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Leverage on your partners ecosystems to create a multiplier effect

Bootstrapped Companies, Digital Marketing, e-learning, Early Stage, education / By Michael Martin

Michael Martin Co-Founded Audvisor along with Rajesh Setty. Although he came from of a technology background in Artificial Intelligence and in Computer Science, he always had the entrepreneur bug. When he first moved to Southern California after college, he started Mike Martin’s Tennis Academy which was recognized as the largest summer long junior tennis program in the region by …

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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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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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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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Figure out Industry problems by Consulting and build great products

Bootstrapped Companies, Emerging Stage, Known Network, Outside Sales, Software Products / By Srikanth Muralidhara

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

Bootstrapped Companies, Digital Marketing, Emerging Stage, SaaS Products / By Shankar Krishnamoorthy

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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Have a combination of product and services to cross sell

Bootstrapped Companies, Emerging Stage, Known Network, Outside Sales, Software Products, Software Services / By Sameer Penakalapati

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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