Month: January 2015

Always design your Product to convenience the customer

Always design your Product to convenience the customer

Naeem Khan(Founder of Foodys.com), is a foodie by himself. He actively used to write articles about food and review the articles which added to the passion. The fact that the Indian ecosystem is filled with people in this generation who mindlessly puts in the hours at work compounded by the two way travel in traffic …

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Reach out to the senior person and align  your product to their goals

Farooq Adam Co-Founded Shopsense along with Harsh Shah – both were alumnus of IIT Bombay. Farooq did both his bachelor and basters in Civil Engineering from IIT Bombay. His masters thesis was later published as a book. He got placed with a consulting company in NY in Big Data and Analytics where he met  his …

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Pivot to better markets and better business models

Pivot to better markets and better business models

Vivek Kumar founded Qlicket in late 2011 along with his cofounder Deependra Tewari. They’ve created a WiFi management solution that allows anyone to create an out of home WiFi hotspot, and also allows B2B customers to enhance their brand to customers like never before. Deependra and Vivek went deep into product development and factored in multiple hardware …

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Constantly evolve your sales process based on customer feedback and win your first few sales

Learning fast from your mistakes and timing the product launch

Ashutosh Kumar Co-Founded Testbook.com along with Narendra Agrawal. Both of them are alumni of IIT Bombay. Ashutosh has been in the education industry for almost 8 years. While studying in IIT, they had started Excelmentors.com, where they mentored students preparing for IIT JEE. After 1.5 years of running that, they learnt a few things. First …

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Pilot your way into the market

Underserved market? Pilot your way into the market

Guru has spent nearly  27 years  building software applications and products for the  telecommunication industry before embarking on his entrepreneurial journey. He has served at senior IT positions at  ITI , CDoT (10 years) where he was  involved in developing an indigenous switching system ; Axes technologies (US customer for their switching system) and with …

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Focus on unmet needs with known people to get first few sales

Focus on unmet needs with known people to get first few sales

Sachin Jaiswal co-founded InnovAccer along with his four others Abhinav Shashank, Kanav Hasija, Ankit Maheshwari, Sandeep Gupta in July 2012.  When they were contemplating on a unique line of business to get into, they realized that their alma mater from IITKgp was working on a research project at Wharton and wanted to explore if there …

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Engage with potential customers as early as possible

Engage with potential customers as early as possible

Krish Subramanian, Co-founded Chargebee along with K P Saravanan, Rajaraman and Thiagarajan. Krish comes with an IT background and had worked with a startup in the beginning of his career, and then with TCS and CTS. The other co- founders each had around 10 to 14 years’ experience each and had been the part of …

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Understanding and addressing Customers Business IT challenges helped iValue grow at 5 times market growth

Understanding and addressing Customers Business IT challenges helped iValue grow at 5 times market growth!

Sunil Pillai founded iValue InfoSolutions along with 40 of his ex-colleagues. Sriram, one of the Co-Founder was with Wipro Infotech / Wipro ePeripherals for 20+ years.  Sriram came in touch with the team at iValue when WeP acquired Select Technologies during 2003. When some of the founding team left Select in 2005, Sriram was appointed …

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Educating customers about their problems to get the first few sales

Educating customers about their problems to get the first few sales

Toshendra Sharma founded Wegilant in IIT Bombay in 2011 where he was doing Masters in Comp science. He was initially providing training services to the engineering students in the IT security space. He was able to sell and generate revenue of around 83 lakhs INR in the first year. In the last one year, he …

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Pivot, and pivot quickly – don’t remain married to one idea!

Pivot, and pivot quickly – don’t remain married to one idea!

Biswanath Patel co-founded BuyT in 2012 along with Yogesh, Abhishek, and Sunil. Three of them are techies from IIT while Sunil handles affiliate relationships. They call BuyT the product recommendation platform – whenever people are reading anything on the net, or consuming content on mobile, they recommend available options and the best product/service they might …

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