Startup Funerals

Dont Be Afraid To FAIL.

Startup Funerals are short conferences held once a month across different cities to help the global entrepreneurship community learn lessons in failure from startups and entrepreneurs.

You must have heard, that close to 99% of startups fail! Dont you want to know why?

We do! Thats why we started Startup Funerals.

Failure is considered a taboo in most our countries, hence people are afraid to fail and the ones that do, hate talking about it. Yet it is only through failure that we can understand the real lessons in success.

We believe the time is now to change how people perceive failure globally!

We want to foster a culture of innovation where people are comfortable to try out new ideas, take calculated risks, and be a little unreasonable.

At Startup Funerals we are on a mission to help our entrepreneurship community celebrate failure by providing a place where you are comfortable to share and learn from the experiences of entrepreneurs and failed startups.

If you believe in our vision my friends please support our community and share your untold stories with us!

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN GETTING INVOLVED, VOLUNTEERING, HOSTING OR SPONSORING THIS VISION PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT US AT STARTUPFUNERALS@GMAIL.COM

MILIND DOSHI

Startup Funerals was founded in 2012 by Milind Doshi, Ceo at Zenith Society. Milind is a serial entrepreneur, startup enthusiast, co-organizer of Geeks on a plane India, friend of the 500 startups family, Board member at Yourskill.ch.

Milind started his first company while still in high school and has failed many times since. For the last 5 years Milind has stayed in Boston and has been an active part of the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He graduated from the Babson College of entrepreneurship.

He has participated and been selected for 2 different business incubator/accelerator programs in Boston, USA. Was part of the founding team of a startup that won MassChallenge, the worlds largest startup competition.

Milind has been internationally recognized for his work in the press, Boston Herald, Boston Innovation, The Street etc...

OUR TEAM

Partners & Sponsors

DEVINA LASON

Event Ambassador at Zenith Society. Devina has worked for the production team for NBC during the 2012 london Olympics. Prior to that she has lead her feature segment as a presenter on national TV with CNBC Tech Toys. She has also been a reporter for 9X news channel. She has also worked for CNBC london and has covered various business events across prague, amsterdam etc...She has also had a parallel career in the lifestyle industry and has worked in the space of luxury events, entertainment, and nightlife in London, Boston and Mumbai. She is also currently Head of Business Development and event planner at Liv Mumbai.

SONIA AGARWAL

Director & Business Development Executive at a leading textile manufacturing company- Donear Industries Ltd, Partner and Business Head for an educational startup based out of San Francisco, an author of a best-seller, a graduate from Babson College, a student of Dhirubhai Ambani International School; she is indeed a very zestful person, who will always have something new going. Her passion lies in Fashion Retail and she has worked, in the marketing division, for several retail brands that include Accessorize, Nautica and Guess in India. She currently has plans to venture into a retail start-up of her own.

ASHIM JOLLY

Organizer at Zenith Society. Ashim is a startup enthusiast and is also currently the VP, Marketing at Round One, a first-of-its-kind online portal in recruitment. Prior to Round One, he dabbled with two international startups namely Business Because and Pongr. Ashim has extensive 2 year experience in management consulting at The Lucas Group, Boston where he also performed due diligence for companies across an array of industries ranging from HR, manufacturing, publishing, aviation and financial services. He holds a bachelors degree from Sathyabama University, Chennai. He graduated from Cornell University with masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Business Bridge Program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. A sports buff and a wanderlust, Ashim loves to engage in networking activities and associations around the world. Being inspired by C.K. Prahalad's "Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid", Ashim is interested in becoming a social investor down the line. He is a 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Delhi

RAHUL SANGHI

Organizer and Advisor at Zenith Society. Rahul Sanghi is a co-founder of Innowhite.com, a Seattle based internet startup that aims at making online conferencing fun, simple and more universally accessible. At Innowhite, he is a jack of technology, business, sales and a few others. Having graduated in computer science from VIT University in 2010, he was a Topper, Gold Medalist and a recipient of The Best Student Project Award. He has won numerous awards including the Google Product Prodigy'09, The AVIOS International Student Speech Application Contest'10 and has been featured in a number of national newspapers, blogs and magazines. He was aired as "The Unsung Hero of the month" on Chennai Live 104.8 FM. Prior to joining Innowhite, he worked as a software developer at Bank of America. He plays table tennis, cycles and cooks ideas in his free time. He is a 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Hyderabad and a Startup Weekend-Hyderabad Organizer.

KEVIN KUMANA

Kevin has experience in real estate property management, commercial real estate investment brokerage, repetitive Trans-cranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) device technology, and US-based angel investing. Presently he is responsible for sourcing and screening potential portfolio companies, development of in-house processes to facilitate member utilization and continued growth, creation of finance models to compare different investment scenarios and structures, portfolio company performance analytics, and the implementation of Gust. Kevin has done a B.S. Decision Science and minor in Business from Carnegie Mellon University.

Subhendu Panigrahi

Subhendu Panigrahi is a graduate from IIT Kharagpur majoring in Agricultural and Food Engineering. He was working in an American Startup, Infratab which focuses to monitor food quality from farm to fork using smart RFID tags. In Infratab he focused on QA, Tag manufacturing, customer support and shelf life models. He has co-founded an angel group based out of Bangalore named Innovation Angels. In IA he looks after deal screening, events and branding of the group. During his college days he was one of the founding members of Entrepreneurship Cell and currently student adviser of the cell. He has also presented papers in International conferences across the globe on marketing, branding and food technology His hobby is cooking and reading extensively about entrepreneurship and innovation.

Raghu Chandan Prodduturi