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A weekend of working on
startup ideas alongside people.
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entertaining.

[13-15 AUG, 2016]

[STARTUP WEEKEND, XAVIER INSTITUTE OF
MANAGEMENT
BHUBANESWAR] BHUBANESWAR

https://startupweekend.org/
In just 54 hours, experience the highs, lows, fun, and pressure that make
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up life at a startup. As you learn how to create a real company, you meet
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the very best mentors, investors, cofounders, and sponsors who are
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ready to help you get started. Your community is there to help you
Startup Weekend!!
Startup Weekend is a 54-hour weekend event, during which groups of developers, business managers, startup
enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more pitch ideas for new startup companies, form teams
around those ideas, and work to develop a working prototype, demo, or presentation by the time event ends.

This time XIMB, XUB got another opportunity to host Startup Weekend for the second time.

With 3 Lead Startup Weekend Organizers, an incredible team of 15+ SW organizers (X-SEED: The Idea and
Initiative Cell of XIMB,XUB ), 1 SW Global Facilitator, 80+ attendees, 54 ideas pitched, 11 teams formed, 54
hours, 8 partners, 3 speakers, 30+ mentors/ coaches, 4 judges, 3 winning teams, 7 delicious healthy meals and
awesome Venue was a great success.

The global and local sponsors along with the supporting partners who made this event a successful one
are: Google for Entrepreneurs, Intuit, SEEP supported by British Council, BookingJini, Auroin, Serverdial.com,
Milk Mantra, Teeshood, Thoomri.com

Heres is a 3 day recap of what happened in those 54 hours.

FIRST DAY: 13-AUG-2016

The event was inaugurated in the evening of the first day by the three esteemed speakers Mr. Ankit Kumar,
CEO and Founder of ALTERNATIVE GLOBAL INDIA, Prof. DV Ramana, XIMB and Mr. Debasmit Mohanty, CEO,
Stratlytics.

There were in total 54 ideas pitched by enthusiastic participants on the very first day of the event. Out of
those ideas, 11 best ideas were selected. The pitcher of the idea had to convince other participants for his idea
in order to get a vote from him/her. Eventually, the best 11 ideas with highest votes were selected out of
those 54 ideas. The team was formed according to the verticals required to accomplish the idea.
These were the 11 ideas which were selected with highest votes:

1. Dreams Comes True: A sports agency with a social initiative.

2. Paisawala: Once card solution for all your Mess woes.
3. Phatak Se! : Picking up and delivering any type of item, anytime & anywhere.
4. Customobile: Customize mobile phones under a company that wants to expand its sectors.
5. TalSpot: Geo-Location Talent Finder
6. Herbcer: Wellness house for cancer patients
7. Origano: IT enables supply chain of Agri-commodities.
8. Freshfruzz: Online fruits delivery at market price and free delivery
9. Trendz Maniac: Renting of branded cloths and accessories and selling it after breakeven.
10. Passion Finders: Provide students from class 8-10 with practical knowledge and real industry
experience that would help them in their career.
11. Nexhom: Providing Accommodation in hostels and paying guests.

DAY-2: 14-AUG-2016
The second day of event was the processing phase of the ideas. The event witnessed the presence of much
esteemed personalities from different spheres of business, technology and culture.
Mr. C Chandrasekhar, Mr. Sakyasingha Mahapatra, Mr. Sanjay Mohanty, Prof. Shridhar Dash, Mr. Sujit
Mohapatra, Prof. Dr. D.V. Ramana, Prof. M.N. Tripathi, Mr. Ankit Kumar, Prof. Arun Paul, Mr. Rakesh
Parida, Mr. Priyabrata Kar, Mr. GD Mishra, Mr. S Siddhartha, Mrs. Amrita Kundu, Mr. Param Brahma, Mr.
Birendranath Banerjee, Mr.Abu Tabish, Mr. Binayak Acharya, Amrita Sabat, Mr AK Rath, Mr. Arvind Acharaya,
Mr. AK Mohanty, Mr. S.P. ROY, Mr. Niranjan Mohapatra, Prof. Sanjib Mohapatra, Mr. Jiji John, Ms. Rashmi
Agarwal, Mr. Swapan Ghosh, Mr. Baroda Prasad and many others were there to help the participants with the
much valuable help needed for the processing of their ideas.

The participants were free to interact, question and collect as many insights as they could from the mentors
that would have helped them for development of their idea into a reality. All the experienced mentors were
keen enough to help each and every student. They gave very valuable time to students from their very busy
schedule. Mentors were there from the start of the second day of the event till the last, to guide the students
in each and every step.

It was a period full of opportunities to increase your network and contacts. All together it was a complete fun
to share and discuss the ideas with highly knowledgeable and experienced rich mentors.
DAY 3: 15-AUG-2016
Third and the last day of the startup weekend is the day of showing output. What participants have done from
last 36 hours, it was the time to showcase it. It was the presentation day. Mentors were not only helping on
how to approach towards working of idea, but they were also kind enough to share their knowledge on how
to present it in front of the audience. Since, presentation is also the most important of a startup, it was
important for the students to showcase their hard work in best possible way.
The third day of the event started at 9 A.M in the morning. Mentors were there to help students from the very
first hour itself.
In order to help participants to get a web address for their idea, .CO a proud Global Sponsor of Startup
Weekend provided every participant access to their own .CO domain for free to get their idea online.

For judging the presentation, esteem panel of judges consisted of: Dr. Bijay K Sahoo (Founder and Chaiman,
Sai International School), Prof. Dr. D.V. Ramana (XIMB), Mr. KC Mishra (CEO, eKutir), Mr. Amit Kar (Credit
Analyst, SBI). These were not only the judging the presentations, they were literally helping each and
participant with their ideas, what loop hole they have, what improvement can be made. It was really a rich
experience of knowledge.

It doesnt matter if the idea wins or not, every idea is a winner. The event facilitator
Amlan Pattnaik who had previously attended lot of startup weekends quoted Many a times the idea who
doesnt win any prize turns out to be more successful startup than compare to the one who won the Startup
Weekend. It is all about gaining experience, collecting insights, knowing the highs and lows of opening a
startup.

Though the best three ideas won the Startup Weekend which were not only best in terms of the idea, but also
in the way they kept their idea in front of the panel. How much brain storming they did to make their idea the
best one made them the winner.
The winners were:

1st Prize: FresFruzz (Online fruits delivery at market price and free delivery)
2nd Prize: Pie$um (One card solution for all your Mess woes)
3rd Prize: Natural Control (Natural alternatives to pesticides)
 First Prize Winning team Fresh Fruzz got The August Fest complimentary passes (3 passes + 50%
discounted tickets for rest of the team(s)
The Fresh Fruzz (winning team at startup weekend, Bhubaneswar) got a wild card entry to Pitch on
Stage at The August Fest 2016 before 1st September. (Provided the team is intact and taking the
product to the market)
The another takeaway for the winning teams were:
FresFruzz to be mentored by Dr. Bijay K. Sahoo
PieSum to be mentored by Mr. K.C Mishra
Natural Contol by Mr. Ankit Kumar

This 54 hours brainstorming of ideas was a success. The event was put to an end on a very high note by
participants and vote of thanks by the esteemed Prof. Shridhar Dash.

Krishna Sil the Coordinator of X-SEED, XIMB/XUB casted his special thanks to the observers and guests
from Odisha startup ecosystem for their constant support, and SW Bhubaneswar team for being a wonderful
host. He gave his special thanks to his fellow teammate, Anurag Maloo (Regional Manager - South & Central
Asia, Techstars) who gave this opportunity to work with this amazing group.
Startup Weekend is a heck of a deal. An amazing startup event, hands-on learning experience and valuable
networking far outweighs the low cost.