Aditya Kothadiya founded Shopalize, which was eventually bought by 24[7], where he now works. Shopalize created the social shopping market, by enabling e-commerce businesses to add social sharing buttons to their products. It helped facilitate a new form of advertising, by allowing the buyer to spread the word about their purchase. His training and degrees were in hardware, but Aditya saw more profitable opportunities in software. Since the same logic is necessary for … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2016
Dancing His Way to Success! With Lavesh Pritmani
Today’s guest is Lavesh, the producer of the Learn Bhangra app. Bhangra is a traditional Indian dance which is rapidly growing in popularity as both part of Indian culture and as a fitness craze. If you’ve already seen - or tried - Bhangra, you know it’s a physically demanding dance form, which has led to its growing popularity as a fun way to stay in shape. Lavesh’s skill in Bhangra and his popularity as an instructor recently led to him and other members of his dance … [Read more...]
How to Validate Your Business Concept? Learn from Ashish’s Experience!
Ashish Baldua is the Executive Director, Project Management at JPMorgan Chase. He co-founded many startups, among them Wowzio and most recently Bloomspot which was acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2013. Ashish grew up in Mumbai, India. After getting his Bachelor’s degree, he moved to the U.S. and earned a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University in New York. He went on to work in the technology department at Yahoo for 11 years, rising quickly to … [Read more...]
How to be a Serial Entrepreneur: Meet Someone with Vision, Perseverance and Flexibility.
Do you have what it takes to be a lifelong entrepreneur? David Fox does. He has been an entrepreneur since he was ten years old, selling vegetables to neighbors from his backyard garden. Since then, he has continued to dream about and invest in the next thing. David works with Strategic Value Advisors and helps established business owners plan transitions out of their companies. He builds the road map for how to accomplish that transition - which may take place over … [Read more...]