Business Plan Competition: Swatantra Saudagar
Tuesday Mar 17, 2009
The event organizer for the business plan competition, Amit writes the following in his blog on the competition:
The IEC Open Source Mela is just a week away. Apart from being one of the organising team members, I am also in charge of the business plan event- Swatantra Saudagar (two Hindi words, 'Swatantra' meaning 'Freedom' and 'Saudagar' meaning 'Businessman', or a 'Trader').
What is it all about?
Simple: Formulate a business plan using only Free and Open Source software. Your business should stand on Free Software.
Now, you get the idea behind the name ? Oh well, yeah agreed that none of us are Free (Read about मुक्ति or Moksha) but atleast we can use Free softwares to build world changing business models. Making a Business plan is one thing and making a profitable business plan is another. That is the challenge.
Why does Free Software make sense?
The answer is in the question itself. Essentially, almost as a rule, large sums of money can be saved by using legally Free (as in cost) software to start off a business- a product, a dot com or a teaching academy. At the beginning, all such ventures have more time than money. This time can be utilized to tinker around with the tools to fit the specific purpose.
More..
Please read The Business of Free Software
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