Vikas Kedia
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Vikas Kedia is a Nevada based online entrepreneur. Vikas Kedia runs four online finance communities on mortgage, debt, insurance and credit.
on 25 October 1977. He graduated from Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi
. He finished MBA from IIM-Bangalore in 2000. During his MBA he represented India at the Global Entrepreneurship Challenge, sponsored by Stanford University. He ranked in the top 5% of his batch and was offered a possible $100,000-a-year job by a New York based company. He did not accept the job because he wanted to be an entrepreneur.
that showed a lot of potential at the beginning. However, it could not sustain the growth for long. Soon it ran out of initial funding and investors decided to stop further investment. Thus he had to close the company. After this he did research on Ad-Hoc processing of data.
Within 5 years he was successfully running other communities on mortgage, insurance and credit. In total, his communities have more than 400,000 registered members.
Early life and education
Vikas Kedia was born in KolkataKolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
on 25 October 1977. He graduated from Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
. He finished MBA from IIM-Bangalore in 2000. During his MBA he represented India at the Global Entrepreneurship Challenge, sponsored by Stanford University. He ranked in the top 5% of his batch and was offered a possible $100,000-a-year job by a New York based company. He did not accept the job because he wanted to be an entrepreneur.
Early career
He started a software company to detect click fraudClick fraud
Click fraud is a type of Internet crime that occurs in pay per click online advertising when a person, automated script or computer program imitates a legitimate user of a web browser clicking on an ad, for the purpose of generating a charge per click without having actual interest in the target...
that showed a lot of potential at the beginning. However, it could not sustain the growth for long. Soon it ran out of initial funding and investors decided to stop further investment. Thus he had to close the company. After this he did research on Ad-Hoc processing of data.
The online ventures
It was during this period that he first thought about starting a website to help people in debt. Over time he developed it into a community based platform (the internet’s first get out of debt community) where people can discuss their debt related problems and find a solution. With more than 230,000 registered members, that community is a big success today.Within 5 years he was successfully running other communities on mortgage, insurance and credit. In total, his communities have more than 400,000 registered members.