"Building networks, Empowering leaders, Realizing ideas."

ICMS Venture Challenge (IVEC)

Cedric Lee Yitzhen

VISION

Increase number of participants to at least 50

Generate more technical question during IVEC

Attract more sponsors to further fund our participants

Problems from IVECNot enough participants, considering the number of Malaysian just in University of Michigan

Question were too general and not too in depth with the level of students

Did not distinguish itself from the numerous business case competition on each campus

Steps to improve IVEC"Building networks, Empowering leaders, Realizing ideas."

Use blog post to market the details of the event & use SEO’s technique to market the event

Market the speakers, ensuring their experience and reputation

Contacting with Malaysian Student Associations throughout all the universities, particularly in the East Coast

Publicity & Marketing Techniques

Generate an presentation on why which company should an investor invest in, if only can be sold after 10 years like:

a)Walmart vs Amazonb)NVIDIA vs TESLA

• Looking at each dividend & potential earnings• Stock trends from the past

As a venture capitalist, generate a proper explanation on which company should you invest 10 million on at its seed stage from a list of 6 companies(Real companies) named A – F• After listening to each explanation from the teams,

inform them that the company was a known company like Uber or Facebook or Yahoo

Example studies that could be usedto distinguish from other business case competitions

Provide more distinct case studies, instead of similar ones. For example :

a) Outline a technology recently discovered and how to bring it to the South East Asian Market to attract investors and explain how to adjust to the market

b) Generate and design a concept of a video game which will be able to attract audiences of both genders

Improve on the technical aspect of the questions of IVEC Through implementing real life analysis of a stock portfolio and

possible outcomes and detailing their next option after a disaster occur after their recommendation.

Thus, a needed 2 steps solution if first recommendation failed

Question & Case Studies

Risk of Suggestions• Could cause interested students from

participating due to technical questions

• Could result in over complicating the event due to the need of getting sources of information from numerous professionals

Investor could only want topics based on their specific field of work

Developed the necessary skills needed to succeed

Why do we have to change?Distinguish us from other business case competitions

Attract more sponsors, so we can use the money for marketing & subsidizing more for the participants, so more participants will be willing to attend the event