About Mahesh
Mahesh Ramachandran is a successful Serial and Social Entrepreneur turned investor.
Mahesh is an angel investor, mentor, independent director supporting innovative startups and helps build the ecosystem.
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Mahesh is the founder of Tech Innovations, an investment platform that provides liquidity to Founders and Investors alike.
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Mahesh is a distinguished Sloan Fellow of London Business School.
Mahesh is Leadership Council and Programme Management Group member of FinBlue - FinTech Centre of Excellence set up by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India at STPI, Chennai.
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Mahesh is General Partner of Pontaq Cross Border Innovation Fund based in the UK (Regulated by FCA) and India (Regulated by SEBI).
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Mahesh chairs TiE FinTech Special Interest Group and was on the Governing Council of TiE Chennai
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Mahesh is the founder of Commonwealth Inclusive Growth Services Ltd which operates in over 30,000 locations across 20+ states in India.
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It handles over 10,000 crores of government to citizen benefits every year servicing over 6 million rural customers.
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Mahesh is the founder and chief mentor of Trusted Donations which connects CSR and donors to verified NGOs.
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Mahesh is also a visiting faculty of Indian School of Business, Krea University and National Police Academy where he teaches FinTech, digital transformation, and entrepreneurship.
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Mahesh holds an MBA from the University of Westminster, Sloan Masters in Leadership & Strategy (Distinguished Sloan Fellow of London Business School) from the University of London.
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Mahesh heads the London Business School Alumni Club in Chennai.
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Mahesh is part of Stanford SEED Transformation programme and acts as Mentor in Stanford Spark initiative
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Mahesh Ramachandran brings with him several decades of rich & varied experience in the field of Entrepreneurship, Investing, FinTech, Rural Marketing, Digital Transformation, Leadership, Mentoring & Governance.
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Mahesh Ramachandran entrepreneurial ventures include peer to peer foreign exchange portal, targeted advertisement and digital payment solution and financial inclusion.
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Mahesh hails from Thanjavur, South India and loves Coffee, Coding, Carnatic Music and Comics.
Serial Entrepreneur
Angel Investor
Social Entrepreneur
Venture Capital
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I advise startups to scale
I help founders scale their startups. ​
There are several resources that are quite useful which I have gathered over the years.
Business Model:
Before you jump into building a business plan, make sure you have clarity on your business model.
Try to answer these three questions:
1. Who is your customer?
2. What is your value proposition? What problem are you solving?
3. How do you make money?
If you want to have a structured way to think about how to build a business model the Business Model Canvas could be a good place to start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoAOzMTLP5s
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Once you get to understand the 9 basic building blocks, you can deep dive into each of these areas and try to expand on these.
Here are some of the books and online resources that could help:
https://www.strategyzer.com/books
Business Plan
Are you looking for business plan templates? Better to try www.liveplan.com
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Chief Mentor
Guest Faculty
National Academy of Direct Taxes