Free Online Financial Management Courses

Response
The response has been good so far. There are more than 1200 users on our platform and growing at a significant pace every day. More and more users are spending a lot more time on our platform. There have been many success stories where users have gone through the entire training on ApnaCourse.com, appeared for the actual certification exam and cleared it successfully. There is now a huge demand for many more courses on our platform from users globally.
Apnacourse Team:
The team comprises of 12 members. The core team includes:
a.Satish Rajagopalan – CEO and Director: A double Post-Graduate (MBA in Finance & Strategy) with responsibilities covering Strategy Planning and Business Development
b.K R Rajagopalan – Director: A Qualified Chartered/Cost Accountant with responsibilities covering Strategy Execution, New Initiatives and Corporate Governance.
c.Pandurangavittal – COO: A Graduate and ISTQB Certified Tester with responsibilities covering Operations Handling, Business Development and New Offerings.
d.Sushant Malangave – Head Strategy: A Post-Graduate (MBA in Operations and IT) with responsibilities covering Strategy development and Business analysis.
About Education Technology industry in India.
The education industry itself is facing a boom time in India. With majority of the Indian population in the age bracket of 14-30, it’s the right time to seize opportunities in this space. That coupled with technology can add wonders to a business model. Education Technology space in India is very nascent and is touted to grow big given the appetite of youngsters to go online or get tech savvy. Given this background, there are many startups sprouting quickly in this space. The determining factor for a successful startup in this space would be a sustainable model with competitive advantage and profitability.
Challenges
As a startup, we have faced our share of ups and downs so far. At the start, each task was new and challenging, be it building the workflow model or understanding the nuances of Audio-Video technologies etc. Our biggest challenge however, was to rope in our first faculty. We interacted with many top-notch individuals to tie-up with us and have a course online but all of them were sceptical of an Online Education model. It was a concept they had un-heard of and believed it would not take-off in India. Given our volumes today, we are more than fortunate in current day context to have faculties mail us or reach out to us directly for partnerships. We certainly seem to have come a full circle with regards to building confidence in faculties for an online training model.