Sponsorship Team
E-Cell
CET,Bhubaneswar

ENTREPRENEURSHIP?

​The willingness to undertake risks to carve one's own path and working towards one's set of dreams,despite being bogged down by hardships and failure.The one who is willing to persevere and make a mark ,serving the world with innovative and feasible products.A true leader and a daring dreamer.

ROLE OF E-CELL,CET-B

1. Promotes the essence of entrepreneurship

2. Promoting skill growth and other requisites to be a confident and dynamic leader

3. Planning entrepreneurship as a career option.

4. Creating opportunities for exposure through forums and events

5. The sole body to bring sponsorships for the annual tech fest

6. Direct interaction with alumni for events and meetups

Activities I have participated in

• Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive
• Invest Bhubaneswar
• IIT Guwahati's CIMA Case Study Competition
• Ecstasy's Sponsorship Team
• Ecstasy's B-Plan competition

Motivations for being an E-Cellite

1. Like Minded People

2. Open platform to learn as well as share

3. Experience individual and team work

4. Intense skill growth be it interpersonal or technical

5. Not willing to work under someone else in future

6. Being fascinated by startups and the unprecedented risks associated with it.

7. Direct interaction with estalished alumni.

8. Being inspired and rivalled by fellow ecellites at the same time

9. Exhibiting leadership skills and improvement of speaking skills.

10. Promotes free thinking.

Responsibilities

1. Promoting the complementary nature of technology and business skills and a start-up's dependence on it.

2. Importance of funding ,be it a start-up or an event.

3. Keeping a track of the latest business competitions and pushing young dreamers for active participation
   ex: Case studies,B-Plan,Idea creation.

4. Experimentation of different tools to improve communication channels such as Twitter,Facebook,Emails,Whatsapp,Skype.

5. Keeping a database of all the approached and proposed sponsors.

1. A mandatory meetup for atleast every 2 weeks to discuss and plan events,allocate resources and duties amongst the Associate Managers.

2. To have a basic knowledge of SQL for creating and maintaining records of different alumni,sponsors .
   Have a class organized for SQL classes or start maintaining a database.

3. Learning how to approach a sponsor,starting from what to say and what information to be shown to them in the form of ppts.

4. Dividing the sponsors list into different categories.

5. Have the sponsors kit saved on Drive/DropBox.

6. Have mock sessions on approaching a sponsor.

7. Start working on presentations that should contain necessary information to be shown to a sponsor.

8. Learn how to write a brochure,an application,content on posters,leaflets and  forward it to the content team.

9.Trying to involve as many start-ups in the sponsors list and collaborating with them for ecstasy or startup weekend.

A weekly breakup of activities

Skills and experiences:

Internship:

1. Management internship under Intelleon,a German real estate company-Work from home,paid internships

Skills acquired:

• Programming languages: JAVA,C,C++,SQL,Currently learning Python,MS office.
• Creation of resumes and Cvs
• Perfect formats of a business case report and Business plans.
• Worked for Ecstasy's Sponsorship team
• LeanCanvas

Initiation:

• Introduction of a new activity every 3 weeks in the form of an event or a competition
• Participating in eminent competitions to get recognition
  ex: National Entrepreneurship Challenge,IIT BOMBAY
• Creation of an official website/blog.
• Invitation of young speakers or videoconferencing with established alumni or other entrepreneurs on an occasional basis.
• Have awesome brainstorming sessions to generate ideas and put them to use.
• Making sure that we organize our sessions in our allocated room instead of the classrooms and record the lectures or discussions.Have our own projector.
• Research on more and more possible sponsors.

Planning of this year's inductions

1. Plan to rasie 30000k this year for the induction ceremony

2. Pre induction plans:

• Design of posters to give a sneek peek of what ecell does.
• Looking for sponsorship
• Startup weekend or a 3 day business event to select interested candidates.
• Tech quizzes on website like Dork's Corner 
• Events like Treaserlocked(Online Treasure Hunt) and partnering up with some online retail store .
• Trying for coupons

How to make E-cell more prominent?

• Have our own entrepreneurial awareness drives
• Take part in NEN,IIT-B for recognition and further efficient functioning
• Create new events through brainstorming 
• Start planning for the events asap instead of delaying them to the last moment
• Organize more alumni meetups during the winter holidays,if possible.