10 Awesome Coaches who teach at SV.CO

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5 min readOct 11, 2017

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Imagine a school where teachers are real entrepreneurs and students are first time startup founders and classrooms are completely online. Welcome to SV.CO School of SaaS

At SV.CO School of SaaS, teachers are called Coaches who are reputed entrepreneurs. These coaches are either building startups or working in leadership positions at reputed startups. These coaches take there valuable time out to teach one specific topic which helps students to build campus startups and receive industry exposure very early in college.

How do new coaches teach at SV.CO ?

Live Sessions : SV.CO ensures one live session a week. The coaches are allotted basing on the progress of the teams and requirement too.

1. Abhishek Goyal (Founder of Traxcn Labs)

Topic: Theory of A Market

During the programme, you will learn about markets. Abhishek has a great theory which helps first time founders understand about markets.

Market plays a crucial role in building your startups. Who better than Abhishek can teach you this.

2. Tanmai Gopal (Founder of Hasura)

Topic: Evolution of cloud/app technology.

Tanmai Gopal is an IIT graduate and is currently running Hasura.io.

He is well known in bangalore startup ecosystem for his engineering skills and is author to a successful MOOC in partnership with IIT Madras.

He teaches Evolution of Cloud and App technologies which helps founders to build Applications which are scalable.

3. Aakrit Vaish (Founder of Haptik)

Topic: 10 things no one will tell you being a tech founder in India.

Haptik is one of the most downloaded and rated apps in Playstore India. His haptik journey is worth listening to.

He shares a unique learning which students don’t learn in colleges or events.

Attend his session to know the 10 things :)

4. Shyam (Director of Product Management, Freshworks)

Topic: How to get your First Customer ?

Shyam built his startup and sold it to Freshdesk. He is one of the key people in Freshworks leadership.

His interest towards student startups made him teach a topic called How to Get your first customer. A difficulty which every startup faces. You can now learn about it in college.

5. Ellen Petry Leanse (Tech Coach to Silicon Valley CEO’S)

Topic: Path to thinking different.

Ellen worked with Steve Jobs in his Macintosh team. She went on to become a coach for Silicon valley CEO’s.

She believes in the mission of SV.CO and takes a specific class called Path to thinking different. Her storytelling skills will blow away your mind.

P.S: Worth all your time and money for her 30 min talk.

6. Jitendra Gupta (Founder of Citruspay)

Topic: Journey of Citrus Pay

The success story of Citrus Pay is quite famous in the startup ecosystem. The team behind that was led by Jitendra Gupta.

He shares his learnings by talking about his Journey and story of Citrus Pay.

It’s a really good entrepreneurial lessons for students to learn while in college.

7. Krish (Founder of ChargeBee)

Topic: Learnings from building Chargbee

Krish is a really awesome coach at SV.CO. He is so humble and patient while teaching that students love him a lot.

He shares some insights while he was building Chargebee which really help first time founders to avoid such mistakes and take the right path.

His suggestions on Jobs to be done framework helped a lot of startups at SV.CO

8. Srividya Sriram (UI/UX Designer at Freshworks)

Topic: Experience UI/UX Design

Srividya believes we are democratising learning for the millennials and loves helping students. She is an awesome coach you should learn from if you are desginer.

She teaches UI/UX to students and helps them in designing their products.

Learning UI/UX while in college from an expert. Isn’t it awesome guys ?

8. Sanjeeth (CMO, Exotel)

Topic: Essential Inbound marketing techniques for startups.

Exotel is one of the famous startups in India. It’s has a huge userbase including US :D

Building customer base online is tough for students. Hence, Sanjeeth comes to rescue by teaching Inbound marketing techniques which help startups to get more clients.

9. Kumar R (Chief Slacker at Slanglabs)

Topic: The story of Facebook acquiring Little Eye Labs and why he is betting on Voice Technology as the future

Kumar R is busy building his second startup after selling his first startup to Facebook.

He worked at Facebook for an year and decided to start again in India. Kickass isn’t it ?

His stories and learnings are a huge motivations to students and engineers.

10. Vikas Malpani (Co Founder of Commonfloor)

Topic: Ask Me Anything

Vikas Malpani is the founder of Common Floor which disrupted the real estate market in India.

His journey inspires every budding entrepreneur in India.

Vikas had done a Ask Me Anything session with our startups and will have one soon.

It’s not just these 10, we have a huge list of coaches who will be delivering live sessions to students. You can check the list of coaches on www.sv.co/faculty.

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