(1888PressRelease)
January 08, 2009 - Great Lakes' team 'Progenie' – Smita Arora, Rohit Menon & Arpit Baid, emerged as winner from more than 150 teams from various B Schools all across India. Team Progenie won a cash prize of Rs 80,000 and an opportunity to present their Business Plan to Seedfund in Mumbai, for a possible funding of up to Rs 30 million.
The competition had four stages and started with an executive summary and then moved on to the complete Business Plan. At the second stage, the 20 teams were each provided with a mentor and experienced person from the industry. Team Progenie had Mr Sandeep Manudhane as their mentor. Mr Sandeep Manudhane is the Chief Mentor, PROTON Business School; CMD and founder of PT Education.
Five teams were invited to IIM Indore for the last two stages. Team Progenie from Great Lakes competed with the other four teams - two from IIM Indore, and one each from ISB, Hyderabad and NITIE, Mumbai. The Final stage was a boardroom discussion with Seedfund, NEN and DARE, who judged and declared the team from Great Lakes Institute of Management as the winners.
For details log on to:
www.greatlakes.edu.in
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