Emerging Stage

Persistence and Trust Help Build Loyal Customers

When most Economics Hons. graduates pursue finance, investment banking and other lucrative career options, Christ University Alumni, Sahiba Dhandania had something different in mind. After graduating, she went on to work D. E. Shaw, one of the largest hedge funds in the world. She remembers how she had the shock of her life when she …

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Sales First Product Later approach to get the first customer

Ambarish Gupta Founded Knowlarity in 2009. He did his Computer Science from  IIT Kanpur and  worked for 3 years in US, Europe and Australia as a software engineer. He did his first venture in Bangalore in 2003 but that did not work. He then went to the US and did his MBA from Carnegie Mellon …

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

Ashuthosh Khurana Co-Founded ThotsLab along with his wife Sangeeta. They both come from a lower middle class background and believed in jobs and worked for around 14 years. They felt that the current education system does not give Higher Order Thinking Skills to the students and wanted to find a program for their sons. They …

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

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

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

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

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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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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