BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION NEO BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION Submission Guidlines Instructions for submission For any queries, please contact Mr. Vikas Tomar@ 8319807719 Mail to: ced.lucknow@jaipuria.ac.in

OUR CAMPUSES 1995: JAIPURIA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT LUCKNOW 2006: JAIPURIA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT JAIPUR 2004: JAIPURIA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT NOIDA 2010: JAIPURIA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT INDORE

NEO GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA The main objective of the competition is encourage participants to create a feasible Business Plan using their management and business concepts. We are looking for business plans where in you will be addressing the common problems which are faced by individuals, businesses and society. Your solution could be in form of a product or a service. GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA The competition is open for all teams comprising of students, undergraduate and postgraduate students. ,

FORMATION OF TEAMS: Max 4 members permitted in a team (plan can be submitted individually as well) More than 1 team can participate from a college. One participant cannot be a part of more than one team. No change of team structure is permitted after the team is registered. One of the team member should be Registered as Team Leader. The team must register on the link, before 23:59 on 3rd March, 2019 (Sunday) Register here, http://jaipuria.ac.in/neo/# All correspondences will be done through this email-id only ced.lucknow@jaipuria.ac.in

TIMELINE REGISTRATION PHASE I Video Round FINALE Starts from 4th Feb, 2019 Ends on 3rd March, 2019 REGISTRATION 3rd March to 20th March, 2019 Requires submission of Business plan in Word format Result 25th March 2018 PHASE I Top 20 teams required to submit a 3min (max) video 25th March, 2019 to 30th March 2019 Result 3rd April, 2019 Video Round Top 8 teams will be interviewed through Skype on 7th April, 2019. The result of FINALE will be displayed on Website on 10th April, 2019. FINALE

PRIZES 1st 2nd 3rd Cash reward of Rs.35,000 & certificate. All the Participants will be Awarded with Participation certificate

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION The team must submit their Business Plan in MS-word only. A team can make submission on only one topic The team must mail their Business Plan to ced.lucknow@jaipuria.ac.in before 11:59 PM on 20th March 2019,also mention your Team Leader and company Name in the subject column. Please save the Word document as “TL’s name_ Institute Name_Location” eg. “Vikas Tomar_ Jaipuria Institute of Management_Lucknow” Each team must mention topic, team name, college, team members on the first page of the business plan No request for deadline extension shall be entertained. The team can use pictures, info graphics in their business plan. However, we would appreciate that you put relevant sources in Appendix.

Last date for registration is 3rd March, 2019. REGISTERING PROCESS Last date for registration is 3rd March, 2019.

Phase 1 Last date for submission of the word document is 20th March, 2019 by 23:59. The participants are required to e-mail a detailed business plan. The business plan should not exceed 20 pages excluding Cover page, Index and Executive Summary. The participants must follow the font of 12 in Times New Roman for the main body and of 14 for the headings with a line spacing of 1.5 ” The Result of Phase 1 will be announce on 25th March ,2019

The business plan must be organized in the following manner Cover Page Index Executive Summary Opportunity Market analysis summary Execution Financial plan

Team name College name Cover Page Company Name Company Logo Team name College name Member 1_name | emailid Member 2_name | emailid Member 3_name | emailid Member 4_name | emailid Name and Mobile No of Team Leader:

Executive Summary It’s also the doorway to your plan—after looking over your executive summary, your target reader is either going to throw your business plan away or keep reading, so you’d better get it just right. Summarize the problem you are solving for customers, your solution, the target market, the founding team, and financial forecast highlights. Keep things as brief as possible and entice your audience to learn more about your company . Opportunity This section just describes what you are selling and how your products and services fill a need for your customers or we can say describe the problem that you solve for your customers and the solution that you are selling.

Market analysis summary You need to know your target market—the types of customers you are looking for—and how it’s changing. Use this section to discuss your customers’ needs, where your customers are, how to reach them and how to deliver your product to them.

Execution Use this section to outline your marketing plan, your sales plan, and the other logistics involved in actually running your business. You’ll want to cover the technology you plan on using, your business location and other facilities, special equipment you might need, and your roadmap for getting your business up and running How the business will succeed in the market? How will you create a unique and valuable position, involving a different set of activities? What is unique about the business? How is the offering different from that of competitors? What is the value for the customers? Describe the value proposition for the customer?

Financial Plan Start-up expenses and capitalization: a description and explanation of what it will cost to launch the business and where you expect to get this money 12-month profit and loss projection and a three-year profit and loss projection A 12-month cash-flow projection and a three-year cash-flow projection A projected balance sheet at start-up and at the end of years one to three A break-even calculation

TOP 20 teams will be selected from Phase I on the following criteria: Comprehensiveness 20% Uniqueness of Idea Marketability & Sustainability 30% Financial Feasibility

Phase II The Top 20 teams selected in Phase I are required to e-mail video of their business plan (Maximum 3 min). Last date for submission of their video is 30th March , 2019 . The Result of Phase 2 will be announce on 3rd April,2019. FINALE Top 8 team will be interviewed on Skype on 07th April 2018. Result of Finale will be displayed on Website on 10th April, 2018.

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