Entrepreneur, Product Geek, B2B Demand Generation Champion, Founder at BetterLabs/ReadyContacts/Nurture
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Founder & CEO at BetterLabs
- Founder & CEO at BETTER, Inc.
- Past
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- Founder & Director, Product Marketing at Roamware, Inc.
- Product Manager at Corio, Inc.
- Application Engineer at i2 Technologies, Inc.
- Education
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- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Berkeley
- College of Engineering Pune
- University of Pune
- St. Vincent's High School
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Vaibhav Domkundwar’s Summary
Vaibhav Domkundwar is the founder & CEO of BetterLabs, an unique product incubation firm based in San Jose & Pune, India. Prior to this, Vaibhav founded Better, Inc. a boutique b2b sales research & lead generation company, which continues to empower sales and revenue generation campaigns for technology companies. Earlier, Vaibhav was a co-founder and Director of Marketing at Roamware, a global leader in mobile roaming services with a customer base of 292 mobile carriers in 116 countries. Earlier in his career, Vaibhav held product management roles at Corio and i2 Technologies. Vaibhav graduated with a Master of Science and a Management of Technology degree from University of California, Berkeley and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from College of Engineering Pune.
Vaibhav Domkundwar’s Specialties:
Internet
- Vertical search
- Social Shopping
- B2B communities
- India (Jobs, Content)
- SaaS for SMBs
Sales
- Sales 2.0 & Lead Generation
- Strategic sales
- SMB sales strategy
- Carrier sales
Outsourcing 2.0
- Building bootstrapped web startup in India
- Building a global sales research & lead generation team out of India
Interested in
- Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are looking to start a web company
- Pune/India based hackers looking to start their own gig
Vaibhav Domkundwar’s Experience
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Founder & CEO
BetterLabs
(Privately Held; Market Research industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)
BetterLabs is a new kind of incubation firm where we focus on building and iterating early version of products to find product/market fit that works and can scale. Our model enables early stage founders to test ideas rapidly with a minimum viable working product than just surverys and user research. We take equity and are fully vested in the success of the product. Portfolio includes:
- ReadyContacts (http://www.readycontacts.com)
- Nurture (http://www.nurturehq.com)
- Voottoo (http://www.voottoo.com)
- Fliptop (http://www.fliptop.com)
- Inboxxed (http://www.inboxxed.com)
- SimpleWall (http://www.simplewall.com)
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Founder & CEO
BETTER, Inc.
(Privately Held; Market Research industry)
April 2003 — Present (6 years 8 months)
Better is a lead generation company building a new generation of productized services aimed at driving the effectiveness of lead generation, qualification and nurturing. We are creating SaaS products that drive the sales & marketing efficiencies in identifying decision makers, profiling accounts, qualifying inbound leads, converting and capturing search engine traffic leads etc.
Better's suite of solutions include:
ReadyContacts (http://www.readycontacts.com):
B2B Marketing Data Management
Emailfied (http://www.emailifiedHQ.com)
Innovative email acquisition & verification for B2B marketers.
Nurture (http://www.nurtureHQ.com)
Simplest marketing automation & lead nurturing for B2B. -
Founder & Director, Product Marketing
Roamware, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2000 — March 2003 (2 years 11 months)
As part of the founding team was intrumental in business plan creation, assisting in raising venture capital, managed end-to-end marketing for the company with a global marketing team. Created the new name - Roamware and launched the new identity in Aug 2002.
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Product Manager
Corio, Inc.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CRIO; Computer Software industry)
May 2000 — November 2000 (7 months)
Responsible for developing a new suite of enterprise software products for offering them as a service/utility; Defined and managed the functional specificatios for manufacturing and supply chain related product. This was a short stinct before founding Roamware, Inc.
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Application Engineer
i2 Technologies, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ITWO; Computer Software industry)
August 1998 — May 2000 (1 year 10 months)
Worked in product management for supply chain solution development for consumer goods & retail industry vertical. Worked with hi-tech customers for ERP and SCM integration and defined integration of i2 supply chain product with Oracle ERP.
Vaibhav Domkundwar’s Education
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University of California, Berkeley
Master of Science , Mechanical Engineering (Industrial/Manufacturing) , 1996 — 1998
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University of California, Berkeley
Management of Technology (Certificate with the Haas Business School) , Technology Management , 1996 — 1998
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College of Engineering Pune
Bachelors in Engineering , Mechanical Engineering , 1992 — 1996
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University of Pune
Bachelor of Engineering , Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering Pune (COEP) , 1992 — 1996
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St. Vincent's High School
1988 — 1992
Additional Information
Vaibhav Domkundwar’s Websites:
Vaibhav Domkundwar’s Interests:
Interested in - Silicon Valley entreprenuers who are looking to start a web company - Pune/India based hackers looking to start their own gig - Initiatives and people who want to promote "outsourcing done right" - Initiatives/people that promote Indian startup scene
Vaibhav Domkundwar’s Groups:
COEP Alumni, i2 Alumni
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i2Alumni -
COEP Alumni -
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs -
Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals -
Business Development -
SHiFT! - TURN PROSPECTS INTO CUSTOMERS by Harnessing Trigger Events -
InternetRetailing - for leaders in e-commerce and multichannel retail -
! Sales Best Practices -
Linked Pune -
Technology Marketing Community -
Roamware inc. -
Solution Sales and Presales Networking Group -
Sales Management 2.0 -
Offshore Lead Generation -
COEP -
Friends of the Funnel -
PuneTech -
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Database Marketers -
Magento Users Group -
Shop.org Members -
eCommerce of Australia & New Zealand -
Marketing Operations Future Forum -
B2B Lead Generation Roundtable
Vaibhav Domkundwar’s Honors:
- Topped in 7 out of 8 semesters at University of Pune during Bachelors
- 1 out of 2 students selected from India at UC Berkeley with a full scholarship
Vaibhav Domkundwar’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
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