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Every "Advizer" answers the same 13 questions about their daily work life, critical skills, entry level job ideas and more. Here's a random Advizer!

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Anik

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Founder

SuperProd Consulting

JIIt Noida, 2009
UCLA Anderson, PGPX

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anikbiswas

Product Management, Growth Hacking and Design. Software, Edtech, Ecommerce.
MBA
Consulting & Related Professional Services
Entrepreneurship and Business Owner
Computer Science
International Student
Honors Student

Q1Career path

E-commerce

Entrepreneurship

Career Exploration

1:32

"I've worked with a few companies in different roles. It's something like a career with every startup in the healthcare sector."

Q2Main responsibilities

Business Development

Client Relations

Consulting

0:37

"I'm responsible for business development for finding clients. Number one number two for advising clients with whatever practices and 50is we decide to work on number three."

Q3Day in the life

Problem-Solving

Project Management

Data Analysis

1:27

"Every day is different in the way that you work it out in the sense that every day brings through a new challenge, every day has a new flavor to it, every day will have a new set of tasks."

Q4Most important skills - role

Management

Technology

Entrepreneurship

1:27

"If you want to start off as a startup advisor, you need to have some sort of background in technology or management to begin with."

Q5Favorite parts - role

Teamwork

Communication

Problem-Solving

0:48

"The dynamism is quite large and it helps you work as healthy work on many different areas of work looks interesting part."

Q6Biggest challenge - role

Client Acquisition

Sales

Startups

1:22

"Nobody really knows how good you are and for you to convince your clients of startups that you're the perfect fit..."

Q7Favorite parts - industry

Management

Consulting

Marketing

0:59

"This industry is going to last forever. There is no way you're gonna be exhausting all the resources that are there in this industry."

Q8Who thrives in industry

Proactive

Multi-skilled

Dynamic

0:41

"They are proactive with their initiatives on their own without any external force."

Q9Wish known before - industry

Technology

Problem-Solving

Coding

0:59

"I wish I known this so that I would have given up my programming skills early enough."

Q10Entry-level positions

Technology Industry

Entry-Level Jobs

Product Management

0:45

"Well, you've got to start off as an analyst for an associate product manager."

Q11Significant lesson - career

Leadership

Teamwork

Project Management

0:41

"When you're getting too much work, it's always good to hire a team of contractors and work with them."

Q12College ideas for success

Web Development

Software Engineering

Design

0:41

"I learned the basics of web development...it always helps a lot of these companies were companies."

Q13How identity impacted career

International Careers

Immigration and Visas

Networking

1:45

"Being an international person in the US is not so easy because there are challenges with the VISA and you often have to get back to your own country."

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