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16 Nov 2015, 08:37
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Hi Critical Square team,
I am a MBA aspirant from India and planning to apply to college in the USA and Europe for the session starting Aug/Sept 2016. Even though I have tried to do due diligence on shortlisting colleges, I am still a bit confused. I would really appreciate if you could help me review my profile and assist me in shortlisting colleges. I am yet to shortlist Dream, Target and Safety Colleges.
GMAT: 680 (Q49/78%, V32/66%, IR5/53%, AWA 5/59%)
TOEFL: 106 (R29, L30, S23, W24)
Graduation Marks: 70.93% Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering from Punjab Technical University
Work experience:
1. Directly after college I ventured into entrepreneurship with a service based start-up based out of the capital of India, New Delhi. With a couple of co-founders we started providing web services like developing customized CMS, Online Marketing, Mini-Websites, Server Maintenance, and more. From 3 people team we grew to 8 people in 9 months. I was responsible for hiring and setting up different service parallels for the clients, pitching to clients and delivering services. Total Experience: 16 months
2. After about a year, me and my team wanted to work on projects which were more interesting and satisfying than just services. Also, I would like to add that Venture Capitalists around the world had started looking at India as a perspective investment opportunity.
As we already had experience in working in the web industry, and had taken up a considerate amount of business from budding e-commerce in India, we decided to build another start-up around a web based product. We theoretically prototyped a web based product and did the market research for the same. Me and my co-founder sustained the operations from taking up new service clients to pay the salaries of the employees working on the product. Long story short, we built the prototype and pitched to investors, and worked on the reviews from them. Had developed an interest from investors but failed to sustain through the due diligence period as we were not able to sustain the expenditures of 18 people team. Due to an unfortunate event one of the major service clients did not pay his dues and the start-up had to be closed before the debts on the founders reached alarming numbers. Total Experience: 16 Months
3. As my second start-up was failing and I had developed a debt on my head, I joined an opportunity provided to me by one of my service clients in the e-commerce industry (www[.]safetykart[.]com). I joined as Head of Marketing and was responsible for all marketing processes, including but not limited to offline and online marketing efforts. In 3-4 Months I was promoted to Chief Operations Officer and was given the responsibility of managing all the operations of the e-commerce business other than handing finance department. Was responsible for budgets, financial expenditure planning, sales, marketing, logistics and other aspects. Team Size: 19 Total Experience: 14-15 Months
4. October of 2015 I decided to take sabbatical and resigned as COO of SafetyKart[.]com. I had to resign as I could not have continued afterwards as the firm is still a start-up and would have expected a long term commitment whereas I wanted to get exposure by doing an MBA from USA or Europe. Since October I have been preparing and providing consultancy to a couple of start-ups in different fields. I primarily provide technical consultation, ui/ux, logistics, operations, and digital marketing (including social).
Extra curricular:
Graduation College:
"Best Student Award" for overall excellence from Indian Society for Technical Education
President of College Cultural Society as well as President of College Technical Society
Founded G.R.i.D - Group for Recreation and Interactive Discussions, a student group for after college hours personality development through interaction sessions
College head for National Service Scheme (Govt. of India initiative) for Social Service & Awareness
Member of the College Football Team (Captain in the Final Year)
Goals:
Short Term Goal: Gain exposure from International Professional and Educational experience. Develop skills and knowledge required for building lasting organizations by working in similar environment
Long Term: Develop a Product based start-up.
Kindly advise on the Target, reach and safety schools i should keep in sight for courses starting Aug/Sept 2016. Attaching resume as well for further information.
Thanks in advance!
I am a MBA aspirant from India and planning to apply to college in the USA and Europe for the session starting Aug/Sept 2016. Even though I have tried to do due diligence on shortlisting colleges, I am still a bit confused. I would really appreciate if you could help me review my profile and assist me in shortlisting colleges. I am yet to shortlist Dream, Target and Safety Colleges.
GMAT: 680 (Q49/78%, V32/66%, IR5/53%, AWA 5/59%)
TOEFL: 106 (R29, L30, S23, W24)
Graduation Marks: 70.93% Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering from Punjab Technical University
Work experience:
1. Directly after college I ventured into entrepreneurship with a service based start-up based out of the capital of India, New Delhi. With a couple of co-founders we started providing web services like developing customized CMS, Online Marketing, Mini-Websites, Server Maintenance, and more. From 3 people team we grew to 8 people in 9 months. I was responsible for hiring and setting up different service parallels for the clients, pitching to clients and delivering services. Total Experience: 16 months
2. After about a year, me and my team wanted to work on projects which were more interesting and satisfying than just services. Also, I would like to add that Venture Capitalists around the world had started looking at India as a perspective investment opportunity.
As we already had experience in working in the web industry, and had taken up a considerate amount of business from budding e-commerce in India, we decided to build another start-up around a web based product. We theoretically prototyped a web based product and did the market research for the same. Me and my co-founder sustained the operations from taking up new service clients to pay the salaries of the employees working on the product. Long story short, we built the prototype and pitched to investors, and worked on the reviews from them. Had developed an interest from investors but failed to sustain through the due diligence period as we were not able to sustain the expenditures of 18 people team. Due to an unfortunate event one of the major service clients did not pay his dues and the start-up had to be closed before the debts on the founders reached alarming numbers. Total Experience: 16 Months
3. As my second start-up was failing and I had developed a debt on my head, I joined an opportunity provided to me by one of my service clients in the e-commerce industry (www[.]safetykart[.]com). I joined as Head of Marketing and was responsible for all marketing processes, including but not limited to offline and online marketing efforts. In 3-4 Months I was promoted to Chief Operations Officer and was given the responsibility of managing all the operations of the e-commerce business other than handing finance department. Was responsible for budgets, financial expenditure planning, sales, marketing, logistics and other aspects. Team Size: 19 Total Experience: 14-15 Months
4. October of 2015 I decided to take sabbatical and resigned as COO of SafetyKart[.]com. I had to resign as I could not have continued afterwards as the firm is still a start-up and would have expected a long term commitment whereas I wanted to get exposure by doing an MBA from USA or Europe. Since October I have been preparing and providing consultancy to a couple of start-ups in different fields. I primarily provide technical consultation, ui/ux, logistics, operations, and digital marketing (including social).
Extra curricular:
Graduation College:
"Best Student Award" for overall excellence from Indian Society for Technical Education
President of College Cultural Society as well as President of College Technical Society
Founded G.R.i.D - Group for Recreation and Interactive Discussions, a student group for after college hours personality development through interaction sessions
College head for National Service Scheme (Govt. of India initiative) for Social Service & Awareness
Member of the College Football Team (Captain in the Final Year)
Goals:
Short Term Goal: Gain exposure from International Professional and Educational experience. Develop skills and knowledge required for building lasting organizations by working in similar environment
Long Term: Develop a Product based start-up.
Kindly advise on the Target, reach and safety schools i should keep in sight for courses starting Aug/Sept 2016. Attaching resume as well for further information.
Thanks in advance!
17 Nov 2015, 10:27
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Hi there,
Thanks for sharing your background. While the description of your past experiences were quite detailed, I'm having a tough time honing in on what exactly you want to do with your MBA. Both your short and long-term goals are quite vague. By narrowing them to a more concrete and tangible idea, we can start thinking about which schools make sense for you. Looking forward to hearing back soon!
Thanks for sharing your background. While the description of your past experiences were quite detailed, I'm having a tough time honing in on what exactly you want to do with your MBA. Both your short and long-term goals are quite vague. By narrowing them to a more concrete and tangible idea, we can start thinking about which schools make sense for you. Looking forward to hearing back soon!
21 Nov 2015, 02:57
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Excuse me for the delay, as I was preparing my essays for college applications during the last couple of days.
Why MBA?
To be really honest I am interested in getting an MBA from a reputed college from US/Europe to get an international exposure of education as well as market, industry and get a stamp of credibility. Credibility is really an important factor back here in India when it comes to Venture Capital investors and well as building customers, there have been numerous cases wherein companies market themselves as an IIT/IIM Alumni Firm. So I am looking to get that stamp of credibility as well, with international exposure.
Other than the above, I am interested in learning the basics so that, even though I agree that hands on experience is the best possible method of learning, I am covered in all possible situations when I start with a start-up in the coming years.
Short Term Goals: Getting International Study Experience as well as experience in working in International Industry to build network and gain knowledge. After MBA, I would be interested in working in E-Commerce/Web Products industry and gain experience of how global organizations work from the inside. I would be following this path in order to prepare for web product based start-up that I am interested in setting up, and launching the same globally leveraging the network I would build during MBA and afterwards.
Keeping into the equation the fact that I would like to gain exposure in different markets and industry parallels.
Long Term Goal (10 Years): Build series of interconnected start-ups based on Web Products, IoT products, and tertiary services. I am really focused on building series of start-ups with my present colleagues and future colleagues around the world.
