Vibhushan
Summary:
- Entrepreneur
- Product Manager (Search) at Yahoo! India
- MBA, IIM Ahmedabad (PGP 2007)
- Interest Area: Product Management/ Business Strategy for internet related businesses, with a focus on consumer internet business
Professional Profile:
Co-Founder and Director, Yuva Web Services Pvt. Ltd.
Yuva Web Services Pvt. Ltd. is an upcoming web start-up. At Yuva we are working on www.OyeStyle.com – a destination portal for the affordable fashion which can be used in daily lives of a common youngster in India. OyeStyle allows youth of country to explore latest style trends, create their own style statements and share it with their friends.
Co-Founder and Director, MQuotient Solutions Ltd.
MQuotient is a start-up offering solutions in the Enterprise Marketing Management domain. Built the business from scratch; formed core team of founders and forged business partnerships to execute the business plan; did business development effort to strike partnerships, secure investment, develop service line of business to manage cash-flows.
Product Manager, Yahoo! Search at Yahoo! India.
Managed Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Toolbar in India. Improved the performance of Yahoo! Search in India by reducing response time and increasing relevancy; designed and executed a comprehensive market research study to generate insights regarding online behaviour of youth in country, worked on development of new search products like Glue.
Intern, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Technology Advisory Service)
Designed a blue-print for a customized ERP solution for the Indian BPO industry. Identified the key challenges of the BPO industry and recommended ERP based solutions for the same. Based on these recommendations, a customized ERP vertical for BPO industry was setup at PwC.
Vibhushan has also worked on Telecom Billing solutions for US telecom majors like Cingular and AT&T at Amdocs, India and Cognizant Tech. Solutions, India
Publications:
- Implementation of Number Portability in India – Issues and Challenges – In consultation with the TRAI, analyzed the issues involved in implementation of Number Portability in India. Recommendations and findings were published in ‘The Economic Times’. Study Report.
Guest Author on Pluggd.in – Blog for Indian Startups and Technology:
- No Apps on Facebook Lite and Mobile – Hit or Miss? - Absence of Facebook apps and quizzes is one of the most striking features of the new Facebook Lite page. This post tries to explore the importance of apps in success of Facebook, and Facebook Lite and Mobile in future, in India. It highlights why India is a completely different story than rest of world when it comes to Facebook Mobile.
- Facebook’s Twitter-mania (or phobia) – @User Tagging and Facebook Lite – Facebook seems to be too much concerned about Twitter, and latest in their attempts to get deeper into Twitter domain is the @user tagging and Facebook Lite. This article tries to put this in perspective.
- Listen to Customers or Innovate? Lessons from Facebook Redesign - An article commenting on the strong criticism evoked by the Facebook redesign and eventual acceptance by its users; indicating that public memory, even on internet, is indeed short!
- Social Media and What Indian Businesses/Media/Celebrity Need to Know - An article talking about potential of Social Media and its application to celebrity brand endorsement business in India
- Few Questions Before We Say GoodBye to Yahoo! Search - An article commenting on the Yahoo! – Microsoft search deal; and suggesting that spinning off Yahoo! Search as separate company might have been a better option for Yahoo!
- Build Now, Monetize Later – Time Startups Talk about Revenue Model? - An article suggesting the need of planning for innovation around revenue model from internet startups. Article suggests that appraoch of postponing the monetization design/revenue model for later can be dangerous choice for startups to make
- Google goes offline – Launches Print Campaigns to Promote Search – An article analyzing the print campaign from Google to promote it’s search. Article was picked up by one of the leading tech blogs in world – www.techcrunch.com (link to the post) and also on The Washington Post (link)
- Internet Traffic Tracking and Measurement – An article on opportunity for innovation in the domain of Internet traffic tracking and measurement
- Orkut-Facebook as Photos Sharing Sites – An article suggesting development of an image search feature for social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook which can turn them into a serious competition for photo-sharing sites like Flickr.com
Educational Qualification:
- MBA (Strategy and Marketing), Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (PGP 2007)
- B.E. (Electrical), Visveswaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur (Formerly REC, Nagpur)
Awards and Positions of Responsibility:
- National Talent Search Scholar
- Head, Branding Cell for Confluence, IIMA’s annual international management summit – Managed branding & promotional activities for the INR 8 million event involving 17 corporate partners like Reliance Industries, Tata Group
- Cultural Secretary, Power Engineering Society at Electrical Dept., VNIT Nagpur
Interests:
Marketing and Advertising Industry, Entrepreneurship, Branding, Product Management, Internet Products, Technology Product Development, Go-To-Market strategy for technology products, Consumer Behaviour
Contact details:
Email: vibhushan.waghamre [at] gmail [dot] com; LinkedIn Profile; Follow me on Twitter @vibhushan
