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This Entrepreneurial Story is about Apurv Modi who Founded ‘docntalk.com’ located in Bangalore, India.
When Started:- June 2012
Apurv Modi -Founder
A BE-MBA known for his simplistic, inquisitive and out of the box leading style, Apurv has a deep passion for Entrepreneurship and Digital Marketing. Apurv breaths energy and young air in the team. His exceptional experience with excel start-ups like Crafitti consulting, Qutesys infosol, Webworldexpress.com, The Global Technopreneur, enriched his wide mind-set in marketing and sales strategy. International relationship and branding for start-ups are his proficiency and responsibility plots in docntalk.
Abhinav Jain – Advisor
After completing his Engineering in IT , Abhinav had chosen Business Intelligence domain for his career path. Post being a successful professional leader in companies like Dell, SAP from core to top levels, planning and directing technical initiatives for docntalk are his core responsibilities. Naturally humorous and always smiling, Abhinav is well known trainer, speaker, writer and presenter in BI world and motivational leadership.
What motivated you to start your Business?
Entrepreneurship was always in our blood, Out father was an entrepreneur who broke the walls of family business of harvesting and jumped in to retailing and later to financing. And while doing engineering and MBA we both had a dream of doing on our own. In the same league Apurv became part of Crafitti consulting ( an IIM Bangalore NSRCEL incubatory) and gained momentum for bringing the change. And as soon as we found the right opportunity we just banged in.
Tell us about your Business…
docntalk.com is first online platform for enabling networking among doctors and future doctors, medical product and services organizations to leverage the “power of community and connections”. Revolution happens when likeminded people come together to discuss and share their ideas on the platform designed to empower the medical industry.
Beta Launched in June 2012, docntalk visions to features the best and biggest networking and grouping options for medical professionals. Absolutely different from social networks like LinkedIn or Facebook because www.docntalk.com is dedicated only for doctors and Future Doctors. The biggest and worlds first dedicated platform for networking among Doctors and Future Doctors.
What is a Day in a life of you like?
Our vision is to replace manual medical representation via online platform and one day docntalk.com will become the Biggest online portal of Medical world and we are waiting for that day.
One particular skill you got right and gave you best results…
A unique feature on Docntalk is the message option on the Doctor’s public profile. Here, people can ask any question to the doctor and the Doctor can reply from his/her inbox. This reply will go to the other person’s email.” Docntalk’s complete usage is restricted to ONLY doctors and future Doctors, but as an additional feature, the public profile is kept open for the general public.
What have been your biggest challenges in running your Business so far?
In early days, technology was a challenge for us as we had to decide which technology to go with looking at the three most important factors , time, scalability and money. Now since our platform is ready,bringing doctors online is the biggest challenge for us.
How did you overcome these challenges?
First of All, this is not just a social networking website, its completely different and way more than that. Our vision is quite different than just connecting doctors. Convincing doctors was not so easy so far, because docntalk is not for every other doctors , it’s for those who want to bring change and can motivate others to enter in to the revolutionary era of technological ecosystem. When like minded people connect, there is always an positive outcome.
We start with asking a few inner thought of doctors like -Doctor, have you ever thought; how many other medical professionals know you in your city, or in your state, country or around the globe. Forget that, how about showcasing your skills, researches, great discoveries and bigger ideas worth sharing with other medical professional and making a greater medical community. So if you like the ideas above, you are just one click away from being a part of revolution in Medical domain and industry – www.docntalk.com
We have understood by now -docntalk is requirement of Medical professionals because doctors want to share his/her knowledge to Senior and Junior doctors. Another point is that till today there is no channel available for doctors except docntalk where doctor could discuss with worldwide doctors and try figure out something regulatory research etc. So right now our goal is to introduce our website to Doctors and future doctors.
What have you found the most effective way to get new clients?
Client is always secondary thing for us. We are concentrating to bring doctors online.
For that
- We Launching in medical collages
- Meeting with doctors and networkers
- Representation in medical domain
- Email Campaigns and Social Media Marketing
What are your Marketing, Funding and Team Building Strategy?
For Marketing :- We Launching in medical collages
- Meeting with doctors and networkers
- Representation in medical domain
- Email Campaigns and Social Media Marketing
Your Achievements?
I should say docntlak.com achievements :-
• 98 days journey of docntalk
- Beta version launched in June
- Visited and liked by Doctors worldwide
- Within 3 months 1400+ Doctors from 110 Countries joined docntalk
- 150+ research uploaded by doctors till date
Who inspires you?
Growth of docntalk.com and feedback of worldwide doctors and Interest of Worldwide medical companies on docntalk.com, Which I am getting through mail daily
Contact links
More Info
https://www.startupfreak.com/docntalk-com/
Startup Freak wishes Best of Luck to Apurv and Abhinav!
