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Masterclass on Start-Ups - Validating Your Idea to Organizing Scale Up of Your Business! 

Session Brief:

A validated idea and ability to scale up are two most critical elements of building a successful business. Startups need to ensure that their idea has been validated and founders / core team understand how to organize scale up of the business.

These Masterclasses will help you validate your idea, define your market and help you define, understand and devise scaling of your sales organization. It covers a service as well as a product business, and a consumer facing business or an enterprise business to business. Besides, classroom type teaching method, you will spend good amount of time solving real case study – that is your own start-up.

If you are looking to recognize the milestones, at every single phase on the road to success – This masterclass is just right for you!

1. Validating your Business Idea by Ravi Nigam

Ravi Nigam : Co founder & Former MD, Tasty Bite Pune India and Director Preferred brands, Stamford, CT, USA

Ravi Nigam has 35+ years of experience in running Food and Agri companies both in India and at International level. He has worked for over a decade in the area of Consumer Marketing and Exports in companies such as Pepsi and Britannia. 

 He is the co-founder and former Managing Director of Tasty Bite Eatables Ltd, the #1 Indian consumer food brands in North America with a presence in over 60 leading retail chains and 20,000+ supermarket stores. Tasty Bite is also the 'Supplier of Choice’ of specialty food offerings to the leading ‘Quick Service Restaurant (QSR)’ chains in India and several countries overseas.

 The 'Great Places to Work with' Institute and The Economic Times have consistently ranked Tasty Bite since 2009 as amongst the top 50 places to work with in India. In a land mark transaction, Tasty Bite was recently acquired by Mars Inc. an International food giant. 

 He is an Alumnus of Harvard Business School and the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA). 

 A charter member at TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), Ravi chairs the prestigious ‘Nurture - a flagship Program” for young entrepreneurs. He is deeply committed to the cause of fostering entrepreneurship, building consumer brands and a passionate advocate of clean energy and sustainability. He is also an active Angel Investor.

 2. Masterclass on Scaling your Business by Kiran Deshpande

Co-Founder - Mojo Networks and President - TiE Pune

Kiran has 40 years of business and technology experience as CEO and founder in technology industry. He is the Co-Founder of Mojo Networks (Now an Arista Company) - Massively scalable Cloud Managed Secure Wi-Fi technology & President of TiE Pune Chapter. Having mentored over 20+ start-ups.

He is an Angel Investor in 18th Parallel (Android based next gen STB, Bombay Shaving Company (Men’s grooming), ExtraaEdge, Sun Shot Technologies (Commercial rooftop based Solar Systems). Fortune InfoServe (Cloud hosted core banking for credit societies), strategic advisor in XVM, Gig India and many other startup companies. Kiran is a Senior Member of IEEE.      

Note: Participants are encouraged to send their problem statements well ahead of time.