March 2015 - Page 2 of 4 - First Few Customers

Innovate and have the conviction to convince your customers on the ROI

Angel Funded Companies, Emerging Stage, Outside Sales, Product / By Srinivas Varadarajan

Srinivas Varadarajan Co-Founded Vigyanlabs along with Srivatsa Krishnaswamy. Srinivas did his first venture while doing his Masters in IIT Bombay in 1991. He created Ethernet switches before they existed and he wrote the software within IIT Bombay with the limited resources he had and also made it Open Source. They had 10000 downloads in 1993 …

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All the founders to sell to understand the customers better and build a great product

Bootstrapped Companies, Early Stage, Inside Sales, Marketplace / By Viraj Shah

Viraj shah Co Founded Niffler along with Edul Patel & Prince Arora. All 3 of them were working with investment banks – Citi and Duetsche and the three of them felt that they should start up. They met over weekends and discussed different ideas and after some time, they realized that while customers were purchasing …

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Listen Evaluate & Act

Bootstrapped Companies, Digital Marketing, Early Stage, Inside Sales, Marketplace, Outside Sales / By Sameer Narkar

We had the opportunity to interview one of India’s most promising Big Data talent, Sameer Narkar. Sameer and Nitin Vartak are the co-founders of Prudence Analytics & Software Solutions. Back in 2011, Sameer was toying with the idea of creating an application similar to Foursquare. He felt he could differentiate his application by providing detailed …

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Fashion in a Flash : New concepts make way for Disruption in E-Commerce

Digital Marketing, e-commerce, Expansion Stage, VC Funded Companies / By Aasheesh Mediratta

Aasheesh Mediratta currently CEO at FashionAndYou, joined the company as a part of the co-founding team in 2010 as Director – Sales. Founded by Harish Bahl, FashionAndYou is today leading “Flash Sales” player in Indian e-commerce industry. A commerce graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), Delhi University (Batch of 1998), Aasheesh was one of the few …

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Speak at the right forums to establish yourself as a thought leader

Bootstrapped Companies, Early Stage, Networking, PR and Media, Software Products / By Ravishankar Gundlapalli

Ravi Gundlapalli is the founder and CEO of MentorCloud. Ravi did his engineering from IIT Madras and went to the US and got his Ph.D. from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He initially worked on hybrid vehicle transmissions space and have a couple of patents in his name. He later moved into supply chain management …

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Have some workable prototype to show the prospects to convert your Idea to Revenue

Angel Funded Companies, Emerging Stage, Inside Sales, Outside Sales, Software Products / By Jyotirmoy Chakravorty

Jyotirmoy Chakravorty(JC) Co-Founded Ubona along with Vishal Lal and Umesh Singhal in 2008. JC used to work in the mobile and telephony industry when GPRS came into India but it was clumsy to do anything on mobile. He recollects that if someone wants to get stock quotes from different phones, it used to be a mess and …

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Work on multiple channels to increase your user base constantly

Bootstrapped Companies, Digital Marketing, Early Stage, Marketplace / By Paul Jr

Dibu Paul founded Alchetron along with his friends dinny,nikhil,digambar,praveen & siddharth. He was working for a small software company in Bombay suburbs and worked for 1.5 years there before he joined Accenture in their software product division for 2.5 years. He began this as a B2C product and was confident of success because Innovation and …

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Be in a crowded market but create islands of design excellence to acquire customers

Bootstrapped Companies, Digital Marketing, Early Stage, Marketplace / By Debasis Chakraborty

Debasis Chakraborty co-founded Namakh along with Anirban Chakraborty. Debasis passed out of NIFT and has around 17 yrs of experience in the apparel business. He started his career in manufacturing operations and has worked with countries like Bangladesh, Bahrain and Sri Lanka. After coming back to India, he spent some time on Sourcing and thereafter …

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Stick on to the core product offering to differentiate in a market

Bootstrapped Companies, Digital Marketing, Marketplace / By Ishita Sharma

Ishita Sharma was working with a media house when she founded Candidly Couture. She wanted to start this venture because there were many established .com’s selling fashion but even in established ecommerce sites the customers have to go through 1000’s of items to buy something fashionable. She thought of having a curated item list which …

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Select the prospect to do a POC with to focus and get your first customer

Banking, Emerging Stage, Software Products, VC Funded Companies / By RiviVarghese

Rivi Varghese Co-Founded CustomerXPS along with Aditya Lal, Balaji Suryanarayana. They were there when Finnacle was 25 employee strong and were part of it till it became 4000+ where it scaled from from one local customer/local implementation to numerous customers in 40 plus countries. In many of the implementations, they were part of those transitions …

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Month: March 2015