MakeSuccess is an advisory board of experienced professionals for international technology startups and IT companies that are expanding to India. We ensure that ambitious companies experience soft landing in an arduous, authentic and so promising Asian region.
Located in the Silicon Valley of India - Bangalore - our experienced, enthusiastic team is well connected in the startup ecosystem and top corporates across the nation.
We know the market, country mentality, top communities, thought leaders, and the best ways to test multiple strategies, adopt and frame the product roadmap as per the market demand, pitch any story to the media, best ways to sort the legal, accounting difficulties in collaboration with trusted experts and agencies.
We focus on SaaS, High-tech Startups, Online Education
Our Principles
How we work is more than just words and our path is clear. We care deeply for our clients, our partners, our communities, and everyone around us. We always strive to do the right things, pursuing the highest performance.We're a self-driven and result-oriented team with our main focus being on clients' business goals.
Testimonials
Launching the new company from scratch in India, the MakeSuccess team helped us to launch our operations, solve legal and bank challenges, connect with opinion leaders and identify the mentors/ HR Partners.
Alexander
CEO & co-founder at Ed:tech company
We expanded in India and with the help of MakeSuccess we're able to build acommunity, get thought leadership and receive the coverage (and readability) in top business & tech media just in a few months.
Anshu Agarwal
CEO & co-founder at Nimbella
We're impressed with the number of publications, high authority backlinks and growth of the referral traffic just in 3 months. Due to joint efforts we received the high visibility on the enterprise level and drastically increase our sales pipeline.
Akshat Saxena
Head of Marketing at HackerEarth
When we decided to expand internationally, we analyse and decided to enter India. It's a challenging, colourful and special market. We got our brand introduced to the top startups in the country, receive media attention and got connected with the right communities to present.
Max Shpakovskii
Сo-founder at Focus
Why to expand to India
Enter the new, fast-growing Economy
Scale your business to the many billion nation
Attract new investors
Scale to APAC region quickly
Build brand awareness with the best media outlets:
Our work examples
Global ed: tech company
A developer-centric startup
Challenge we solved: A developer-centric startup wanted to improve product adoption and receive developers' feedback, test enterprise sales pipeline and connect with local VCs.
Solution we offered: We designed a brand campaign keeping in mind the local mentality, connected with the developers' community to spread the news about the hackathon through local developer communities. We secured speaking slots for the spokesperson and appointed the right vendors for generating an enterprise sales pipeline.
Result: We've collected the feedback from 6000 developers within 6 months, the company updated the product roadmap. 2 enterprise deals got closed, currently. The company is in discussion with top Indian enterprises and has a pipeline of 6M USD.
Tech company
Challenge we solve: Expand the tech company within none tech enterprise companies in India.
Solution we offer: We've done detailed research of the potential (not direct) competitors and connected with multiple reselling companies. We started working with a lead generation agency that had experience in the vertical and identify the right message and approach to the decision-makers (inbound and outbound marketing strategies). We built a strong personal brand for the C-level executive via leadership articles in business media.
Results: The results will be presented in the next quarter.
Global SaaS
Challenge we solved: A SaaS global marketing brand wanted to receive recognition at the enterprise level and bring massive brand awareness in the Indian startup ecosystem.
Solution we offered: We've done the detailed market research and the UPS of small local players, run multiple surveys via local communities and framed a special UPS/sales strategy for the region. We focused on creating wide brand awareness, community building initiatives and digital PR (so boost the local search position in Google). We regularly run regional brand marketing campaigns ( challenges related to the main cultural festivals in the country) and worked tightly with opinion leaders. As a result, we've received known brands as customers and created multiple case studies.
Result: MRR growth by 300% within 2 years of collaboration, brand awareness growth by 5000%. The brand got connected with top startup accelerators, VCs, and business incubators and has been. Identified the media message for the Tier 1 media and as a result, got over 200 coverages in 3 months.
Challenge we solved: A global ed: tech company wanted to establish an absolutely new brand in India, test the market and quickly expand to Asia.
Solution we offered: We provided the registered entity to the partner for the 3 months pilot period, helped in setting up the payment process, documentation, connecting with the trusted local industry experts.
The key focus was on understanding the high-demand courses, sales triggers and channels. We focused on collaborating with the corporate experts from the multinational brands, connected with HR agencies and recruitment partners.
Result: 5 batches are launched and the company is registered in India. The startup is planning to receive the first funding by the end of the year. More updates are coming up soon.
Our founders
Yulia Aslamova
Anna Kislova
Co-founder, 13 years experience in Business Development, Brand Marketing and PR.
Co-founder, a consultant for ed: tech projects with strong expertise in business development, talent acquisition and marketing.
Konstantin Korolev
Co-founder, Ex-CEO of co-working network and marketing agency. More than 17 years of experience in real estate management, development and consulting.