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Futurepreneur Grand Challenge aims to encourage college students towards entrepreneurship by making them identify micro / tiny entrepreneurs across Tamil Nadu with exciting and inspiring backgrounds who have overcome odds and challenges to get their businesses running. The students will form as team to identify one or more entrepreneurs around your locality whom they will study, analyse and showcase in this Grand Challenge along with the entrepreneurs. This grand challenge aims at representing the mass entrepreneurs across sectors.
Cash Prize of INR 10,000 for the top 3 Winning Teams
Top 3 winning applications (youth teams + the entrepreneurs they represent) will be awarded at TiECONChennai 2020
They will be felicitated by successful entrepreneurs in the Chennai ecosystem
Preliminary Round – Scrutiny of online submissions by the Independent Jury to select the top 200 applications
Presentation Round – Presentation of the shortlisted 200 entries to the independent jury to identify the top 3 winners of the Challenge
| S.No | Criteria | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Story of the Entrepreneur | 30% |
| 2. | Product or process offering (Micro-Innovation/s) | 30% |
| 3. | Video (2 min) | 30% |
| 4. | PowerPoint Presentation of the Business (answering few asked questions) | 10% |
TiE Chennai is an active chapter with 175+ Charter Members and over 600 Associate Members. Based out of the South Indian city of Chennai, this chapter seeks to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship both within the city as well as the larger state of Tamil Nadu. Through independent events as well as partnerships, the chapter holds multiple events every month, looking to inspire, mentor and educate local entrepreneurs. Charter members, Entrepreneurs, Business Leaders, Venture capitalists and Government representatives often collaborate to present success stories and business opportunities as well as know-how on raising capital, networking, etc. TiE Chennai has been one of the top performing chapters globally since 2014. This recognition stands testimony to the consistent high performance of the chapter across parameters including regular high quality events and membership growth.
GAME aims to be the enabling platform that establishes a common understanding of what works and catalyzes change in the ecosystem to speed up the time to maturity. At GAME we believe that the youth, especially those between 14 and 29, and women will help deepen the roots of ME in India. It is the bedrock of stable economies as it meets the needs of communities, while providing employment at the local level.
Established in 2001, the Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation Institute (EDII), Chennai is an apex organisation in the field of entrepreneurship education and self-employment promotion in the state of Tamil Nadu. EDITN was constituted by Government of Tamil Nadu as a not-for-profit society and is administered by Department of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME). EDITN has embarked on a strategic plan to be executed in the next few years for promoting Entrepreneurship & Business Innovation in Tamil Nadu.
Other than the infrastructure, enabling conditions and incentives, the ‘know-what and know-how’ on owning numbers and handling people is a major need of the MSME entrepreneurs. Poornatha aims to fill this gap by partnering with entrepreneurs in creating an overarching ecosystem to enable them gain confidence in decision making and create and maintain a culture of trust. Poornatha is a founding member of Michigan Academy for Developing Entrepreneurs along with William Davidson Institute and Zell Lurie Institute of Entrepreneurship which aims to bring best practices across the world for MSME entrepreneurs.