Today’s guest: Riti Sinha, Leadership coach & Founder (Point Blank 7) Website: https://www.pointblank7.in/ You will learn: 01:52Background - childhood, studies, early career days, and stepping on to Journalism 03:18PointBlank7 - What is it? It’s moto, and the platform serving the community. 08:28Mix of engineer, Journalist & Leadership coach. Handling the transition. 12:13Initial days of start & grip on Community journalism on election and holding on to an independent way. 17:58Witho...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Today’s guest: Shyam Sundar Nagarajan, Founder & CEO (GoFloaters) Website: https://gofloaters.com/ You will learn: 01:47Background - studies, early career days, and thoughts on entrepreneurship 04:09Gofloaters - Who are they?. Office for distributed and remote teams across 21 indian cities since 2017. 08:19Idea & Spark moment behind the start of Gofloaters. 16:05True believers in remote work; remote management & remote business 19:36How pricing models are thought through and experime...
Aug 06, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Today’s guest: Sathvik Vishwanath, Co-Founder & CEO (Unocoin) Website: https://www.unocoin.com/ You will learn: 01:50On the pursuit of entrepreneurship, preparation and transition from employee 07:07Speculations in cryptocurrencies space. How customers and investors saw this fluctuations 10:02Funding and convincing investors, challenges in pulling through the valuation. 13:12Moment of relief, and the customer testimonial from the ground. Idea of SIP (Systematic investment Plan) in Unocoin - ...
Jul 30, 2021•40 min
Today’s guest: Sathvik Vishwanath, Co-Founder & CEO (Unocoin) Website: https://www.unocoin.com/ You will learn: 02:15Background - studies, early career days to understand corporates, entrepreneurial steps along the journey 10:55What is a Crypto currency?, Bitcoin evolution, Etherium and different generations 29:28Unocoin - Company & it’s services. Co-Founding experience, and establishment. Bitcoin exchange, cryptocurrencies & expanding business. 36:57Customer adoptions and trends of ...
Jul 25, 2021•49 min
Today’s guest: SV Balasubramanyam, Founder & CEO (Durfi.com) Website: https://www.durfi.com/ You will learn: 01:56Background - early career days in startups, supermarkets, and big companies. Instances which triggered to take the idea forward 08:47Importance of sleep and mattresses business in Indian context; market study & research. Serving across India’s geography via e-commerce 12:50Self evaluate as an entrepreneur before the start. ZERO-ONE principle to start business. 17:13Founding t...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Today’s guest: Dr.Vamsi Krishna Palukuru PhD, Founder & CEO (CoreIoT Technologies Ltd) Website: https://www.coreiot.fi/ You will learn: 02:15Background - Schooling, early career days in different countries, how Nokia shutdown started the journey of entrepreneurship 05:14CoreIoT - Custom designing Antenna solution for varying IoT, Wireless and various industrial needs 06:45Microsoft closes Nokia, Finland. What happened next? How entrepreneurship was taught 09:58Being in Finland, and handling ...
Jul 09, 2021•46 min
Today’s guest: Ravindra Talwai, Founder & CEO (GradientM) Website: https://gradientm.com/ You will learn: 02:27Background - Education, career days, handling multi million dollar businesses with global leadership during dot com boom 06:35GradientM - Pillars of IT Strategy & Consulting, Services, Talent Management for enterprises and Software process for Startups. Gallup certified coach. 13:22Starting of own: From senior leadership in Corporate to New track of Entrepreneurship 16:42Team bu...
Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Today’s guest: Gaurav Shrivastava, Founder & CEO (Pensieve) Website: https://www.pensieve.co.in/ You will learn: 01:57Background - Schooling, early career days, stepping to entrepreneurship 02:35Pensieve - Text analytics and linguistic company with more AI impacts. Spark moment to start 07:20Starting from problem statement for opportunities in business 08:45How big of manual work involved in bringing any automation in data analytics, machine learning products 12:39Incubation platforms and mo...
Jun 25, 2021•48 min
Today’s guest: Naveen Munjal (Hero Electric Vehicles Pvt Ltd) Website: https://heroelectric.in/ You will learn: 02:17Background - Schooling, early career days in the US, starting with the By-Cycle industry in India, Lithium-Ion battery research. 09:49Origin and Evolution of Hero Electric; prime focus on business plan; and the ecosystem 16:57Becoming a leader with high sales & hand holding dealers for growing together 22:54Different Hero products targeting niche gaps for varied Indian EV Mark...
Jun 18, 2021•56 min
Today’s guest: Satendra Vir Singh (ValueShoppe) Website: https://www.valueshoppe.co.in/ You will learn: 01:50Background, central Government job, IT work & start of entrepreneurship 07:27Valueshoppe - Addressing the needs of Inventory liquidation 09:52Founding the business all alone, and benefits of being the only founder 12:47Considerations in pricing model for the business 14:14Tech ecosystem to manage the business, and decision making challenges 18:05Business opportunities and market avail...
Jun 11, 2021•44 min
Today’s guest: Vivan Puri, Co-Founder (WorkNetwork) Website: https://worknetwork.in/ You will learn: 01:34Background, varied studies & business exposures at startup 03:04What is WorkNetwork - Platform for professionals & students to start business 06:44Customer adoption & retention - What & how to achieve it gradually 10:41Processing the thoughts to change idea into reality, and bringing out the product 16:16Starting with co-founders & how are the fundings managed? - Is raisi...
Jun 04, 2021•55 min
Today’s guest: Rajesh Badger, CEO & Chengappa Chottera, COO (Zopnote) Website: https://www.zopnote.com/ You will learn: 02:01Background, studies, prior startups, experience abroad and R&D 04:02What is hyperlocal commerce? And how zopnote is helping local merchants and tapping opportunities 07:27Spark moment and reason behind the Start 09:56Increasing subscribers, formula adopted for customer adoption and retention; and statistics around 13:11Association with Startup Incubation - How they...
May 28, 2021•57 min
Today’s guest: Sudheesh Narayanan, Founder & CEO (KnowledgeLens) Website: https://www.knowledgelens.com/ You will learn: 02:04Background, studies & experience - interest and focus in green field projects & automation 03:17KnowledgeLens focus & spark moments - G Lens (Environment and sustainability focus in India) & Industry 4.0 (connected industries and employees) 05:44Managing transition from employee to entrepreneur; additional considerations and alternative revenue model 0...
May 21, 2021•44 min
Today’s guest: Vasudevan Kidambi, MD, Data Storyteller, Business Transformation Coach (NavoInc) Website: https://navoinc.com/ You will learn: 01:58Background, studies & work - leadership; middle east focus; Data & AI 05:30AI adoption in business ecosystem & startup mindset 07:22Employee to entrepreneur transition phase & preparation 09:20Sales & Marketing formula worked & leveraging existing network; and importance of saying “YES” 11:05Early day challenges, conflicts, str...
May 14, 2021•1 hr
Today’s guest: Rithika Baruah, Founder, Brand Strategy Advisor (Freebirds) Website: https://www.freebirds.co/ You will learn: 02:09Background, studies & work - India & global leadership; and pursuit of entrepreneurship 06:05Freebirds - Community of explorers & it’s platform for experiential learning in closed group & schools 12:30It all started in College days; Facebook group & the idea evolution gradually 17:54Global leadership & transitioning to entrepreneurship; leadin...
May 07, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Today’s guest: Kaushik Mahapatra, Founder, Chairman, Author (Indian Leadership Academy) Website: https://indianleadershipacademy.com/ You will learn: 01:47Personal Background & objective of the academy: individual, corporates & community leadership 07:16Reason for the start - meaning & mindfulness 10:09Formula for accomplishing aggressive growth & the team behind; Strong in addressing “WHY” 14:14East meeting west; Global leadership with Indian knowledge & wisdom 17:55Team &am...
Apr 30, 2021•45 min
Today’s guest: Monica Kapadia Mehta, EVP, Advisor, Impact Investor (Wadhwani NEN) Website: https://nen.wfglobal.org/ You will learn: 01:55Background - India & abroad; learning & pursuit to give back 03:58Must know information about Wadhwani Foundation - Vision & mission to boost startups 10:36What qualities investors look for, from startup founders 14:22How investors manage time boxing 16:52BYJUs & EdTech space; early days experience with them & qualities of Unicorn 20:25Tips...
Apr 26, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Today’s guest: Sasank Chilamkurthy, AI Scientist Founding member (Qure) Website: https://qure.ai/ You will learn: 01:40Background - College, specialization & focus on AI 04:05Qure - Mission to healthcare affordable, AI for radiology, and products for people 09:52Regulations in healthcare, challenges faced in establishing & core founding team 14:15Committed to vision of the company & serving 30 countries & heavy lifting in health diagnosis 16:47Customer success story; exceeding WH...
Apr 23, 2021•47 min
Today’s guest: Nitin Sisodia, Founder & CEO (Sohum Innovation labs) Website: https://sohumforall.com/ You will learn: 01:40Background - Childhood, Academics & career with Innovation focus 04:06Sohum Innovation lab - What it is, the team & focus on solving unmet clinical needs 05:51Ideation & Strength - Stanford India Bio-design, AIIMS, Impact in society with Newborn screening 07:31Statistics in India - babies born with hearing loss & initial golden moments 16:56Employee to En...
Apr 16, 2021•58 min
Today’s guest: Aravind S & Rohit Reddy, Founders (Docupilot) Website: https://docupilot.app/ You will learn: 01:16Background - Academics & career days at Zoho 02:00Docupilot - What it is, Ideation, what problem it solves? & evolution 07:05Transition phase - Employees to Entrepreneurs 08:07Learning in finding customers, marketing, SEO tips 09:04Global customer demographics, & core team 15:18Funding - Bootstrapped & growing slow and steady 16:45Moment of relief & Customer s...
Apr 09, 2021•38 min
Today’s guest: Venkatesh Kothandaraman, CEO & Founder (Collective Minds) Website: https://thecollectiveminds.com/ You will learn: 01:43Background - Academics, career, early day intra-preneurships 13:17Collective minds creations - Robotics process automation 17:06The push to start own business 24:16Handling the challenges & the mindset 28:41Customer success stories & pride moment 30:26Change in dynamics - and positivity around 34:46Recommendations to handle setbacks in entrepreneurial...
Apr 02, 2021•51 min
Today’s guest: Rajeev Ranjan , Co-Founder (Taomish & Xceler.ai) Websites: https://taomish.com/ ; https://xceler.ai/ You will learn: 01:26Background - Academics, career, Idea for technology company 04:57Curiosity & developer mindset - It all begins there 11:00Products addressing the need of developing nations in FinTech & Agri commodity 28:02Initial challenges and solving the Tech 31:06Bootstrap comfortably & idea of funding 33:45Moment of relief - Customer contracts & wins 36...
Mar 26, 2021•57 min
Today’s guest: Vinusha M K, Founder, CBO (Four Seasons Pastry) Website: https://fourseasonspastry.com/ You will learn: 02:37Background - Schooling and business passion at young age 04:16Four verticals under the brand “Four Seasons Pastry” 08:05Awards, recognitions and the list of leaders as Inspirations 12:58The actual start in baking, learning & internships 16:00Reading habits & books 17:25Love for seasons & reason for brand name 18:27Environment & acceptance around being Young ...
Mar 19, 2021•34 min
Today’s guest: Satish Medapati, CEO, Founder (Intentico) Website: http://intentico.ai/ You will learn: 02:12Background - academics & career 03:02Intentico: What is a “Cognitive AI” platform? and it’s products 05:32Impacts of AI products in - Small businesses & Big Organisations 11:48Does AI cut down jobs? Or brings more employment opportunities? 15:10Unlearn & Learn mindset - 6 months transition for employee to entrepreneur 18:41AWS AI Conclave 2021 award - Mentors & support behi...
Mar 12, 2021•57 min
Today’s guest: Divya Madhukar, Founder & Director (TBPS) School website: http://www.trained-brain.in/about.html You will learn: 02:15Background on studies & career 02:57Preschool, it’s uniqueness & the reason to start 08:48Transition & challenges: IT employee to entrepreneur 10:20Founding team, support & approaches to handle problem 16:54Challenges, helping hands and initial funding 21:33First moment of relieve 23:10Every child has got their own potential to deal 24:26COVID i...
Mar 05, 2021•51 min
Today’s guest: Aquibur Rahman, CEO, Co-Founder (Mailmodo) Company website: https://www.mailmodo.com/ You will learn: 01:55Personal background, studies, early day career 03:55Products and customers 05:12Quitting job and idea evaluation with SaaS 07:56Statistics on E-mail marketing & adoption 11:36Challenges, helping hands and funding 17:02Looking for funding during pandemic 18:47Customer success stories 21:02COVID impacts - ups and downs 22:58Organic plan & thought process for business sc...
Feb 26, 2021•42 min
Today’s guest: Vijendra Rao, CEO, Co-Founder (Techcanopy software labs) Company website: https://www.techcanopy.com/ You will learn: 02:00Personal background, studies, early day interest on Computers 03:41The urge and passion to start an own company, while working in IT 08:00Company formation, conflicts handling & responsibility sharing 14:49Managing the transition - Employee to Entrepreneur 18:52Education Vs Qualification: His vision on the future job market 23:23Founding team coming to com...
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr
Today’s guest: Rajendra Vaishampayan, Founder & MD (Sonic Octaves) Company website: https://www.sonicoctaves.com/ ; www.ipustak.com You will learn: 01:58Personal background, studies, music 04:54Why (Purpose in life) & How (Using IT experience) leads to formation of Sonic Octaves 12:45How it all started? The question to start Entrepreneurship & learning journey 18:45Addressing emotional stability & fulfillment - Promoting arts and artists 22:40Initial day challenges 25:32First mom...
Feb 12, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Today’s guest: Karthi Mariappan S, CEO, Co-Founder (Hippo Video) Company website: http://hippovideo.io/ You will learn: 01:30Personal background 02:07What is the product from Hippovideo? 03:03How it all started? Idea formation 04:59Challenges in team formation 05:52Funding (Bootstrapping strategy) & family support 07:43First demo experience to friends 08:39Experiences with Venture capitalists on Investor pitch 11:53Pre and post COVID - Customer & business adoption changes 14:45Benefits o...
Feb 05, 2021•37 min
Today’s guest: Rohit Dangayach, CEO, Co-Founder (Wholesalebox) Company website : http://wholesalebox.in/ You will learn: 01:28 Background, education, career transition 10: 28 What they do in Wholesalebox, first customer, and business momentum 17:01 Customer adoption and challenges with offline stores 20:59 Employee to Entrepreneur transition, Intrapreneur Vs Entrepreneur mindset. 23:27 Initial challenges in business setup 26:54 Moment of confident & investors coming 35:20 Handling business d...
Jan 29, 2021•57 min
