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ASHWANI RATHORE Co-Founder & CEO, SpiderG.

Finance and marketing are SpiderG CEO Ashwani Rathore's forte. An entrepreneur by nature, Mr Rathore and his Pune-based company SpiderG are involved in helping small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in their capital management.

With a BTech from National Institute of Technology-Allahabad and an MBA in finance from Asian Institute of Management, Manila, the SpiderG chief started his career in 2005 with IT major Cognizant and then worked for a product company Talentica Software.

Mr Rathore also started his own food e-commerce and aggregation venture, Mom's Kitchen, in 2007 and ran it for three years. After this, he worked for venture capital firm IndiaCo Ventures, evaluating deals for investments. Later, his rich experience as a business consultant for Goldman Sachs and ISB-Hyderabad 10k Women Entrepreneurship Program nudged him to start his own venture SpiderG.

With over a decade of experience in finance and marketing, a large part of Mr Rathore's career is involved in setting up new businesses across e-commerce, IT and B2B industries. Reading up on psychology and cycling are hobbies that Mr Rathore pursues ardently when he gets some time off his busy schedule. In an insightful interview with Sharmila Chand, Mr Rathore outlines his management principles and practices that have brought him success.

Your five management mantras

Have a good team: If you have to become a successful entrepreneur, it is very important to have a good team. If your team is good, then in terms of management, it is very easy for you to take care of the business side and handhold your team as and when required.