Many MBAs don’t just land their dream jobs, they create their very own dream jobs. That is the beauty of founding or working for a startup company: you have the capacity to shape your own role and the vision of the company overall. So if you are a prospective entrepreneur yourself, here are a few startups started by MBAs from top b-schools that you should keep your eyes on this year to serve as your inspiration!
Living Indie TV was founded in 2012 in London by Cranfield MBA Andres Sanchez Sandaza. Living Indie TV provides live streaming of concerts directly to users’ TVs, computers or mobile devices and promises to bring live music everywhere. Last month, the company joined a startup accelerator programme called Accelerator Academy, so it will be great to keep tabs on how this creative company evolves during its time there!
Base CRM is a Chicago-based customer relationship management and sales software that allows teams to be more productive by working together across mobile platforms. The company has already raised over $8 million and has tens of thousands of users. Magda Walczak, a 2006 Australian Graduate School of Management MBA, now serves as the Vice President of Marketing for the company. Keep updated with this rising company through Walczak’s blog posts on the company site!
Rohan Lunawat, an EMLYON MBA, co-founded and serves as the director of business development for Script Lanes, a company providing services in the mobile and tablet application development sphere. Script Lanes is based out of Pune and employs around a dozen people that specialise in UI/UX design and cloud-based functions. Since founding the company in 2011, Lunawat has already gained customers such as Cosmopolitan India and GQ Magazine and surely even more impressive names will be added to that list this year!
Pivotal Innovations provides custom-designed accelerator programmes for organizations looking to grow and change. Claire Cockerton, an Imperial MBA, serves as CEO of the company which provides programming for Level39, Europe’s largest tech accelerator. Since getting her Imperial MBA in 2010 that focused on innovation, entrepreneurship and design, Cockerton headed full-force into the world of startups by providing hackathons, competitions and conferences in order to make businesses better.
Gaea Naturals Ltd is an environmental company that focuses on solutions for industrial waste water recycling. Manoj Krishnapillai, a Lancaster MBA, is the brains behind it all: he serves as the co-founder and chief manager of operations. He is helping to shape the function of Gaea Naturals Ltd as it provides products that can be used in pharmaceutical, oil and chemical industries.
Scott Shi, a SAIF MBA, helped to start BizChina Speakers in 2007. We chatted with Shi in 2011 about the company, which organises prominent speakers for its clients. BizChina Speakers brings speakers to business schools and top corporations in mainland China and has coined itself as “China’s premier speakers bureau.”
So here’s to these rising companies and even more being started by star MBAs this year!
RECAPTHA :
e7
b3
ca
18
