Understanding the Alumni Personas to Strengthen your Alumni Engagement Alumni are the most important asset for any institution and meaningfully engaging alumni directly helps in the prime areas of student development, bringing placements/jobs to the institution, raising funds and meeting the accreditation requirements. …

“Hey, we are planning to build our Sales Team, you guys are doing great sales, how do you do it?” asked my alum who started his company, but was the only one in the team who was doing sales. Sales have been our primary growth driver, it brought in customer…

Most of the organizations today realize the importance of staying in touch with the former employees. As quoted by Reid Hoffman (Founder of Linkedin) in the article “Four reasons to invest in a corporate alumni network”, a company’s alumni can be a treasure trove of brand ambassadors, great rehires, potential…

In my previous blog post Our Tryst with Y Combinator, I wrote about our failed attempt at getting into YC and why it left us more enthusiastic than ever. …

Getting into Y Combinator is a dream for almost every founder, so was it for me. It is considered the world’s best accelerator for startups and there are many posts explaining “the benefits” of the program. …

Jan 2017 would mark 8 years of me out of college and about 7 years of following the dream full-time — wanting to connect every institution in the world back to their alumni! That’s Awesome!! can be the first reaction. But wait! Is it really? People these days are building…

My friends know that I always claim to be 23 years old :D. Ok here I admit today, I am 23 since last 7 years. I formally started the company when I was 23 and ever since my age refused to grow. Today, not sure why, I feel a little…

yes the same seagull in the book “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Richard Bach that inspires all of us [caption id=”attachment_493" align=”alignright” width=”257"] During the initial days @ NITIE, trying to pose like a “seth”[/caption] It’s been little more than 5 years since I moved out of college to choose entrepreneurship…

Entrepreneurship is like a Sport! Originally published on July 23, 2012. I was at my campus (NITIE) couple of days ago, had a small session with juniors who were interested in starting business. A nice metaphor came to my mind when they asked a few questions — how do I…