set-up a blogging account.Call me to schedule a class for you.

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Reaching All Budding Entrepreneurs in God's Own Country

Talk on Women Enterprenuership 

Calling All Entreprenuers - IIT Kharagpur

Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur presents Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive for the first time in God's Own Country, Kerala at Kochi. Block these days and be sure to attend this startup meet in Kochi.

Date: 11 October, 2013 (Friday)

Time: 10AM onwards

Venue: St. Teresa's College

Guest lectures by SR Nair, Managing Director at e-Biz Ltd, front line Ltd and Mentor, Sijo K George, CEO Startup Village and Mrs Parveen Hafeez, Mg Dir Sunrise Hospitals, Mg Partner Medlace, Iware solutions.

Special women entrepreneurship event by TiE,Kerala.

To attend the event , register here :http://www.ead.ecell-iitkgp.org/ . You can ask for more details about the event by calling this number. 

Sebin Matthew
sebin.matthew@ecell-iitkgp.org
+91-8768083510
+91-8985307950

Steam Running out for MBA Colleges

MBA - Only the best will survive

On, October, 10, 2013, Time of India carried this news on their front page. Similar news and opinion has been circulating for a long while, and this comes as no surprise. Again, this shows the signs of the times, i.e, MBA, Engineering and Nursing colleges are being hit by low admission rates. This means, only the good colleges will attract students and rest has to close down.

So, if you're a MBA aspirant, then do proper check on the standing of the college, the qualification of faculty, and ask for feedback from students who have passed out..

On Perseverance - Quote by Goethe

We must not hope to be mowers,
And to gather the ripe gold ears,
Unless we have first been sowers
And watered the furrows with tears.
It is not just as we take it,
This mystical world of ours,
Life's field will yield as we make it
A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

Goethe, on 'Perseverance' - Don't we want a doze of it, everyday.