Hey All,

Here is a guest post by all round nice guy and InnovationACT participant  Yasmi ‘Adrian’ Adriansyah (from SMARTEDU).

FINALLY

Finally, our Business Plan has been submitted. Teams who submitted their Plan by the deadline 4 November 2011 must have taken a deep breath. Congratulations!

Yes, we all shall celebrate the ‘victories’: the victory of participating at the useful programs organized by the InnovationACT 2011 Committee; the victory of preparing and delivering ‘one of the most difficult tasks in universe’, which is the ’1 minute-Pitch’; the victory of working so hard in finishing the Plan; and the victory against ourselves in fulfilling our own ambitions: to have a saleable (and certainly workable) business plan.

For these victories, it arguably will not be too early to convey sincere thanks to all for the great journey at the InnovationACT 2011. To the Committee: Rish, Mathew, Hayward, Ricky, Ashik, and their able colleagues, you have done great job, Mates. To the presenters and judges, we have learned a lot from you, from how to generate ideas, the necessity to work in a team, and even to prepare and deliver a pitch. Certainly your intellectual and practical contributions are countless, and it is now up to us on how to utilise them for a better go. (By the way, all materials put on the blog are very useful. If authors agree, why don’t we write a book on business plan with a copyright license belongs to the InnovationACT? We can even write it into other languages such as Indonesian where the market is so huge. If there are any interested investors, we can prepare a ‘5-minute pitch’).

And last but not least, we shall convey the sincere thanks to all participants. Whether realising or not, we actually have learnt from each other, from listening to the excellent ideas to the do’s and the don’ts. Thus, whoever achieves victory from this competition, we shall congratulate you.

To conclude, this competition is not only about winning the AU$25,000 prize. It is about learning, networking, and achieving the targets we have set in the beginning. And for sure, it is about a better future through entrepreneurship.

Congrats to everybody. Look forward to seeing you all becoming great entrepreneurs in the near future.

Adrian, the SMARTEDU

Canberra, 7 November 2011