2. Market Opportunity
• Total size of the global MBA education market is USD 35
Billion. India's share is just USD 1 billion. So there is a lot of
room to grow
• 3,52,571 student seats for 2011 – 2012 in 3644 AICTE
approved b-schools across India.
• Apart from Full time MBA, Part time MBA, Online MBA,
Distance MBA, specialized business courses present
exponential market opportunities.
3. The Problem
• Business Education is scarce, unequal,
and limited in - Reach, Content and
Community .
• Management education focuses more
on theory and concepts than
experiences and collaboration.
4. The Solution
• We are creating an ecosystem of collaborative
education with disruptive technologies
• Management Paradise is facebook, scribd, and
shiksha combined into one platform focused on
business students
• It is a collaborative user-generated content
community which provides a holistic business
education experience to its visitors.
5. Management Paradise Today
• Among top 15 educational portals in India according to
Alexa rankings.
• Over 6 million visitors and 12 million page views from 204
countries last year.
• Over 450k user discussions from 200k topics since
inception
• 3,80,000 members growing at the rate of 400 members
per day
6. Our Users
We are primarily a platform for business
students who collaborate to share, solve,
analyze – business management
Our visitors are consumers of the above
content and range from MBA aspirants,
business students, alumni, executives and
chief executives who all are essentially
students of business
7. Marketing & Sales
• Media Partnering with Business School and corporate
events
• Selling ad space to b-schools, specialized institutes,
coaching institutes relevant to management
education.
• In the near future we want to add own events, white
label courses, content play ecommerce to our
revenue channels
9. Our Team
• Kartik Raichura
Founder and CEO
Kartik is a seasoned entrepreneur well known in the startup circuit. Kartik founded
ManagementParadise.com in 2004 with a hope to extend helping hand to management students. He
started working full time on Management Paradise from 2009. He has been a nominated judge for
various business plan competitions, speaker at academic events and inaugurated e-cells at reputed b-
schools. Kartik earned his PGDBM from Wellingkar Institute (India) in 2009.
• Meheer Thakare
Head, Strategy and Product Development
Meheer is an internet aficionado, innovator with arrays of exposure in the digital medium. One of early
founding members of ManagementParadise, Meheer went on to pursue other skills during the early days
of MP success. He has published and presented papers endorsing advanced Internet enabled
technologies that challenge traditional e-business and advertising practices. Prior to
ManagementParadise, he worked with IMRB International (part of the WPP-Kantar group) where he
consulted on Internet research. Meheer received his Masters degree in International Business from the
University of Sydney (Australia) in 2008.
10. What we need
• Seed Investment to see us through the next
one and half year.
• We intend to use these funds for developing
and strengthening the team, product and
reach.
• Strategic partnerships and mentoring.
11. Amount Required
• Series A round funding required of 1.75 crores
• Invested in :
o Content – 40.2 Lakhs
o Tech – 16.2 Lakhs
o Business Dev – 24 lakhs
o Digital Marketing – 12 Lakhs
o Operations – 16.2 Lakhs
o Office setup & hosting – 20 lakhs
o Total : 1.29 crores
12. Milestones
• Year 1 –
o Strong team.
o Robust Product
o 100 % Traffic growth
o Revenue up by 100 %.
• Year 2 –
o Product Innovations
o Geographic expansion
o 100 % Traffic growth
o Revenue up by 300% Y-o-Y
• Year 3 –
o Break even
o Market leader
o Multiple revenue models
13. Thank You
Kartik Raichura Meheer Thakare
CEO and Founder Head, Strategy and Product Development
ManagementParadise.com ManagementParadise.com
kartik@managementparadise.com meheer@managementparadise.com
