Udyamita - The XIMB Business & Entrepreneurship Quiz

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Transcript of Udyamita - The XIMB Business & Entrepreneurship Quiz

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PRELIMS

4/9/2014Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar

1*. Identify this start-up incubator

Twice a year we invest a small amount of money ($120k) in a large number of start-ups (most recently 68).The start-ups move to Silicon Valley for 3 months, during which we work intensively with them to get the company into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day, when the start-ups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

In 2012, Y Combinator was named the top startup incubator and accelerator by Forbes.

2*. Identify X

X was established on April 2, 1990. The Charter establishing it, X Act, 1989 envisaged X to be "the principal financial institution for the promotion, financing and development of industry in the small scale sector and to co-ordinate the functions of the institutions engaged in the promotion and financing or developing industry in the small scale sector and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.Amongst the top 30 development banks in the world, this is where most MSMEs go to, in India.

Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)

3*. Marketing Campaign for?

Colgate SlimSoft Charcoal Toothbrush

4. Identify this company, X

The company was incorporated on 29 December 1945, in Mumbai as 'Western India Vegetable Products Limited', later abbreviated to X. It was initially set up as a manufacturer of vegetable and refined oils in Amalner, district Jalgaon, Maharashtra, under the trade names of Kisan, Sunflower and Camel.Deals in something completely different now, but still retains the logo that reflects its original businesses.

WIPRO

5. Identify this genius

As a 16 year old, while hacking into the network of a Fortune-500 company, he could not log out as his father confiscated his keyboard and unplugged the computer, exposing his IP address. FBI agents tracked him and he was sentenced to community service.By senior year of high school, he was earning more than $80,000 an year from projects, including one at CIA, finally convincing his parents to skip college and pursue entrepreneurship.

Sean Parker

6. Which startup is this?WSJ most valuable startups, Jan 2014

Xiaomi

7. Id XIn Mathikere, where old Bangalore still lives the way it has for decades, without any of the ‘IT-ness’ of neighbourhoods like Electronics City, Nikhil Velpanur was busy packing for a trip to Jaipur with his “baby” — the Brahma3 Anvil, India’s first X. “We are taking it to people in Jaipur who want to see if they can ************ using our device,” says the 30-year-old co-creator of the Brahma3 Anvil.

Source: The Hindu Business Line Feb 14, 2014

First commercial 3-D Printer

8. Which Company?

How do we better know Interglobe Aviation Private Limited?

IndiGo

9. What invention are we talking about?

There’s Mark Zuckerberg, who gave us Facebook. Then there’s Ethan Zuckerman, whose invention gave us an eternal headache. The Director of MIT’s Center for Civic Media, he recently apologized for his invention to the world.What did he invent?

Pop-up Ads

10. Identify the company/group.

Either side of XIMB (Xavier Square), within a kilometer, there is a multi-brand retail store dedicated to two different commodities.Both these chains are part of the same group – which?

Reliance Retail Ltd.

11*. ID this company

This company claimed to be an Audio Visual Network for South Asia, but consciously rebranded itself in 2009 to focus solely on fans of Bollywood and other Indic music. Their app offers free music, search and streaming for cellphones, tabs and PCs supported by ads.Which Company?

Saavn

12. ID this bank

Motto - Fortius Quo Fidelius (Strength through Loyalty)

Services – Safe-keeping, money exchange

Location – North Side, ****** Alley, London

Founded – 1474, named after the founder

Gringott’s Wizard Bank

13. This gentleman (?) was recently made popular when the story of his life was made into a film. Who

is he?

Jordan Belfort

14. ID this woman entrepreneur.

With a personal net worth of $ 655 mn, she is the current chairperson of IIM, Bangalore. Earlier this year, she was awarded the Othmer Gold Medal, for her contribution to the progress of science and chemistry. As per Forbes, she is the 92nd most powerful woman in the world.

Dr. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

15. ID the company

This Canadian multinational, founded in 1942, is the “world’s only manufacturer of planes and trains”.

Bombardier

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Round 1

Infinite Bounce with Pounce Pounce – 10 seconds, + 10, -5 Direct - +10, -0

1. ID this term.The term X entered the public domain when Keith Oliver, a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton (now Booz & Company), used it in an interview for the Financial Times in 1982. The term was slow to take hold. It gained currency in the mid-1990s, when a flurry of articles and books came out on the subject. In the late 1990s it rose to prominence as a management buzzword, and managers began to use it in their titles with increasing regularity.

It is found with alarming regularity in case studies in XIMB and is also an elective I have opted for in V term.

Supply Chain Management

2. Which start-up?

“Luckily Canon camera, YouTube and my rejection came at the right time, all three of them coincided. This college X is a show I had conceived for MTV. That show also got rejected after a lot of resources went into it. That was one of the best rejections in my life, else we wouldn’t have X with us…”

X is sponsored by Procter & Gamble and is one of the most popular and original providers of entertainment online.

TVF Q-tiyapa

3.

What has been blacked

out?

magicbricks

4. Which website?

songs.pk

5. ID X

A lot of commodities have been used as parameters in economic predictions and forecasting – like the Big Mac Index.However, Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve used the sales of X as the perfect indicator for recession.The psychology behind this metric is that when anticipating tough times, customers tend to avoid buying new X.  After all, it is an easy way to cut back without anyone noticing.

Men’s underwear

6. ID this company.

A siren in Greek mythology stands for obsession, addiction and death. Personification of the ocean – brutal sociopaths who murder you by being too attractive. Sailors who crossed paths with a siren would become so obsessed that they would crash into the rocks and die.Which company has a Siren as its logo?We’d give you a chocolate.. 2 of them, if you tell why.

Starbucks Coffee

7. TechCrunch, Jun 12, 2014. ID X.

X, the technical recruitment platform and code-challenge community, today announced that it has raised a $9.2 million Series B funding round led by Khosla Ventures and Battery Ventures.The service has changed some since it first went through Y Combinator and then launched as a platform for hosting coding challenges. Among its clients are Amazon, Yahoo, Microsoft, VMware, Skype and Square.X is an Indian start-up based out of Silicon Valley founded by alums of NIT, Trichy.

HackerRank

8. What list is this?

2013 – Uday Kotak, Kotak Mahindra2012 – Adi Godrej, Godrej Group2011 – Rahul Bhatia, Group MD, InterGlobe2010 – Dilip Shanghvi, Chairman & MD, Sun Pharma2009 – Anand Mahindra, Mahindra Group2008 – Anil Agarwal, Executive Chairman, Vedanta Resources

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (India)

Round 2

Infinite Bounce with Pounce Pounce – 10 seconds, + 10, -5 Direct - +10, -0

1. Who?

“We should look at building Jhakaas (awesome), not Jugaad (make-do) for building #WorldClassFromIndia”

Which CEO recently tweeted the above? It was re-tweeted by Vishal Sikka, CEO, Infosys.

Anand Mahindra

2. Which Company?

• In his 1999 book The Lexus and the Olive Tree, in what came to be known as the Golden Arches theory, Thomas L. Friedman wrote that no two nations with a McDonald's franchise had ever gone to war.

• He upgraded this theory in The World is Flat, in 2005, taking the name of which company to further underscore the link between strong economic ties and peace?

Dell• Company - Dell• Name of the theory: Dell Theory of

Conflict Prevention, also known as simply the Dell Theory

3. Think Politics + Economics

In the world of business, what is the significance of this ordered list?

Canada, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Venezuela, Kuwait, Colombia, Ecuador, Angola, Brazil, Nigeria, Chad, Argentina, Vietnam, Algeria.

Oil suppliers to the United States, in descending order

4. Name the employers

In the 2012 list of the world’s largest employers, published by BBC, 8th and 9th positions were occupied by two Indian employers.

Name them along with their respective positions

8th – Indian Railways9th – Indian Armed Forces

5. Which company?

X was named by its founders after a word used in Gulliver’s Travels, which means “rude, unsophisticated and uncouth”.

Identify X

Yahoo!

6. Which company/campaign?

Filtered cigarettes, in their initial days, were considered as feminine, mainly due to its slogan “Mild as May”. Which advertising campaign gave a masculine overtone to the same in a matter of months in the 1950s?

The Marlboro Man

7. Identify the companies

• X family is a 400 year old German Dynasty from Essen. The family was famous for their steel production and for their manufacture of ammunition and armaments, and infamous for their brutal use of slave labour during World War II. It was also known as the 'Arsenal of the Reich‘.

• Their family business, Friedrich X AG, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century.

• In 1999 it merged with Y to form YX.- ID X, Y, YX

Clue: You can see the products of YX in the campus of XIMB.

ThyssenKrupp AG

X – KruppY – Thyssen AGXY – ThyssenKrupp AG

8. ID this entrepreneur

• X, an alumnus of IIT-Kanpur, started his career at IIM Ahmedabad as chief systems programmer.

• There he worked on India's first time-sharing computer system and designed and implemented a BASIC interpreter for Electronics Corporation of India Limited.

• His 1st venture, named Softronics, was a failure, but his 2nd venture is considered to be one of the biggest hits in Indian corporate history.

Identify X

N.R. Narayana Murthy

Round 3

• Long Connect• Individual Questions - +10, -0• Theme – as mentioned on each slide

1. ID the startup (+100,-50)

Based in Mountain View, California, X operates an online platform, and a social media website whereby users upload and share user-generated images, videos, and GIFs.

9GAG

2. ID the startup (+80,-40)• Having its slogan as “the front page of the

internet”, this startup is an entertainment, social networking and news website where members can submit content such as texts or direct posts.

• Also known as the "SlashDot effect", the X effect is when a smaller website has a high influx of traffic due to X. It is also affectionately called the “X Hug of Death" among the website's users. Because X is such a large site, the traffic is immense and can easily crash smaller sites. In order for users to see crashed websites, several X bots have been created that take a snapshot of the website before large amounts of traffic flood the affected website.

Reddit

3. ID the startup (+60,-30)• X is a digital library, featuring an e-book

subscription service that includes New York Times bestsellers and classics.

• Launched in 2007 by Trip Adler and Jared Friedman, X also features written works contributed by users around the world and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Backed by noted venture capitalists, X is a major website with more than 80 million active readers coming to the site every month.

• Assignments in XIMB are made a lot easier by documents available on X.

Scribd

4. ID the startup (+40,-20)

• Free storage: 2GB, with the chance to earn more through referring friends, linking to the Mailbox app, uploading photos

• Paid plans: 1TB, $9.99/month or $99 annually

• Platform support: Runs on basically everything

Dropbox

5. ID the startup (+20,-10)

• 3/21/2012 Social gaming company Zynga announced today that it has acquired X.

• 3/21/2012 : New York-based X is the startup behind the popular mobile social game “Draw Something” which has 35 million downloads in six weeks. The game recently passed up Zynga’s own Words with Friends game as the most popular game on Facebook by daily active users.

OMGPOP

6. ID the startup (+10,-0)

X is a web-hosting service that allows the user to "drag-and-drop" while using their website builder.

As of August 2012, X hosts over 20 million sites, with a monthly rate of over 1 million unique visitors. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. The company was originally founded by chief executive officer (CEO) David Rusenko, chief technology officer (CTO) Chris Fanini, and chief operating officer (COO) Dan Veltri.

The startup competes with Wix.com, Webs, Jimdo, Yola, SnapPages, and other web-hosting and creation websites.

Weebly

funded Startups

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