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09 Sep 2016, 05:53
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Hi,
Please evaluate my profile
Target Schools - ISB, ESADE , Haas, Anderson
Work Ex - ~4yrs at Matriculation
GMAT - 700(Q46/V40)
Class X - 95.8%
Class XII - 90.4%
College GPA - 8.43/10
Experience:
1. Worked At Ashok Leyland (India's Second largest Truck Manufacturing company) for 6 months
2. Worked at ZipDial (a mobile marketing tech startup that was acquired by Twitter) for 1.5 years
3. Started a Music Tech Startup of my own - got covered by forbes, NDTV, NextBigWhat, LifeHacker and more. - worked for 1.5 years on this
4. Currently working at IMI Mobile - a British-Indian MNC - as a Business Analyst.
Professional Achievements:
1. My startup was one of the top 10 products on producthunt from India
2. My work got covered by many international and national magazines as mentioned
3. Got a client appreciation spot award at ZipDial.
4. Led a large Cross functional team at ZipDial and then at Twitter . Managed the company's biggest accounts(Unilever and GSK).
Extra-Curriculars:
1. Played Table Tennis for my state at Under-15 level
2. Played guitar at college level and participated at many competitions all over India. Also played various gigs at Pubs/hotels
3. Volunteered for an NGO to spread awareness on water conservation in drought affected regions in my state.
Please let me know if ISB is achievable - it's my primary school of focus
recommendations - Director of Engg at Spotify (Advisor at my startup), Director or Client Partnerships at ZipDial (whom I reported to) & Director of Products at Twitter (whom I reported to).
Please evaluate my profile
Target Schools - ISB, ESADE , Haas, Anderson
Work Ex - ~4yrs at Matriculation
GMAT - 700(Q46/V40)
Class X - 95.8%
Class XII - 90.4%
College GPA - 8.43/10
Experience:
1. Worked At Ashok Leyland (India's Second largest Truck Manufacturing company) for 6 months
2. Worked at ZipDial (a mobile marketing tech startup that was acquired by Twitter) for 1.5 years
3. Started a Music Tech Startup of my own - got covered by forbes, NDTV, NextBigWhat, LifeHacker and more. - worked for 1.5 years on this
4. Currently working at IMI Mobile - a British-Indian MNC - as a Business Analyst.
Professional Achievements:
1. My startup was one of the top 10 products on producthunt from India
2. My work got covered by many international and national magazines as mentioned
3. Got a client appreciation spot award at ZipDial.
4. Led a large Cross functional team at ZipDial and then at Twitter . Managed the company's biggest accounts(Unilever and GSK).
Extra-Curriculars:
1. Played Table Tennis for my state at Under-15 level
2. Played guitar at college level and participated at many competitions all over India. Also played various gigs at Pubs/hotels
3. Volunteered for an NGO to spread awareness on water conservation in drought affected regions in my state.
Please let me know if ISB is achievable - it's my primary school of focus
recommendations - Director of Engg at Spotify (Advisor at my startup), Director or Client Partnerships at ZipDial (whom I reported to) & Director of Products at Twitter (whom I reported to).
12 Sep 2016, 01:57
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Hi,
Please evaluate my profile
Target Schools - ISB, ESADE , Haas, Anderson
Work Ex - ~4yrs at Matriculation
GMAT - 700(Q46/V40)
Class X - 95.8%
Class XII - 90.4%
College GPA - 8.43/10
Experience:
1. Worked At Ashok Leyland (India's Second largest Truck Manufacturing company) for 6 months
2. Worked at ZipDial (a mobile marketing tech startup that was acquired by Twitter) for 1.5 years
3. Started a Music Tech Startup of my own - got covered by forbes, NDTV, NextBigWhat, LifeHacker and more. - worked for 1.5 years on this
4. Currently working at IMI Mobile - a British-Indian MNC - as a Business Analyst.
Professional Achievements:
1. My startup was one of the top 10 products on producthunt from India
2. My work got covered by many international and national magazines as mentioned
3. Got a client appreciation spot award at ZipDial.
4. Led a large Cross functional team at ZipDial and then at Twitter . Managed the company's biggest accounts(Unilever and GSK).
Extra-Curriculars:
1. Played Table Tennis for my state at Under-15 level
2. Played guitar at college level and participated at many competitions all over India. Also played various gigs at Pubs/hotels
3. Volunteered for an NGO to spread awareness on water conservation in drought affected regions in my state.
Please let me know if ISB is achievable - it's my primary school of focus
recommendations - Director of Engg at Spotify (Advisor at my startup), Director or Client Partnerships at ZipDial (whom I reported to) & Director of Products at Twitter (whom I reported to).
Please evaluate my profile
Target Schools - ISB, ESADE , Haas, Anderson
Work Ex - ~4yrs at Matriculation
GMAT - 700(Q46/V40)
Class X - 95.8%
Class XII - 90.4%
College GPA - 8.43/10
Experience:
1. Worked At Ashok Leyland (India's Second largest Truck Manufacturing company) for 6 months
2. Worked at ZipDial (a mobile marketing tech startup that was acquired by Twitter) for 1.5 years
3. Started a Music Tech Startup of my own - got covered by forbes, NDTV, NextBigWhat, LifeHacker and more. - worked for 1.5 years on this
4. Currently working at IMI Mobile - a British-Indian MNC - as a Business Analyst.
Professional Achievements:
1. My startup was one of the top 10 products on producthunt from India
2. My work got covered by many international and national magazines as mentioned
3. Got a client appreciation spot award at ZipDial.
4. Led a large Cross functional team at ZipDial and then at Twitter . Managed the company's biggest accounts(Unilever and GSK).
Extra-Curriculars:
1. Played Table Tennis for my state at Under-15 level
2. Played guitar at college level and participated at many competitions all over India. Also played various gigs at Pubs/hotels
3. Volunteered for an NGO to spread awareness on water conservation in drought affected regions in my state.
Please let me know if ISB is achievable - it's my primary school of focus
recommendations - Director of Engg at Spotify (Advisor at my startup), Director or Client Partnerships at ZipDial (whom I reported to) & Director of Products at Twitter (whom I reported to).
Hey there,
Well overall you have a pretty solid profile. You have solid employers,a solid GMAT, and an excellent GPA. (although from what school?)
Is it good enough for ISB? Hard to say.
One thing in your profile that has a lot of potential is your startup. But I don't yet have a clear sense of how big or successful it was, whether you got funding and so on... Nowadays we need results that are more than just "Getting written up". We wanna see some BUSINESS results and leadership results if you have.
I think you are likely competitive for ESADE, although Haas and Anderson will both be stretch schools for you, I believe,
I hope this helps!
And if you have any follow up questions, do not hesitate.
Best,
Jon
12 Sep 2016, 02:39
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Hi Jon,
Thanks for the response.
Here are my answers to a few of your questions.
My Undergrad was from SASTRA University which is a reasonably reputed university in India (Not like the IIT's though)
Also, about my startup, we bootstrapped for around 7-8 months after which we raised some money from 2 angel investors. We grew the startup to reach to 20,000 MAU's . I was directly involved in conceptualizing and managing the product development, Marketing, Growth and PR. I took initiatives to on board emerging artists onto the platform to help popularize their content.This resulted in a direct increase of over 3000 MAU's We were also one of the top 10 products from India on ProductHunt .
I also took the initiative to network with influencers from the Music Industry and got the Director of Engg of Spotify on board as an advisor.
Apart from all this, my efforts to improve the product resulted in increase of retention from 3.1% to ~9%.
However, owing to the lack of further funding and problems of raising VC funding for a music startup in India, we had to shut down.
Do let me know in case anything else is needed from my end to help you better understand my profile.
Thanks for the response.
Here are my answers to a few of your questions.
My Undergrad was from SASTRA University which is a reasonably reputed university in India (Not like the IIT's though)
Also, about my startup, we bootstrapped for around 7-8 months after which we raised some money from 2 angel investors. We grew the startup to reach to 20,000 MAU's . I was directly involved in conceptualizing and managing the product development, Marketing, Growth and PR. I took initiatives to on board emerging artists onto the platform to help popularize their content.This resulted in a direct increase of over 3000 MAU's We were also one of the top 10 products from India on ProductHunt .
I also took the initiative to network with influencers from the Music Industry and got the Director of Engg of Spotify on board as an advisor.
Apart from all this, my efforts to improve the product resulted in increase of retention from 3.1% to ~9%.
However, owing to the lack of further funding and problems of raising VC funding for a music startup in India, we had to shut down.
Do let me know in case anything else is needed from my end to help you better understand my profile.
