Founder & CEO
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Founder & CEO at BetterLabs
- Founder at Lava Technologies, LLC
- 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
- University of Pune
- College of Engineering 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; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
February 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
BetterLabs is a product incubation firm where we focused on creating the early versions of products - mainly social web applications. We incubate products internally as well as for early stage Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
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Founder
Lava Technologies, LLC
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
December 2005 — Present (2 years 10 months)
At Lava (http://www.lavarithms.com), we are laser-focused on creating models - lavarithms - for targeted information search, organization, ranking and noise reduction to deliver a rich service to users looking for information within a particular vertical or niche. Application of lavarithms to decentralized review content is iNods (http://www.inods.com), and to industry search is spotster (http://www.spotster.net). I drive the product roadmap and business development activities for Lava.
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Founder & CEO
BETTER, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Market Research industry)
April 2003 — Present (5 years 6 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. If you are looking to optimize your lead generation efforts, give us a shout at info [at] better-marketing.com.
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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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University of Pune
Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering Pune (COEP), 1992 — 1996
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College of Engineering Pune
Bachelors in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, 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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Pro Marketers - For Marketing Professionals -
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SHiFT! - Leverage 'Trigger Events' To Outsell Your Competition -
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COEP -
Friends of the Funnel -
DemandGen Specialists
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:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
