YUVA - The Entrepreneurship Cell of Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies aims at actively promoting entrepreneurship amongst budding entrepreneurs. It seeks to provide a platform to the students to convert their ideas into a reality by exposing them to the joys and obscurity of entrepreneurship .Yuva believes that entrepreneurship is not an aptitude, but an attitude!

YUVA is a realisation of the need to cultivate and integrate the entrepreneurial stance within the management mould. Alan Kay once said ‘The best way to predict future is to invent it’ and we at YUVA believe in doing just that. YUVA succeeded in giving the University of Delhi its first Incubation Centre. The Incubation Centre is a setup, which carries out the mission of promoting innovation and entrepreneurship to enable and seed business operations with guidance in product design, know-how acquisition, financial mobilizations and providing a network of contacts for a budding entrepreneur.

Our Business Incubator helps young entrepreneurs with business basics, networking activities and provides them with marketing assistance. The Centre has access to high speed internet connection and provides help in areas like accounting and financial management and in providing access to Bank Loans, Loan Funds and Guarantee Programs. Sessions like Comprehensive business training programs, knowledge of business etiquette and management team identification are being held time and again under the Incubation Centre.

National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) is our resource partner

The non-profit National Entrepreneurship Network was founded in 2003 with a mission to create and support high-growth entrepreneurs, driving job-creation and economic growth. Today, NEN represents the largest, most vibrant community of India’s new and future entrepreneurs.

Following events were organised in the year 2010

Idea Generation Workshop

The Incubation Centre hosted its first workshop, conducted by Mr. Siddhartha Sharma, Visiting faculty at CBS & Mr. Shadab Mobin from the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) on Monday, September 6. The workshop was attended by over 40 students. The agenda of the workshop was "Idea Generation". The speakers talked about the importance of ideas for a business venture and how we all are capable of innovative thinking.

Entrepreneurship 2.0

An innovative online business-plan competition to test the creativity and enterprising quotient of the participants. The participants were required to come up with innovative business plans seeking inspiration from the pictures provided to them. The first round required them to give their product a name and a tagline, the short-listed entries were uploaded on the Yuva Facebook profile and the entries had to compete for popularity which was judged by the number of likes that they managed to get. Teams that managed to clear the second round were then invited to college for the final round where they were required to present revenue models and swot analysis of their business plans. The event saw wide participations from colleges from all across Delhi.

Opportunity Evaluation Workshop:

From the eyes of a Venture Capitalist – “What VCs want?”

A workshop conducted by Mr. Siddhartha Sharma, Visiting faculty at CBS on 24th November. The workshop discussed various aspects of a business plan to be considered before taking it to a Venture Capitalist.

Start-Up Showcase Start-up showcase is a platform for young entrepreneurs from CBS to showcase their start-up at to the entire college. The platform not only helps student start-ups to reach out to wider audiences but also facilitates growth by means of the interaction and suggestion offered by the audiences and team Yuva. Start-ups that have participated in Start-up showcase are as follows.

• Creativa India-A Creative Advertising and Consulting Company by Himanshu Bhalla and Juhi Malik

• Uber Jogi-A start up by five CBSites Tanvi Pal, Namita Gupta, Pallav Kumar, Rashi Gupta and Nishtha Kishore that customizes and re-invents old used clothes and accessories to give them a completely new look

• B-10 Media-A Social Media Marketing Agency by Balakrishna Sarda

• iKUSTOMIZD – A start up by Nakul Khanna that offers customized apparel services

Chapters

Chapters are an opportunity for the students to know more about the entrepreneurial phenomena outside the campus. Start-ups from outside the campus are invited to talk to the students about the motivation, inspiration, challenges, benefits and various other aspects of starting up at a young age. Chapters for the following Start-ups were organised:

• Dream Juices-A start-up by Mr.Sameer Lodha,a BITS Pilani student

• Home Safe- Delhi’s first Premier Chauffeur Service, a start-up by Mr. Nikhil Saigal and Mr. Shiven Madan

Conclave

An annual start-up showcase event slated to be organised in February 2011.