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In 2006 I made a career switch and joined an R&D company with a strong training department. Over the past decade, I’ve spent over 6,000 hours on stage - the majority being training courses mixed with 100+ conference talks and various meetup or workshop sessions.I’ve had the opportunity to teach classes and present at:CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research)Saudi Aramco (the world’s biggest oil company)VMware, SAP, Software AG, and dozens of other multinational tech organizationsMIT (and a dozen more universities, training academies, and schools)to name a few.Since most answers focus on public speaking at events, I’ll share some thoughts on public speaking from a trainer’s perspective - applicable for a keynote speech, a lightning talk, a workshop, a standard conference talk or a complete training.Here are the top ten strategies I focus on when working with my training groups.1. Study your audience upfrontMost of my embarrassing moments on stage were due to a misaligned scope of a talk or a training course.You probably won’t receive a physical folders with the CVs of each attendee (although I’ve actually received that for courses), but doing a proper research upfront would help you serve the right audience.I’ve attended several technical conferences where 70% of the attendees were managers and C-levels. Or marketing events crowded with designers and developers.Ask the conference organizers about demographics. Compare with existing data from the previous year. Make sure that your talk is titled properly and assigned to the right track or panel.As an expert, you could improvise and shift your story in a relatable way for your attendees. But rebuilding your slides or coming up with the right stories will likely not work out in the last moment.Knowing your audience will let you craft a scenario that resonates with them and is genuinely helpful.2. Industry expertise is a mustI’ve seen far too many dilettantes presenting at events as presumable authorities.Not only this may backfire but there’s a risk of talking non-sense or just misleading your audience as an honest mistake.It’s also a pity if you can’t answer basic questions in front of the audience.Last year, I spoke at an event with over 2,000 people. The speaker presenting before me had some freelance experience and decided to submit a talk about project management. Not only was the story bland and impractical, but she wasn’t aware of “agile” or “waterfall” when someone asked her which methodology does she apply with her clients.She was certainly a nice lady but lacking the 101 in the field is a good after party story for years to come.Stick to what you know best. Dabble with relevant and tangible areas but don’t pretend you’re qualified to discuss.3. Replicate a natural conversationMany inexperienced speakers follow a specific rule book that sets a specific tone - a certain body language, intonation, tone, pace, gestures.Many of said tips are reasonable. But following them isn’t straight-forward.That’s why you have acting classes. You can watch some series and try to shadow a star. But you need to get in the groove and become comfortable.Your temperament, weight and height, clothing style, voice, expressions, mood, accent form a complete picture. Borrowing some tips may very well seem unnatural and make your audience uncomfortable.Use your personal experience and see what works best for you.What gets you energized while hanging out with friends at a garden party or a bar?Are you able to entertain your neighbors and make them laugh?When was the last time you were talking about your experience and everyone gathered around, listening and asking follow-up questions?Tap into your experience and build the best version of yourself that you’re comfortable with. Iterate and improve if needed but don’t force it and don’t take huge leaps. One step at a time.Being comfortable and communicating clearly would seem natural and ease up the crowd.4. Use relevant stories and examplesI can no longer stand the endless storytelling that became trendy over the past few years.Using relevant stories or a brief intro that would provide some context is great. But unless you’re a life coach, an inspirational guru, or simply one of the top 20 influencers worldwide, you need to provide value.Use relevant examples in your talk. Build case studies. Discuss practical applications and how was your experience helpful.But definitely avoid starting with a 5-minute story from a fairy tale book that has nothing to do with your topic. It’s likely that:Other beginner speakers would try the same advice from the rule booksExperienced speakers will build a powerful story that would bring valueIn any case, being helpful in an engaging way is much more meaningful than just being entertaining.5. Consider the session time formatI’ve always found 5-minute lightning talks to be 10x more challenging than a 2-hour workshop.In theory, that shouldn’t be the case, right? You can prepare easily, it’s a brief talk, not too much to mess up.Creating an engaging story, connecting with your audience, uncovering a reasonable topic and building up to a legitimate conclusion in merely 5 minutes requires mastery.Therefore, it’s really important to fit into the right time format.There are lightning talks within 5–15 minutes. Or standard conference presentations between 30 to 45 minutes. A keynote speech may last an hour and a half or more. Training courses and workshops may last for a whole day, a week, or even longer.Be careful when selecting a topic depending on the time frame. Make sure you can fit the right details within the established time frame. Keep an eye on the breaks between the sessions and see if there’s someone else presenting before you.Setting up your own laptop at some events may eat up some time as well. Consider the acceptable time for answering questions.A 20-minute talk may shrink to a bit over 10 minutes if you don’t plan everything well enough. Trying to deliver a 30min+ presentation would not end well.6. Follow the very same train of thoughtEach talk, a workshop session, or a training course comes with an agenda.That agenda aims to deliver some results, explain a problem, or demonstrate a process. Roughly speaking.Which is why public speakers need to build a story that revolves around the problem in hand and repetitively provide the proof and techniques that attendees can leverage themselves.One of the best ways to prepare the talk is thinking backwards. Consider the end goal. Imagine the end result and what the impact should be. Then reverse-engineer that into a step-by-step process being the foundation of your presentation.And be consistent. Each example or scenario should support your core idea.Imagine a legal case. Each trial aims to bring enough facts supporting attorney’s case. Deviation could weaken the story and sneak suspicion in the jury.What about a software project management? Or building a marketing campaign? Or a curriculum for a university program?All of them have an end goal in mind and every step gets you closer to the goal.Build a story that’s engaging, support it with examples, tailor it to your audience and make sure you fit into the time format.7. Don’t rushTalking too fast is common with nervous and inexperienced speakers. But that increases the odds of introducing too much context and new information to people who can’t cope up and simply give up on your session.Moreover, you’re processing more information which drains your energy. The pace isn’t balanced, either. There are more breaks once you try to recollect a memory.Your presentation should be engaging. You can play with the pace once you have more experience. Don’t be afraid of introducing longer breaks and pauses. Convey a message, build up some tension, speed up a bit and then hit a break.That’s not to say that you should be boringly slow. But rushing in an attempt to recite the entire talk without missing any slides is common - and you have to keep the pace into account. It will require some practice - but it makes a difference.8. Share your top strategiesThere’s a ton of common knowledge out there. Information widely available in Google and techniques that are considered to be “best practices” by everyone out there.With that informational overload in mind, unique and creative strategies are always valued more than standard ones.It’s the same as enrolling in a class, reading a book or even checking on an article out there. If it’s generic and mainly covers common sense ideas, it wouldn’t be as valuable to you.On the other hand, if it reveals some practical strategies, a unique perspective, less known instruments and tools or some time-saving shortcuts, this would be far more meaningful. Including practical case studies or results from experiments that someone has spent time and money on are the way to go.Don’t be afraid to share your best strategies when presenting. The more helpful you are, the more your audience will enjoy your talk and will be happy to attend another presentation of yours.9. Observe your audienceMost strategies shared above (and answered by others) are generally helpful and work more often than not.But people are different. They work in different fields and have different expertise. Most of all, they may attend an event to learn something, to meet people, or simply because they were sent by their HR or management teams.You can’t satisfy everyone and the larger the crowd, the more challenging it is to juggle with different points of view.But you can keep an eye on your visitors and adjust your style depending on their interest. Feel free to poll them before you start (a couple “hands up” questions would do) in order to learn more about them.You can ask a few questions during the talk as well - just to reclaim their attention and provide some know-how depending on what makes sense to them and what - doesn’t.You can, of course, follow your initial agenda - and this may be fine in most cases. But if the group of people is looking for something else, you still have a chance to showcase some other tricks or share some specific strategies of yours that would be applicable to those fellows.10. Always keep practicingPublic speaking isn’t something that you can only practice during a training course or at a conference. Plus, there’s plenty of work you should put in body language, clear pronunciation, following the right pace, preparing use cases and examples, designing your slides - you name it.There are plenty of meetups that you can apply to in your area. There are virtual conferences and webinars that you can participate in. Or you can start a podcast or a YouTube channel and test new strategies weekly.There’s an international club called Toastmasters that organizes events for people eager to improve their communication and public speaking skills. They meet frequently and exchange tips, do short presentations and share feedback. You can browse for a local Toastmasters group or contact them with a request for starting a new one in your town.There are different speaking games such as Bredogenerator organized by other communities. Of course, there are all of the books, training YouTube videos, and public speaking classes that you can follow regularly.Public speaking is a skill. You need to practice regularly and nurture it. The better you get, the more techniques you can incorporate in your talks and help your audience even more.

I started my company AllinCall almost 3 years ago. We got formally incorporated on 21st April 2017. My friend Soham and I were the initial co-founders.It was the month of August 2016. My 3rd-year summer internship had just ended. I had a great time in the Bay Area, working at this amazing startup called Rubrik. I enjoyed the work and the people at Rubrik. There was 1 little problem - I realized that I could not work for someone else. Coming from a Marwadi family, I have hardly seen people who are employed somewhere.When I came back to India after my internship, I decided to pursue something of my own. The college courses were almost completed. I had to take a few electives. I was talking to a friend of mine about my entrepreneurship desire. That’s when he told me about DSCE - Desai Sethi Center for Entrepreneurship, a teaching body that had been a part of IIT Bombay for almost 3 years. I was completely unaware of such a thing - IIT Bombay is huge and there are so many things always going on. It is impossible to know everything!I decided to enroll in a few courses at DSCE - Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Technology Venture Creation, Marketing for Entrepreneurs, and Intellectual Property for Entrepreneurs. While typical IIT courses may be focused on assignments, quizzes, and exams, the Entrepreneurship courses at DSCE were different. The Professors were mostly Industry veterans themselves and so, they didn’t care about pen-paper exams and assignments. They were keener on practical work - find a problem statement, build an MVP, get feedback from customers, etc.As a part of the course, we were supposed to partner with someone and build a team. I partnered with Soham, my friend from IIT Bombay. Soham and I iterated on a bunch of ideas - building a Quora-like platform for JEE aspirants, a web development agency, a mentorship platform where IITians could mentor JEE aspirants, etc. Most problems revolved around the difficulties we ourselves faced.Later, we were instructed to boil down on 1 single idea. So, we decided to develop something interesting - a voice-enabled platform wherein, people like our parents who are not too tech-savvy can just call and talk to a virtual assistant to book a cab, order items from Amazon, etc. The idea was that parents are usually not able to use mobile apps even though they have a smartphone and internet connection. So, why not give them a number wherein they can just call and get things done? “All-in-Call”.As the course demanded, we went to talk to various potential customers. Here is me, talking to my dad’s office employees on how they avail such services, trying to get their feedback.We roamed around across malls and other public areas of Mumbai to get feedback from people.We presented some of the ideas to our Professors. Here is a slide from one of the presentations we created.One of the Professors suggested that rather than exploring the B2C concept, we should try and see if we can sell such a solution to large enterprises. The idea was that Banks and other large enterprises would already have multiple such customers and so, we can ride on the Banks for customer acquisition rather than doing it ourselves.We pivoted to the B2B idea - sell solutions to enterprises that will help their customers get banking services at their fingertips. Now, we had a new customer persona - a Bank’s head of Customer Support. So, with the help of an advisor’s network, we met some of the Bank officials - HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, YES Bank.We met the Bank’s Digital Team at the HDFC Bank office at Peninsula Business Park, Lower Parel, Mumbai. The idea was to not sell anything and just get their feedback and explore the gaps.We also went to their Kamla Mills Branch in Lower Parel to see one of their latest Technology Initiative - the IRA Robot which helps customers navigate within the Branch.Based on our discussion with the HDFC Bank officials, we realized that they are quite keen to develop solutions on voice-based technologies like Voice recognition, Voice biometrics, etc.Later, we met a couple of other Banks - YES Bank and Axis Bank to get their feedback. We were fortunate to get support from our advisor who helped us get those meetings. Nobody knew us, but people knew him. He was an ex-Vice President of South Asia at one of the largest logistics company and so, he stayed in a society where many such senior corporate executives lived. That’s how he knew them.He advised us to sell before we build. Basically, he told us to find a way to first get a pilot/POC (proof-of-concept) from a large enterprise and then build the actual product. We started working on the same. Here is one of the old videos I found.The video has been recorded in my hostel room (Hostel 3, Room 347) at IIT Bombay. Remember, this is during the 4th year of college. I had not graduated by that time.I was quite excited about the meetings with senior Bank officials and told my parents about them. Obviously they were not happy because I had a couple of high-paying job offers in my hand. While my dad is a small business owner himself, my annual salary was more than what we could earn in 10 years.This is another of my offer letters at a large Indian company.We were extremely naive at that time. Both of us were Software Engineers, with bare minimum knowledge of Business. Soham was a Gujarati and I was a Marwadi, but deep within, we were hardcore programmers and so, these meetings, presentations, discussions, were all quite a new thing for us. Here is an excerpt from the PPT that we showed to Axis Bank.We were so naive back then that we put “Finish Graduation” as a part of the PPT. No wonder we never got a contract from Axis Bank!Here is a part of the video we showed to Axis Bank. Obviously, the product is hard-coded. The entire video is hard-coded. The goal was to sell before building and that’s what we were trying. We had learned so many things by this time - making presentations, recording videos, editing videos, etc.Later, we started working on a basic Product. We showed it to our Professors who were mentoring us and they helped us get incubated at SINE, the IIT Bombay startup incubator. SINE had a huge network of large enterprises, investors, mentors, etc. With the help of SINE, we approached the giant - State Bank of India.SBI had recently started a Startup Engagement Program wherein, they would buy certain technology-based solutions without the tendering process. We met their DGM of Startup Engagement in March 2017. We had all the learnings of HDFC Bank, YES Bank, and Axis Bank and we made a great presentation to SBI. The DGM was quite impressed with our background and capabilities and told us to incorporate a company.My cousin was a CA in Delhi and we approached him for help for the company incorporation. We had suggested the name “CX Research and Solutions Pvt Ltd” (CX = Customer Experience). He asked us for an alternate name in case that name is unavailable. We suggested “AllinCall Research and Solutions Pvt Ltd”. We were quite sure we will get the name CX Research and Solutions. However, the CA without informing us registered the company with AllinCall, because the name CX required some Rs. 5,000 extra.Anyway, we were happy that the company was incorporated. So, we went back to SBI. In the meanwhile, we had significant progress on the product side. On 15th May, SBI told us to initiate a POC (proof-of-concept) for a simple FAQ ChatBot. The DGM lead the POC. We were given 2 weeks of time. We developed it in 1 week and showed it to him. He was impressed by our speed and the final output. He told us that on 1st July 2017, its the Bank’s foundation day and he would like to deploy our solution in the Bank.Therefore, he told us to proceed forward with further development of SIA ChatBot (SBI Intelligent Assistant) which could answer the most common customer queries. Obviously, there were multiple internal approvals required - Commercial approval, Legal approval, IT approval and most importantly, Information Security approval.We barely knew about all of these things. Thanks to the DGM, he helped us understand the process. We shared an ad-hoc Commercial Proposal document which was obviously rejected by their committee. It took us almost 8 - 10 days to get SBI to agree on our proposal document. For Legal approval, the DGM helped us with the NDA (Non-disclosure Agreement), SLA (Service Level Agreement), etc. IT Approval was something we could ourselves manage given that we came from a tech background. There were many new things to learn - Web Server, App Server, Database Server, etc., but we managed to pick those things quickly.The last one, Information Security Approval was a big challenge for us. We had almost ZERO knowledge about Enterprise-grade Information Security. SBI gave us a long list of vulnerabilities in the Application/Software we developed. Thankfully, we could take help from Google Search and close most of the points. For some left-out points, they took internal exceptional approval.We went live with SBI SIA ChatBot on 1st July 2017. On 2nd July, their CIO and CTO felicitated us in the Bank’s Foundation day ceremony in front of their 1,200 employees (I am 3rd from the right).Here is the photograph of us receiving our purchase order from SBI.Right to left: Me, Our Advisor, Soham, DGM Sir (I would not want to mention his name), DGM Sir’s wife. SBI gave us a memento which is still kept in my office.In August 2017, I had my graduation ceremony at IIT Bombay. Yes, we had our first customer as the giant SBI, before we even graduated!SBI was so impressed with us, they asked us to take a workshop in Programming, Machine Learning and ChatBot development for some of their employees.SBI was a huge launchpad for us and I would like to sincerely thank them for their support in helping us start AllinCall. Without them, it would have been a far more difficult journey. Special thanks to DGM Sir for helping us navigate within the giant SBI and get relevant approvals without any enterprise knowledge.SBI referred us to their sister companies and SBI Life Insurance also purchased our solution in no time (Nov 2017). They remain our client even today. Things were going well so far. However, Soham somehow felt that the ChatBot solution was too shallow and we had to do something bigger.I was of the view that we should focus on selling what’s working and as we build relations with enterprises, we will learn more about the other problems that they may be facing. However, we could not come to a mutual agreement on the same.By March 2018, we had barely onboarded any new customer. We just had 2 clients - SBI and SBI Life Insurance. Soham and I, therefore, started to think of some other ideas. I was of the view that we should stay persistent and focus on what was working. However, I also had to support my co-founder and so, I also spent time with him, searching for new ideas.This is where things started going South. As complete freshers, we barely had any knowledge of Enterprise problems and so, we could not think of any ideas whatsoever. Soham felt that the enterprise sales process is tough and we should find out startup ideas where we can avoid such long sales cycles.One such idea that he was exploring was around Algorithmic trading - building algorithms that can automatically buy/sell assets and make money. Crypto was at its peak at that time and he suggested that we should try algorithmic trading of cryptocurrencies. I was not really convinced about it, but then I agreed to what he suggested.Fast forward August 2018, he suddenly decided to leave the company and pursue algorithmic trading full-time himself.I was stuck in a terrible situation. By that time, we had also started working with ICICI Bank and SBI Mutual Fund and now, suddenly, my co-founder who was managing SBI and SBI Life Insurance decided to leave. I was left alone with a full-time Software Engineer and a newly hired Software intern. I was in deep shit at that time. I did not know how to manage the situation. My parents were extremely worried about what happened.A bunch of problems arose:Soham was managing SBI and SBI Life Insurance. Now, the load was on me, without much context. Payment for these projects was planned to come in a month or so but it got delayed because the projects slowed down.I was managing ICICI Bank and SBI Mutual Fund. The load of handling these clients also fell on me.He had gone to his home town. So, a lot of places where his signature was required got stuck. For instance, SBI used to pay in our SBI Current Account. Since we did not have an Online Banking facility for that account, we used to depend on the branch. The branch guys refused to help me without Soham’s signature.So, I was in trouble from all sides - new money from projects got delayed and existing money got frozen in the bank accounts. I had to pay September/October salaries to the 2 team members as well and the company had no money since I had paid some amount to Soham on his exit. In this desperate situation, I had to put in some of my own money in the company to pay salaries. Remember, I was just 22 years old at that time and I myself did not have a lot of money.It was at this time, I partnered with a friend, Harshita and explained to her the entire situation at my end. I told her how screwed up I was and how desperately I needed someone to help me. She kindly agreed to leave her job and help me with my business. I assured her of decent equity and also a decent pay when things were under control. She was kind enough to not take a penny of salary till December 2018, when things started to improve.We divided our roles very clearly - I would work on sales and customer management and she will work on projects and technology. That worked really well for us. I told her about each and every mistake that Soham and I made and we sat down to find a solution for each of them.At this time, I should mention that ICICI Bank’s Startup Engagement team helped us a lot. They knew that Soham had abruptly left the company. They knew that we were in deep shit. Being such a large institution, they could have kicked us out and taken away our projects. However, their Head of Startup Engagement and their CTO called us and offered any help we needed to keep the company afloat. We borrowed just 2 weeks of time from them which they kindly agreed.We went back to them after hiring a couple of more Software Engineering Interns and guess what they did? They gave us a couple of more contracts. We were extremely happy with the bank’s gesture. They helped us get business when we were in the worst of our situation. ICICI Bank has a completely different culture as compared to any organization we have ever seen. We will forever remain indebted to them for the help they did to us at that time.In November 2018, things started looking better and we moved to a small 8 seater office in Powai (Mumbai). The rent was a smallish Rs. 25k per month, but it was not a small amount for us at that time. Nevertheless, contracts from our customers helped us maintain cashflows.Gradually, from there, things started improving. We had divided our work and so, we gradually started to specialize in our respective domains. On 20th April 2019, we celebrated the 2nd birthday of AllinCall (21st April was a Sunday).We had a small 8 member team at that time, comprising of 2 co-founders, 2 full-time Software Engineers, 3 SDE Interns, and 1 Sales guy. During all of our thick-and-thins, another of our advisors really helped us. He was from the private equity industry and he had a lot of contacts. He used all his network to help us get more business. We are really grateful to him for the help he did during our bad times.With the help of his network, we gradually started onboarding more and more clients. We continued working hard on our ChatBot product and also launched a couple of new Enterprise solutions around Customer Experience and Customer Engagement.On 15th May 2019, we shifted to a bigger office.We worked really hard during the last financial year (April 2019 to March 2020) and onboarded multiple large clients, getting repeated contracts and revenues from them. We also stayed Bootstrapped, not raising money from any investors. Today, we boast of several large companies as our clients.We did 4x growth in Financial Year 2019–20 as compared to Financial Year 2018–19. Today, I am glad to mention that multiple investors have reached out to us for equity investment in AllinCall.We also recently won the prestigious Technoviti 2020 Award by Mr. Satej Patil, Minister of Information Technology, Government of Maharashtra.ICICI Bank also honored us for the work we did for them.I love Business and I enjoy working with large Enterprises. We have a team of 20+ smart people working with us across Technology, Operations and Sales functions. We have happy customers who have extended multiple contracts to us, helping us build recurring revenues.We have followed just 1 simple principle - focus on the customer and rest everything else will fall in place. We never chased any investor. We just remained focus on doing the best for our customers and everything else automatically improved.Today, the business has stabilized quite well and we are growing rapidly. The names of existing customers are enough to onboard new customers.To end this answer, I would like to mention 2 things:I would like to sincerely thank our customers, our advisors and all the team members of AllinCall, especially Harshita who trusted me and helped me during the entire roller coaster ride. I will always remain indebted to all of the people who helped me during the worst of my times.Do not give up, come what may. There is always a solution. You just need to be persistent enough to find it.

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With this weprovide cost effective technologies for school,coaching institutes and tutors.Our products include:1. Toppers Handwritten Notes: These notes arecompiled from the notes of top 100 JEE rankers.2. Toppers Test Series: Test Series Platform forTeachers, schools with very advanced analyticsystems using graph theory. It will reduce burdenof teachers by 40% and they can focus more onstudents’ performance.FoundersDeepak GuptaAditya ModiSumit Bhagat10. MagicmarketWhen Ecommerce companies were busy selling newproducts we felt that used market valued 75000C wasmissing focus. So we came up with an idea to sellused products directly through our company afterquality checks. We are currently doing with books andexploring the opportunities in furniture sector.Middle class section of India always bear the idea oftrying a second product due to its cheaper price.Butone of the major problems faced by the buyer is thefragmented nature of the market as well as anabsence of standardized costing structure. We solvethis by bringing everything under one roof and pricingthings at a reasonable cost.FoundersArvindhArulMadhubalan Lingam11. MobioMobio is been found by Mohammed, Anush andNavaneeth. Three of the cofounders are engineeringstudents in fourth, third and second respectively. Westarted out developing apps, then we pivoted our selfinto SaaS product. We bootstrap our company fromthe income from apps.www.mobiopush.com allows websites to send pushnotifications to desktop, mobile and other devices.The technology have more than 23X opt in rate thanemails and it will replace decade old RSS. This newmarketing channel will change the way we browseinternet as push notifications in apps changed theentire app industry.FoundersMohammed AboobackerNavaneeth PKAnush Anilkumar12. MerrytripsMerrytrips is a startup by the students for thestudents to make carpooling easier and efficient inIndia. It enables students, professionals and otherworking class people to commute intercity and intra-city with ease by combining the luxury of traveling ina car and saving money and fuel for futuregenerations, thus making it eco-friendly.We arrange cabs or taxis for customers who arewilling to carpool. We also provide a platform forcarpooling wherein customers post their rides andwait for other potential customers to travel along withthem to save money and fuel and to create a win-winsituation all around.FoundersArvind ChoudharyNirav DevpuraAbhishek Mehrotra13. Adventures365Adventures365.in is India’s biggest marketplace andone-stop-solution for people looking for variousadventurous activities and for all the groups andorganizations related to adventure sports and travel.Our goal is to bring all the adventure and outdoorenthusiasts on a common platform.ADVENTURES365 is bridge between people searchingfor an adventure and the various travel groupssearching for customers. All people need to do is tellus their definition of an adventure and we providethem with the best experts, best holiday package intheir suitable budgets .We thus also provide thegroups with customers.FoundersOmkar MethavdeRohan Khedkar14. The Parking ScoutHardware & software automation of parking systemsso as to help people find and access parking locationeasily.The various aspects of our product include:1. Parking Survey ( City ,Building, Commercial areas)2. Sensor Automation of Parking LiftsOnline Portal to help people locate Parking for theirVehicle.FoundersChaitanya Vasudeo Kolhatkar15. Hobby in a boxHobby in a box is an online portal that delivers atyour doorstep all the required materials (in exactquantity and of superior quality) and instructions tomake products you love. The product contains all thesupplies and instructions to pursue a hobby or learnnew crafts or simply D-I-Y (do it yourself).We provide the convenience of buying materials thatnormally you cannot buy in India or cannot buy insmaller quantities. Also we are including latest DIYtrends that change over the years.FoundersManveen KaurSarthak MohantyNishant Nayak16. Aerocrats / GlobalTechnological AdvancedResearch OrganizationWe are an entity whose primary goal is to conductfundamental research in the field of Unmanned AerialVehicles and to disseminate their results by way ofhands-on-workshops in schools and colleges to bringto limelight the importance of breaking away from oldpedagogy and introduce new and innovative ways bymeans of practical training.We believe that it's not about giving a lecture on theboard anymore or teaching theory in the classroomrather India needs an educational system whichprovides hands-on learning experience. We conductaero-modelling and hands-on-science workshops inschools and colleges and involve them in our realtime projects.FoundersRitesh KanuBiswajit DeyDipankar Ranjan ChoudhuryMohan Krishna MaharjanJoy Sen17. VERTECVERTEC, provides garden on the roof of a building,which provides many ecological benefits besides thedecorative benefits roof plantings provides food andtemperature control, hydrological benefits,architectural enhancement, habitat or corridors forrecreational opportunities.FoundersDineshraj GManiveer DDillibabu K RHariharasudhan S18. GreensoleEvery year 35 Cr. pairs of sports shoes are discardedas they are no longer fit to use. Making shoesinvolves a total of assembling up to 65 discrete partsin 360 steps and the whole process is highly chemicalintensive. We recycle these expensive non-biodegradable waste shoes to comfortable, cushionedslippers with a good grip at a low cost.Kadam slippers are trendy as well as sturdy due tohigh quality of the sole of the shoe. To add depth toour carbon neutral initiate we give employment tounderprivileged sections of the society and use ecopaints and glue. By paying an additional fee peoplegiving their shoes would get slippers of that veryshoe (customization).FoundersShriyans BhandariRamesh Dhami19. Master Sports AcademyMy company is a sports center we provide training inDance, Cricket, football, Basketball, badminton, TableTennis, Gymnastics, Yoga, Body Building and AerobicsWe have started the venture as first time project atIndore and excellent encouragement is received.Where on the first month we got 65 admissions.Our venture is to give training in Dance, Cricket,Football, Basketball, Badminton, Table Tennis,Gymnastics, Yoga, Body Building and Aerobics. It is aconsolidated sports hub.FoundersRajat PillaiRavindran PillaiYash Ektare20. Brandvisers ConsultingWe are working to improve the economic condition ofpeople working in the MSME Enterprises. We wouldprovide all the professional services to the enterprisesfree of cost, unless they turn profitable.Because of the non-profitable status of majority ofsuch enterprises due to lack of knowledge aboutfinancial analysis, logistics, supply chainmanagement, legal aspects, human resources etc.they fail to sustain themselves. We are the onlyventure in the market that does not charge for theservices provided to the enterprises, unless they turnprofitable. Thus we have the advantage of attractingmore customers than any of our competitors.FoundersIshan VermaAshish Verma21. Oyster International Trust ofModel United NationsWith a vision to “Equip the Youth to Unite the World”,Oyster International Trust of Model United Nationswas established in order to fulfill the goals of theUnited Nations by supporting the youth and trainingthem via various kinds of seminars, workshops,brainstorming sessions, conferences, etc.MUN Forum: To fulfill primary objective of the trusti.e. training Students at schools, College and univ.about the theoretical and practical knowledge aboutthe UN and also to make them aware about theavailing benefits at the platform of the UN.EduTour forum: its a student exchange program forthe societal benefits.FoundersTejasvee TandonRakshit GoyalShrey Saxena22. Innovative MarketingFree internet is becoming a norm. Visitors expect freeWi-Fi access in public places. Businesses are lookingfor new ways how to monetize their free Wi-Fi. AtInnovative Marketing we have the solution. We usesophisticated technologies based on customer insight,real-time-bidding and the use of social media foradvanced ad and product sales targeting.We are Providing Free access to high speed Internetwith unlimited downloading via Wi-Fi at the mostprominent and happening places of Indore like cafesand shopping malls. And generating revenue throughadvertising on WiFi. In short Wifi Marketing.FoundersAnshul DubeySunil ChouhanAkshay Awasthi23. XEQTXeQt is a software and services start-up with a focuson minimalism, clean designs and bleeding-edgeinnovations. XeQt is based out of Kolkata and hasbranches in Asansol, Durgapur and Dhanbad as well.KhaVar is a mobile app developed for Android devices,made to help Sector V professionals fill theirstomachs with the best food available at the lowestcost. Rate, comment, like and share your experiencesabout the food at your favorite eateries, and benotified when there are fresh mouth-wateringdelicacies to enjoy, all from your cellphone.FoundersSoham BanerjeeAnirban Sinha24. BuzzlA Service start-up for small scale business.Marketing, Business Scale Projection, Managementinterface design and sales forecast. The serviceswhich i offer to my customers is cheaper than othercompanies. Moreover, Advertising companies dealwith mid-level and large businesses. I deal with newand small businesses, my target customer segmenthas less competition.FoundersLibin Roy Thomas25. CybrSysWe’re a young internet start-up that is dedicated tomaking web applications for the mainstreamconsumer internet market and handcrafting websitesfor brands & individuals. At CybrSys, we materializeour own ideas by building and publishing independentwebapps through our consumer web studio bannerCybrHome.CybrHome is the home for your online life. It featuresa personalized dashboard and launcher-like homescreen that links users to CybrHome’s two importantunits – CybrHome Store and CybrHome Search- CybrHome Store is a web app store where you canfind and use web apps.- CybrHome Search makes discovery of apps andwebsites easier than ever.FoundersShubham BadalAshish GuptaAjeet LakhaniSource entrepreneurs network.