Our company purpose is to help mid sized businesses develop Innovativeness and Agility as strategic arsenal, with specific reference to Customer Management and Solution Design, as they ready themselves for high growth.

Designed to help b2b sales organisations prevent sales leakage and to help sales pro's take personal effectiveness to a new level. Remove inefficiencies from prospect and customer engagement in major sales. Kill ugly surprises like leads going cold. Now accepting early access requests. Write to ravi.kiran@friendsofambition.com.#simplicity #highimpact #productivity #agility Committed to help B2B sales people do less and be more.

VentureNursery was one of India's earliest start-up accelerators. Our purpose was to help start-ups and their founders be ready for pole position.Completely customized for the needs of Indian start-up founders, VentureNursery accelerated pre-product, pre-revenue and early revenue ideas. Our 90-Day boot camps ran up to four times a year and accommodated up to three start-ups each season. First- time entrepreneurs stood to benefit the most from our active acceleration program. We followed a mentoring-first approach and designed a 100% customized program for each start-up. The start-up founders gained from the experience, expertise and business connections of our 80 odd mentors-in-residence [entrepreneurs, domain experts, senior corporate executives] and 30 investing Members, under guidance of our Mentoring Council. As required, our participating start-ups also accessed our business support partners [for brand identity, media communication, website design, legal, accounting, company secretarial help] for a reduced or delayed fee, paid directly. Again, as required, we helped our start-ups find co-founders and / or other senior executives.At the end of the program, all start-ups got an opportunity to pitch to our Members for graduation, feedback and seed funding. Ours was a tough program and was not for the faint-hearted. It was meant for serious entrepreneurs who wanted to solve real problems, build sustainable enterprises, scale them and create tremendous value for the community and for themselves. Between 2012 and 2016, we accelerated 21 start-ups, of whom 12 raised angel funding from our members. Many saw great traction and some continue to build their business and make us proud. Prominent amongst our graduates are OYO Rooms, Talview, Invenzone/Arya, Home Salon and Catapooolt. In 2016, we stopped taking fresh applications and focused on helping our portfolio companies, including in making decisions such as pivoting, selling or closing down operations.

Indian Angel Network, India's first angel network, brings together successful entrepreneurs and CEOs who share a passion to enable more early stage businesses to create scale and value. By focusing on startups, the Network addresses the current acute lack of funds available to early stage companies. The Network believes that early stage businesses require more than just money to succeed. They require close mentoring and inputs on strategy as well as execution. With over 125 investor members, operations in 4 cities the Network has invested in over 20 companies with 4 partial / full exits, the last giving the investors 5X on their investment over a period of ~15 months

Dazzletoday was a cloud hosted, easy-to-use, all-in-one web application for trade show exhibitors, designed to make the Marketing and Sales Teams agile, their life easier and participating in a trade show more productive.It combined the most used features of up to nine different time-tested software types and made them available on tap and affordably too.Using Dazzletoday, Marketing and Sales Teams could create, cultivate, convert and curate relationships more meaningfully and achieve stronger Customer Persuasion.We rested the product because we couldn't achieve product market fit.

Started in November 2006, the Mumbai Angels is a unique forum where its members may interact and exchange ideas and knowledge. The Mumbai Angels provides a unique platform to start up and very early stage companies by bringing them face to face with successful entrepreneurs, professionals and executives who are interested in and have the funds available to invest in start up companies. Many members of Mumbai Angels have prior Silicon Valley experience. In addition to the capital of its members, the Mumbai Angels provides access to high quality mentoring, vast networks in India and abroad and inputs on strategy as well as executionSpecialtiesAngel / early stage investment in diverse sectors

As CEO for South East and South Asia for Starcom MediaVest Group, I supported a highly energetic team of 400+ communication architects and consultants, across eight markets - Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh.In my second role, as CEO-Specialist Solutions, Asia for our group, I had the responsibility for setting up several non-classical businesses and disciplines across 11 markets in Asia. As a group, we emerged as an aggressive player in the domains of digital marketing, sports & cause enabled marketing, entertainment and embedded marketing, out-of-home media, experiential marketing, retail branding and lifestyle marketing.

Scaled the India business, set up new LOBs, expanded the footprint of specialist businesses to many countries in Asia.

Set up specialist buying function in what was called Leo Burnett Media when I joined. Trained a small team of passionate people and got trained by them as well. Won the company's first ever AOR client - Godrej GE, together with a colleague LVK. Set up processes and systems for buying. Led development a high end and futuristic transaction management system and learnt major lessons [the system development process failed]

* Managing key media only and full service accounts such as ITC [BAT], Diageo, GM Pens and Mercedes Benz.* Developing the Business development process for the agency.