Zero To Crore

Yet another full-day “Buisness Planning Bootcamp” was conducted by us at Udyogwardhini, Nasik on 1st December 2019 addressing entrepreneurs from various industries on how to scale-up their businesses and strategies to increase their revenue.

Photo: Mr. Ishwar Jha setting the pitch for the Bootcamp

Photo: Participants involved in an activity during the planning bootcamp

Photo: One of the participant presenting their business model

Businessmen’s Association of Maharashtra (BAM) had invited us to conduct full-day session on “Business Planning Bootcamp” on 27th June 2018. Giving an insight into the business models of the startups led us to interact with them in a better manner to address the problems being faced by start-ups in running and scaling their business.

Photo: Participants casting their votes on how they feel about the current state of business

Photo: Mr. Ishwar Jha interacting with the business owners

Photo: Participants involved in an activity during the bootcamp

Photo: Mr. Ishwar Jha being felicitated

We conducted a-day long session of “Business Planning Bootcamp” for TiE Charter Members in Mumbai at WeWork on 14th July 2018. The bootcamp was designed to address the issues that the strt-ups face at the initial stages of their business, followed by the searching the business model and scaling up their revenue.

Photo: Mr. Ishwar Jha addressing the participants in the opening session

Photo: Mr. Ishwar Jha having one-to-one interaction with the participant

Photo: Participants involved in meditation activity to separate signal from noise

Photo: Participants involved in defining their business model

Around 50+ attendees gathered for our “Zero to One Crore” workshop held at NMIMS, Mumbai on 31st July 2017 to understand the journey of a startup organization and using live case studies to solve the Lean Canvas. The teams were excited to present their ideas to the panel of judges examining the problem, likely solution and working on the financial projections to get a better understanding of the conceptual knowledge shared with them during the session.

Photo: Mr. IShwar Jha having on-to-one interaction with the participants

 

Photo: Participants presenting the The Lean Canvas

 

Photo: Mr. Ishwar Jha presenting the certificates and cash prize to the winners

 

Photo: Group photo with the participants

On 20th June 2017, IES Management College & Research Centre, Mumbai invited us to conduct our “Zero to One Crore” workshop as a part of their Orientation program with 70+ participants. The audience consisted of both freshers and students with work experience. Out activity driven workshop enabled them to interact with each and break the ice thereby making them to think of pursuing entrepreneurship a career option. This college also runs a separate program with Entrepreneurship as a specialization.

Photo: Mr. Ishwar Jha addressing the participants with his motivational talk

 

Photo: Students listing down their priorities during one of the workshop activities

 

Photo: Students sharing their business ideas with the audience

 

Photo: Winner of Cash Prize for “Business Idea” activity

Conducting “Zero to One Crore” workshop at 91Springboard, Mumbai led us to interact with startups from varied verticals of business looking to build, launch and expand their startup venture to turn their ideas into reality. There were also some budding entrepreneurs from top b-schools attending this workshop to learn our 6-step process to launch and run a startup successfully.

Photo: Participants involved during the session

 

Photo: Ishwar Jha having one-to-one interaction with the participants

 

Photo: Conducting “Top 25 Must Haves for their business” (Activity) with the participants

We conducted our “Zero to One Crore” workshop for 125+ students during VCET E-cell Event. It was great to see the student’s deep involvement in learning and applying conceptual knowledge during the workshop with live case studies given to them on the spot. We were very glad to see the students participate, discuss and come up with solutions to the case problems with the help of Lean Canvas Model.

Photo: Ishwar Jha conducting the Opening Session and setting the stage

 

Photo: Meditation Activity being conducted by Ishwar Jha

 

Photo: Students involved in discussion of Lean Canvas

 

Photo: Students presenting Lean Canvas to the Judges

 

Photo: Group photo with the students

It was a different experience addressing the students of Sardar Patel Technology Business Incubator. It helped the students get an understanding of business focus, how to develop their dream company and finally scaling for growth.

Photo: Meditation session being conducted before the start of the workshop to get the focus right

 

Photo: Ishwar Jha having one-on-one interaction with students

 

Group Photo of Ishwar Jha with the students at SP-TBI

It was a pleasure to conduct yet another session of our Zero to One Crore Workshop at The Product Conclave, NASSCOM 10000 Startup, Pune. Had a very humble experience to address 70+ entrepreneurs looking to either launch their start-up or expand their existing business.

Group Photo of Ishwar Jha with participants at Product Conclave, NASSCOM Pune.

We conducted our Zero to One Crore Workshop for the Final Year students at KES Shroff College and were overwhelmed to see the enthusiasm and the engagement level of the students to learn about entrepreneurship and launching techniques of business.

Photo: Participants involved in “Promise Note” Activity

 

Photo: Ishwar Jha conducting an activity during the workshop

 

Photo: Students engaged in the “Balloon Activity” as a part of the closing session

 

Photo: Group Photo of Ishwar Jha with the participants

It was an overwhelming experience to interact with 75+ students at Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Rajasthan for our “Zero to One Crore” workshop on 18th November 2016. Many of them were looking to start their own venture and getting their ideas validated through this workshop enabled them to think deeply once again on their concept and ground work involved in setting the business system and process.

Photo: Participants presenting their ideas on Business Model Canvas

 

Photo: Ishwar Jha addressing the participants during the workshop

 

Photo: Winner of “One day Business Launch Plan evaluation and validation” with Mr. Ishwar Jha was Himanshi Chauhan.

 

Photo: Group photo of Ishwar Jha with the participants

Our “Zero to One Crore” workshop at International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad gave me an opportunity, on one hand to interact with entrepreneurs who had come to evaluate their existing model or future of their business venture, and on the other hand with the students who were planning to pursue this entrepreneurial opportunity by learning through our framework and tools.

Photo: Participants engaged in making promise to themselves in “The Promise Note” activity.

 

Photo: Winner of “One day Business Launch Plan evaluation and validation” with Mr. Ishwar Jha was Mr. M V L Narayana.

 

Photo: Q&A Session with Mr. Ishwar Jha after the workshop

 

Video: Participant Feedback about the workshop.

https://youtu.be/Eqy_Kqf1Yzo

It was a very interactive and thought-provoking session at NASSCOM 10000 Startup Warehouse with 40+ founders from different industries looking to start their own business. I was glad to even meet entrepreneurs who have successfully achieved 1 Cr but feel that their growth is stagnated. They found the workshop very valuable in terms of how to scale-up and grow their business beyond 1 Cr.

Photo: Ishwar Jha addressing the participants during the workshop

 

Photo: Participants involved in writing “The First Tweet” activity to announce their business idea to the world.

 

Photo: Winner being chosen by lucky draw for “One day Business Launch Plan evaluation and validation” with Mr. Ishwar Jha. The winner was Mr. Kalyan Dhokte from Pune.

 

Video: Feedback from the participants about the workshop

https://youtu.be/4KSSEVrslcE

 

It was an eye opener for us to see over 150 management students attending our workshop as part of the entrepreneurship nurturing initiative of the St. Francis Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai. I told the participants that you can use the entrepreneurial thinking and the process of launching a startup even if you choose to pursue the career at leading enterprises.

The lucky winner for “One day of business idea launch plan evaluation and validation” worth Rupees 60,000 was Ms. Shialee Vaidya.

Photo: Ishwar Jha interacting with the participants during the workshop

 

Photo: Participants engaged in “Burn your worries” activity during the workshop

 

Photo: Group photo with Ishwar Jha, management of St. Francis Institute of Management and Research and participants

The participating founders felt that the workshop is a well-articulated 5-step process to help them learn the process-driven approach for idea development, business planning and launch their startup.

Here is what the founders had to say about the workshop, their learning and overall experience:

https://youtu.be/P5N6KWkOUPE

We also announced One day of launch plan evaluation and validation session with Ishwar Jha and team worth Rupees 60,000 to one lucky winner. We congratulate Sameer Prakash for winning the prize and look forward to helping him with evaluation, validation and mentoring him to launch his idea.

Photo: Ishwar Jha conducting the “Zero to One Crore” workshop with founders.

 

Photo: One-to-one conversation with the participants after the workshop.

We were thrilled to notice that the founders felt that the workshop is a comprehensive, process-driven and relevant to them to prepare for striking the entrepreneurial success.