Jan 2015

Issue January 2015

FEATURED STORY

THROUGH THE CORRIDORS

Launching Happiness Series – Check out the last page for details.

Gong-O- Style – Round 2 Opinion Writing by FIIBians Republic Day and Saraswati Puja Celebration Session with the Seniors

FROM FIIB COMMUNITY In conversation with Devangi and Ankita (First year students) on Sustainability

Want to write for Fortune Cookies and be a part of the Editorial Board? Write to us at newsdesk@fiib.edu.in by 20th February 2015

We are sure that you will enjoying reading this issue.

Swati Sharma- Editor Fortune Cookies

PLACEMENT UPDATE (Batch 2013-15) Placement season as usual was bang on in January 2015. With 16 placements, FIIB certainly has a reason to celebrate this remarkable moment. Kudos to FIIBians!!

• ICICI Securities – Meenal Rastogi, Jatinder Singh, Nishant Negi, Akanksha Bhatnagar • Zirca Digital Solutions – Anuradha Apan, Rashmi Yadav, Angelia Lalinipur • Safexpress – Ridham Gupta, Lokesh Kumar, Paras Bhardwaj, Ayushi, Rajnandan Kumar, Varun Lalla • Analytics Vidhya – Sahil Sharma, Manish Saraswat • Blackrock – Rini Ranjan

FROM OUR TEAM

Meraki 2015- An International Level B Plan Competition

Calling January a joyous month won’t be wrong as it was full of activities which kept entire FIIB community quite busy. Meraki 2015- Powered

by Zee Business gave opportunity to young entrepreneurs to showcase their B plans to top investors. FIIB celebrated the success of its community in Gong-O-Style. In addition, Jaagriti Club has shared some interesting information pieces and crossword puzzle on Sustainability.

Also, have a look at Republic Day and Saraswati Puja celebration at FIIB. With so much to compile and capture; we present to you yet another exciting edition of Fortune Cookies.

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FEATURED STORY Meraki 2015 - Powered by Zee Business A grand event that got concluded with a BANG!!

Facts:  This year Meraki received B-Plans from 182 Teams, across the Globe.  Meraki 2015 received registrations from prestigious colleges such as IIM, XLRI, Great Lakes, IIT’s, Jamnalal Bajaj, Symbiosis, MDI, etc.  Teams also include international colleges like University of Surry (UK) and University Of Chittagong (Bangladesh)  The Jury Panel comprising top level personnel from renowned companies such as Mayfield, Capital18, AsiaBridge Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners announced the winners Meet Sponsors for Meraki 2015 With Zee Business as our Prime Sponsor, Meraki got popular with few amazing brands.

Know the Top 12 Teams - First time in the HISTORY!!

Out of 182 amazing B-Plans, our Jury Members found it quite difficult to shortlist Top 10 teams. Hence , the Top 12 teams were announced on 21st January 2015.

Top 12 Teams S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Team Name Leaf Higgs Bosons Reach Mighty Maniacs Catalyst EnergyUnified Findadspot.com Tarkari Junction

College/Institution Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi IIM, Indore NSIT, Delhi University Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon School of Biotechnology, KIIT University IIT, Kharagpur Goa Institute of Management International School Of Informatics And Management, Jaipur

9 10 11 12

NE Mart Green Manager Intugine Technologies PocketAd

FIIB, New Delhi Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal Shri Ram College Of Commerce, New Delhi Shri Ram College Of Commerce, New Delhi

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Meet the Judges • • • • • •

Alok Mittal- ex Managing Director, Canaan Partners Amit Khosla - Managing Director, AsiaBridge Capital Anshoo Sharma- Principal, Lightspeed Ventures Manish Kheterpal- Managing Partner, Golden Bird Capital Sarbvir Singh- Managing Director, Capital 18 Vishal Dixit- Partner, Mayfield

On 30th Jan’15 judges heard 12 innovative B Plans including a wide array of ideas – from women safety device, to unique mobile apps, to a service strategy for Beauty and SPA facilities at doorstep, to an e-retailing website and many other unique B plans.

Next day started with an interactive workshop on “Tips for Budding Entrepreneurs” with Mr. Anshoo Sharma

Here are the Winners!!

After intense drama and anticipation, we finally got the 3 winners of Meraki 2015

• First prize was bagged by Team PocketAd – SRCC, Delhi • Second Prize was bagged by Team Reach – NSIT, Delhi • Third Prize was bagged by Team Leaf – IIT, Delhi

Winners received a fellowship of Rs 1.5 Lakh, Rs 1 Lakh and Rs 50,000 respectively

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Team PocketAd, the First Prize Winner presented the mobile app that challenges the tested dimensions of in-game mobile marketing “I would like to thank Meraki which gave me platform to present my business idea to the top investors who helped me incubate the idea with their valuable feedback. In addition, I was amazed to see the well organized event.� Team PocketAd, SRCC Delhi

Team Reach, the Second Prize Winner talked about cross-platform mobile application which allows a user to access media files from multiple devices of their phonebook contacts

Team Leaf, the Third Prize Winner team Leaf came up with a standalone wearable device which combines mobile application and control room to form a security ecosystem for women

After 3 months of toiling hard for Meraki, volunteers and mentors got huge round of applause for the grand success of the event

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THROUGH THE CORRIDORS Session with Seniors FSE club organized a formal interaction session between seniors and juniors wherein seniors shared their two year journey with juniors; especially their experience from Placement Process. Priyanka who got double offers from Deloitte and Capital IQ and Geetanksha who got placed with F1F9 shared quite an insightful information which helped students to gear up for their coming professional lives.

“After this session, I have certainly got to know about the companies expectations and I will start working on it.” Navpreet Kaur Oberoi, 1st year student

Realizing the importance of an active online presence, final year students who are in process of getting placed attended a session on “Profile enhancement on Social MediaLinkedIn” with Prof. Monica Mor. Students learned a lot about headline management, status updates, important keywords, text integration which will certainly help students to stand out.

“I never realized the importance of my profile over social media and was always busy updating my resume on various job portals. This session helped me understanding the importance of social media presence and I am working on my profile.” Akshaydeep, 2nd year student

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Session Objectives: • Headline Management– e.g. Instead of just mentioning “Student at FIIB” one should also write “Co-Head / organizer of ----event” or any additional title like “amateur photographer” or “avid blogger” • Inserting important keywords in “Summary” for better visibility online • Joining relevant groups & participating in discussions • Getting recommendations for projects done from faculty and corporate mentors

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With an intention to help students in improvising in their written skills, Prose Club conducted a session on Opinion Writing for students. Students shared their opinions on various situational based themes, abstract topics, behavioral, etc. Students were encouraged to use specific reasons and examples to support their reasons.

“Communication is the most important skill for almost every person. Good communication skills are key to success in life, work and relationships.” Prateek Upadhyay, shared his opinion on “What is a very important skill a person should learn in order to be successful in the world today?”

“However , the gift of Wright Brothes has changed the world of transport. In today’s fast moving world, I feel that airplanes play an important role in an individual’s life. “ Madhav Johri, shared his opinion when asked which mode of communication he thinks has changed people’s lives from options given Automobile, Bicycles or Airplanes.

“If you take a call on who your roommate is going to be, you would miss out all the fun that you might experience while sharing a part of your life with a stranger.” Kaushik while sharing thoughts on whether he would want the university to assign a student to share a room with him, or he would prefer to choose his own roommate.

The other topics on which students shared their opinion were:  Learning from the past has no value for those who are living in present  Never…never give up  With of technology, students nowadays can learn more  Schools should ask students to evaluate their teachers

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Round 2 of Gong Celebration Achievement were continuously pouring during round 2 of Gong Celebration. Gong sound echoed in the entire FIIB premises with 47 achievers coming forward and ringing the Gong.

FIIB celebrated the success of: • The recipients of The President Honor Roll Certificates • Dr. Asheesh Pandey whose paper got published in IIM Shillong Journal of Management Science and Afro-Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting • Winners of Oratory Skills and Essay Writing Competition held on Good Governance Day • 17 students who placed at renowned companies Top players of FIIB Success League

Stars of “Star World”

Recipients of the Honor Roll

“I feel so proud to be the recipient of The President honor Roll. I will continue to make my parents and FIIB proud.”

Yuti Sharma, 1st year student Students ringing The Gong to mark their success

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Saraswati Puja and Republic Day Celebration Spiritualism and Patriotism- The two divine emotions were witnessed on same day as FIIB celebrated Sarsawati Puja and Republic Day on 24th Jan’15. The day started with Saraswati Puja with entire FIIB community worshipping Maa Saraswati and conducting Havana.

Later during the day, FIIB community was filled with patriotism and love for the country which created an atmosphere of national pride.

Cultural Club organized series of few interesting events on the theme. Students shared few thoughts on “Empowered youth in Republic of India”. Live and vivid Band Performance was done by students leaving the audience enthralled.

With full of patriotism all went to Green Lawn area to unfurl The Tiranga.

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Active participation from student clubs for Fortune Cookies was quite encouraging this month.

Jaagriti Club shared very interesting content on Sustainability.

“TOP TENs” for achieving Sustainability • Eat Meat Less: The average amount of meat consumed by a person directly causes over 1.5 tons of CO2 emissions per year. Try once a meat, cut out meat!

• Consume Less: Everything we consume has an impact, in terms of resources consumed during manufacture and transport.

• Dress for the Season: Heating and cooling our homes account for almost half of our individual energy and emissions footprint • Give Away Your Old Stuff: Give your old, but still usable items to an authorised organisation for recycling.

• Drive Less: Just imagine, if everyone could find a way to use their car half as much as they do today. This swill certainly reduce CO2 emissions by perhaps 15%.

• Reward Sustainable Companies: As a customer, if you think a company isn't acting sustainably, seek out products from a competitor who better represents your values.

• Resist Disposable Products: These products consume significantly more resources than their reusable alternatives.

• Opt for Green Power: It's helping the industries to grow faster, and it has been successful in many countries.

• Fly Less: Did you know that a single trans-Atlantic flight can emit 220 tons of CO2!

• Purchase Local Products: Imagine if each area produce what it's best and most efficient at, and distribute so that people don’t have to drive for daily products.

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See how enlightened the FIIBians are towards Sustainability!!

Ankita Mehta and Devangi Tiwari shared their candid thoughts on Sustainability.

Ques: What comes to you first when you think of Sustainability?

Ankita: For me it is all about making serious efforts towards judicial usage of natural resources Devangi: For me it is achieving decent standard of living for everyone today without compromising the needs of future generations.

Ques: What have you done as an initiative towards sustainability?

Ankita: As an FIIBian, I have got an opportunity to participate in many activities like E-waste drive, cloth collection drive which had made me more aware towards sustainability.

Devangi: Apart from participating and volunteering in many activities organized by college, I practice small initiatives like switch off lights when not needed, print on both sides of paper, etc. For me these small initiative by me can make a good difference as I try to push my friends and family to follow me in this.

Ques: Out of all the sustainable practices done in our college, which one is your favourite and why?

Ankita & Devangi: We both liked e-waste drive and clothes drive. We never thought that e-waste can be so hazardous to our environment, but the session by Chintan helped us to understand that.

Seeing our faculty members participating in these drives was very inspiring.

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Whack your Brain!!

Here is the crossword testing your knowledge on Ecosystem Sustainability‌ 1

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3. Form of energy transferred during heating or cooling (2 Words)

1. An organism that obtains its energy from consuming other organisms

7. Function a species serves in its ecosystem (2 Words)

2. Chemical process that occurs continuously (2 Words)

8. Energy that travels through empty space (2 Words)

4. Chemical process that uses light energy

11. The zone around the Earth where life can 5. First trophic level exist 13. Earth's solid outer layer 14. The non-living physical and chemical components of an ecosystem (2 Words) 15. The type of consumer that a "goshawk" is

17. The layer of gases surrounding the Earth

6. All of Earth's water in solid, liquid, and gas form 9. The ability to maintain an ecological balance 10. Living things, their remains, and features associated with their activities (2 Words) 12. Processes in which nitrogen compounds are moved through the biotic and abiotic environment (2 Words)

18. All the living organisms and their physical 16. The mass of living organisms in a given area and chemical environment 19. The processes that cycle water through the environment (2 Words) 20. Visible forms of radiant energy (2 Words)

Note: Solve this and top 3 entries will get a chance to get featured in the next issue of Fortune Cookies. You can find the hard copies in Library.

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Hope you were able to find good number of companies. Below is the answer key for crossword shared in December issue of Fortune Cookies.

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Facebook Times‌

FIIB too will miss you and all!!

When final year students said, they feel nostalgic

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Jacob and Moni stealing a moment during their first week of work at Mastech Inc.

Juniors gearing up for CIP. Capturing a moment during photo-shoot

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Watch Out!- Our Next Issue The next edition of Fortune Cookies will be focused on activities in February which have kept the desks of Faculty and Staff busy and students’ schedule exciting!

• Founder’s Day and Sustainability Summit • Samavesh • Dubai from the eye of FIIBian • Blood Donation Camp And many more from the campus!!

Starting Happiness Series at FIIB, share your happiness quotient at FIIB and get popular on various online platforms. “For me happiness at FIIB is ………………………………………………..” Fill in the blanks with not more than 20 words and share your entries by 20th Feb’15 at newsdesk@fiib.edu.in

Be open to learn the GOOD!!