Vijay Anand

Current

Advisor at Proto.in
Advisor at The Startup Guy
Manager (Incubation and New Ventures) at RTBI (IITM's Rural Technology and Business Incubator)

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Past

Founder and Curator at Proto.in
Product & Strategic Alliances Manager at NEXGE Technologies
Founder CEO at LeadStep Technologies Inc., Canada

Consultant/Employee at Various

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Vijay Anand’s Summary

Recognized as a serial entrepreneur, an initiator of Ideas, driving innovation and enabling networks to deliver.

Passionate about technology, grounded with the reality of business and the crucial elements required to build a lasting enterprise, with a good sense for details to ensure quality execution of visions and actionable items that come out of brainstorming meets.

The greatest passion is to work with entrepreneurs, as being easy to identify with passionate and capable people, contributing and most times learning much from those interactions.

• Posess the experience in bootstrapping a few companies and initiatives, which proves to be quite valuable while assessing the stage of a company or team, and the potential for them to grow.

• Identifying talent and putting together teams that can master obstacles, and can deliver on the vision.

• Strategic alliances management, in working with ecosystem partners, understanding their needs and requirements and in making the relationship successful.

• Naturalistic networking persona in staying in touch with a larger pool of knowledge and industry experience

Technology:
• Well-versed with the technological trends of the industry, in keeping up with them and in identifying venture/investment opportunities for the future.

• Key Areas: Mobile, Telecom, Internet, Web, Software

Vijay Anand’s Specialties:

Strengths:
Venture Bootstrapping • Strategic Planning and market positioning • Fund raising • Entrepreneur Mentorship • Industry Depth and trend analysis • Project Management • Crisis Control • Strategic Planning • Mass Communication and PR, mobilizing Market traction •

Vijay Anand’s Experience

Advisor

Proto.in

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

June 2009 — Present (7 months)

Following the phase of Founding Proto.in, the community today has grown to more than 120 Volunteers active in more than seven cities across the country, and more than 3000 supporters and entrepreneurs who come together every six months to showcase some of the promising startups in the Indian Landscape.

In an effort to grow this initiative, I have stepped back as an Advisor to this platform, while the team continues to grow the momentum and the effort. At the moment, am involved in understanding some of the other gaps that need such focus, in making entrepreneurship viable in India
Advisor

The Startup Guy

(Privately Held; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

January 2009 — Present (1 year )

I currently serve on the board of a few companies, and also act as an Advisor and Mentor to a few promising startup teams that I have built relationships over the past few years
Manager (Incubation and New Ventures)

RTBI (IITM's Rural Technology and Business Incubator)

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

October 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

Can Entrepreneurship be a mode of development was the question that RTBI was started with, back in 2006. As the first member, and as such the founding member of the organization, have been responsible for quite a bit of what this entity and vision has grown into - which currently stands with close to 14 startups, more than 30+ research staff, and a senior management team that manages the entire process.

Currently manage the Incubation process of the Incubator, all the way from the entrepreneur who comes in, interacting with them, identifying areas that they can work in, helping them find a focus, formulate a concept note, build a lean startup, prove the market, if not reiterate, and scale.

In the past three years, Six of the companies are nearing graduation, most of them raising institutional capital. Have been involved in the process of getting them ready to receive funding, building the review processes for early stage startups, monitoring them, setting up their advisory teams and mentors, and also in the formation of the board of directors as they emerge and mature.

As part of my job, my responsibility is to constantly interact with the teams that manage technology innovation, and the teams that have constant ground/field level interaction to map opportune areas for new businesses, and as we come across entrepreneurs in that domain, to give them an array of venture ideas, market research data and a few plug-n-play technologies that enable them to go to market quickly to prove their model.

Have also been responsible for the ideation and development of a set of processes, which seem rather unique to cases where not enough is known about the market and requires a research/technology initiated entrepreneurship development approach.

Have been responsible for raising a fund for the incubator through which we can provide working capital loans/seed fund for companies, and in forging alliances with the investor community for subsequent growth.
Founder and Curator

Proto.in

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

September 2006 — June 2009 (2 years 10 months)

Proto.in is the platform for young startups and entrepreneurs to showcase their grandiose visions and innovations to an audience that really matters - investors, technologists, veteran entrepreneurs, journalists, bloggers and executives.

Entrepreneurs drive the economy. It is the grand visions and resourcefulness of an entrepreneur that utilizes the society to the maximum, creates opportunities and pushes technology to its limits to create a better lifestyle - be it an enterprise or an end-consumer. Proto.in is a platform derived to support, help and nurture such visionaries.

Proto.in comes together once in six months in a city across the Indian subcontinent ever since its inception in the January of 2007.

Currently serving on the team on an Advisory Capacity, while the 100+ volunteering team manages the showcase event.
Product & Strategic Alliances Manager

NEXGE Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 2006 — October 2006 (10 months)

Responsible for identifying and evaluating the opportunities in the Telecom market (current needs and market opportunities in the VoIP/IMS Domain) and driving the product decisions about the future direction of the NEXGE solution. Also responsible to drive the product related communications internally and externally to NEXGE. Required to work closely with the Sales force, Channels, Marketing and Engineering organizations. Through close interaction with the field, channels and customers, understands the commercial drivers for specific features, define the high level requirements of those features, and determine feature phasing over coming releases. Responsibilities span the entire product life cycle from concept through development, launch, growth and succession. Specific responsibilities include driving decisions on Pricing, Positioning, Promotion, Product codes, bundling of components, and launch.
Founder CEO

LeadStep Technologies Inc., Canada

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

2003 — 2006 (3 years )

LeadStep focuses on building wireless solutions for both carriers and consumers in an attempt to revolutionize the way people live, act and think. We pride ourselves in solutions that are powerful, yet simple and in products that don't make the end user feel inadequate, but empowers them to bring out the best.

Focus Sectors: Content and Media Delivery Systems, Location-Based Services
Consultant/Employee

Various

(Wireless industry)

1996 — 2005 (9 years )