SnapBizz: Amazing Story of $1 Billion Opportunity Spotted By An Employee and Backed By His Company
I recently caught up with SnapBizz co-founder, Yash Prakash to hear his amazing story of transitioning an idea originating in a corporation to a thriving startup.
Act 1: The promising beginning
When Qualcomm started its VentureFest intrapreneurship program back in 2006 (now called ImpaQt), it unlocked the floodgates of leadership, creativity, and innovation from unexpected places and people. While running the program, I never really saw an idea or intrapreneur that I didn’t like, but I found proposals out of Qualcomm’s foreign offices to be particularly illuminating, as they were addressing unknown opportunities to most of us working in the US.
One such proposal originated in Qualcomm’s (fantastic) set of India offices. This is the story of CellNSell (internal project name),...