Alok is a first generation entrepreneur, currently CEO and Co-founder of
Indifi, a platform for small business lending.
Alok is a board member at
TiE Delhi, and a founding member of
Indian Angel Network.
Prior to Indifi, Alok ran India venture operations for
Canaan Partners in India, with focus on internet, technology and BPO space. Earlier, Alok cofounded JobsAhead.com, a leading job portal which was acquired by
Monster.com. Alok is a computer science graduate from IIT Delhi and, postgraduate from UC, Berkeley.
The views expressed on this site are personal views of Alok, and do not constitute an offical opinion of any company or organization.
Compulsory draft as a graduation to entrepreneurship. Their stint in the army helps them design survival strategies. Back into the world, they go to make great innovators because they know not only when to stand up and fight, but also when to leave the post and run.
Sometimes when people trash your idea and ask questions for which you have no answers, it’s time to dump it and go down a different road.
We as Indians all have lot to learn from Israel start ups why there are so successful. we need to cultivate a survival attitude among us – that we can survive whether VC are backing or not backing or the market is down or up. If can survive and work along for a long time period, then there no stopping….