• NUS-Motorola Technopreneurship Challenge
• Megabucks 2004 - Global Business Plan Competition Finals (11 April)
• Bangkok Business Challenge 2003/04 (3-4 March)
• McKinsey Stratosphere Paper Contest 2004

Competition Background

• Organized by the NUS Faculty of Engineering, with the help of Business Incubation of Global Organisation (BINGO) and Motorola
• NUS-Motorola Technopreneurship challenge is a NUS business plan competition with a goal to encourage as many of NUS students to participate in the competition and to encourage as many of them as possible to go on to form start-ups and subsequently receive funding by business angel investors or venture capitalists.
• The Competition provides a network of resources for teambuilding, networking, mentorship, entrepreneurial education and capital. It rewards all competitors with feedback from qualified judges and provides capital in the form of $19,000 in cash prizes and Incubation opportunity for the winning teams and the best 8 semi-finalist teams.
• In this competition which attracted over 40 business plans from various teams, XtenSAN, the same 6-person team from NUS (Refer to MegaBucks 2004), also took away the first runner-up prize

Team Members  (Team XTenSan)

• Ms Dawn Lee
• Mr Li Gang
• Mr Lin Lin

Award(s) won
1st Runner-Up

Competition Background

• Organized by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur
• Megabucks is an annual global business plan competition that was started in 2000 as part of Techkriti, the annual technical festival.
• Three NUS Business School graduate students were selected to be part of the multi-disciplinary team of six fielded by the University to compete with teams from renowned universities like Chicago, Purdue and Stanford.
• The team, XtenSAN, impressed the judges with their product XtenPRO, a secure high-speed data storage device. For their concrete business plan, the team clinched second prize and received a cash prize of 25,000 rupiahs (or S$1000) and six months of incubation facility at SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre, IIT Kanpur.

Team Members (Team XTenSan)
Ms Dawn Lee
Mr Li Gang
Mr Lin Lin

Award(s) won
1st Runner-Up

Team Members: Mr Rajeev Panjwani, Mr Kiran Bhandari,
Mr Satish Iyengar, Mr Himadri Bora

Competition Background

• Organized by Sasin Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University and Krungthep Turakit newspaper
• As Thailand's first and only business plan competition, the event aims to encourage graduate students to act on their talent and ideas in creating tomorrow's leading firms.
• During this year long competition and intense educational experience, graduate students will receive feedbacks from experts, attend workshops and vie for a shot in the suspenseful finals to compete before a panel of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, business people and other professionals from their respective fields.
• Besides winning the Best Presentation award, the MBA team came in overall second in the final rounds of the competition.
• Although another team from our International MBA program comprising Mr Allan Lam, Mr Zhou Wei, Mr Liu Yong and Ms Zhang Yan did not make it into the finals, they won the Best Written Business Plan during the semi finals round.

Award(s) won

• 1st Runner-Up
• Best Presentation Award

Team Members: Indranil Das, Bobby Jagdish Sanghavi,
Yogesh Lundia

Competition Background

• The Confluence, initiated in 1999 by IIMA, was to create a platform for stimulating productive interaction among academics, and the industry managers. Since then, the annual event has grown to become the largest business school conference in Asia Pacific.
• From a field of 54 entries, the NUS team was one of the six finalists who had to make presentations to a distinguished panel of judges from academia and the consulting industry.
• The NUS trio’s paper on “Strategic Alliances: Is it a better tool for Indian companies to compete in the current scenario?” emerged champion, beating entries from leading schools such as Wharton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, London Business School and top Indian Business Schools.
• With the pressure of impending exams and stiff competition, the NUS trio showed great tenacity and determination to overcome the stress factor, doing NUS Business School proud by walking away with the champion trophy.

Award(s) won

Champion