"Meheer,
I am not sure if you are still pitching to investors, but if you are, here are few thoughts that you may want to consider:
What you have outlined here is an interesting concept, and one on which you have demonstrated traction from users and…"
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ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
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We are the pioneers.Before there was a scribd or Docstoc.. before there were forums or even social networks, we’ve been there. We’ve really been there. Since 2004, we’ve been striving to add value…Continue
Tags: Funding, Crowd, Paradise, Management
Started this discussion. Last reply by Prajakt Raut Jan 14.
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Kartik R replied to Meheer Thakare's discussion ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
"Hey Puneet,
Thanks for your comment. We do not intend to charge the members for membership.
Glad to hear that you love the portal :-) .. Many thanks !"
Puneet Aggarwal replied to Meheer Thakare's discussion ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
"Have you tried charging a membership fee to your members ? Yes, Crowd-funding is the way to go. I love the site. Keep it up....
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Kartik R replied to Meheer Thakare's discussion ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
"I'm glad to inform that one of our early members did connect with us and offered to contribute towards the seed fund.
Apologies that I'm unable to grasp the hybrid model or crowd funding concept since a lawyer mentioned that we cannot…"
Alok 'Rodinhood' Kejriwal replied to Meheer Thakare's discussion ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
"I meant a hybrid model - here people see the proposition and directly invest, without an in-between!
so, in a way, its exposing an opportunity for funding!"
Kartik R replied to Meheer Thakare's discussion ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
"Hey Arun,
Thank you so much for your suggestion.
Management Paradise, as a community, pretty much leads the management education landscape in India. So we like to break our offerings into different deliverable parts. The performance…"
Abhik Prasad replied to Meheer Thakare's discussion ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
"well, you could try sending out a feeler to see how many in your community might be interested...then take that data to VCs to show traction :)
even if you don't end up raising money from the community, it will give you a sense of the interest…"
Kartik R replied to Meheer Thakare's discussion ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
"Hello Yasvhir,
The differentiation is that we are focusing on business education and not specifically on entrance exams or classified listing for institutes. The value chain starts with the business students and as a part of the value…"
Meheer Thakare replied to Meheer Thakare's discussion ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
"Nice Preposition, Abhik,
But as I am informed, 'Crowd Funding' does not have an all-out go ahead in the legal infrastructure of India. There are limitations to the number of investors and also equity dilutions for a private limited…"
Arun Kumar Waghchoure replied to Meheer Thakare's discussion ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
"Great effort, best wishes Kartik.
One suggestion from slide 8, Linkedin and Scribd should not be counted as direct competitors. As their market or industry segment is not educational arena. My humble opinion to all the…"
Abhik Prasad replied to Meheer Thakare's discussion ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
"Meheer,
Since one of the avenues for fund raising is crowdfunding, have you guys considered raising money from your members.
If you guys have 3 lakh+ members and have managed to build a strong community, then some of the users might not be averse to…"
Yasvhir Chawla replied to Meheer Thakare's discussion ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
"Yes, most of it it did, Thanks for replying.
Okay, so did u mean you'll be helping B-schools in just ORM?
How are you differentiating yourself (managementparadise.com) from your competitors, say Sikhsha, PagalGuy, MingleBox etc
In my…"
Meheer Thakare replied to Meheer Thakare's discussion ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
"Hey Yasvhir,
The education sector in India is strongly controlled by the government and is thus closed in certain aspects. This gives us a slim chance to level-out the inequalities and limitations. The challenge is to stage up the maximum possible…"
Kartik R replied to Meheer Thakare's discussion ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
"Hello Darshan,
We've recently migrated our servers to more powerful one's at a different hosting provider . There are some server related issues that come up temporarily while they check for mis-configurations.
Apologies for the…"
Darshan Bhambiru replied to Meheer Thakare's discussion ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
"The Sub domain works : http://books.managementparadise.com/Though the main Domain does not seem to be working currently ? : http://www.managementparadise.com/
HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error) - You can check this and update…"
Abhishek Chhibber replied to Meheer Thakare's discussion ManagementParadise.com | Inviting Investors
"Thanks Kartik.... will let you know if I come across any individual investor....all the best !!"
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