Communications Platform Provides "Your School at your Fingertips" for Busy Parents - Voices 2015

Building better-connected school communities with MobileArq School

Directory+

Nirupama Mallavarupu

Founder & CEO, MobileArq

March 9, 2015

Outline

• My journey to entrepreneurship

• Why MobileArq?

• Lessons Learned

Beginnings

Fascination with ComputersB.E, Computer Science, IISc, Bangalore, India

• Parallel Computing• Falcon - Threads Monitoring System

Coming to America

First Job

• Distributed Transaction Processing• Pioneer Transaction Monitor

Transarc

Pittsburgh, PA

From Snow to Sunshine

Redwood Shores, CAOracle Kernel Group

The Internet Wave

Recovery algorithms

Unix/C Oracle Stack

J2EE Java

NetDynamics – Pioneer Application Server

CORBA

Motherhood

Diving into Open Source

• Ground Zero Startup• Web Intelligence and

Customer Care Portal

• Open Source based Self-service web portals

Jumping into Entrepreneurship

• Freedom to go beyond engineering• Corporate Environment stifled creativity• Passionate about giving the world

something better

HowdyHood

Building neighborhood communities

School Collaboration Portal

PTA

Directory

Parents

Parent

Teacher

Association

Why MobileArq?

When does chess club

meet

?

When is

Spring Break?

Contact a teacher

?

Arrange a Play date

?

Class List for

Birthday?

Building The Directory Is A

Huge Challenge…

Time / Labor / Money

Solution: MobileArq School Directory+

Collaborating With PTA’s

Streamlining processes

Serving Parent communities

• Accessible anywhere anytime

• Call/email/text parents &

teachers

• Private, secure & not Googleable

For Parents: Your school community

at your fingertips

PTA Platform

PTA Benefits

Increase Revenue• Mobile Advertisement Platform creates a new

source of revenue.

Save Time• Parents can enter their own information, saving

hours of data entry.

Raise MembershipIntegrated online payment option of PTA dues

50 Schools40,000 Users

10 States

Launched 2013

Entrepreneurship Lessons Learned

• Never a good time to start a company!

• Need a ‘Financial Backup Plan’ until it takes off!!

• Find a good mentor who can guide you.

• Selective and quality Networking is a must.

• Give before you ask for help.

Building Better-Connected

School Communities

Niru Mallavarupu

[email protected]

908-246-7117

MobileArq

Signup for a demo of MobileArq at https://mobilearq.com/