IIT D Entreprenurial Summit Feb 20-21,2010

GVC particpated in IIT D E-Cell summit on Feb 20 and Feb 21

This was a wonderful experience as six students were part of the team. All of them did a wonderful job and created a space of energy and excitment.

We showcased our GSM based designs. Purpose of the show was to get feedback about our products and look for potential partners and investors. 
                                                                                            GSM+TV was appreciated by almost every one. The feature of getting call details and SMS on TV was unique and lot of people liked this idea.

We met four investors and one of them is now prospective buyer of our design. Apart from Microsoft, Nokia Siemens and Mcdonalds have shown interest in our designs.


Apart from products, we also put up a LCD Monitor and played presentation for the whole day.

Let me also acknowledge students who spent time and energy

Jasmeen Kaur - B Tech IT
Karan Agarwal - B Tech IT
Varun Mathur - BSc IT
Nitish Nanda - BBA
Swati Mehta - B Tech EC
Pankaj Talwal - B Tech EC

Yourstory.in interviewed me

Read the online interview at following link. Yourstory in an online portal and showcases entrepreneurs. Ove 4000 entrepreneurs in various fields are interviewed.  Yourstory also sponsors various events at E-Cells of various colleges. 

http://yourstory.in/entrepreneurs/tech-entrepreneurs/3161-vinay-chaddha-founder-gvc-systems-pvt-ltd

So if you have any plans for becoming an entrepreneur then this site provided lot of information related to funding, resources and networking.

Attending ISBA Conference and exhibiting our designs on Feb 8-9-10,2010

This week we participated in ISBA conference and exhibited our GSM based devices at  R@W (research at work) stalls.

We have showcased our GSM based devices and got lot of positive feedback and new ideas from Media, Academicians, Industry people and Funding organisations.

Apart from exhibiting our designs, we also met lot of fellow entrepreneurs with their own ideas and products.  One smart gentleman (singer, yoga teacher and entrepreneur) from Manipur exhibited handicraft products from grass and a pretty young girl with graduation in architecture and post grad in Product Designing and just out of IIT-Kanpur was showing graphics designs.

Well, India is truly a country of brave and intelligent people and lot of opportunities are available now. People as young as college freshers to 60+ starting their first venture were there. It is exciting to be with so many energetic persons.

We also received invitation to show case our products at IIT-Delhi. So on Feb 19th and 20th we will be IIT Delhi at entrepreneur's corner.

A session by DST, IAN informed us about various options of funding and grant available from various govt agencies.

In short these three days gave us lot of feedback about our products, interaction with various entrepreneurs taught us few more lessons on innovation and meeting with academicians and Govt official have shown us ways for getting more support.

And of course we are thankful to Apoorv Sharma and his team for giving us the opportunity to showcase our designs.

Special thanks are also due to Swati and Pankaj, two trainees students working with us. They reached home almost by 9 PM every day, still they were at site by 9 AM next day.

Participating in Proto.in at IIT Mumbai on Jan 30,2010

   Last week, I visited Mumbai to participate in Proto.in, an event for start ups. It was a wonderful experience listening to 15 startups and few entrepreneurs who already made big in the field. The major learning came from Sanjiv of Naukri.com and Pradeep of cyber media. Both of them shared that in the beginning, they faced competition from large company, yet they managed to survive. Being small and without money is not the limiting factor, What limits is what you think your limits are.  Or as Ritu Shri said , YOUR WORDS CREATE YOUR WORLD.

Participation at Mash Up at IIT Delhi on Jan 23rd,2010

On Jan 23rd, we participated and showcased our GSM enabled devices at IIT Delhi in an event called Mash up by TiE.

We participated along with Amit Goenka of Ariose. We had hardware electronics which can record lat/long , speed of the vehicle, listen to the happening around the unit (from a remote location by calling the specified number), switch on/off any electrical device, sense if device is on/off, sense position of doors, sense temperature, humidity. display message on TV screen and so on.. 

This could be used for vehicle tracking, remote monitoring / control of one or more appliances.

Possible usages are

• Used in a school bus, it can raise alarm as soon as speed exceeds and after few seconds send SMS to school incharge. It can not be deactivated/tampered with. Even if it damaged.burnt and thrown out, it will inform the exact date, time and place of when tempered with by sending SMS ie it can monitor itself. Parents can send SMS and get location of the bus when required. Bus incharge or any authorised person and listen to what is happening in the bus or make announcement sitting at office and even records if it travels away from pre-define route or stop at a place longer than required.
• Monitor power consumption of a shop/home/office,. If power consumption is high/low than normal then raise alarm. For example if a shop owner forget to switch off AC or some one switching on AC before or after office hours, an SMS will be sent. Also shop owner or some one senior (who has the password) can switch on/off the electrical appliance, make announcement and listed to what is happening in his/her absence.
• Monitoring traffic lights on roads - Traffic Lights go bad causing jams and accidents. The concerned person do not even know for a long time. This system can alert  repair  team as soon as a bulb/light goes bad, batteries are not getting recharged or mains supply fails.

Ariose showcased their software solution where all these activities are records on computer and user can see a route map of the bus on internet (using google map), keep records of the last few days/weeks and generate report on overspeeding or power consumption or failure history.

We got lot of valuable inputs, suggestions and ideas and few leads for our products.

GVC team included Swati Mehta, Pankaj Talwar, Saurabh and Pusphinder.

Attended Smart City Convention on Jan 20,2010

I was sponsored by FMSME to attend one day convention on Smart City. At 25K for one day event, It was beyond my capacity.

At end of the day, I can say one thing with full confidence. India is progressing. Despite limitations and whatever we say against politicians and  govt officials, well change is happening.

I was impressed to know Govt Plans to make Indian cities, the really smart cities.

And as an entrepreneur, I can see lot of business opportunities for me using my embedded electronics products in Smart Cities of India.

Working in a company - read an interesting blog

A very good blog on common mistakes made by freshers on first job.Even useful for experienced persons

Complete article is here

http://employabilityfirst.blogspot.com/2009/05/common-mistakes-that-freshers-make.html

Common points are

1. Never be late
2. Do not gossip about boss/co-worker/organisation
3. Do not find faults with management
4. Always be willing to learn
5. Do not show off / Talk about personal problems
6. Never give up