Business Alumni Network ®, a global real-time business & professional networking and worldwide growth enabling platform. The Business Alumni Network is aimed at fostering progressive curve for emerging businesses, startups, disruptive ideas and each & every aspiring individual worldwide.
Having representatives in 7 countries, the Business Alumni Network ® believe in ‘let’s connect’ and help each & every aspiring business unit, startup, entrepreneur, etc. to grow, by connecting and sharing each others success, struggles, experiences, which gives a learning experience and makes you grow faster. At B.A.N ®, the activities & services include:
– Real-Time Network Meetups (Majorly Offline, hybrid)
– Referral Business Exchange
– Workshops
– Conferences
– Talk Shows
– Trade Shows
– Chapter Memberships and Chapter Hosting
– Fellowships
Business Alumni Network also operating seperate extensions, including Business Angel Network (TM), #ScaleUp, B.A.N. Partners, etc.
Business Angel Network (TM) –
World’s premier network forum of Angel Investors, Seed Investors, VCs, HNIs, Private Funders, Bankers, Fund Finders, Fund Seekers, Business Incubators, Growth Accelerators, Business Enablers, Educational Organizations, Research Organization, Consultants, Mentors, Startups, Entrepreneurs, and more. Official website of Business Angel Network is www.BusinessAngels.EU.ai (‘ai’ represents Angel Investments)
B.A.N ® Partners –
Offering dedicated & exclusive services such as Business Advisory, Mentoring, Consulting, Funding & Investment Support, Incubation (incl. B-O-T), Business Design, Technology Assistance, Growth Acceleration, Joint Ventures, Acquisitions, Buy Outs, Legal Support, People Management, Media Assistance, Marketing & Revenue Generations, etc.
B.A.N ® #ScaleUp –
Offering opportunities and services to existing corporate houses (incl. established startups) to scale-up their business, profitability and expand manifold.
B.A.N ® Speak –
Its a platform focused on talk- shows and inspirational discussions featuring successful people, stragglers, and any/ everyone who could inspire the society by their experiences, challenges faced and their journey to achieve their aim of life.
How Business Alumni Network came into existence?
The journey of Business Alumni Network began in 2015. Rishi, Head (Asia Pacific Operations) required a co-founder who could passionately take a plunge considering the positive risks of severe failures, and focus on possible growth and great success. Jose Abana from Spain joined in as co-founder and the overall focus raised to global approach.
Like his earlier ventures, rejection of the idea was the prime feedback received while we were initiating work on Business Alumni Network ® in 2015. But the founding members still appreciate that besides criticism, there had been some people who truly encouraged them on the idea of initiating Business Alumni Network ® and given their valuable inputs. Financial limitations and lack of large team were other challenges we faced. Apparently, slowly & gradually people liked the concept of Business Alumni Network, and encouraged them to move ahead in this direction.
Challenges & Obstacles
The first obstacle faced by Rishi and Jose while initiating Business Alumni Network was to judge between creating something completely online OR Offline OR Hybrid. Its a common perception with a ‘networking platform’ that its supposed to be an online website portal, but then there are some serious issues with them, and people could hardly make any good use of such websites. When Jose and Rishi presented the idea of Offline and Hybrid networking platform, honestly, they themselves were bit confused that are they doing the right thing. Both founders did a lot of homework, research, critical surveys, and finally decided to go Hybrid (majorly offline activities). But with time, their concepts started proving themselves, and things took positive shapes.
Other challenges includes finance and also beginning with just two people (co-founders) to roll out global operations.
Positive Outcomes
The first breakthrough of Business Alumni Network took place in July, 2015 as their first network meetup in Madrid with just 6-7 people on board. That was a moment when Jose and Rishi got at least initial confidence that we were probably on the right direction. Today the Business Alumni Network is a community of more than 25000 active members globally, and they have just started.
The founders and their team wanted to build something that could not only help people to make progress, but also create disruptive growth oriented platform on a worldwide level.
As an organization, they are a small team of consisting 15 people only, and therefore they decided to move slowly but with full efforts. They began creating Chapter Members and Channel Partners who helped them to take the venture to entirely new level. Apart from usual network meetups, workshops, talk shows, etc., their team gathered all resources whatever they have to build the extensions (separate wings) of the Business Alumni Network, as follows:
i) Business Angel Network
World’s premier network forum of Angel Investors, Seed Investors, VCs, HNIs, Private Funders, Bankers, Fund Finders, Fund Seekers, Business Incubators, Growth Accelerators, Business Enablers, Educational Organizations, Research Organization, Consultants, Mentors, Startups, Entrepreneurs, and more. Official website (beta launch) of Business Angel Network is www.BusinessAngels.EU.ai (‘ai’ represents Angel Investments)
ii) B.A.N ® Partners
Offering dedicated & exclusive services such as Business Advisory, Mentoring, Consulting, Funding & Investment Support, Incubation (incl. B-O-T), Business Design, Technology Assistance, Growth Acceleration, Joint Ventures, Acquisitions, Buy Outs, Legal Support, People Management, Media Assistance, Marketing & Revenue Generations, etc.
iii) B.A.N ® #ScaleUp
Offering opportunities and services to existing corporate houses (incl. established startups) to scale-up their business, profitability and expand manifold.
iv) B.A.N ® Speak
Its a platform focused on talk- shows and inspirational discussions featuring successful people, stragglers, and any/ everyone who could inspire the society by their experiences, challenges faced and their journey to achieve their maim of life.
All initiatives and extensions of Business Alumni Network are fully commercial in nature, and all such activities help them to generate handsome revenues while empowering their members and clients, and help them to grow and success. Moreover, their members, audience and clients do equally support our mission, and without their sincere cooperation (in terms of capital, encouragement, and timely feedback/ suggestions) running the activities and extensions of Business Alumni Network won’t be possible at all. The founders and the entire team at Business Alumni Network heartily thank each and everyone who supported them in their good and bad times!
Further, they focus on creating Chapter Members and Channel Partners as our proven strategy to expand demographically and result-wise as well.
Since the Business Alumni Network began without much investment, they have recently achieved their breakeven. Though a bit slow in the initial year, the Business Alumni Network is witnessing a rapid growth of 150% YoY.
An Effort to Change Lives
Rishi says that in his entrepreneurial journey so far, he learned that though earning money is the core objective of every business, but more than that the business MUST create a positive/ constructive change in the entire ecosystem. People join Business Alumni Network hoping to write a success story for themselves, turn their dreams into reality, become an inspiration to the society, prove themselves to those who questioned their abilities, etc. etc.. And it couldn’t be more satisfying to see their highly esteemed and valued members, audience and clients achieve what they desire using our highly innovative & interactive platform, initiatives, extremely affordable services and activities.
He quotes “I must say that though, for us it would be a very long way to be on the ‘rich list’, we are more happier to see our motivated and satisfied valued clients and members than anything else.”
The corporate vision of Business Alumni Network:
To become a global platform of real time networking, business/ opportunity exchange, inspiring talks and enabling mutual growth worldwide.
Their deliverable:
Our brand promises our stake holders, clients and member a never before experience, where they come out of the ‘so usual cyber environment’, exchange isead, exchange opportunities, share their journeys of struggle, success and aspiration, and create a route map to their success differently and in their own methods.
Their USP:
The USP of Business Alumni Network is their portfolio of innovative & interactive initiatives, extremely affordable services and activities. There are more than hundreds of networking websites, but Business Alumni Network aims to make our members and clients a real-time, result+ progress oriented exchange environment.
Their strengths and opportunities:
Apart from the strengths, which they have tried to highlight as their USPs, their best opportunities include the recent rise in global entrepreneurship, where people have lots of aspirations, have stories of success and failures to share, need inspirations, and lot more.
Briefings:
• Business Name: Business Alumni Network
• Website 1: www.BusinessAlumniork.EU.pn
• Website 2: www.BusinessAngels.EU.ai
• Headquarter: Madrid, Spain
• Team size: 15 people based in Spain
• Co-founders: Rishi Mathur (India), Jose Abana (Spain)
