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dont_give_up
Joined: 17 Oct 2016
Last visit: 02 Mar 2023
Posts: 52
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Location: Canada
Schools: Insead Sept'18 (A)
GMAT 1: 750 Q49 V42
GPA: 3.3
Products:
05 Nov 2016, 14:24
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The boring stuff:
Indian male, IT work experience - 8 years
GMAT: 680
GPA: 3.2
Maybe interesting stuff:
Diplomatic background, grew up in 7 countries
Canadian education since high school
Worked in Silicon valley at 2 of the biggest name tech firms.
Good extra curriculars in university and post work.
The (I think) interesting stuff:
Co-founded an application development startup
Managed, hired, led employees and directed company strategy/product develpment
Had over 400K customers - in every imaginable country.
Sold the company to another tech firm!
Avid public speaker and exec of a toastmasters club
Motivation:
As I have a international background and I have successfully started and sold a company, I want to go to business school to develop the business knowhow to succeed further in the technology world. While running my previous company I sometimes felt my business skills were simply not there, although I had plenty technical skills. A lot of the business skills and knowhow I developed on the fly. But I want to fine tune them.
So want to go for entrepreneurship MBA.
School interested in:
INSEAD, Judge, Rotman, Said & LBS
Indian male, IT work experience - 8 years
GMAT: 680
GPA: 3.2
Maybe interesting stuff:
Diplomatic background, grew up in 7 countries
Canadian education since high school
Worked in Silicon valley at 2 of the biggest name tech firms.
Good extra curriculars in university and post work.
The (I think) interesting stuff:
Co-founded an application development startup
Managed, hired, led employees and directed company strategy/product develpment
Had over 400K customers - in every imaginable country.
Sold the company to another tech firm!
Avid public speaker and exec of a toastmasters club
Motivation:
As I have a international background and I have successfully started and sold a company, I want to go to business school to develop the business knowhow to succeed further in the technology world. While running my previous company I sometimes felt my business skills were simply not there, although I had plenty technical skills. A lot of the business skills and knowhow I developed on the fly. But I want to fine tune them.
So want to go for entrepreneurship MBA.
School interested in:
INSEAD, Judge, Rotman, Said & LBS
09 Nov 2016, 12:59
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dont_give_up
The boring stuff:
Indian male, IT work experience - 8 years
GMAT: 680
GPA: 3.2
Maybe interesting stuff:
Diplomatic background, grew up in 7 countries
Canadian education since high school
Worked in Silicon valley at 2 of the biggest name tech firms.
Good extra curriculars in university and post work.
The (I think) interesting stuff:
Co-founded an application development startup
Managed, hired, led employees and directed company strategy/product develpment
Had over 400K customers - in every imaginable country.
Sold the company to another tech firm!
Avid public speaker and exec of a toastmasters club
Motivation:
As I have a international background and I have successfully started and sold a company, I want to go to business school to develop the business knowhow to succeed further in the technology world. While running my previous company I sometimes felt my business skills were simply not there, although I had plenty technical skills. A lot of the business skills and knowhow I developed on the fly. But I want to fine tune them.
So want to go for entrepreneurship MBA.
School interested in:
INSEAD, Judge, Rotman, Said & LBS
Indian male, IT work experience - 8 years
GMAT: 680
GPA: 3.2
Maybe interesting stuff:
Diplomatic background, grew up in 7 countries
Canadian education since high school
Worked in Silicon valley at 2 of the biggest name tech firms.
Good extra curriculars in university and post work.
The (I think) interesting stuff:
Co-founded an application development startup
Managed, hired, led employees and directed company strategy/product develpment
Had over 400K customers - in every imaginable country.
Sold the company to another tech firm!
Avid public speaker and exec of a toastmasters club
Motivation:
As I have a international background and I have successfully started and sold a company, I want to go to business school to develop the business knowhow to succeed further in the technology world. While running my previous company I sometimes felt my business skills were simply not there, although I had plenty technical skills. A lot of the business skills and knowhow I developed on the fly. But I want to fine tune them.
So want to go for entrepreneurship MBA.
School interested in:
INSEAD, Judge, Rotman, Said & LBS
Hey dude!
Great to hear from you.
Allright so the good news is that the interesting stuff is very interesting.
I would love to hear more detail especially about your company. And your diplomatic background will make for a very interesting personal story.On the other hand with your lower than average GPA and GMAT, for an Indian candidate and especially a male in tech, those are big weaknesses, and your school list is just too challenging. I think LBS, Said and Judge are stretches for you, INSEAD a bit easier (cause they care a bit less about GMAT and GPA), and Rotman competitive, which means your school list is likely stretched to far towards difficulty, and you may want to add 1-2 competitive schools and 1 at least safe school.
Best,
Jon
dont_give_up
Joined: 17 Oct 2016
Last visit: 02 Mar 2023
Posts: 52
Own Kudos:
Location: Canada
Schools: Insead Sept'18 (A)
GMAT 1: 750 Q49 V42
GPA: 3.3
Products:
22 Nov 2016, 02:40
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Thanks a lot Jon for your reply!!
After this post I rewrote the GMAT and this time got a 750! Q49/V41.
Was wondering if you could assess my candidacy in light of this new score? Plus do you think I would be competitive in a HBS/Wharton/Stanford application pool?
After this post I rewrote the GMAT and this time got a 750! Q49/V41.
Was wondering if you could assess my candidacy in light of this new score? Plus do you think I would be competitive in a HBS/Wharton/Stanford application pool?
