Startup Business Plan and Pitch Deck
Around every large Indian campus there is a floating population of students living in PG rooms with no kitchen, eating a rotating mix of mess food, sixty-rupee street thalis, and app-delivered biryani that costs three times what a home-cooked meal would. Small tiffin services spring up to serve them every semester, and most fold within a year, not because the food was bad but because nobody ever costed a meal, priced a plan, or worked out how many subscribers the kitchen needed before it stopped losing money. The gap is not culinary, it is managerial.
The intern founds a fictional venture on paper and takes it all the way to an investable proposal. Working around a tiffin subscription called Tiffin Trail, the intern runs a demand survey in google-forms and a round of student and PG-owner interviews, prices three subscription plans against a per-meal cost build-up, models thirty-six months of revenue, costs, and cash in google-sheets with named unit economics such as contribution margin, customer acquisition cost, and break-even month, maps five competitors across eight attributes, drafts a business model canvas in notion, and packages the whole thing as an eighteen to twenty-two page business plan, a one-page executive summary, and a twelve-slide investor deck designed in canva.
By the end the intern has practised customer discovery, pricing, financial modelling, competitive analysis, and the specific discipline of making a plan, a model, and a deck all tell the same story without contradicting each other. These are the skills every incubator interview, consulting case round, and business-analyst assignment tests for, and a repository holding a complete founding document set is far stronger evidence of them than any elective on the transcript.