Month: March 2015

Use your Personal Credibility to win the First Customer

Srinivas Rao Mahankali Co-Founded Aujas Network along with Navin Kotian and Sameer Shelke. After his MBA from IIM-B, Srinivas had worked for 12 years with Sonata, Computer Vision Labs and MicroLand where these companies were small entities at that point in time and he was fortunate to work with the founders directly. With that experience, …

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Figure out Industry problems by Consulting and build great products

Srikanth Muralidhara CoFounded Flutura Decision Sciences & Analytics along with Krishnan Raman. Srikanth did his engineering in 1997 from RVCE Bangalore and joined PSI data systems and was passionately building device drivers for payment networks. He used to write code for all the ATMs and connect it to the banking network and also did quite …

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Use cost effective Social Media and Email Marketing to win first few sales

Shankar Krishnamoorthy co-founded Asteor Software along with Gowri Shankar and Bhoovarahan. Now, Asteor Software has two world-class software products – Techcello and Synergita. Techcello is a SaaS development framework and Synergita is a HR Performance Management Software. First product is Techcello and Synergita followed after two years. Jothi Rengarajan and Janakiraman joined the founding team …

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Uniqueness in your GoToMarket Strategy to differentiate

Praveen Rajaretnam co-founded Wooplr along with Arjun Zacharia, Soumen Sarkar and Ankit Sabharwal in March 2013. All the four had worked in the same team at McAfee at multiple points of time and hence knew each other very well. On one of their usual outings, they realised they were doing the same thing every weekend. …

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Be persistent with your prospects and meet them constantly to win trust

Rabi Gupta Co Founded idubba along with Ashish (college friend).Rabi was with Wipro for 3.5 years . They realized that the TV viewers are fast shifting to watching the content on the Multi Channel Networks like YouTube on the web and hence they decided to capitalize on this need much ahead of time. The original …

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Have a combination of product and services to cross sell

Sameer Penakalapati Founded Avani Technology Solutions. He came from a rural schools and he knew that education is the only way to lead a better life. He did his Masters in Engineering in BITS Pilani and went to do an Executive management course at Harvard Business School. He spanned his career from IBM and went …

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Plan your business around the customer and not the product

A.S.Rajagopal founded NxtGen Datacenter along with V. Kannan, Viral Thakar, Bhaskar Varma, Ritesh Khandelwal, D.Satyamoorthy and Sadashiv Prasad in 2013. While setting up a subsidiary of Tulip Telecom, Raj convinced the entire team to quit their big jobs and join Tulip. Post Tulip, they all aspired to start something on their own and that motivated …

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Make your prospects realize the need for your innovative product to convert your Idea to Revenue

Arijit Bhattacharyya Founded VirtualInfocom. He came from a family that had no business background. He used to listen about various corporate aspects through his father and was inspired by stories of Tata, Birla and Ambani who created lots of companies and hence jobs and wealth for others. He was always thinking if he can do …

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Spend time in building great products that solves critical problems for your customers

Prabakar Murugaiah found TechFetch in 2008. Praba was a technology person with knowledge in data mining and in data processing. When he was an IT consultant  he came across abundant no of job openings, where tons of calls from the HR team and consultants will  come in but 90% of the jobs will not be …

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Validate the assumptions on the product after a few conversations with clients

Bhanu chopra founded RateGain comes from a business family and always wanted to be an entrepreneur. He went to the US, did his PG and started RateGain in the US to do Systems Integration work in CRM. After sometime, he decided to relocate to India because there is a large technical talent pool and there …

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