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27 Apr 2015, 04:12
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1) 3 Years Experience - 16 months as a research associate in a Business Intelligence/Knowledge Management firm with one award for performance, 20 months in an equity research start-up.
2) Gmat - 760 - 5.2 awa 8.4 ir Q50 V42
3) College -Bachelors in Engineering from a top 10 non-IIT college in India with 3 GPA. I've also done a few MOOCs from Coursera, EdX and other sources including two 3 month boot camps for web development.
4) Leadership - Head Boy at school, head of various cultural organizations in college, founded a crowdfunding platform for non-profit companies.
5) No certifications.
6) Target Schools - LBS, HEC Paris, NYU-Stern, Yale-SOM, Fuqua, Ross.
7) Application Round - R2 2015-2016.
8) Post MBA Goals - Start my own company preferably in the internet based consumer finance space(fintech as they call it) or work in a management position at a tech firm. I cover a bunch of apparel and auto companies in my work but have good exposure to the tech industry and spinning a convincing story around how my work experience relates to my post-MBA goals should not be tough.
9) Volunteer work- I've done volunteer work with the Rotary organization in my hometown and with an organization that runs science fairs for underprivileged kids. I've also worked on non-profit projects involving the development of working web apps or software for international non-profit organizations and I run a crowdfunding platform for non-profits.
10)Extra curricular- I've won a number of inter-school and inter-college debates. I've also participated in a couple of international debating competitions. I've won a number of quizzes including some at the national level. I've also participated in sports all through my life and have a number of certificates to show for it.
2) Gmat - 760 - 5.2 awa 8.4 ir Q50 V42
3) College -Bachelors in Engineering from a top 10 non-IIT college in India with 3 GPA. I've also done a few MOOCs from Coursera, EdX and other sources including two 3 month boot camps for web development.
4) Leadership - Head Boy at school, head of various cultural organizations in college, founded a crowdfunding platform for non-profit companies.
5) No certifications.
6) Target Schools - LBS, HEC Paris, NYU-Stern, Yale-SOM, Fuqua, Ross.
7) Application Round - R2 2015-2016.
8) Post MBA Goals - Start my own company preferably in the internet based consumer finance space(fintech as they call it) or work in a management position at a tech firm. I cover a bunch of apparel and auto companies in my work but have good exposure to the tech industry and spinning a convincing story around how my work experience relates to my post-MBA goals should not be tough.
9) Volunteer work- I've done volunteer work with the Rotary organization in my hometown and with an organization that runs science fairs for underprivileged kids. I've also worked on non-profit projects involving the development of working web apps or software for international non-profit organizations and I run a crowdfunding platform for non-profits.
10)Extra curricular- I've won a number of inter-school and inter-college debates. I've also participated in a couple of international debating competitions. I've won a number of quizzes including some at the national level. I've also participated in sports all through my life and have a number of certificates to show for it.
27 Apr 2015, 11:49
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Hey there, thanks for your post! I have a few thoughts / questions:
1) I like this - is the startup growing? What's your role? Need more here
2) BOOM! Solid GMAT sir
3) What's your raw CGPA - I don't care about the conversion - those aren't that useful to be honest
4) The crowdfunding platform definitely catches my interest - tell me more please!
5) Eh, that's ok
6) TBD
7) Why R2? Why not R1?
8) You should rethink entrepreneurial goals in general - I'm not saying it's a deal breaker but you don't have the most experience in this field it seems so your plausibility goes down
9 & 10) This is all fine
Looking forward to learning more!
Bhavik
1) I like this - is the startup growing? What's your role? Need more here
2) BOOM! Solid GMAT sir
3) What's your raw CGPA - I don't care about the conversion - those aren't that useful to be honest
4) The crowdfunding platform definitely catches my interest - tell me more please!
5) Eh, that's ok
6) TBD
7) Why R2? Why not R1?
8) You should rethink entrepreneurial goals in general - I'm not saying it's a deal breaker but you don't have the most experience in this field it seems so your plausibility goes down
9 & 10) This is all fine
Looking forward to learning more!
Bhavik
27 Apr 2015, 12:08
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Thank you for the response.
To answer your questions(and ask a few more questions of my own):
1) The start up is based out of Boston but I work in India. There are only two positions at the firm right now-senior analyst and analyst. I am an analyst. The nature of the work is quite unique in that I spend 60% of my time writing articles which get published on the company's website and syndicated to other platforms like Forbes, Nasdaq BPQ, The Motley Fool and Seeking Alpha. The rest of my time is spent building and maintaining valuation models for the companies I cover. The amount of responsibility I take on is far greater than, say, if I were working in the equity research division of an investment bank, since I handle the entire process for the sectors I cover alone. Also, the way we cover companies is quite unique. It borrows the basic template from a standard DCF model but gives it an interesting spin which makes it quite easy for even a layman to understand the valuation of a company. As to whether the firm is growing- it is but it is because of a different side of the business, but the work done on the side of my business doesn't go entirely unnoticed but it's not really significant either(not in the sense that it doesn't bring in any revenue- it brings in the most but that it is not the sort of thing that scales). The firm is valued at around $30 million.
3) My raw CGPA is 7.7. I am not sure if it possible to accurately translate it into a US 4.0 GPA scale.
4) I've developed a web platform which allows me to list non-profit projects that I know about or get to learn about through people I know. People can fund these projects. I'm still working on some aspects of it and I hope to have around 200 projects listed on the platform by the year's end. I can't know the amount of money I'll be able to raise through the platform till that time.
7) I'm still working on a few things- like the platform above and I would like them to be in my application. I will only be able to do these by around mid-late October.
8) Can you tell me more about this? How much experience do I require for an entrepreneurship track? What would you recommend me to try instead?
Thanks, again, for your response.
To answer your questions(and ask a few more questions of my own):
1) The start up is based out of Boston but I work in India. There are only two positions at the firm right now-senior analyst and analyst. I am an analyst. The nature of the work is quite unique in that I spend 60% of my time writing articles which get published on the company's website and syndicated to other platforms like Forbes, Nasdaq BPQ, The Motley Fool and Seeking Alpha. The rest of my time is spent building and maintaining valuation models for the companies I cover. The amount of responsibility I take on is far greater than, say, if I were working in the equity research division of an investment bank, since I handle the entire process for the sectors I cover alone. Also, the way we cover companies is quite unique. It borrows the basic template from a standard DCF model but gives it an interesting spin which makes it quite easy for even a layman to understand the valuation of a company. As to whether the firm is growing- it is but it is because of a different side of the business, but the work done on the side of my business doesn't go entirely unnoticed but it's not really significant either(not in the sense that it doesn't bring in any revenue- it brings in the most but that it is not the sort of thing that scales). The firm is valued at around $30 million.
3) My raw CGPA is 7.7. I am not sure if it possible to accurately translate it into a US 4.0 GPA scale.
4) I've developed a web platform which allows me to list non-profit projects that I know about or get to learn about through people I know. People can fund these projects. I'm still working on some aspects of it and I hope to have around 200 projects listed on the platform by the year's end. I can't know the amount of money I'll be able to raise through the platform till that time.
7) I'm still working on a few things- like the platform above and I would like them to be in my application. I will only be able to do these by around mid-late October.
8) Can you tell me more about this? How much experience do I require for an entrepreneurship track? What would you recommend me to try instead?
Thanks, again, for your response.
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