PLZ TAKE A LOOK AT THE PPT :)

[Ajay Khanchandani]

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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely...

Thanks and Regards,

Ajay H Khanchandani,

Class of 2012,

IIM Calcutta.

[Varun Balutia]

23 slides!! Will you be able to wrap-up in 7 minutes?

We can probably change the picture in last slide.

I am not too sure about including "Why didnt we click?" slide. We can say instead that our idea has sustainability but a longer gestation period and we would be able to make profits with subsequent trips. 

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Varun Balutia
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Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
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[Ajay Khanchandani]

Will remove the last picture.

Complete ho jaayega

7 mins hard and fast rule nahin in case u r speaking sense.

Do you think we could have gotten repeat customers ?

Coz I don't think so and that's why sincerely admitted the mistake and wrote it down.

Waiting for other ppls' feedback

[Anchal Agrawal]

Looks good. Might want to add that we went to the authentic eating places. 

Also, we can include 2 learnings from our first trip:

1. We planned that at each stop, the customers would be on their own and make their own expenses for eating. But since we went as a group, everyone had ordered together, hence expenses for food were incurred by us and later split up equally. (No profits made)

2. How we changed the itinerary of the tour places based on feedback from the first trip

[Varun Balutia]

@Ajay - Its good to be honest, respects are there, but why do you want to say it without being asked? Its like in a sales pitch, towards the end you say that you should not buy our products because.....Please understand that the game is not over yet and at least tomorrow also we have to sell the idea to the prof and 100 other people! I hope I am making sense.

[Ajay Khanchandani]

How about ?

'Areas of improvement'  ?

[Ajay Khanchandani]

I didn't go for the second trip.

Could you plz elaborate exactly what changes were made ?

[Anchal Agrawal]

I dont think we need to say that we over estimated market size. We did not!

Based on initial expenses for the bus, we realized we could break even with very low turn out and hence went ahead with it.

Also, feedback from MOST people who came was good ( I had gone for both trips), so wouldnt be fair to say that "we dint Click"

[Anchal Agrawal]

We went for a bengali place called Bhojo hari manna instead of Nizams at new market. Since in the earlier trip there were limited options for veg ppl