Paritosh Sharma fits every role whether you call him a consultant, evangelist, founder, techie or a leader. Heading SME & Channel Partner Business, PayUmoney, PayUbiz stimulates his zeal to accelerate startups growth in India. He specializes in product marketing, partnerships, customer experience. Paritosh has also founded few more ventures viz. Hashtag Growth Partners & until ROI Consulting, WeYouPoint and has attained several milestones at various posts in leading organizations. He is credited hugely for boosting customer engagement rate at Jabong.
After studying BCA from Jagannath International Management School, he pursued masters in management from All India Management Association. Creating emotionally engaging experiences is his biggest love and he has contributed significantly to growth team of leading brands like HikeApp. Read more about his achievements and business ideas.
Ashok Reddy, a bachelor in computer science and MBA from Indian School of Business has several roles to his credit including that of an entrepreneur. He is the CEO & founder of GrabOn.in and has been associated with several brands before building India’s biggest coupon search space for online buffs. He gained crucial experience as founder & president of Landmark IT Solutions and CTO at SmartTouch Interactive.
Ashok is not just a businessman; calling him a technology reader is more apt. The idea thought to create GrabOn.in struck when he realized huge potential of ecommerce and with that the prominence of sales and discounts grabbed his attention. Having spent many years making strategies in various IT corporations, he was confident of this business model. People who found his business idea lucrative joined him and made GrabOn.in the leading online portal for cashbacks and offers. Read more about him.
Nitin Bajaj is a serial entrepreneur and a firm believer of hard-work. With his intellect and perseverance, he has successfully founded three ventures including SponsifyMe, GetMyLooks & SKB Automation Consulting. Nitin is a B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) from YMCA University of Engineering & Technology Faridabad and has done MBA from DMS IIT Delhi. After completing his education, he worked in sales and marketing departments of two leading companies.
The idea to create SponsifyMe.com evolved when he could not find events targeting female audience for GetMyLooks.com. SponsifyMe is the newest way of connecting event organizers with sponsors. He dealt with all snags and glitches that came across while building a portal that could meet unique needs of this business model. How he succeeded eventually and what keeps him going as an entrepreneur, this interview will tell you all.
Silus Reddy Chintapalli is a simple minded person who believes immensely in hard work and is ready to take risks. He studied B.E (Hons), Electrical & Electronics at Birla Institute of Technology and Science worked in various companies before co-founding his startup, MyWash.in. Prior to this venture, he worked in sales and marketing departments of 1Click and TopTalent.in. The experience gathered while taking care of sales wing proved crucial in establishing online laundry delivery service.
The idea to start MyWash.in came to life when he and few of his friends faced trouble to get their own clothes washed. This was how they realized that laundry service in Bangalore could be a trouble for many people like them. As one of the co-founders, he is actively involved in team management and acts as team leader, who always hunts for new opportunities to learn and grow. Read more about him in this interview
Coming from a business family, it was somewhat foretold for Ritika Nangia to join the league of entrepreneurs out there. She first completed B.Com from Jesus & Mary College and further pursued retail management from NIFT New Delhi. She has also done specialized course in strategic management & international business.
Although she had enough business qualification, the moment to build startup came surprisingly one day when she realized there is no such platform where people could buy fun commodities within their means. This is how with a desire to create something of her own, she founded funcart.in, an online marketplace for party merchandise. She had earlier worked in exports field for almost 4 years, which abetted prominently to kickstart new venture. Read more about her and this unique startup
Rohit Malik the director and owner of DelhiEvents is a gritty soul who believed in his dreams and worked relentlessly towards their attainment. He started DelhiEvents.com as a small blog in 2005 and within a year turned it into a complete resource that today offers quality information about events online. It is one of the major sources of Delhi as well as NCR events and includes wide-ranging fields including arts, culture and entertainment while negative events (crime) are avoided.
The journey of Delhievents as a startup was not stress-free. Connecting info channels and bringing together all of it under one roof in a manner that could add value to Delhiites search was a major challenge. And, funding the venture without any aid from outside was another test. How Rohit Malik brought DelhiEvents so far and turned it into a success is a must-read.
Sramana Mitra has founded there companies viz. Dais, Intarka and Uuma. One Million by One Million is an addition to her entrepreneurial assets and is created to offer easy accessibility to budding entrepreneurs and business aspirants to resources like methodology, knowledge and networks etc. Prior to founding this, Sramana Mitra has been working as strategy consultant in Silicon Valley since 1994.
In her career so far, she has played crucial role in developing various online businesses and specializes in revenue building. From off-shore software services to cloud computing, sales, leads & ecommerce, there is nothing that she didn’t work on. One Million by One Million is one of her ventures and is world’s first and only global virtual incubator that helps businesses make millions. Read more about this zealous entrepreneur.
Divyesh Sharma an alumni of IIM Calcutta and founded Yahavi.com with a goal to fill the gap of demand and supply in art world. Yahavi is a talent discovery platform that helps artist showcase their talent and connects talent with the right people. Apart from being an entrepreneur, Divyesh is an ardent traveller has completed masters at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
He always wanted to do something for the society. To realize the dream, he chose artists whose talent seemed undervalued to him. Yahavi was launched with initial investment of 1 million dollars and has gained traction instantly. With nearly 2000 registered members including musicians, performers it has emerged as the fastest channel for Delhi-NCR. The company looks ahead to expand its network internationally soon. Read about this zealous entrepreneur and his success story.
Raj Kothari is the founder and designer of Styleupindia, a leading cashback site of India. It was a dream since his childhood to create something that’s silly yet makes sense. Raj completed bachelors in technology from NMIMS and started working in Infosys. But, that was not all he wanted from life. This young and enthusiastic mind finally founded his startup with a college friend Shruti Kalathil.
In the first month only the site got 1400 visitors. Having said that the journey of establishing this online business was never easy and put him across all difficulties that new startups face. His perseverance and will to win sustained the dream and brought Styleupindia at a point where the team is focusing on expanding business. Read his interview to know more about his success story.
Be it life or business, Rohan Bhargava likes to make the most of both. An avid reader, fervent traveler and successful Indian entrepreneur, Rohan believes in pursuing everything with all his heart. He co-founded CashKaro.com in 2013 with his better-half, who he met while studying in London School of Economics. Cashkaro is one of the top online brands and offers cashbacks & vouchers of popular businesses like Yatra, Jabong, Myntra, Flipkart, dominos.
Rohan has had the opportunity of working with few investment companies like Aladdin Capital Management; Washington Square Capital Management, which enabled him to raise his business acumen as a strategist. He has completed BSc, Economics from London school of economics and earlier studied in US. As the co-founder, he plays various roles in branding, business development and portfolio management. Read in details about his business journey.
