Masterplan, 2013

Accelerating Seminal Ventures

About confluence
Confluence is Asias largest business school summit, organised by IIM Ahmedabad in partnership with the industry. It hosts pre-eminent speakers and distinguished industrialists from around the country and the world. Confluence enjoys unrivalled participation from business schools across 4 continents. Within a decade, Confluence has emerged as Asia-Pacific's largest business school summit and attracts the highest order of participation from students, invaluable contributions from academia, sharp viewpoints and business analysis from industry pioneers and considerable media coverage. We at IIM Ahmedabad are gearing up for a bigger and better Confluence this year. Over the years, Confluence has witnessed eminent speakers from various fields - Chief Election Commissioner and Magsaysay awardee Mr James Michael Lyngdoh, CFO of Tata Steel Mr KaushikChatterjee, MD of Google in India Mr RajanAnandan, MukeshAmbani, Kishore Biyani, Praful Patel, Lord Meghnad Desai and Swaminathan S. Aiyar

About Masterplan
Masterplan is the business plan contest of IIM-Ahmedabad. It is conducted as a part of Confluence, IIM-As business summit. Entre Cell at IIMA is organizing Masterplan this year. Masterplan seeks to identify budding entrepreneurs from around the country to contribute to Indias buzzing economy. We believe new business ideas are the fuel for growth of any economy; especially a booming and developing economy like India. Our economy presents a diverse set of challenges, and hidden in them, opportunities for new business ventures. Masterplan endeavors to spur aspiring entrepreneurs to latch on to such opportunities and create success stories for the nation. Masterplan is conducted in three phases. In the first round, participants submit executive summaries of their business ideas. These are assessed on various parameters like ingenuity of the underlying approach, understanding of existing market landscape and growth trajectory for the business. Shortlisted teams move on to the second round where they work on complete business plans under the able mentorship of successful entrepreneurs, management faculty, and resource persons from incubation centers. Finally, a select set of teams are invited to the IIM-A campus during Confluence, where they get an opportunity to present their ideas to a panel of judges comprising industry stalwarts, entrepreneurs, and Venture Capital firms.

Structure of the competition

Round-1: Executive Summary
In this round, teams will need to submit an executive summary of their business plans. Note: a. Submission will be in a prescribed format(refer to the guidelines section). Entries not strictly adhering to the same shall not be considered for judging b. Entries reaching us after the deadline will not be entertained in any situation c. Entries will be evaluated based on the evaluation criteria mentioned in Appendix 1

Round-2: Business Plan

Shortlisted teams from the first round will be invited to submit their complete business plans. Note: a. There will be a prescribed format (to be communicated to shortlisted teams only) for the Bplan covering various aspects like financials, operational issues, marketing and HR strategy, contingency plans etc. b. For the complete B-plan submission, teams may choose to diverge (add or subtract sections) from the prescribed format if deemed necessary. However, it is highly recommended to adhere. Mentorship Teams shortlisted from round-1 will be connected with veteran entrepreneurs, and resource persons from start-up incubation organizations. These mentors will guide the teams in their B-plan formulation.

Round-3: Final presentation

Winners from the second round will be invited to IIM-A campus during Confluence, 2013 i.e. November 29- December 01. Final round will comprise of presentation and Q-n-A with judges and representatives from funding agencies and incubator organizations. This may be followed by a round requiring the teams to work on an overnight surprise situation. Top two teams will be selected as winners and runners-up respectively from this round.

Prize Money
Winners: Rs. 100000 Runners-up: Rs. 50000

guidelines
Timelines
Team registration Submission of Executive Summary Round-1 results submission of Business Plan Round-2 results Round-3 (at IIM-A) September 13, 2013(11:59:59 PM) September 16, 2013 (11:59:59 PM) October 01, 2013 October 25, 2013 (11:59:59 PM) November 15, 2013 November 29- December 01, 2013

Team Composition
1. The event is open for teams comprising of Business school students, undergraduate students, corporate professionals, as well as other independent individuals (employed or unemployed) 2. A team can have a maximum of 5 members. Members can be from any organization. All the members may or may not be from the same organization. 3. One participant cannot be part of more than one team 4. No change in the team structure is allowed after the team is registered. Please register your team after careful thought and deliberation

Registration
1. The registration for the event opens on August 23, 2013 2. Teams will have unique team names of their choosing, and will be required to nominate a team leader 3. Registration window close on September 13, 2013

4. Information related to results, deadlines etc. will be communicated to the team leader

Registration form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_2zLGFITo6-Lm3njYuva1eVf2IzgGYvF4IHqAIsu-n0/viewform

Submission
All entries should be shared on the Google Drive and access should be provided to masterplan.confluence@iimahd.ernet.in user for us to download your submissions. Executive Summary format (on Masterplans webpage)
http://stdwww.iimahd.ernet.in/entre/round1_exec.php

Please download the above form as a Microsoft Word document and edit. Rename the document as <team name>_<Round1>. doc/x: If the team name is ABC, the file name should be ABC_Round1.doc or ABC_Round1.docx.

Contact Us:
HarshadShrikhande Manikaran Johar +91-96620-30867 +91 99102 02663

Our webpage:
http://stdwww.iimahd.ernet.in/entre/masterplan.php Our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/MasterplanConfluence/235360186519665

Appendix 1 (Evaluation Criteria for executive summary)

Criterion Concept Feasibility

Novelty

Depth of Analysis

Description Definition of the opportunity in a clear and concise manner; Overall feasibility of the business model consisting of demand/market feasibility, financial feasibility and operational feasibility. The business idea should be fresh, unique and hitherto unexplored, including sustainability of differentiation The marketing strategy, financial strategy and operational strategy should be clearly identified

Weight (%) 40

30

30