Persons behind the Top Websites of India and Their Income 1.Justdial India Founder – VSS Mani Estimated Earning – $3 million The Story – VSS Mani is what we call the middle class Indian dream. He came from a middle class family, dropped his CA Studies and started just dial too late just because he didn’t have enough money. He arranged Rs.50,000 and made a company worth Rs.500 crore which we all know. 2.Way2sms Founder – V V Raju Earnings – $1.1 million / Year The story – Entrepreneurship was always on Raju’s mind after completing MCA from Nagarjuna University. Raju started Way2sms on an ad supported model which is the most used bulk messaging service online in india. Its a win win situation for raju and his website users. Users gains as they are able to send a free sms and Raju gain as some of them click on the Ads. 3.Ibibo Founder – Ashish Kashyap Revenue – $1 million / year Other Websites – Bixee, Tradus.in The Story – Prior to launching Ibibo Ashish worked with organizations like MTv and Google india. Ibibo struggled a lot with its popularity in the starting days but gained popularity due to various features like sawaal and social gaming. 4.Shaadi Founder – Anupam Mittal Estimated Earning – $5 million per year Other Startups – Makaan The Story – Anupam founded Shaadi in 1996 and thanks to a Pandit who came for a mairrage proposal who inculcated the seeds in him. He thought it would be a great idea to arrange the soultion to the greatest indian problem and that too online. Currently Shaadi have more than 10 million members and is the number one matchmaking website in India. 5.Naukri Founder – Sanjeev Bikhchandani Estimated income – $6 million per year Other Ventures – Jeevansathi , 99acres, Policybazaar The Story – It took Sanjeev an IIT-IIM passout 13 struggling years to be known as founder of india’s most successful online venture. Sanjeev tried every business model of Naukri from trying to sell resume on CDs to surviving on wife’s salary and finally landed on the rising wave of india’s replication of sillicon valley. 6. Rediff Founder – Ajit Balakrishnan Estimated Earnings – $40 million per year The Story - Hailing from a Doctor family Ajit always wanted to be a Football player but landed himself to IIM Calcutta. He founded Rediff at the age of 42 in year 1996. He invested Rs. 2 crores in it and run the website without profit for three years. Rediff is the only indian portal achieving a feat of being in top 100 websites of world. 7. OneIndia.in Founder – B.G. Mahesh Estimated income -$3 million per year Other Ventures – Click.in The story – After early education from Patna and Mysore he went on to his M.S. from University of Alabama at Birmingham.In 1990 he found it very difficult to find a job in the US due to Gulf war. The first website Mahesh created was Mahesh itself which was a blog covering important informations for NRIs. Oneindia.in is a website in which he have dumped everything what indians want, from astro to jobs, and from travel to wallpapers. His classified portal Click.in is also ranked fourth in top classified websites in india. 8. Sulekha Name - Satya Prabhakar Estimated Earnings – $3.5 million Satya Prabhakar is an NIT, Tiruchirapally Alumni and founded Sulekha which is the largest yellow pages website in the country. Satya raised money from Indigo Monsoon Group and Norwest Venture Partners to make Sulekha from two employees to more than 500 employees with 10 offices in India, US and Canada.
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 12:42:03 +0000
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