Angel Funded Companies

Showing the product to the customers to make them buy

Nitin CoFounder – NowFloats comes in with an MBA from ISB and was also the president of e-club at ISB and had worked with BirlaSoft and Intelligroup for around four years and learnt how to sell and finally worked with Microsoft for four years with portfolios ranging from Heading Delivery for MS Dynamics to being …

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Filter the Prospective Customers while doing POCs to get your first few sales

Kunal Lagwankar Co-Founded AdSparx along with Ketan Barhate and Lilesh Ghadi. They worked together as programmers ten years ago at Patni Computers and have been working together since then. They were in the domain of Internet Video Streaming all along and they found that the streaming in mobile is a big gap in the market …

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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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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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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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Selecting the right sets of prospects and convincing them in an unique way

MadRat Games journey began during Manuj’s undergraduate years at IIT Guwahati, where to recreate the experience of playing board games with his grandfather, he created Aksharit – the World’s First Hindi Word Building Game. Surprised that a hugely popular game like Scrabble comes in 30 world languages but none of the Indian languages, he found …

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Develop your product based on the market needs and not based on the competitors features

Develop your product based on the market needs and not based on the competitors features

Bhupendra Kanal (Founder and CEO of Simplify360) comes with an  analytics background . He began working in Global Analytics and after that he went to work with FICO as a marketing consultant. He then founded Marketeligent and was there for almost a year and a half before he founded Simplify360 in 2009 along with six …

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Focus on full product development and build scalable platforms

Mahavir Chand (Co Founder of GoDB Tech) started the company in 2000 along with Ravi Kiran and Rajaraman. Mahavir comes in with a finance background and went to Satyam to manage www.walletwatch.com (the biggest finance portal of those days) and  Raja & Ravi has lots of product management experience in the US for more than …

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Align your product with the business model of the customer

Align your product with the business model of the customer

Arun Athiappan, Co Founder and CEO of Ticketgoose, began the company along with Karthi Easwaramoorthy and Vasudevan Ramaswamy. Arun was an entrepreneur in the past from 1992 till 2000 and was an IT consultant for a few years before stating once again With his neighbor Karthi who was in the US for almost 15 years, …

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