FOF.link

Our story starts at 1937, with Ronald Cose and The Theory of the Firm

If markets are so efficient,  why do firms exists?

Of course  "Transaction Costs"

We are here to make markets as efficient as firms

http://FOF.link

Founder

1000 Founders Community

Helping Solo Founders to $10M in revenue and list an IPO

https://www.1000founders.in/

Nimbal.io

Nimbal is a platform for 100% test automation of your software product by your own software developers. Developers can get started in writing english like test in less than 24 hours and get to over 90% Coverage of your Code & User Stories.  Run daily Automated tests to make your users love your software product.

99tests

99tests is a Pay-as-you-go QA Platform

Share your software screens, get User Stories, Test Cases and Bugs all-in-one for the specified devices, locations and languages. Get the exact cost to execute and pay per results.

https://99tests.com

VMLogix

LabManager is a virtual lab automation product to manage virtual machines that are run in VMWare ESX 3.5, vCenter 4.0 and Citrix Xen 5.5. 
Developed an automation framework using Python API's and Selenium scripts. 
Tested several versions of LabManager on Xen, Amazon and VMWare virtualization platform from 3.3 to 3.8.2.
* Automation of functionality using Selenium and Python API's. 
* Writing and executing test cases. 
* QA test combinations over multiple OS's, Hypervisors. 
* Filing Bugs and Test reports. 
* Setting up Test beds from Virtualization platforms.

Quality Assurance Manager

webMethods

WebMethods Integration server 7.1. Involved in performing QA and automation (QTP) on Business Process Models using Developer and Designer tools of WebMethods. These tasks required understanding of SOA, web services and programming skills to develop FLOW Scripts (a proprietary programming language of WebMethods), along with Java web services using eclipse. Developed Perl scripts that queried Oracle DB using SQL to validated data. 
* Automation of Business flows using QTP 9.0. 
* Creation of Test Plan and Test Case documents. 
* Setup and configuration of Application servers (IS and MwS) on Unix/Linux/Solaris. 
* Execution and reporting of functional bugs. 
* Integration testing and Component testing. 
* Developing Java web services using eclipse.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Oracle

Oracle e-business Applications: The scope of the project is to perform QA for the Oracle e-business 11i applications. Involved in the design and development of the GUI based automation suite for the forms based and html based Oracle Applications. The verification of the results is done using an infrastructure tool developed in Perl that extracts the Winrunner results, parses and reports the statistics of the test runs without any user intervention. Worked on the enhancement phase of this infrastructure tool. 
* Creation of Test plan and Test Case documents. 
* Coding of Scripts in TSL (Winrunner) for building the GUI based Automation 
* Unit testing, integration testing (Perl) 
* Bug Fixes. 
* Resolved bugs in the infrastructure.

Certification of GIT Tools as a part of GIT Scripting team, which was responsible for new code 
development, testing and deployment for GIT Operations 
* Developed automated testing scripts using Perl for GIT Tools. 
* Successfully implemented test plans and produced summary reports. 
* Evaluated and prototyped an Automation infrastructure for automation and reporting using Oracle Application Express (SQL) and Wiki. 
* Used source control software, bug-tracking software and test-tool development. 
* Modified existing testing procedures and ensured product enhancements did not impact functionality. 
* Proactively contributed to all team efforts, ensuring project completions and quality products and results.

Development of Certified Configurations for Oracle On Demand. The development involved exposures to various concepts like Oracle On Demand, Certified configurations, Provisioning, Reference Configurations, Customer Configuration Repository. Used Perl, SQL and PL/SQL for development. 
* Feasibility analysis based on the Functional Design Document. 
* Creation of Technical Design and test plan documents. 
* Coding of modules in Perl and SQL for building the Certified Configurations 
* Component testing and integration testing of the modules.

With over 20 years of experience in startups, software development, and innovation, I am a founder of two ventures: 1000Founders and 99tests. 1000Founders is a community that helps founders to hit product-market fit, fundraise, and grow 10x. 99tests is a platform that enables 100% test automation of software products by developers using natural language.

I am passionate about creating and scaling companies, communities, and multi-sided software platforms that solve real problems and deliver value to users and customers. I have raised over one million dollars to grow 99tests, a crowdsourced testing platform, to 50K users before it closed. I have also published a case study on effectual logic and startup survival in an emerging economy. I have a certificate in AI and ML from the Indian Institute of Science and an executive general management programme from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. I am skilled in agile methodologies, technology adoption, and lean start-up principles. My mission is to help each founder get to $10 million ARR by the year 2030, with a focus on founders.

Praveen Singh V

Greytip Software Pvt. Ltd.

DGM - Strategic Alliances & Partnerships

Tarnea Technology Solutions Ltd.

- Grow & Sustain business through various strategic initiatives
- Create & Manage Partnerships with Banks, Fintech, NBFC
- Identify strategic partnerships for client acquisition

General Manager - Strategic Initiatives

DBS Bank

- Responsible for setting up partnerships & ecosystems for SME business acquisition
- Ensure 5X growth in customer acquisition over previous year
- Forge alliances with industry bodies to penetrate deeper in the SME segment

Senior Sales Manager

Tally Solutions Pvt Ltd

- Manage & Grow Ecosystem Partnerships 
- Handle end-to-end GTM for GST product launch to migrate 1 mn SME businesses
- Channel Partner Certification
- Sales Operations of Channel team during new product launch

Sales Manager - Go to Market

Develop new channel partner structure to increase profitability & improve customer experience
Fuel growth by developing business processes for channel partners
Create Customer Happiness Index framework to measure Customer Satisfaction
Build certification framework for the channel partners
Prioritize top channel partners for FY16 sales & marketing operations
Designed Customer segmentation model to drive account prioritization and repeat purchases
Maintain relationship with influencers
Managing 1200+ partners in Southern & Western region to ensure service quality level & revenue (150+ Cr.)
Ensure market visibility, improving the distribution coverage & efficiency of the partner network in India to ensure dominance in the SME segment

Achievements:
Guided the team to build joint business planning framework for channel partners
Pioneered the concept of Customer Happiness Index to measure customer satisfaction
Designed & executed a project for demand generation across 10 cities which resulted in 200% increase in pipeline revenue, 30% increase in revenue, 10% increase in repeat purchase & customer retention
Segmented the customers on 3 parameters & developed a value proposition which increased revenue by 30%
Designed & conducted Market Research in 20 Tier B & C Cities on product awareness among 2000 customers
Assisted in design & execution of a marketing campaign in 70 Tier B & C cities which boosted product adoption by 30% generating additional INR 35 lakh revenue

Manager - Channel Sales & Development

GlaxoSmithKline

- Identified the treatment strategy, gaps & opportunities in the antifungal market through extensive market research across 5 cities involving 58 doctors from 8 different specialities

- Analyzed the existing segmentation strategy and its drawbacks for a new antifungal drug launched by GSK

- Recognized key target segments with high adoption potential & recommended an overall marketing strategy

- Identified key drivers & barriers of the antifungal market & modified the segmentation strategy for the future

- Conceptualized a strategy to differentiate GSK’s drug from its competitors

Summer Intern

■ IIM business grad with 12+ yrs. of wide experience in Business Development, Partnerships & Ecosystems, Go to Market, Channel development & Sales Operations
■ Good working knowledge of Partnerships in Indian Tech Space
■ Worked across industries like Tech, SaaS, Pharma, IT Software & Banking
■ Worked in cross functional roles working across teams like Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering,
Operations, Legal etc.
■ Good at Multitasking, Drive projects from inception to execution with minimal supervision
■ Gained massive experience in creating, negotiating & closing complex partnership deals & worked closely with C-level executives
■ Demonstrated strong problem solving & analytical skills

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