YuStart – A National Student StartUp Challenge

Young Indians (Yi) is an integral part and a strategic partner of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and was formed in 2002 with an objective of creating a platform for young Indians to realize the dream of a developed nation. It has around 1900 direct members in 37 city chapters across 26 states across India and engages around 11000 students through its institutional network - ‘Yuva’. The membership of Yi includes young progressive Indians between the age group of 21 & 40 and comprises of entrepreneurs, professionals and achievers from different walks of life. It is the only organization representing the nation at the G20 Young Entrepreneur Alliance, the Commonwealth Asia Alliance of Young Entrepreneurs and an active partner for the Global Entrepreneurship Week in India.  The 3 main pillars of Yi include, ‘Youth Leadership’, ‘Nation Building’ and ‘International Engagements’ and it organizes close to 800 activities in a year impacting around a million people. The Young Indians Regional and National Summits are flagship events of Yi providing an opportunity for members to converge on a common platform to discuss and debate on issues of importance to the development of the country.
The Yi (Bengaluru Chapter) has initiated the 2nd edition of ‘YuStart’ – A National Student StartUp Challenge last year to provide students with an exciting opportunity to stimulate entrepreneurship among them. This start up challenge will provide the participating teams with an experience of creating a business model and writing a business plan; provide familiarity with primary / secondary market research and the process of conducting feasibility studies; get feedback from a jury of senior managers and academics; experience working as a team and an opportunity to sharpen organizational and communication skills. The website www.yustart.in will provide more information.
We are writing to request your support in encouraging the students of your institution to take part in this initiative and benefit from the same. The attached presentation has more details on the 2nd edition of YuStart. We are sure that the participating students in this competition will get a chance to change the world through their innovative ideas and thoughts. To top it all is the cash prize for the winning teams and an opportunity to be incubated at the Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore).

For further details and in case of clarifications, you may please write to yustart@yibangalore.com & siddhi.kapoor@cii.in and we will revert back to you.

We look forward to the participation of your students in this competition
Regards,

George M Alexander
Rajesh Kumar B
Chair
Co Chair
Young Indians (Bangalore Chapter)
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