The fast pace of technology, digital adaptation, ubiquitous internet-enabled devices has fueled the growth of existing as well as new startups. While startups break the stereotypes and bring in new products, they need traditional functions like marketing, sales, business development, finance, and customer service to ensure proper sandboxing to enable the growth of the company into a fullfledged enterprise and reach the first milestone - Becoming Profitable...and grow beyond the startup phase. An MBA grad is the right choice to fill up the traditional functions to give the startup the right mix of human resources. Hear our panelists, Startup Founders, and intrapreneurs answer the questions to provide a clear vision about the role of MBA in the StartUp World:
CMO, Pepperfry
Kashyap has worked with one of the most loved and trusted brands in India - Cadbury, Tata, and Google in multiple capacities. His work in Product Management, Sales, and Marketing with top brands speaks volumes about the depth and breadth of his experience. He is currently the Chief Marketing Officer of Pepperfry.com, India's No. 1 E-Commerce Company for Furniture and Home Products.
A people's person, Kashyap, is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta and UC Berkeley.
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Co-founder & CEO, Sportz Village
Saumil Majmudar is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and IIM Bangalore. After a good learning experience at Wipro, Saumil has been an entrepreneur since 1998. He started a computer-training venture in 1998, a remote tech support business in 1999 and sports since 2003. He has been building Sportz Village since 2003 - India's largest Youth Sports Platform. Sportz Village is trying to get 100 million kids to play through: Sportz Village Schools, Sportz Village Academies, Sportz Village Xp and many more additions to Sportz Village to build it into the world's largest Youth Sports Platform.
Hear his views on the Role of MBA in the Start-Up World.
Co-founder & CEO, Sportz Village
Founder, Quivr
Atul Nath is the Founder of Quivr -An online marketing automation platform to manage offline Marketing & Brand campaigns. He is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore.
After completing his MBA, he founded Candid Marketing. Candid is now the No. 1 Brand Activation Agency in India, named so by The Economic Times: Brand Equity and is one of India's most awarded Experiential Marketing and Brand Activation agencies.
He has been actively involved in some of the most successful brand launch & activation campaigns, for Dyson, Uber, Google, Cadbury, Godrej, Bacardi, Too Yumm, Pogo, Nissan, Grant Thornton, Hyundai, Oakley, Levi's, Colgate, Pure It, Disney, Danone, Dunkin Donuts, ITC, Unilever, Star TV, Nokia, Microsoft, Saffola, & Kingfisher to name a few.
Hear his views on the Role of MBA in the Start-Up World.
Vice President at CL Educate Ltd
Gautam Bawa is a teacher cum business Head of CL Educate Ltd. He started his journey at CL Educate post a stint as an Index Trader at Optiver BV Holdings, Amsterdam after completing his MBA from IIM Calcutta (2012-2014).
Gautam started his journey at CL as the MBA Product Manager. Gautam has been the principal initiator of technology in education breakthroughs such as the IIM Profilizer, CL's integration with Amazon Alexa and CL's very own AI-driven learning platform Career Launcher.
Gautam is currently a Vice President at CL, heralding the fastest growing business Unit - Digital. GB, as he fondly known by his peers and students is regarded as high on energy, numbers and Cricket. He is known for his wacky solutions to Mathematical problems and his accurate Cricketing predictions.
GB is a frequent writer and many of his articles on education especially MBA and Law can be found at Firstpost, Hindustan Times, Times of India and various other platforms.
Vice President at CL Educate Ltd