Bootstrapped Companies

Go after Innovators in companies to get your first few sales

Sumeet Kapur (Founder & CEO of EmployWise has been an entrepreneur for more than 25 years He built a software product – Smile CRM way back in 1998 and launched it as the first cloud software out of India in 2001. This product became very popular and won several marquee customers in the market. The …

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Engage with your customers and solve their problems

Chellasamy Jamburajan (Chella) – Founder of AlertOps began his career selling PC’s. He completed his Masters in Computer Application in India and went to the US in 1997. There, he joined Cyber Korp’s Business Development unit and went on to become a partner for Cyber Korp in 2001.  In 2010 a problem presented itself at …

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Finding your early adopters by analyzing their online behavior and go after them

Finding your early adopters by analyzing their online behavior and go after them

Tom Jose came in with an experience of being a management consultant for one year and as an IT consultant for around 3 years in SAP before he co founded TalView along with Sanjoe Jose – CEO, Subramanian – CTO, Jobin Jose – COO in 2012. They had developed this platform with intent to help …

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Always design your Product to convenience the customer

Always design your Product to convenience the customer

Naeem Khan(Founder of Foodys.com), is a foodie by himself. He actively used to write articles about food and review the articles which added to the passion. The fact that the Indian ecosystem is filled with people in this generation who mindlessly puts in the hours at work compounded by the two way travel in traffic …

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Pivot to better markets and better business models

Pivot to better markets and better business models

Vivek Kumar founded Qlicket in late 2011 along with his cofounder Deependra Tewari. They’ve created a WiFi management solution that allows anyone to create an out of home WiFi hotspot, and also allows B2B customers to enhance their brand to customers like never before. Deependra and Vivek went deep into product development and factored in multiple hardware …

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Pilot your way into the market

Underserved market? Pilot your way into the market

Guru has spent nearly  27 years  building software applications and products for the  telecommunication industry before embarking on his entrepreneurial journey. He has served at senior IT positions at  ITI , CDoT (10 years) where he was  involved in developing an indigenous switching system ; Axes technologies (US customer for their switching system) and with …

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Focus on unmet needs with known people to get first few sales

Focus on unmet needs with known people to get first few sales

Sachin Jaiswal co-founded InnovAccer along with his four others Abhinav Shashank, Kanav Hasija, Ankit Maheshwari, Sandeep Gupta in July 2012.  When they were contemplating on a unique line of business to get into, they realized that their alma mater from IITKgp was working on a research project at Wharton and wanted to explore if there …

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Understanding and addressing Customers Business IT challenges helped iValue grow at 5 times market growth

Understanding and addressing Customers Business IT challenges helped iValue grow at 5 times market growth!

Sunil Pillai founded iValue InfoSolutions along with 40 of his ex-colleagues. Sriram, one of the Co-Founder was with Wipro Infotech / Wipro ePeripherals for 20+ years.  Sriram came in touch with the team at iValue when WeP acquired Select Technologies during 2003. When some of the founding team left Select in 2005, Sriram was appointed …

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Build your sales strategy around your customers

Build your sales strategy around your customers

Srikanth Cheruku co-founded IDOS along with Alexander Reife (Alex) and a core team of 3 professionals. Srikanth is a accounting & finance professional with over 15 years experience in corporate world including 6 years at PwC. Later he stared his own services company between 2005 and 2011 where provided Accounting and Book keeping services for …

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Find customers who can utilize your technology as their differentiators

Find customers who can utilize your technology as their differentiators

Balakrishnan Kavikkal (Bala) is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Servion Global Solutions Ltd. Prior to taking over as the CEO, Bala served as President of Servion’s US Operations from 2001 to 2004, and was responsible for the Sales and Marketing function of Servion from 1996 to 2001.  Before embarking on his entrepreneurial journey, Bala spent …

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