About
Vijay Anand, an Indian entrepreneur, passionate and driven by technologies related to the Mobile, VoIP, and Emerging Internet space, with a wide range of interests from simple economics to biotechnology and genetics, with a biased corner for anything related to artificial intelligence and neuro-science.
He is quite passionate about the startup ecosystem and is involved heavily in the creation of vibrant communities here in India, much like the activities that went on in Canada during his stay (where he bootstrapped two businesses) when there were issues of connecting entrepreneurs with funding, lack of seedfunds and in the free exchange of ideas and networking.
Putting words into action, He is the Founder of Proto.in, the startup ecosystem body, and has been a driving force in being involved in community events such as Barcamp Chennai, Blogcamp, Wikicamp, Podworks, Open Coffee Club in Chennai and seeding such similar initiatives across the country.
Vijay currently works in the position of overseeing Technological and Business Development for a research/Business Incubation department in IIT Madras along with Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala in working with passionate and energetic entrepreneurs bootstrap their businesses, and is also involved with the Investment and Business Strategy group for the same. He is also onboard a few companies and teams, providing strategic advice and consulting on Product Management, Strategy and Business Operations.
Affiliations:
Proto.in | Barcamp Chennai | Wikicamp | Blogcamp | Podworks | Mobile Monday (MoMo) Chennai | Open Coffee Club Chennai | I Fix Chennai | Startup Lunch
Contact:
Email: vijay(at)vijayanand.name
21 Responses to "About"
January 11, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Hello Sir,
I am doing my B.Tech from IIT Delhi, into final semester now, I am interested to gain an experience working with a start up company along side my college schedule which is relatively relaxed now, can you suggest me any names of start up in and around New Delhi where i can work hard and contribute to the company as well as myself.
Kindly mail me your mail id if possible.
Thanks
Ashish
January 24, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Vijay –
Wanted to let you know about another pre-seed venture model launched in Philadelphia last week. DreamIt ventures (www.dreamitventures.com). DreamIt is following the Y Combinator model and currently calling for applications for for DreamIt ‘08.
Marifran
January 25, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Hey Vijay, were also at IIML? Or maybe there are multiple folks with your name from IITM. Glad to be here on your blog, and also to see your interest in artificial intelligence and neuro-science. Lets connect on email, and discuss. You may want to see http://7avenues.com too. Thanks/Shankar
January 26, 2008 at 2:48 am
Hi Vijay,
This is Shiva from Chennai. Just curious about the work done in Incubation/Business Center in IITM. Any website for the unit available?
Thanks!
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February 25, 2008 at 9:47 am
Dear Vijay,
I am an experienced (20 years) banking and IT professional with very good product development experience. I am looking to start as an independent consultant to advise (on a paid basis) either small companies or start-ups who have reached some stability. My prefernce is for those who are operating in the banking space. An example is a company which is developing or has developed banking products.
In case you are aware of such companies/entrepreneurs then it would be great if you could help me connect with them.
rgds,
Shashank
April 8, 2008 at 5:55 am
Hi Vijay,
I am a research student at the Dept of Management Studies,IISc,Bangalore.I am working on Knowledge,Social Capital and Entrepreneurship.From your profile and i understand that your inputs will be very useful for my research.Would like to meet you sometime and interact with you?
Just curious:Did you study in Poorna Prajna,Sadashivanagar,Bangalore?
April 23, 2008 at 11:00 am
Hi Vijay,
I am an entrepreneur and co-founder of http://www.swastik-nakshatra.com I am interested to attain startup/entrepreneur events like Barcamp etc. in Delhi. Please provide me necessary information. I would appreciate any suggestion and guidance from you.
Cheers,
Prasanta
April 25, 2008 at 6:15 am
Dear Mr. Vijay,
I completed my engineering and joined an IT company(like majority of us do!) and was working for close to 5 years on various maintenance and development projects. I quit work as I wanted to do something different and change my field of work completely. I took up GMAT and was suggested this site by my sister. I read your blogs and liked what I read.
I am interested in working with a start up company. Having said that, I am a little apprehensive about the kinds of skills that would be required to join a start up. To begin with, I have IT experience in the Insurance domain and have the ability to coordinate and lead people to achieve a set goal. Apart from this, I have global exposure while dealing with clients and I possess exellent communication skills. Unfortunately, I have no experience in any kind of web development but, I quickly grasp new ideas and can learn up while on the job.
I would appreciate your suggestions and any aid you could provide to help me connect with start ups in Hyderabad or Bangalore.
Thank you,
Priya
P.S: Please mail me your email id.
May 2, 2008 at 5:33 am
Dear Vijay,
I work for a small-ish consulting firm in the social business space, it is called IntelleCap.
I liked the idea of a startup lunch, and would like to volunteer for assisting in organizing one in Hyderabad.
On a separate note, I think the social enterprise space could benefit from a similar initiative, and would like to explore either starting or broadening the Startup Lunch to include social enterprises too- to help find experienced people who can work for startups that create value to society and the environment.
Please do mail me back.
Regards,
Shree
May 2, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I dont have much to say here…just..keep up the great work 
cheers!!
May 30, 2008 at 9:58 am
Hi Vijay,
Google Reader recommended your blog(based on my interests) the first thing that caught my eye was your tag.The Startup Guy;-)
I hope one day I’ll sport the tag too.
August 4, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Hello Vijay,
I am a consultant/developer working in the USA. I have an idea for an internet startup focusing on the emerging indian internet space. But i don’t know where to begin or whom to talk to.
I can send you the details, if you can send me your email id.
Regards,
Aravindan
November 17, 2008 at 8:49 pm
hi vijay,
I am a banking professional living in SFO bay area. I want to work for tech companies in the BFSI space – I have googled a bit to find this info. Any way you could you help me connect with some names of startups in SFO city?
thanks
smitha
February 4, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Hey Vijay from Vijai,
Thats funny huh!! Good to meet you virtually thru your blog.
You got a very impressive background which I cannot imagine getting even closer. I like your enterprenuership mindset and applaud all your efforts in nurturing enterprenuership with all the bootcamps.
I like to get your help on forming some entreprenuer groups in chennai who might be interested either implementing a business idea Angel investors have or come up with ideas which can be implemented with investor support. If you think, you can help me out. Please contact me at my email.
Thanks
VIJAI
February 8, 2009 at 10:27 am
I would like to contact you in mail for my query. Thank you very much
regrds,
kingsley.
February 16, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Hi Vijay,
I am an experienced (7 yrs) VOIP professional with good client/server development experience. Currently I am not working and looking for openings in this domain.
could you please help me out in this regard.
thanks & rgds,
Meena
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April 8, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Dear Mr Vijay,
I have gone through your blogs and I liked your opinions very much. Currently, I am based in Chennai.
As you have mentioned that you deal with VC firms, if this is the case then i can have several good opportunities from EU (UK, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg etc). Please revert back (mklko2000@yahoo.com) if it interests you and if the VC firms would be interested to invest cross-border. Many thanks.
Best Rgds,
Manoj