About the Community 

C-Star is a trust-network of Consultants and Micro entrepreneurs for effective exchange of knowledge, insights, referrals and services. The Consultants of C-Star are star professionals with decades of experience with reputed organizations. Each consultant has pioneered in certain areas and is passionate to take the learning and insights to several organizations. C-Star channelizes this pool of expertise to CXOs and Business Owners.

If you are an independent consultant or a micro entrepreneur, C-Star provides you a platform to connect to the resources you need – markets, opportunities, knowledge, experts, processes, tools, enabling services, and alerts. C-Star provides you an enabling environment and several support services so that you can quickly establish yourself as a reputed consultant of higher visibility and credibilty.

How We Work 

Within C-Star, there are virtual groups focused on different domain/practice. This ensures top quality, contemporary solutions to the clients. This also enables building up expertise and knowledgebase for each practice.

Clients directly deal with the consultant for the entire consulting process - from diagnosis to solution delivery. For complex problems, the hired consultant would seek support from his/her peers. In large projects requiring multi-disciplinary expertise, the consultant would form a team from the pool of consultants.

Enablers for Consultants

1. Marketing of your services and information products
2. Mentoring (for practitioners getting into consulting)
3. Support Services

• Sales (through partner organizations)
• Admin support
• Website development & maintenance
• Creative writing / editing / publishing support
• Compiling research reports
• Event Management
• Conducting webinars

(Some of the support services above will be introduced on a need basis)

Join C-Star

If you have a marketable service, expertise or information product that appeals to CXOs and Business Owners, you will benefit by joining C-Star.

If you are a CXO/Entrepreneur, and want to network with / leverage / avail services from these business/IT experts, you could join C-Star. Members can avail free telephonic/email advisory support from the experts. You can also contribute to the community with your domain expertise.

All members can attend the monthly C-Star meeting, free of charge. (Members getting large collaboration projects, normally sponsor such meetings in rotation). This network meeting is held in Chennai on every second Saturday and is primarily about sharing info, insights, progress, and opportunities. Such meeting in other cities are coordinated by local champions.

There is no subscription fee for the members as of now, but a one-time joining fee of Rs.1000/- is applicable.