Fountainhead by Webengage is a consolidation of all our Community, Ecosystem and Education efforts. As the first initiative within this umbrella, we're pleased to invite you the Fountainhead Leadership Series. It's an expression of our commitment building an ecosystem of enduring businesses and supporting resilient founders in the ways we can.
Through this series, we intend to bring together leaders and experts from the industry with deep, meaningful and actionable insights at both strategic and tactical levels to startup founders on ambitious growth journeys and answer nuanced questions.
A Fintech Playbook Like No Other - In conversation with Ajinkya Kulkarni, Co-Founder Wint Wealth
Digital transformation is surging ahead and among the many industries that illustrate that change, one of them is the Fintech (https://webengage.com/resource/case-studies/)industry bringing in an exponential increase in new technologies, and players in the market.
So how can one ensure their Fintech company sustains the growing change & competition?
Join our latest session from the FountainHead Leadership (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKbpnS7yaDhD7B9rwlNTfKRm4mXMHK82x) series where Ajinkya Kulkarni, Co-founder at Wint Wealth, where he'll share how one can build a successful Fintech company, and the growing importance of personal branding & more!
9 May 2022
The Performance Marketing Puzzle - In conversation with Sachin Uppal, Co-Founder, FanVideo
Fountainhead Leadership Series by WebEngage intends to bring together leaders and experts from the industry with deep, meaningful, and actionable insights at both strategic and tactical levels to startup founders on ambitious growth journeys and answer nuanced questions that tend to get missed in high-level motivational talks.
A majority of startups run out of cash because of mismanaged spends on performance marketing and poor attention to repeats. Let's break down what your marketing mix should look like as you grow from zero to one and one to ten.
Join us for a conversation with Ankur Gattani, VP Growth and Marketing, WebEngage and Sachin Uppal, Co-Founder, FanVideo on solving the performance marketing puzzle.
9 May 2022
Money Matters: Runway, Cashflow, Debt and Profits - In conversation with Abhiroop Madhekar, Co-founder and CEO at Velocity
Fountainhead Leadership Series by WebEngage intends to bring together leaders and experts from the industry with deep, meaningful, and actionable insights at both strategic and tactical levels to startup founders on ambitious growth journeys and answer nuanced questions that tend to get missed in high-level motivational talks.
Abhiroop worked as a management consultant at McKinsey for 5 years with experience across Financial Services and Technology in India and SE Asia.Post McKinsey, he co-founded Taskbob (a consumer internet startup) and scaled it to market leadership. Most recently, he worked with SAIF Partners (a top venture capital fund in India), leading investments in Fintech and Financial Services sectors for the fund. He is currently building the future of business financing at Velocity.
Join us for an interesting conversation about Money Matters: Runway, Cashflow, Debt, and Profits
5 Apr 2022
Weaponize your consumer business with SaaS power
Fountainhead Leadership Series by WebEngage intends to bring together leaders and experts from the industry with deep, meaningful, and actionable insights at both strategic and tactical levels to startup founders on ambitious growth journeys and answer nuanced questions that tend to get missed in high-level motivational talks.
Rajiv is a high-performing & results-oriented professional with international experience in the areas of - Product Management, Consulting, Business Development, Strategy, Program Management, and Business Analysis. He has a Solid Experience in business intelligence and analytics in financial services and cards industries and also has worked with large data sets and exposed to cutting edge tools such as SAS, SPOTFIRE, SQL SERVER, XL Miner and ‘R’
Join us for an interesting conversation about how to Weaponize your consumer business with SaaS power.
14 Mar 2022
Starting up: Marathon, Not a Sprint - A conversation with Aloke Bajpai , Group CEO & Co-Founder, ixigo
Fountainhead Leadership Series by WebEngage intends to bring together leaders and experts from the industry with deep, meaningful, and actionable insights at both strategic and tactical levels to startup founders on ambitious growth journeys and answer nuanced questions that tend to get missed in high-level motivational talks.
Join us for a fireside chat with Ankur Gattani, VP Growth and Marketing, WebEngage, and Aloke Bajpai, CEO & Co-Founder, ixigo on Starting up: Marathon, Not a Sprint
Aloke Bajpai is ixigo.com’s Co-Founder and CEO. Aloke graduated from IIT Kanpur in 2001 and started his career at Amadeus in Europe where he held key product and technology roles, building and managing large-scale web-based products and networks for the first four years of his career. He then went to INSEAD for his MBA and returned to India to
launch ixigo.com in 2007. Under Aloke’s leadership over the last 7 years, ixigo has gone from a bootstrapped startup to India’s leading travel search and planning business, with over 20 million active users every month across mobile and web. Aloke is a TiE charter member and a mentor and advisor with several startups and accelerators.
In this session you will be able to take away:
Choice of the industry - isn't it the Death Valley for so many attempts?
The journey's been long - did it feel tiring at any point?
What personal strengths should founders cultivate if they're getting into Marathon?
Isn't loyalty hard in the travel industry?
25 Feb 2022
Let’s Build a Company - A conversation with Harpreet Singh Grover, Co-Founder, CoCubes & Author, Let’s Build a Company
Harpreet started up in 2007. When it was far from being fashionable to do so. Had a roller coaster ride building CoCubes, a platform to connect colleges and companies, before exiting to AON Hewitt and then turning an author to a popular book that's a must-read-for-every-current-or-aspiring-founder called 'Let's Build a Company (https://www.amazon.in/dp/0143449834/)'.
Many now-well-known and unknown entrepreneurs from IIT Bombay have been friends and mentees to Happy - his take on a variety of entrepreneurial dilemmas tends to be super real, minus the fluff.
Join us in this conversation as we speak about entrepreneurial motivation, resilience, and keeping your sanity intact through the ride.
18 Feb 2022
Digesting the Millions : Deploying Capital Well by Revant Bhate, Co-Founder and CEO - Mosaic Wellness
Fountainhead Leadership Series by WebEngage intends to bring together leaders and experts from the industry with deep, meaningful, and actionable insights at both strategic and tactical levels to startup founders on ambitious growth journeys and answer nuanced questions that tend to get missed in high-level motivational talks.
Pressure to deploy large amounts of capital can cause indigestion - too many threads /experiments opened at the same time. Speed of hiring can bloat the org, hurt culture, focus, and sustainability.
How do you do this consciously and play the long game? Let's learn from Revant - who's been building Mosaic Wellness consciously - creating categories with millions in funds raised but without an unsustainable burn.
Join us for a conversation with Ankur Gattani, VP Growth and Marketing, WebEngage and Revant Bhate, Co-Founder and CEO, Mosaic Wellness on Digesting the Millions: Deploying Capital Well.
10 Feb 2022
The Tech Conundrum for D2C Brands - Conversation with Deep Ganatra, CTO - Good Glamm Group
Fountainhead Leadership Series by WebEngage intends to bring together leaders and experts from the industry with deep, meaningful, and actionable insights at both strategic and tactical levels to startup founders on ambitious growth journeys and answer nuanced questions that tend to get missed in high-level motivational talks.
Join us for a fireside chat with Ankur Gattani, VP Growth and Marketing, WebEngage and Deep Ganatra, CTO, Good Glamm Group on The Tech Conundrum for D2C Brands.
Deep is an entrepreneur with Over 17 years of experience in leading multiple technology-focused B2B and B2C organizations. At the Good Glamm Group, he is responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of the company and building out and leveraging core architecture across multiple business units. Prior to MyGlamm, he was associated with a Canada-based company named Bitebank Websites Inc. as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
Other than that, Deep loves to travel and is hoping to own a small house on the riverside, surrounded by mountains and tall trees.
In this session you will be able to take away:
Deep's journey of building the backbone of MyGlamm
Key features/functionalities that are worth investing in, even at the early stages
How to decide on the technology/analytics/marketing stack?
10 Feb 2022
Blue Oceans in Edtech - A Conversation with Namita Dalmia, Partner, Enzia Ventures
Fountainhead Leadership Series by WebEngage intends to bring together leaders and experts from the industry with deep, meaningful, and actionable insights at both strategic and tactical levels to startup founders on ambitious growth journeys and answer nuanced questions that tend to get missed in high-level motivational talks.
Join us for a fireside chat with Ankur Gattani, VP Growth, and Marketing, WebEngage, and Namita Dalmia, Partner - Enzia Ventures on Blue Oceans in Edtech.
Namita brings deep expertise in the intersection of policy, innovation, and technology in education and leads the Edtech narrative in India. Her varied experience across policy and investing has helped her obtain a deep understanding of multi-stakeholder interaction. She brings this combination to investment and ecosystem strategy at Enzia. Prior to joining Enzia, Namita worked for Omidyar Network India where she led thesis, strategy, and investment in education.
In this session you will be able to take away:
The EdTech landscape in India at the moment - how segments and boundaries are defined
The Culture of Sales - is it eroding trust for parents?
Defining Retention in EdTech
14 Jan 2022
Being an Enterprise CMO today
Fountainhead Leadership Series by WebEngage intends to bring together leaders and experts from the industry with deep, meaningful, and actionable insights at both strategic and tactical levels to startup founders on ambitious growth journeys and answer nuanced questions that tend to get missed in high-level motivational talks. We're pretty sure these will educate, inspire and entertain the audience and the proactive ones will use the opportunity to get the hard questions answered.
Join us for a fireside chat with Ankur Gatani, VP Growth&Marketing, WebEngage, and Deepali Naair, Chief Marketing Officer, IBM - India & South Asia, on being an enterprise CMO today.
In this session, you will be able to take away
Learning and Unlearning - the importance for marketing roles
Then and Now: The evolution of marketing and the skills you need today
The Enterprise CMO: what it takes and what it will take
14 Jan 2022
The D2C TakeOff: The Pitfalls to Avoid on Amazon
Fountainhead Leadership Series by WebEngage intends to bring together leaders and experts from the industry with deep, meaningful, and actionable insights at both strategic and tactical levels to startup founders on ambitious growth journeys and answer nuanced questions that tend to get missed in high-level motivational talks. We're pretty sure these will educate, inspire and entertain the audience and the proactive ones will use the opportunity to get the hard questions answered.
Join us for a session with Srikar Adavi, Senior Manager(Seller Advertising) - Amazon, on The D2C TakeOff: The Pitfalls to Avoid on Amazon.
Srikar Adavi is the man responsible for Seller Advertising on Amazon and has been instrumental in creating engagement for brands present on Amazon. Srikar has extensive experience in helping young brands on Amazon build their businesses at scale.
In this session, you will be able to take away:
1) Roadmap to build an effective D2C business
2) Oversight - Avoiding missing out on the details to help grow customers
3) The Journey - Creating the right kind of journey for the customer on Amazon and online spaces to enhance the experience
4) Retention: Why it's important and how to build an effective model
24 Dec 2021
Year 27, Still Day 1, Let’s Talk Culture@Amazon With Siddharth Nambiar
Siddharth Nambiar is the Founder of Amazon Now product from business plan to the largest local selection available in 2 hours, with India-first product inventions layered on Prime Now global platform.
Siddharth has inculcated a healthy culture of collaboration and data-based decision-making among product, category, and marketing teams at Amazon Prime Now. He is logical, transparent, and as a manager provides the required level of air cover for his team.
Key Takeaways from the session:
Scaling your business using culture as a strategic tool
Building a culture you can be proud of
Codifying culture
The role of empathy in business and how it helps drive excellence
24 Dec 2021
Branding 101: The Startup Angle
Vani is a 20 year veteran in Consumer Brand building across Coke, Unilever, PepsiCo. (one of the brands she's built) She was on the ‘Business Today’ list of Hottest Young Executives under 40 in 2015. She now mentors ambitious consumer brands under her consulting play called CherryPeachPlum Growth Partners. Fountainhead Leadership Series by WebEngage is a consolidation of all our Community, Ecosystem, and Education efforts. As the first initiative within this umbrella, we're pleased to invite you to the Fountainhead Leadership Series. It's an expression of our commitment to building an ecosystem of enduring businesses and supporting resilient founders in the ways we can.
Through this series, we intend to bring together leaders and experts from the industry with deep, meaningful, and actionable insights at both strategic and tactical levels to startup founders on ambitious growth journeys and answer nuanced questions that tend to get missed in high-level motivational talks. We're pretty sure these will educate, inspire and entertain the audience and the proactive ones will use the opportunity to get the hard questions answered.
Join Us as Vani Dandia takes a masterclass on Brand Building for Startups, a noted brand architect she has helped brands like Pepsico, Reckitt Benckiser, and Unilever. Vani started Cherry Peach Plum Growth Partners to focus on consulting for businesses and help them on their growth journeys.
The key topics to cover:
1. When should startups start focusing on brand building? From day0 or later?
2. What to focus on and what to de-prioritize
3. Building a personal brand
24 Dec 2021
Building Enduring Businesses: A conversation with Rajan Anandan
In this session you will learn:
- 90% of startups fail as many of them run out of cash. What's been your observation about those who survive? What do they do differently?
- You hear a lot of pitches, see companies in Surge. How mature are the founders in their thinking now?
- Spend-like-this-is-the-last-money-you'll raise. Will that preclude you from investors who like aggressive growth?
- How to recruit your Board to maintain sanity with serious cash in the bank?
- What's the best time to start caring about retention?
24 Dec 2021
Metrics that matter for fundraising : A conversation with Karthik Reddy
Karthik Reddy is the Co-founder & Managing Partner at Blume Ventures, one of the leading VCs in India. Over the last decade, Karthik has played a key role in overseeing some of the top investments at Blume, including HealthifyMe, Unacademy, Dunzo, Servify, Exotel, and other household names.
What you can listen to and learn in this session:
1. What are the various metrics that early-stage Founders should track
2. When should they start tracking these metrics
3. Retention-related metrics one should track?
4. Vanity metrics and how to stay away from them
24 Dec 2021
Starting Up today - Marathon or Sprint?
Rahul Chowdhri is an investment professional at Stellaris Venture Partners. An IIT-K and IIM-C alumnus, some of Rahul’s key investments include household names like Mamaearth, Zouk, Simplilearn, and more.
What you will get to hear in this session:
- State of the Ecosystem
- Building Strong Businesses
- Startup Support and The WebEngage Startup Program
- And More...
20 Dec 2021
Building fundamentally strong businesses using the power of user retention: A fireside chat with Anand Lunia
In this session, you’ll learn:
- How Retention led Moats would separate winners from losers?
- Is there a way to grow aggressively without risking running out of cash?
- Have you seen promising startups struggle because of poor cash management?
- What are your winners doing differently?
- How does one compete in these times?
- What are the cultural implications for a startup hacking growth via shortcuts?
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