Bootstrapped Companies

Innovate on your product by validating with customers

Tushar Bhatia (Founder of empxtrack) has been an entrepreneur since his 3rd year at IIT Delhi. He had a services opportunity from a Japanese customer when he went in for a national competition. This was a high tech services assignment which he got lots of extra money while in college. Due to strong suggestions from …

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Go out and speak to the target audience as much as possible

Go out and speak to the target audience as much as possible

Vamsi Krishna began Lakshya(http://www.lakshyainstitute.com/), along with three other friends Saurabh Saxena, Pulkit Jain and Anand Prakash (schoolmates and batchmates at IIT) at the age of 22. They had dreams of starting something from their second year onwards, but due to parental and society pressure, they landed jobs out of campus. They were working for 6 …

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Customers help you make the best business plan

Customers help you make the best business plan

Sagar Chaudhuri, an Engineer from IIT Kharagpur and an MBA from IIM Lucknow worked for around 16 years with Infosys, Genpact, ICICI before he starting up in 2010 along with Jagadish Velagapudi who also comes in with a similar background and has worked with Infosys, JP Morgan, Reliance and Wipro. Sagar and Jagadish started their …

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Customer retention is more important than Customer Acquisition

Vinay Pahlajani is a serial entrepreneur and has been a startup enthusiast through out his career. He is the founder & CEO of India’s first alumni referral network – CATCHUP (https://letscatchup.net), which helps jobseekers get hired, through referrals from their alumni communities. An alumnus of IIT Kanpur, he has worked as an innovation consultant for …

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Make a product that the market wants

Make a product that the market wants

Samir Chaudhary (Samir) has been a marketing person throughout his career. After his Engineering, he did his MBA at IIM Bangalore and worked with Reckitt, redBus and Brittania before he co-founded The Media Ant along with Mayank Bidawatka and Mukesh Agrawal. While at redBus, Samir and Mayank wanted information on offline advertising vehicles but they …

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Aligning with a partner to see volume growth

Aligning with a partner to see volume growth

Mohan founded Nucore along with Suhail VP  and Muhammed Niyas . The three of them being classmates added a lot of bonding within the founding team. Nucore has a product that focusses on Air Travel and Car Rental verticals. Mohan recollects the time when they began as software services form, when the three co-founders took different directions …

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Winning deals – Think of Product, Audience and Competition

Winning deals – Think of Product, Audience and Competition

Priyanka Rungta along with Abhishake Rungta started NavSoft as a software services entity. They grew the company consistently and got 100s of customers over a decade and gained enormous experience in the industry. Priyanka realized that software services was not a viable industry in the long haul as there were giants in the industry and she will begin making …

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Be aligned to the vision but be grounded with an activity

Be aligned to the vision but be grounded with an activity

Naveen Lakkur is the Founder & CEO of (wwww.HomeConnectOnline.com). His one line introduction is “Converting Creative Concepts into Commerce with Compassion” He is an entrepreneur as well as an evangelist. With over two decades of professional experience spread worldwide, he has been instrumental in fostering over 50 concepts to have become commercial realities globally. He …

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Get your first customer at any cost

Abdul Gafoor is the Co-Founder & COO of Infinite Open Source Solutions LLP. He started the company along with four other co-founders (Abdul Majeed, Ameen Islahi, Ashok KS, Pavanan Ghosh). Three of them studied engineering together and also had worked together for around 6 months in the same company which gave them a lot of …

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Simplify Technology to solve customer problems

Simplify Technology to solve customer problems

Dr. Shama Bhat, has leveraged his 35 years of rich experience in R&D and manufacturing in the Biotechnology area, to conceive this enterprise. An alumnus of Kasturba Medical College, Manipal and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Dr. Shama Bhat is trained at the University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA. Dr. Bhat strengthened the …

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