The Story
Entrepreneurship Club – name itself spells leveraging the entrepreneurial skills and opportunities to experiment new ideas. It is a team of highly motivated students who want to play with their entrepreneurial ideas and learn minute details and techniques of implementing them successfully.
The Entrepreneurship Club at IIM Ahmedabad was started in 2001 by the student community and is entirely and efficiently managed by the students of the institute. With its goal of building sustainable ventures, it provides the students with the platform for learning and implementing innovative ideas in an environment of minimized risk and maximized success in ventures.
The club’s various activities reflect its vision and mission to provide the students with resources to implement their entrepreneurial ideas. These resources include innovative ideas, motivating entrepreneurship articles and discussions with eminent speakers.
Entre Store
Among the tasks handled by Entrepreneurship Club, the most significant one is the Entre Store. This is a student run merchandizing initiative. This provides the students with first-hand experience of running a store and to the very basic level, all the functionalities related to it. As a part of arousing people’s interest in entrepreneurship, this year, the club organised T-shirt competition and launched T-shirts with the winner design. Winner of the design was awarded with a share per T-shirt sold.
As a part of its strategy, apart from being the souvenir store, it also provides stationery and useful stuffs like placement folders to the students. The Club aims to launch various new merchandises both as a part of memorabilia and utility goods.
Dream Big India Entrepreneurship Summit
Dream Big India should aspire to become a "Campus Recruitment Event For Entrepreneurs!" -- Faculty Advisor of Entre Club, Prof. Anil Gupta. This expalins the significance and necessity of Dream Big India – Annual Entrepreneurship Summit. This event is a step towards achieving our dream of stimulating interest in entrepreneurialism among students of IIM ahmedabad and community at large with entrepreneurial skills and ideas to see their plans in action.
It was a unique endeavour to bring entrepreneurs, incubators, investors and mentors from diversified field of economic, social, cultural and political entrepreneurship on one common platform to motivate the participants to dream big. Eminent Speakers like – Sivram Duggal, Chairman and Founder, Institute of Clinical Research India. Sanjeev Bhikchandani, Founder, Naukri.com. P D Rai, IIMA Alumnus, Member of Parliament from Sikkim, Sraman Mitra, Columnist on Entrepreneurship, Forbe.com increased the career horizon of students beyond few selected and renowned paths.
Offbeat Entrepreneur Series
It is an attempt by the club to convey the holistic meaning of entrepreneurship – economic, social, cultural and political through sessions by entrepreneurs from various fields who have broken the conventional connotation attached with the "entrepreneurship" as a profit-maximizing endeavor.
Entre Magazine
The Club is on its way to launch its first issue of Entrepreneurship magazine. This initiative is taken with a view of arousing interest in entrepreneurship among the students with the inspiring stories and coverage on various start-ups. Through its various entrepreneurial activities throughout the year, Entrepreneurship Club provides information, knowledge and networking opportunities related to entrepreneurship and introduce students to all steps of the Entrepreneurial Process: Idea Generation, Market Research, Business Planning and Financing and its various social, economic, political and cultural aspects.
