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

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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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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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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Analyze the customers problems and offer them new solutions

Rajesh Nahar Co-Founded Cbazaar along with Ritesh Kataraya. They both were having family businesses and met while doing their MBA but did not want to pursue their family business and wanted to start something new. Rajesh came in from an IT background where he did his engineering in PSG College of Technology and had dabbled …

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Interact with the customers often to evolve the product

Suresh Kondamudi (Co-Founder & CTO of WizRocket Inc.),  graduated from IIT Madras in 2003 and joined Qwest Telecoms and then moved on to a startup called ngpay in Bangalore for almost five years and then to Network18 where he met the other Co-Founders, Sunil Thomas (US Citizen for 10 years and came back to India …

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Enter a market using a unique feature and build a great product

Enter a market using a unique feature and build a great product

Mr. Kailash Katkar, Co-Founder and CEO of Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd, in the wave of liberalization in 1990, was running a boot-strapped, one-room, machine repair station. He repaired Facit adding machines and ledger posting machines that were used in banks. With his strong business acumen, he understood that business cannot be successful without loyal …

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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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