Business Incubation Centre - BIC, BRAC University

Under Mentorship Program; another session was held today on DevOps. Team members from Team Ninja, an incubatee team of Business Incubation Centre (BIC) joined the session with Mr. Iplu Saha, Additional Director, IT Department of Brac University.

Mentorship Program of BIC:
Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED) is working enormously to promote entrepreneurship to the student through Business Incubation Centre (BIC) of Brac University. Under BIC, a well designed and effective mentorship program has been started to help the Incubatee teams in different ways basis on their requirements. Mr. Shamdani Tabriz, CEO of Rapido Deliveries, an incubatee team of BIC visited Hotel Six Seasons on 16 July 2019 along with CED personnel under this mentorship program. Mr. Md. Al-Amin, Executive Assistant Manager, Mr. Jason Don Salgado, Assistant Director- Sales and Mr. M. Arif Hossain, Manager Sales, Banquet & Catering of Six Seasons hotel were the facilitators in the session. The session was focused on kitchen management in a restaurant business. After an effective discussion, the new prospects on the collaboration possibilities between a restaurant and logistic business emerged. The session was very successful where they talked details on these prospects and it ended with a note of thanks by the CED personnel.

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A great opportunity for the women led enterprises to participate in the accelerate program at yher Bangladesh where you will have different development programs as well as fund from BDT. 15-30 Lac for business expansion.
They also encourage the aspiring women entrepreneurs to apply where the selected one will have the incubation facilities along with seed fund up to BDT 6 Lac only.
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A delegation team consisting 2 members from Nexus Incubation Hub, a Joint effort of IC² Institute, University of Texas Austin and American Center Delhi has visited the Business Incubation Centre (BIC) of BRAC University on 11 February 2018. The major purpose of their visit was to explore the operations and procedures of the BIC. During the visit, the delegates have discussed with the incubatees about their projects, how they are advancing with their ventures, what services the incubatee groups are receiving as a part of the BIC as well as the challenges they are usually facing in their entrepreneurial journey. Ms. Afshana Choudhury (Assistant Director, CED) welcomed them to the BIC along with other CED personnel and Incubatees. The incubatees were very much excited to share their startup ideas with the delegates and became inspired after receiving important and effective business tips from the delegates. Later, they also have attended a short meeting with the honorable Vice Chancellor of BRACU Professor Syed Saad Andaleeb, Ph.D. along with CED personnel.

Professor Dr. Rahim B. Talukdar, Adviser- CED along with CED Officials is handing over Laptop to the Incubatee Team named ''ZoomTube''. Good Luck to Team ''ZoomTube'' in their entrepreneurial journey with BIC!!!

BRAC University has allocated a sum of Taka 50 Lac as seed loan to a number of BRAC University student entrepreneurs as a part of its business incubation programme. Each entrepreneurial team will receive a maximum of Taka 5 Lac as interest-free loan to be repaid in 4 years.

An event headlined ‘Business Incubation Fund Distribution Ceremony’ was held last Monday, March 20, 2017 to mark the occasion. The money is being given through Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED): BRAC University’s entrepreneurship development wing which also doubles up as a think tank involved in various research and capacity development activities pertaining to the progress of Bangladeshi entrepreneurs.

Details here: http://ced.bracu.ac.bd/seed-fund-50-lac/

“Entrepreneur Speaks” Programme Organized by CED/BIC, BRACU

Date : 14 November 2016, Monday
Time : 10:00 AM to 01:00 PM
Venue: BRACU Auditorium (BRAC University, 66 Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212)

BRAC University always believed in the importance of helping young people become entrepreneurs as innovation and energy of youth are the building blocks of small-business success. With this view, Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED) and Business Incubation Centre (BIC) of BRAC University jointly organized an entrepreneurial development and motivational programme titled “Entrepreneur Speaks” on 14 November 2016, Monday from 10:00 AM to 01:00 PM at BRACU Auditorium (BRAC University, 66 Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212).

The main purpose of such entrepreneurship development programme was to widen the base of entrepreneurship through sharing the path to success by renowned young entrepreneurs of Bangladesh with BRACU graduate students/alumni who would like to start their own venture and aspire to become successful entrepreneurs.

The inauguration of the programme was presided over by Dr. Mirza Azizul Islam (Professor, BRAC Business School, BRACU) as the Chief Guest and the Moderator of the entire programme was Mr. Shamim E. Haque (Assistant Professor, BRAC Business School, BRACU).

Three (3) of today's most eminent young entrepreneurs attended the programme and presented advice about working on innovative ideas, nurturing talents, doing the market research, determining the product/services, devising business plans, starting a new venture, running a business, their industries, etc.

The Guest Speakers of the programme were: Mr. Prito Reza (Photographer, Director, TV Host, Founder of Wedding Diary), Ms. Tania Wahab (Managing Director, KARIGAR), and Mr. Biplob G. Rahul (Founder & CEO, eCourier.com.bd).

As the “Entrepreneur Speaks” programme followed the approach to learn and be inspired by the experts, over 120 BRACU students attended the event and gained motivations, knowledge, and inspirations from the speakers.

In the question-answer session, participants asked various questions related to starting a new venture, and the speaker shared their experiences on initiating essential steps of becoming a successful entrepreneur as well as overcoming various entrepreneurial challenges in the context of Bangladesh.

The programme became lively by the active participation of renowned entrepreneurs, BRACU students, alumni, faculty and CED officials.

Boot Camp for the Aspiring Entrepreneurs under “CED Entrepreneurs’ Den” Organized

Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED) of BRAC University (BRACU) has taken an initiative to encourage entrepreneurship among the students of BRACU for developing their potentials through a package of entrepreneurship development program titled “CED Entrepreneurs’ Den”, which is open for all registered students and alumni of BRAC University to participate.

The program is intended to simulate the real world situations where entrepreneurs have to organize and develop their business ideas through innovation workshop, boot camp, business plan development to market their visions, create a strategy for executing plans, and deal with rejections; finally, by participating to the Business Plan Competition (Round 3, 2015-16).

In accordance to this, a 3-day “Boot Camp” under “CED Entrepreneurs’ Den” was organized during 1-3 September 2016 with day-long sessions. The sessions of the Boot Camp included: financial modeling for business plans, human resources management and development, human resources and business initiative, effective planning skill, mock presentations, etc.

The last day of the Boot Camp consisted of mock presentations by the aspiring entrepreneurs on their business ideas/plans. A total of 10 groups submitted their presentations to the Jury Panel of the program.

A range of resource personnel from different corporate and private sector attended the boot camp as mentor, trainer and jury. The resource personnel were: Riyashad Ahmed (Assistant Professor, BBS, BRACU), Ibtesam Doha (Chief Strategy Officer, CareerCube), Sultana Jahan (CEO, MR Enterprise), Rashed Rahman (Assistant Manager, BRAC - Education), Emranul Haque (HR Professional), Protima Chakraborty (Entrepreneur in Jute sector), and M. Saifullah (Chief Strategy Officer, ACI - Agriculture Section). The coordinator of the Boot Camp was Ms Parveen S Huda (Managing Director, Renaissance Consultants Ltd), who also acted as a resource person in the sessions.

The members of the Jury Panel included: Parveen S. Huda, Afshana Choudhury (Program Manager, CED), Shamim E. Haque (Assistant Professor, BRAC Business School - BBS, and Senior Research Fellow, CED), Syed Najibullah (Senior Project Coordinator, CED), and Shakhawatul Islam (Innovation Associate, A2I, Prime Minister Office).

The Boot Camp ended with a certificate giving ceremony where students of BRACU and resource personnel were awarded with certificate of participation and certificate of appreciation.

BRAC University (BRACU) proudly presents the team titled “Project: Enlightened Human” who has won the BRACU/NYU Reynolds/D-Prize Social Venture Competition 2016. The program titled “BRACU/New York University Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship (NYU Reynolds)/D-Prize Global Social Venture Competition Consortium” was organized during second quarter of 2016.

Top universities around the world have joined together to conduct their own intra-school competitions and support their students' efforts to scale sustainable, proven poverty solutions in the developing world. The consortium does more than providing students a chance to launch a world changing venture. It also pools university resources, encourages shared value and curriculum, and multiplies the power of each university.

This year, a group of 3 innovative youths from BRAC University have come up with the idea to change the mainstream teaching and learning method of Primary Schools (grade 1-5th) (Full govt., half govt., private kindergarten, community, NGO- and NPO-run schools) operating in Bangladesh by developing a smart curriculum which will be a blend of Flipped Classroom and academic content delivered through trained facilitators.

This innovative idea was coined as “Project: Enlightened Human” which was selected as the winner of 2016 from BRAC University. The team would receive a funding of USD 10,000 to be borne jointly by BRACU and D-Prize. The group had to compete with other 5 innovative ideas submitted by BRACU students.

As a managing partner of this great initiative, BRAC USA and Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED) of BRAC University would like to congratulate the team for this remarkable success and wish them the timely establishment of their commendable social venture.