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Supam Maheshwari CEO and Founder FirstCry.com

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Today's spark is a doting father who turned his pain point to Asia's largest online portal for baby and kids product – Supam Maheshwari, the CEO and co-founder of FirstCry.com. He is a great leader and executioner.</div>
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The inspiring story of Supam Maheshwari is another example that tell the world that doing what you enjoy gives you the strength to fight all odds and be successful. Life is so short to do things that you don't enjoy. So listen to your heart and do what you want to do.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Early career...</strong></div>
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After graduating from IIM, he landed in a cushy, well paid, high profile job with PepsiCo – some may call it a dream job. But Supam didn't find it appealing enough when his heart was pointing in an altogether different direction. He finally decided to surrender to his inner voice. He jumped off the Pepsi truck and boarded the entrepreneurship wagon to create something new.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">The baby step into entrepreneurship...</strong></div>
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In March 2000, this IIM-A grad started his first company, Brainvisa Technologies, which was an e-learning start up. Brainvisa stood strong through the dotcom bubble. The instructional design and end-to-end learning solutions that it provided made Brainvisa standout from its competitors. It turned out to be one of the largest eLearning companies in India. He was one of the youngest pioneers of eLearning solutions from the Indian sub-continent.</div>
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Brainvisa soon had global presence with offices in the US, Europe, and Australia with two development centres in India and a strong development team of 450 employees and a core team of experts in various domains like logistics, aviation, pharmaceutical, telecom and technology.</div>
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In 2007, it was acquired by Indecomm Global in 2007 for $25 million. Supam continued to be a part of the organisational activity till the end of 2009 before chasing his next venture.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">The cry behind FirstCry...</strong></div>
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Supam had just become a father then. He had to travel abroad frequently for his business. He found that there are many options in baby products abroad compared to India. There was a huge difference in the quality of the products that are available in India as well. So every trip back home of this new dad had suitcases full of baby products for his new born daughter. He couldn't find similar products in Indian market. His own difficulty in finding good quality products for his child in India which he could easily find abroad got him thinking. He immediately found an opportunity here and conceived the idea of having a platform which would provide Indian parents the access to world class brands for their babies and kids. With a little research, he was clear on what he wanted to do.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">The birth of FirstCry.com...</strong></div>
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Supam and Amitava Saha, his colleague from Brainvisa, with seed capital of Rs. 2.5 crores raised from personal resources and friends, started a company called BrainBees Solutions and launched FirstCry.com under it in August 2010. FirstCry.com was launched as an online venture. He chose Pune as the base for his new brainchild as against the start up hotspots like Bangalore or Delhi. This idea of an online child-focussed store was novel to Indian market. It was a huge hit amongst the parents and parents to be.</div>
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In 2011, BrainBees launched a new business named Goodlife.com for home and personal care products. It was shut down in 2013 though.</div>
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Supam observed that people from tier III cities do not shop baby products online and thought of ways to tap this sector. In 2012, he introduced a new trend to the e-retailers by adding offline stores, thus making it a hybrid model. He chose Tier II and III cities like Bhilai, Dehradun, Haridwar, Kanpur, Bharuch initially. FirstCry.com in parallel also welcomed enterprising individuals to open franchise stores.</div>
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2012 also saw the launch of XpressBees, a logistics business to fulfil its orders. It started taking third-party orders in 2015 and raised Rs 85 crore in funding after spinning off from FirstCry. In 2014, FirstCry.com launched its own private label called BabyHug and CuteWalk. BrainBees also acquired Mahindra Retail’s baby care business BabyOye for Rs 362.1 crore.</div>
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FirstCry.com became the pioneer in their field in just four years. It is the most preferred platform for baby and kids product, not just in India, but of the whole of Asia. It is quite interesting to note that FirstCry.com didn't spend much on marketing except some online advertisement. It also reached out to new mothers by gifting them a FirstCry Box with sample products and discount coupons to celebrate the arrival of their little ones.</div>
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The TV ads did not go a long way. It was discontinued finding it not worth the investments made. The prices were kept the same at online and offline stores. Also a large touch screen was provided at offline stores to shop online if they couldn't find something at the physical store.</div>
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It grew mostly through word of month, from one happy customer to another and so on, spreading smile all along. He believes that customer service is an important feature that helps company to beat its competitors.</div>
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Today, FirstCry.com carries more than two lakhs baby and kids' items from Indian and international brands like Mattel, Ben10, Pigeon, Funskool, Hotwheels, Nuby, Farlin, Medela, Pampers, Disney, Barbie, Gerber, Fisher Price, Mee Mee and so on. With everything mummy or baby related, ranging from maternity wear to diapers, baby clothes, toys, kids clothes, footwear, school gear, feeding accessories, skincare products, prams, car seats, child safety locks, FirstCry.com is a one stop solution for all parents.</div>
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FirstCry.com is backed by some of the most prominent investors which include SAIF Partners, IDG Ventures and Vertex Ventures.</div>
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Supam hopes to change the way Indian parents shop so that they can be at home to spend more quality time with their little ones and family and strive to provide them the physical stores shopping experience online, without the hassles of driving around the town locating a shop and then a place to park the vehicle. Also he dreams of making FirstCry.com a holistic family shopping destination.</div>
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Supam is a first generation entrepreneur. He is known for his ability to think macro as well as to go deep micro. He is a very detailed oriented person and leads by example. He is excellent at managing relations.</div>
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An avid reader and excellent mentor, Supam loves spending time with his family, watching movies, running and playing squash. He lives in Pune with his wife and daughter.</div>
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He graduated from Delhi College of Engineering in mechanical engineering in 1995 and pursued post graduation from IIM Ahmedabad.</div>
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<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="middle" width="2%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;" valign="middle" width="98%">You become richer by experience, there is no shortcut to it.</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;" valign="middle">Our focus is on constant innovation, improvement & value addition.</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;" valign="middle">I love thinking about new opportunities, frontiers, ways of expansion and identifying challenges and pain points in the business so as to build significant value. I love doing this every day—thinking hard around these pointers.</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;" valign="middle">My confidence as an entrepreneur of taking more risks is one thing that has over time evolved and increased. As entrepreneur, I think it’s important to take gut calls and that has become more and more strengthened over time.</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;" valign="middle">The ability to create a large vision and creating goals around it has become very natural to me now. Ultimately take people along with you, as an individual you can do very little.</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;" valign="middle">Whether we become unicorns or not, it does not matter in life. Being called a unicorn is not a driver of any sort, rather building the right business model, principles and values is what that really drives you!</td></tr>
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Rashmi Sinha is the co-founder of SlideShare, the place where people connect over content. She describes SlideShare in three words as YouTube of PowerPoint. This designer, researcher, scientist and entrepreneur turned her doctorate to entrepreneurship to live her dreams of doing something creative with the web. She left SlideShare after assuring that Baby SlideShare has grown up to be on its own even in her absence. Today she is having fun experimenting with a few ideas. She has done a few investments as well.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Education...</strong></div>
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After doing post graduation in Cognitive Science from Allahabad University, she flew off to USA in 1993 where she earned a PhD in Cognitive Neuropsychology from Brown University. It was when she took up some Computer Science courses with Andy vann Dam, the American computer science researcher and professor, that she was exposed to human computer interaction way of thinking (HCI) and instantly fell in love with it. She then wrote a thesis on Cognitive Basis of Categorical Learning.</div>
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In 1999, Rashmi moved to University of California, Berkeley for her post doctoral work. She was tired of writing papers and decided to shift gears from academia to create something new on her own.</div>
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At University of Berkley, she discovered her love with the web and dug further. She shared her interest with some of the professors in Information science department and got department transfer. She worked on search engines & recommender systems. Though she loved the work, it dawned on her that academia is not her cup of tea. She quite didn't like it's pace. She found that the practical problems are more enjoyable. With her passion to create new things, social software and interface design, she founded Uzanto, a user experience design consulting company. Uzanto means "user" in Esperanto. She was working on a project with eBay when her husband joined her. Working together, her software engineer husband found that the method she used could be translated to a software. This gave birth to MindCanvas.</div>
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In November 2005, MindCanvas was released, which is an online game-like software for running surveys and other types of customer research. MindCanvas usage was sold to top companies like Microsoft and Yahoo. But that was just a baby step in the life of this powerful woman entrepreneur.</div>
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Rashmi always wanted to do something big; something that would have a broader impact. Brainstorming pitched in many ideas. It was around this time that she and her husband noticed that the there is no site to share PowerPoint presentations unlike photos and videos. The PowerPoint was still shared via e-mail or through pen drives / hard drives. Somewhere in early 2006, Rashmi, her husband Jon and her brother, Amit Ranjan, a mechanical engineer started weaving dreams about a site to share presentation online. They worked on it during the summer and SlideShare was born in a matter of six months on Oct 4th, 2006.</div>
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Theron, this San Francisco-based company has flourished and has attracted investors such as Mark Cuban, owner of NBA team Dallas Mavericks, Dave McClure, and Hal Varian, Google's chief economist. With two offices - in San Francisco and Delhi, the company worked round the clock with 8 employees in US and 20 in India.</div>
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Today SlideShare is a global phenomenon with tens of thousands of PowerPoint presentations being added everyday. Business revolves around PowerPoint at SlideShare. In no time, SlideShare was developed to a next-generation business media site. As against other business sites, SlideShare doesn’t have editors creating content; the users themselves are the content creators. SlideShare was a new step in the field of business content and business networking.</div>
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Rashmi is extremely proud of the growth of SlideShare. She recollects that it has never used advertisement for community building. The growth in leaps and bounds were viral and organic traffic. The users found it instantly useful within seconds of visiting the site.</div>
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In May 2012, LinkedIn acquired SlideShare for $119 million. SlideShare had more than nine million presentations and nearly 29 million unique visitors then. Rashmi ran SlideShare as a unit of LinkedIn after acquisition also. She was the head of SlideShare product, technology, marketing, team and worked closely with LinkedIn to align the SlideShare unit with LinkedIn's strategy.</div>
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They say, building and organisation is similar to parenting. The ultimate goal is to make something that can be on its own; that will outlast you. After working closely for two years, she left LinkedIn in May 2014 after ensuring that SlideShare is thriving within LinkedIn and would continue to thrive without her.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Her style of management...</strong></div>
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Rashmi checks her mail first thing after reaching office and replies to them instantly. She likes to start a conversation via mail and then take it up over the phone and not the other way round. She doesn't pick up random phone calls or check voicemails. Rashmi ditches her private office room and works mostly in a desk alongside her team. She has kept the open office space a cheerful space with yellow and orange for the walls as against the minimalist white and steel. She reserves mornings for product conceptualisation and afternoons for customers, advertisers etc. She catches up with people seeking start-up advice over a cup of coffee and finds time for upcoming women entrepreneurs. She always carries index cards with her where she notes down things to do.</div>
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Mondays start with a scrum meeting for ten to fifteen minutes. This gets repeated two or three times a week, where each person is given a few minutes to talk on three questions - what you did last week, what you'd like to do today, and what you need from somebody else to do the work. This way she gets an overview on what is happening in the office and who is working on what. She watches the daily usage metrics closely.</div>
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Weekend officially starts at SlideShare at 5 on Fridays with the whole team gulping down beer. This is how her team wind up the week. On weekdays she leaves office by seven and will be online till bedtime, should the Delhi team needs her.</div>
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Rashmi was born in Lucknow and grew up in Calcutta and Allahabad. Coming from a family of professionals, Rashmi did not have any real entrepreneurial influence in the family. Independence and being able to build things were two things close to her heart. She found the perfect marriage of these two in entrepreneurship and jumped in.</div>
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Rashmi is married to Jonathan Boutelle, whom she met at Brown University. He is also the co-founder and former CTO of SlideShare. This Indo-American entrepreneur resides at San Francisco, California with her husband and twin boys. She loves hiking, watching movies and reading fiction. She is a big fan of tea and has a teakettle in the office to drink masala tea at work. She speaks frequently at conferences like FOWA, SXSW & WebVisions. She blogs at rashmisinha.com on social software, entrepreneurship and HCI.</div>
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<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;" valign="middle">I’m seeing more and more technically-inclined Indian women nowadays. There is definitely potential to bring that talent, with a little bit of mentorship and encouragement, to foster a wave of female entrepreneurship.</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;" valign="middle">We built SlideShare to help professionals share presentations and connect people through content. What we can build with LinkedIn, the largest professional network on the Internet, is the most natural extension of this vision. I am excited about what we can build together.</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;" valign="middle">We also use Skype and webcams to communicate. When you can see each other, there's more of an emotional connection.</td></tr>
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Govind Shrikhande Managing Director Shoppers Stop

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Govind Shrikhande, the Managing Director of the largest departmental store chain in India, with his rich experience of 27 years in the textile, apparel and retail industry, has played a key role in the growth of Shoppers Stop ever since he became a part of it. With sheer passion and strong commitment, he continues to place Shoppers Stop in the limelight steering the company to heights, motivating staff and delivering beyond shareholder expectations.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Early career...</strong></div>
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It was the biggest textile strike when he graduated as a textile technologist in 1982 and the industry had come to a complete hault. Opportunities were dull and the future didn't look bright. Though he was offered a small job at Mafatlal, he chose to do higher studies. After his masters in 1984, he was again offered a job at Mafatlal. It was then that it all started; as a management trainee in marketing at Mafatlal Industries. From thereon, he gathered deep knowledge and expertise in the industry by associating with leading textile and apparel companies and excelling in each of the roles he had handled.</div>
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In 1986, he moved to the fabric division of Johnson & Johnson. The next year, he moved to Arvind Mills and spent seven years there. One of the notable roles there was that of being a member of marketing team that created Denim Revolution in India. In 1992, he moved to Bangalore, within the group, as a key resource of the Arrow launch team. He returned to Mumbai after 18 months to be with his family, who didn't want to move out of Mumbai. He worked for Mafatlal Stanrose for a while before joining Bombay Dyeing in 1996. He turned around Vivaldi brand and headed the Retail division there. He worked with Bombay Dyeing till Shoppers Stop scooped him in 2001.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Close to two decades with the retail giant...</strong></div>
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This textile technologist and management graduate started his journey with Shoppers Stop in April 2001 as Vice President of Buying & Merchandising. In 2004 he became the COO and then, the CEO in April 2006. He became the Managing Director of the Company in 2009. He has been instrumental in the growth of the Shoppers Stop. It has doubled the number of stores in the last three years. A quick look at the statistics says that the company has increased its stores from seven in 2001 to 55 in 2012 and its turnover from Rs.200 Crores in 2001 to Rs.2400 Crores in 2012. Under his leadership, the company has launched multiple formats such as Home Stop, Mac, Estee Lauder, Clinique etc. Shoppers Stop along with subsidiaries Crossword Bookstores and Hypercity Retail; and joint venture companies Timezone Entertainment and Nuance Group—operates more than 60.42 lakh square feet in the country today. The numbers says it all!</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Shoppers Stop under his leadership...</strong></div>
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Shoppers Stop had just declared a major loss of ₹ 24 crores when Govind joined the company. He trusted his gut feelings about the future of retailing in India and hopped in. On the day he joined, a front-page story titled ‘Has India’s biggest retailer failed?’ appeared in The Economic Times. Business Today ran a cover story on similar lines the following week. He and his team worked closely and turned it around in a year. In no time, the company was made profitable and kept opening new stores in batches year after year. Though it went through another loss due to economic slowdown, it quickly aligned itself to the changing needs of the economy and continued to prosper.</div>
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In 2005, the company's Initial Public Offering (IPO) was oversubscribed overall by 17.25 times. Next year, the company received Gold Shield Award for excellence in Financial reporting in the category of "Manufacturing & trading Enterprises" by ICAI and acquired 19% stake in Hypercity Retail (India) Ltd. Two years later, in 2008, Shoppers Stop undertook a major Logo and Positioning Evolution initiative which strengthened the brand market positioning, product and service offerings. Since then, there was no looking back. It rose as the undisputed leader in The Bridge To Luxury Category of Department Stores in India. It was during his leadership, Fortune named Shoppers Stop as the No 1 Social Net-worth Brand from India in 2011 and 2012 and also received the “Dun & Bradstreet -Rolta Corporate Awards 2011” and "Leadership Governance Award", in the Service Category at the QIMPRO BEST PRAX CONCLAVE 2012. He has added several feathers to Shoppers Stop since then by winning various prestigious awards such as Most Admired Retail Company by Business World , Emerging Market Retailer by the World Retail Congress, etc.</div>
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Over the years under his leadership, the Raheja Corp, the hospitality and real estate players, had its retail chain stores all over the country. What started as a small store in Andheri selling only mens wear in 1992 has become an international shopping destination today with an assortment of the leading international and national brands in clothing for men, women, and kids; accessories, fragrances, cosmetics, footwear; home furnishing and decor products and what not. By 2016, Shoppers Stop operates 83 stores in 38 cities and is still counting. It has come a really long way since 2001 – be it in terms of the number of stores or the multiple formats or the number of loyalty card members.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Being a Customer Care Associate...</strong></div>
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It is quite interesting to note how Govind is building a culture for great customer service. He himself carries his designation as Customer Care Associate and Managing Director. It percolates down to the very bottom. The store manager is designated the Customer Care Associate and Store Head. The salesperson is again Customer Care Associate. He emphasizes on identifying the talents within the company and nurturing them by giving the right tools to grow better and serving the customer. They have also recently started e-learning services and mobile application services to train their staff at store. His aim is to equip all Customer Care Associates to give the same top level of care and service to all the customers. Infact, isn't service and positive shopping experience at the store the essence of retailing? He sure has his own ways to win the heart of his cutomers.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Seeds of retailing</strong></div>
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Govind Shrikhande's first experience of retailing was way back in his school days. To tide over the ups and downs of his father's business, his sister and he sold educational textbooks and notebooks from home at the start of every academic year. Little did he know then that retailing is going to be a part of his blood forever and the world will look up to him as an inspiring retailer.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Personally...</strong></div>
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Govind Shrikhande is extremely passionate about developing innovative products and services for the customers. He is also a firm believer in the power of teamwork and is committed to making the workplace into an enjoyable experience.</div>
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In his busy life, he finds time for his family by reserving Sunday for family and by taking one holiday every year without fail. Lover of old film songs, a movie buff, an avid reader and a cricket fan, Govind is a well regarded speaker & jury at many national and international events. He resides in Mumbai now with his wife and kids.</div>
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Govind Shrikhande is a textile technology graduate from VTJI, Mumbai. He did his masters in business management from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune.</div>
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Managing Committee member of The Clothing Manufacturers Association of India</div>
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<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;" valign="middle">A good retailer must understand that shopping is not just a routine activity but a way of de-stressing and catching up.</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;" valign="middle">The whole idea is at 11 o’clock when the store opens the doors for the customers, can we all be in sync with only one thought of serving the customer- Hadh Se Aage. - On the practice of playing Shoppers Stop anthem at 10.45 everyday across the entire store.</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;" valign="middle">We definitely see the industry moving toward shorter fashion cycles and mirroring global fashion trends more quickly.</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;" valign="middle">We definitely look at the online medium as an opportunity to provide a new dimension to our brand and a new way to connect with our customers.</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;" valign="middle">The moment you get into your mindset that it is a job that you are doing to earn a livelihood, the enjoyment would go out.</td></tr>
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Govind Shrikhande Managing Director Shoppers Stop

Govind Shrikhande, the Managing Director of the largest departmental store chain in India, with his rich experience of 27 years in the...

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அதாவது receptionistஆக பணியாற்றி வந்த நாகசாமி தனபாலன் இன்று 200 கோடி 
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வெளிநாட்டு வேலையை விட்டுவிட்டு தாய் நாட்டுக்கு புறப்பட்டார்.<br />
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தற்போது இதன் பெயர் திண்டுக்கல் தலப்பாகட்டி பிரியாணி.<br />
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இந்த
 சிறிய பிரியாணி கடையை நிர்வாகம் செய்த சில நாட்களிலேயே நாகசாமி தனபாலன் 
சென்னைக்கு தனது கிளையை விரிவாக்கம் செய்தார், வெளிநாட்டு அனுபவம், படிப்பு
 ஆகியவை இவருக்கு பெரிய அளவில் உதவியது.<br />
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இதன் காரணமாக இன்று உலகளவில் 40 கிளை கொண்டு இயங்கி வருகிறது திண்டுக்கல் தலப்பாகட்டி பிரியாணி.<br />
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<b>1957இல் துவக்கம்..</b>1957ஆம் ஆண்டல் நாகசாமியின் தாத்தா திண்டுக்கல் பகுதியில் ஆனந்த விலாஸ் என்ற சிறிய ஹோட்டலை நடத்தி வந்தார்.<br />
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இப்போது
 அக்கவுண்டட் ஆக இருந்த நாகசாமியின் மனைவி சமைத்த பிரியாணி தனிப்பட்ட 
சுவையாக இருந்தது. இந்த சுவை மக்களுக்கு மிகவும் பிடித்துப்போன காரணத்தால்,
 திண்டுக்கல் பகுதியை சுற்றியுள்ள பல ஊர்களில் இருந்து ஆனந்த விலாஸ் கடையை 
தேடி வந்து சாப்பிட துவங்கினார்கள்.<br />
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இதுவே முக்கியமாக கொண்டு அடுத்தகட்ட திட்டத்தில் களமிறங்கினார் நாகசாமி.<br />
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<b>மக்கள் வரவேற்பு</b>ஆனந்த
 விலாஸ் கடையில் பில் கவுன்டரில் எப்போது தலைப்பாகை கட்டிக்கொண்டு ஓருவர் 
பணத்தை வசூல் செய்வார், பிரியாணியின் சுவை மட்டுமல்லாமல் தலைப்பாகை 
மனிதரையும் மக்கள் கவனித்தனர்.<br />
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இதனால் ஆனந்த விலாஸ் பெயரை மறந்து மக்கள் தலைப்பாகட்டி பிரியாணி என அழைக்க துவங்கினர்.<br />
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<b>கோயம்புத்தூர்</b>1957
 முதல் 2009ஆம் ஆண்டு வரை தலைப்பாகட்டி பிராயாணி ஆன ஆனந்த விலாஸ் கடை 
ஒரேயொரு கிளையுடன் திண்டுக்கலில் மட்டும் இருந்து வந்த நிலையில், 
நாகசாமியின் சோதனை திட்டமாக கோயம்புத்தூரில் 2வது கிளை திறக்கப்பட்டது.<br />
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ஆனால் குறிப்பிடத்தக்க வெற்றியை பெறவில்லை.<br />
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<b>விரிவாக்கம்</b>இதன் பின் திண்டுக்கல் பகுதியிலேயே இன்னொரு கடையை திறக்கலாம் என கூறிய நாகசாமி, குடும்பம் கடுமையான எதிர்ப்பை தெரிவித்தது.<br />
ஆனாலும் விடா முயற்சியுடன் பல தரப்பட்ட திட்டங்களை வகுத்தார் நாகசாமி.<br />
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<b>சென்னை விரிவாக்கம்</b>கோயம்புத்தூரில்
 தோல்வியை கண்ட நாகசாமி, பல குழப்பங்கள், பயத்தை கடந்து உறுதியான 
முடிவுடன், தனது தந்தைக்கு நம்பிக்கை அளித்து சென்னைக்கு திண்டுக்கல் 
தலைப்பாகட்டி பிராயாணியை கிளையை விரிவாக்கம் செய்தார்.<br />
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<b>முதலீடு </b>துவக்கத்திலேயே
 சென்னை அண்ணா நகர் பகுதியில் முதல் கிளையை அமைத்தார். நாகசாமி, இதற்கான 
முதலீட்டை தனது தந்தையுடன் சேர்த்து திரட்டினார்.<br />
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<b>வெற்றியின் ரகசியம்.</b>.கிளை
 விரிவாக்கம் துவக்கத்தில் இருந்தே நாகசாமி ஒரு விஷயத்தில் மிகவும் தெளிவாக
 இருந்தார், பணத்தைவிடவும் வாடிக்கையாளர்களை சம்பாதிப்பதே முதல் நோக்கமாக 
கொண்டு இருந்தார் நாகசாமி.<br />
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<b>உதவி</b>சென்னை வர்த்தகத்தை மேலும் விரிவாக்கம் செய்ய நாகசாமி தமிழ்நாட்டையே கலக்கும் இரண்டு ஹோட்டல் நிறுவன தலைவர்களின் உதவியை நாடினார்.<br />
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ஆம், சரவண பவன் மற்றும் அடையார் ஆனந்த பவன் நிறுவனங்களின் மூலம் சென்னை வர்த்தகம் மற்றும் கிளையை விரிவாக்கம் செய்தார் நாகசாமி.<br />
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<b>குடும்ப வர்த்தகம்</b>பொதுவாக
 தொழிற்துறை, தொழில்நுட்பம் மூலம் பல வகையில் வளர்ந்துள்ள மக்கள் மத்தியில்
 வர்த்தகம் செய்வது மிகவும் கடினம் தான். இக்காலக்கட்டத்தில் தந்தை 
வர்த்தகத்தை மகன் புதிய பாதையில் கொண்டு செல்வதில் பல சிக்கல்கள் உள்ளது.<br />
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இப்படி
 அடுத்த தலைமுறையிடம் மாறிய வர்த்தகத்தில் 50 சதவீத வர்த்தகங்கள் மட்டுமே 
வெற்றி அடைந்துள்ளது. இதில் நாகசாமி வெற்றி அடைந்து விட்டார் என்றே சொல்ல 
வேண்டும்.<br />
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<b>மண் வாசனை</b>இந்தியாவில்
 பல வகையான பிரியாணிகள் உண்டு லக்னாவி பிரியாணி, ஹைதராபாத் பிரியாணி, 
கொல்கத்தா பிரியாணி என பல உள்ளது. இவை அனைத்திற்கும் ஒரு தனிப்பட்ட சுவை 
மற்றும் சிறப்பு உள்ளது.<br />
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அதேபோல் தலப்பாகட்டி பிரியாணிக்கும் ஒரு 
தனிப்பட்ட சுவை இருக்கும், ஆதாவது நமம் ஊர் ருசி வட நாட்டு வாசம் இல்லாமல் 
தமிழ்நாட்டு சுவையை தொட்டு இருக்கும் தலப்பாகட்டி பிரியாணி. இதுவே மக்களை 
ஈர்க்க முக்கிய காரணமாக இருக்கிறது.<br />
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<b>வளர்ச்சியை நோக்கி பயணம்</b>சென்னை 
வர்த்தகம் வெற்றிப்பெற்ற நிலையில், அடுத்த கட்டத்திற்கு வர்த்தகத்தை 
நகர்த்த நாகசாமி தனது தாய்வழி மாமாக்களான சுப்பராஜ் ராமசாமி மற்றும் ரவி 
ஆகியோரை தனது வர்த்தகத்தில் சேர்த்துக்கொண்டார் நாகசாமி.<br />
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<b>பிராண்டு போட்டி..</b>திண்டுக்கல்
 தலப்பாகட்டி வெற்றியை தொடர்ந்து இதற்கு போட்டியாக சென்னையில் தலப்பாகட்டு 
மற்றும் ராயல் தலப்பாகட்டு என பல பெயர்களின் உணவகங்கள் திறக்கப்பட்டது.<br />
பல
 பிரச்சனைகளுக்கு பின் தனது பிராண்டை மீட்டார் நாகசாமி. இதற்காக பல 
வழக்குகளையும் சந்தித்தார். இதன் பின் இந்த பிரச்சனையை தீர்க்கும் வகையில் 
தனது திண்டுக்கல் தலப்பாகட்டி பெயரை முறையாக பதிவு செய்தார்.<br />
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<b>படிப்படியாக மாற்றங்கள்</b>விரிவாக்கம் மற்றும் வெற்றியை தொடர்ந்து கிளையின் இன்டிரீயர் ஆகியவற்றையும் மாற்றி புதிய வாடிக்கையாளர்களை அதிகளவில் ஈர்த்தார்.<br />
குறிப்பாக
 சொல்ல வேண்டும் என்றால் திண்டுக்கலில் இருக்கு கடை பல ஆண்டு காலமாக 
குடிசையிலேயே இருந்தது அதனை தற்போதைய காலத்திற்கு ஏற்ப மாற்றி அமைத்தார் 
நாகசாமி.<br />
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<b>பிரியாணி வகைகள்</b>மட்டன்
 பிரியாணிக்கு பெயர் போன் திண்டுக்கல் தலப்பாகட்டி தற்போது சிக்கன், 
பன்னீர், காளான் பிரியாணி என பல வகையான பிரியாணிகளை வழங்கி வருகிறது. 
இதேபோல் பல தரப்பட்ட தென் இந்திய உணவுகள் பார்பிக் உணவுகள் என பலவற்றை 
வாடிக்கையாளர்களுக்கு வழங்கி வருகிறது.<br />
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<b>40 கிளைகள்</b>கடந்த
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ஆனந்த விலாஸ் தற்போது உலகளவில் சுமார் 40 கிளைகளாக விரிவாக்கம் 
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அடுத்தகட்டமாக சிட்னி, அபுதாபி, மஸ்கட் ஆகிய பகுதிகளில் கிளையை விரிவாக்கம்
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இந்தியாவில் அடுத்தக்கட்டமாக பெரிய நகரங்களை தாண்டி, 2வது மற்றும் 3ஆம் தர நகரங்களில் விரிவாக்கம் செய்ய திட்டமிட்டுள்ளார் நாகசாமி.<br />
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<b>200 கோடி ரூபாய்</b>இன்றைய
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Sharad Sharma Co-Founder & CEO, BrandSigma Inc.

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           It’s serial entrepreneurship that is distinguishing some 
business leaders from the others globally. Admittedly, both will have 
their respective place in history just like they have their place under 
their sun. But one thing is sure – both these types, most often, usher 
in a progressive environment. Through their enterprising activity, they 
not only create products, solutions, or offerings for people to consume,
 but they also set the tone for a chain-reaction. In order to offer what
 they create, they have to source from others – which creates not only 
business for the suppliers but also employment as it does with the 
entrepreneurs themselves who are required to employ thousands of people 
to be able to run their businesses smoothly.<br />
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This then means 
thousands of families are supported financially, which in turn creates 
social stimuli such as development, human capital, etc. In that sense, 
these entrepreneurs can be considered to be the vital cogs in the wheel 
of life.<br />
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<strong>So, what separates entrepreneurs from serial entrepreneurs then?</strong><br />
Hunger?
 Nope – both types have an insatiable hunger for business success. 
Determination, efforts, etc.? It can be safely considered as both the 
types exhibiting these traits in adequate measure.If there’s anything at
 all that sets them apart is perhaps the serial entrepreneur’s constant 
lookout for new business regardless of the vertical – the businesses 
could be innumerable whereas normal entrepreneurs would look to  make it
 really count in the specific area of their business activity.<br />
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<strong>So, Sharad Sharma belongs to the latter group – serial entrepreneurs. </strong><br />
And
 he perhaps is the only Indian serial entrepreneur who has such rich 
experience and across umpteen domains – although the focus has rightly 
been his core area of expertise – information technology. And he has 
also delivered wonderfully well various senior and executive functions 
both within the companies he worked for and the companies he founded or 
co-founded.<br />
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While he is the co-founder and CEO of BrandSigma, he 
is in the hot-seat (so to say) of so many organizations and companies 
where his role is pivotal to the success and functioning of all of those
 entities.<br />
In a career spanning more than three decades, Sharma 
has been there (almost everywhere) and done so much more than probably 
any of his peers or contemporaries might have.<br />
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<strong>Education and early jobs</strong><br />
Sharad
 Sharma had his education from the Delhi – first from Delhi Public 
School (R.K. Puram, New Delhi) and then Bachelor of Engineering Degree 
(Electrical Engineering) from the Delhi College of Engineering which he 
completed in 1986.<br />
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Right after completing his engineering, he 
joined DCM Data Products where he would stay for three years during 
which he was basically into software research & development in the 
capacity of a software engineer.<br />
Then his next calling was Ivy 
Systems where he got elevated to the post of director – he was the 
director of product development.<br />
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<strong>Inching towards management roles…</strong><br />
After
 Ivy Systems, Sharma’s next stint was with the global Lucent 
Technologies where he would work for almost 8 years (just three months 
shy, in fact) – through the course of which he would assumes various 
management positions. It is these stints that helped shaped the 
entrepreneur in him. For example,at DCM he worked on developing UNIX 
server platforms based in i86 architecture andlater at an Apple 
supported start-up where (as one of the early stage employees) he learnt
 how the absence of marketing skills can derail a good product business,
 and then setting up the R&D labs in India for both Lucent as well 
as A&T. So he was almost a finished product himself by the time he 
set his eyes on business activity.<br />
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<strong>The entrepreneurship begins his enterprise…</strong><br />
A
 decade and a half of working with various companies in different 
capacities had helped equip Sharma with the perspective and business 
acumen required to start his own company. Powered by his own skills and 
education and backed by his long professional experience, he co-founded a
 company called Teltier Technologies. He was the Chief Executive Officer
 of the company which was a start-up based of New Jersey and plied its 
trade in the wireless infrastructure eventually becominga the leader 
which lead to its acquisition by Cisco.<br />
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Entrepreneurship had well 
and truly caught up with Sharma by now and he ensured it was made good 
of. But before that he was involved with Symantec (earlier VERITAS) as 
its Indian General Manager as well as Vice President of operations. This
 perhaps came in at the right time as it gave him enough insights into 
the then nascent IT and ITES business and <br />
where it would all go in times to come and where it all stood in his scheme of things.<br />
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His first investment into private equity was for a period of one year 
which gave him enough confidence in this path to becoming a serial 
entrepreneur  - of course, as we have seen, it was not by design.</div>
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His
 next investment and the role was as a board director with the then 
start-up called Bharat Matrimony. This association lasted for about a 
year and a half.<br />
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His real big leap…</div>
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Sharma’s clearly outstanding role that would eventually drive him to 
continue to invest in product development companies, especially in India
 came in the form of his association with the then internet technology 
pioneer, Yahoo! He was the Senior Vice President of Yahoo! While also 
being entrusted with the job of heralding the company’s Indian R&D 
facility as its CEO.<br />
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Yahoo! Was his last job as a direct employee.
 He would thereafter be taking over many crucial and board level roles 
with companies he either co-founded or where he had invested as well as 
those where he played an advisory role as well.<br />
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The decade so far…
In the immediately preceding decade from now, Sharma has been 
directly or indirectly involved with many start-ups and initiatives. 
Beginning from Caanan Partners (Entrepreneur-in-Residence) followed by 
an active role as the executive council member of NASSCOM (where he was 
also the chair of the product forum), then his deep and active 
involvement with the India Angel Network (of which he is a member even 
today), and playing a crucial role in the inception of the non-profit 
initiative called iSPIRT Foundation (Co-Founder and Governing Council 
Member).It is basically a think-tank for the aspiring IT entrepreneurs 
if the country and stands for —the Indian Software Industry Products 
Roundtable. <br />
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<strong>BrandSigma…</strong><br />
He didn’t have to 
actually do anything different to be able to be up there with the 
who-is-who of the Indian IT industry. He was already one of the 
country’s most active angel investors in the technology sector with as 
many as 12 known investments. But, being the technocrat he is, he 
followed his passion for product development and around 2011 he felt the
 need as well as saw the opportunity to found yet another company that 
would provide specific services.<br />
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He called it BrandSigma: As the 
name suggests there would be both marketing as well as quality attached 
to the services of the company.Based of Ney York, it would work in the 
pre-packaged software industry (offering analytics for brand management,
 combining marketing science with large data sets). <br />
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BrandSigma 
Inc. is just another expression of the visionary Sharma where he has 
been able to bring together fantastic talent from the IT industry – 
figure this: It has senior executives, successful entrepreneurs and 
technology leaders from companies like the renowned advertising agency 
Dentsu and semiconductor major Texas Instruments and its Chief Science 
Officer, Abhinanda Sarkar, was with GE Research and IB Research in the 
past (a Stanford PhD and ISI alum)– to name a few.<br />
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When he gets 
some breathing space from BrandSigma (in fact, he doesn’t get, he 
creates some breathing space), he is involved in propelling the product 
development ecosystem in the country. That he does in his capacity as 
the co-founder and as member of the governing council of iSPIRT – which 
itself is has representation from scores of successful names of Indian 
origin from the industry across the globe, who share Sharma’s vision, 
interest, and passion for the technological advancement of the country 
through home-grown talent.<br />
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 All we can say to this super-entrepreneur is – Bravo Sharad Sharma, keep going!!<br />
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<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Serves as an advisor at i7 Networks Pvt. Ltd. Mr. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Is an Investment Professional at IAN Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Serves as Director at IKP Investment Management Company</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Was an Advisor Pi Ventures</td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">A
 competitive software product industry will not only benefit the economy
 but will have a ripple effect across the society at large.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">BrandSigma is a startup focused on disrupting marketing.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">India
 needs prominent brands like Sony from Japan (20years ago) and now 
Samsung from Republic of Korea, brands that can power its global image.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">In
 India, the majority of economic activity takes place in the informal 
sector. For the first time ever, self-employed individuals are able to 
use technology to become efficient and competitive. For instance, a 
self-employed driver can now be part of a taxi network and have access 
to new customers.</td></tr>
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