Think Internet, Think Interactions

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Takeaways from Guest Session by our student Nirendra Awasthi Industry Guest: Sangeet  Paul Choudary   Purpose of this session Fall class of 2013 had been debating on various internet based business models and on how well can they be monetized. We got this opportunity for having a discussion with Sangeet to better understand Platform based … Read more

What you say is what you need to practice

Ajay-Preeti

Takeaways from Guest Sessions by our students Ajay Bahadur Singh & Preeti Tiwari Guest: Sunil Goyal, Chief Operating Officer, Sopra India Our current coursework is focusing on “Organizational challenges” and the session by Sunil Goyal was apt in that context. Sunil is Chief Operating Officer of Sopra India Pvt. Ltd. (Sopra). Sopra, part of Sopra Group headquartered … Read more

VC money follows customer money

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Takeaways from Guest Sessions by our students Kaushalendra Yadav & Nivedita Kamath Guest: Anurakt Jain, Investment Manager at Vertex Venture Management. Purpose of the session Our session for the day was to conclude our orientation problem- creating a business plan. Spring class of 2014 had the first task to create a business plan. They were … Read more

Building our first Business plan

Amandeep Bhatia

Takeaways from Guest Session by our student Amandeep Bhatia Industry Guest: Arun Chandrachud  First contact day for spring class of 2014 Pune batch happened on 25th May, 2013. Objective was to conclude the orientation problem – business plan and introducing Finance, which is the next module. As part of conclusion of business plan module, one of … Read more

Creating a market for the idea is as important as the idea itself!

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Takeaways from Guest Sessions by our students Abhishek Shukla & Sameer Bhatt Guests: Vipin Agarwal, Rakesh Yadav and Anshul Bansal. In a class that comprises more than 80% engineers, passion can take centre stage and can cloud one’s judgement on whether the novelty in an idea is sufficient to create a market or creation of … Read more

We encourage diversity at Sunstone

Students by work experience mix

At present, we have ~100 students in our batches from Delhi, Pune and Bangalore region. These working professionals are from ~50 different companies, with diverse roles, industries and work experience… Read more

What is the value add of Sunstone Program?

Sunstone Business School

As the counselling head for admissions, I often receive this question from prospective candidates. This is an interesting question because it has different answer for different people. Also, it’s answer is totally dependent on the answers of few other question – What do you want to get out of Sunstone Program?, What is your ability … Read more

Ecommerce is a tough business to be in

CEO, Groupon India

Ecommerce is an exciting career option for many today. For our class, with a dominant tech-based audience, Ankur Warikoo’s (CEO,  Groupon India) talk focused on the challenges of eCommerce in India, was an instant attention grabber! Ankur explained that eCommerce is a tough business to be in. It is myth, he said, that since eCommerce businesses do not have real-estate … Read more

Growth will be defined by the way you define your market

Founder Director of Kapsa Wellness

Our current coursework is focusing on “Growth” and the session by Kapil Dhameja was apt in that context. Kapil is founder director of Kapsa Wellness involved in setting up of Wellness Spas under the brandname Blue Terra.  Before this, Kapil was General manager – Demand & Sales Strategy at Glaxo SmithKline. During the session, Kapil described his experience while driving growth at … Read more

A hundred not out …

Posted in Student Diaries by Viswanathan Ravichandran – Student, Fall Class of 2013. As I sat this afternoon watching C. Pujara and M. Vijay hitting glorious centuries against one of the most formidable teams in the world, I realized that I had completed my own century of being at the Fall batch of Sunstone Business … Read more