The Entrepreneurship Development Cell
The Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC, IITD) was initiated in January, 2007 with a vision to promote Entrepreneurship amongst the students of IIT Delhi and to build an exhaustive resource pool to aid potential student entrepreneurs.
Since our inception, we have organized various events ranged over social entrepreneurship events on campus to PAN IIT business plan contests and we would like to believe that in this short span of time have brought about a surge in entrepreneurial activities on campus.
We envisioned EDC as a platform where if any entity of IIT community comes for any kind of help at any stage, it must be able to provide him/her with right kind of resources or at least it must be able to guide him/her to the right path. We stepped further with the ideology of educating, mentoring and providing enterprising resources to budding entrepreneurs. In light of this we established Investors Panel, Incubation Panel, and a strong network of Knowledge Mentors. We are continuously updating ourselves with the latest needs of our target audiences and trying our best to meet their expectations.
Tony Wheeler
When Tony Wheeler arrived in Sydney with just 27 cents to his name back in 1972, it seemed an unlikely launching pad for one of the world’s best-loved brands.In the early 1970s, Wheeler – along with his wife Maureen – set out on a year-long trip around the world, with the intention of getting the travel bug out of their systems. Their route took them from London across Europe, through the Middle East and across Asia, following the old ‘hippie trail’ down to Australia.On arrival in Sydney and with only a few cents between them, the Wheelers decided to self-publish their account of the trip, initially in order to fund their airfare home. The quirky guide, Across Asia on the Cheap, soon sold out .Their success led the Wheelers to abandon their plans to return home in favor of further travel and more writing and established Lonely Planet; venturing off the well-trodden paths of the established travel books, the guides catered to a new generation of independent, budget-conscious travelers long before the advent of mass tourism.The company now publishes over 500 titles in eight languages with annual sales of more than six million books, and has been so successful that the Wheelers recently sold a 75 percent stake in the business to BBC Worldwide for an undisclosed (but significant) sum.Lonely Planet is now the largest travel guide book and digital media publisher in the world
