If everything will go well and according to schedule, 2012 will is going to be a wonderful and eventful year for Entrepreneur India and My Bihar Communities. Some of the major events can be mentioned are The Science 2012, My Bihar Darshan, UEN Summit '12, TEDxPatna. Also a series of TEDxPatna Salons will be organized periodically. The team is building up, people are associating with us everyday, funds are getting generated and positive energy is in air. Expected date of events and activities:

• UEN Summit 2012 : 12-Aug-2012
• TEDx Patna: 12-Dec-2012
• The Science 2012: 30-Dec-2012
• TEDx Patna Salons: Aug- Nov, 2012
• My Bihar Darshan: 1st - 31st Oct, 2012

2011 was an year full of surprises and excitement. Some great decisions were made, some great risks were taken, some unexpected things were done, some resolutions were mend and broken, many dreams were lived. On other hand I completed engineering, worked with some of my start-up plans, got a jobs for bread n butter, admitted to MBA program, planned couple of events. In family, relations and personal life everything remained pretty normal. 

Reconnected to some of dreams and ambitions. Gathered some courage to fight against the fate.

Resolution for New Year: I won't make anyone sad anymore because of my behavior.

In the list of priorities, The Science Conference 2012 is at the top for next couple of months. As a tech fest "The Science 2012" is very close to my heart, may be because all this started with a similar tech fest years ago in 2007. One of the objective of this conference is to provide a platform where student may showcase their innovations, academicians may interact with larger community, industry may learn the potential of budding engineers/scientists.

In the spirit of knowledge sharing, The Science 2012 will provide a common platform to students as well as academicians. We are working hard in a way to make it a tradition rather an event. This year TSC will be one day event with awesome speakers and papers sharing podium.

After a long gap of four year, it feels great working with the tech-fest team. Hundreds of science and engineering students from all over India are participating in the event. Invited speakers are coming from some of the most admired universities and industries across the globe.

The event will have invited talks, paper presentation, design and development challenges, model and poster demonstration, career counselling, workshops on cutting edge technologies, and many more. Attendees will find ample opportunity to interact with each other.
The Event has been scheduled on May 6, 2012. If you are a student of science, you should not miss "The Science 2012".

I am really glad to announce the RPSIT Alumni Network. For a long time this network was needed so the alumni may reconnect, share experience, exchange ideas and motivate youngsters. After a homework of one year, recently the RPSIT Alumni Network launched. Currently we the network is also available on Facebook, Google Groups for connectivity. More than 250 alumni has joined the network in first two days. At present students from all the batches are in the group starting from 1995-99 batch to 2005-09 batch. The charter of RPSIT Alumni Network has been drafted and at present it is under review by alumni network. 

We are planning for organize alumni reunion, and looking forward for your valuable opinion/suggestions. The objective is to establish connectivity among alumni of the institution. This reunion will also have webcast and video conference facility so we can reach out maximum possible number so alumni. Join the RPSIT Alumni Network Group of Facebook, Feel free to write your suggestion and query.

Your capacity to sell your idea will determine the future of your dreams and ambitions. If you are not sure about your own projections, keep improving it otherwise it will end with a huge disappointment for you, your partners, employees and people who trusted you and invested for your idea. In other case if you are all set with your idea and project, it's time to sell it before venture capitalists. 

1. Talk about your idea, project. plan, and product/services as much as you can. Approach all possible investors for your support and keep a track on similar ideas and their funding sources.
2. You may fail to convince any venture capitalist but keep them in your mailing list for sending them recent updates about your project from time to time. If you have already started your entrepreneurial activity send them your progress reports. 
3. Don't simply ignore if venture capitalist or investors have raised some concern or suggested some ideas for betterment of your project, even you should ask them their point of view and keep changing your project according and keep them informed about your changes.
4. If you have tiny doubt over your business idea and you find some risk. You need to reconsider your idea and its implementation project report. For this you may contact some experienced people from industry or academy.
5. Always keep a theoretical and analysis based assumptions in project report. If you don't have such reference then you should do your research your own.
6. If you have a cent percent realistic project you don't need to bother about risks associated with it. Trust you ability and be ready to put your fullest effort and resources for this idea.

Students and young entrepreneurs count office as foremost hurdle for a startup. The office space has created a wide gap between their ambition and activity; this gap can be bridged by some of the innovative ideas being used by tech entrepreneurs like. These may be:

Before thinking about any of the above option you will have to make sure that you will reach your customers and find them at their place, and don't bother them to find you.

The original blog published on www.EntrepreneurIndia.biz on 12-Nov-2011

After the publication of engineering result I was in college to get my documents from the college and felt like end of the relation with college as now I was just an alumni not a student. Also after joining CDAC it was almost an end of my academic career for now, I was really messed up with things and emotions. Meanwhile I met HoD of MBA Department and found something interesting. All the decisions I have ever made were taken in seconds or minutes so this one too. By end of that day I was again a student of the RPSIT.

The college is running for a long time but MBA course was introduced few years back. Being a new department challenges and opportunities are endless. I guess one month has been passed since classes started, we had a mixed experience with teachers some are great, some are not-so-great.

According to my opinion there is a need of change in methodology of teaching, and I am very hopeful to see this change in couple of weeks. The best part of this institution is 'we never say no to any positive change'. One of the notable aspect of teaching and faculties is the effort to generate entrepreneurial temperament among student and leadership.
Apart from learning global business theories and models, we also focus over local contemporary business issues. I like everything, but at the same time I find a huge scope of betterment and up-gradation in quality with the help of connections, technologies and honest effort of both students and college.

In 2005-09 session, I took admission at RPSIT in Engineering course with major in Computer Science & Engineering at that time the name of the engineering degree being awarded by Magadh University was B. Sc. Engineering (later it was changed into B.Tech). The course completed this June (2011), two years delayed from scheduled time of completion due to delay in the academic session of university. Now a days courses and sessions are running on time (almost).

I have been writing RPSIT blog for last three years but unfortunately lost my previous posts recently. I was among those students who got admission in the college in last days of admission season, so we were allotted Section D in first year.

Six years are pretty long period of time for studying the course of four years duration, but I feel it was rather short. At some point of time we were disappointed and upset with university too, when we met our friends who were completed their graduation and working with companies while we were in the middle of course. But we never had any regret for choosing RPSIT.

RPSIT is one of the oldest private engineering colleges of Bihar. It has a very long list of successful alumni. Till date we don't have an active placement cell in college. And college don't bother about placement of students, as it is supposed to be the task of students themselves. 

Most of my friends opted to go for further studies and preparation for PSU jobs. By now only few have got placement with their personal effort.

Studying at RPSIT was like leading your life in your own way. There were no stringent rules for students and compulsion of attendance. You have to choose what you want to do, what you want to learn, and how you want to shape your career. Passing examinations were not so tough but never so easy either. There were no any burden of assignments and projects like other colleges. This freedom was great for those who wanted to learn engineering not study, but at the same time it ruined some of students under misguidance.

We lived a unforgettable journey of around six years in this college, and we all friends will remain in hearts of each other forever.

I am Prafull.