Saloni Jain Founding Partner, SUNiCON Ventures Sharing her valuable insights on: When should founders reach out to Angel Investors for investments? What motivates Angel Investors to invest in a startup? 8 different types of Angel Investors, with a brief on each? How does a founder assess/shortlist the right Angel Investor, who would be a great fit? And, how to reach out to these shortlisted ones? A bit about yourself and SUNiCON Ventures....
Oct 17, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Hassan W. Bhatti Prior co-founded, Cryptonumerics (acquired by Snowflake) Investor @thecommunityvc ProductBD, @snowflakedb
Sep 30, 2021•5 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Sanil Sachar Founding Partner at Huddle Sharing her valuable insights on: Why should entrepreneurs opt for the accelerators, and what kind of value add should they expect? With so many different options available, how should a founder select, who would be a right fit? At just a 1-2% success rate, what qualities/skills of an entrepreneur would ensure that s/he gets admitted in a cohort/program? What are the most common mistakes that founders do, when applying for the cohorts/programs? Most star...
Sep 09, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Shashank Randev Founder, VC at 100X.VC Sharing his valuable insights on: Why does it make sense for entrepreneurs to raise early-stage capital via SAFE notes? What is a iSAFE Note, and is it similar/different to a Convertible Note or a Compulsory Convertible Debentures? And, is iSAFE essentially a CCPS? What are the various terms that are usually covered in a SAFE note? And, besides valuation cap and discounts, are there any other terms covered in iSAFE, and what are considered to be standard m...
Sep 06, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Devank Chandak Founder at HelpingHands , Social FinTech Sharing his valuable insights on: Why he chose entrepreneurship at such a young age? What made him launch his venture "Helping Hands," and whom (customers) does it caters to? The traction, challenges, as well as the learnings! The future (vision) of "Helping Hands" in the next 5-10 years? How can teenagers really balance between the education and entrepreneurship?...
Aug 30, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Elizabeth Yin , co-founder of Hustle Fund shares her valuable insights for founders of startups, who are raising early-stage rounds Snippet: By tranching your fundraising, you can quickly build a momentum to raise the pre-seed and seed funds. Besides, you don't necessarily need a lead investor too. A lot more is on the podcast!
Aug 25, 2021•8 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Rupam Das Founder, CEO of Acculi Labs Sharing his valuable insights on: What is PAIO, and how is it different from Compulsary Convertible Debentures or CCD and Convertible Notes? Why didn't you raise funding from any angel platform/syndicate? What terms and conditions did you stipulate in PAIO? What was your fundraising experience, how many investors participated in PAIO? Finally, which kinda startups can emulate/use PAIO for fundraising?...
Aug 10, 2021•10 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Akriti Gupta Founder, Canfem | UN Awardee Sharing her valuable insights on: Let's start with your background and what really motivated you to launch Canfem? How large is this problem of breast cancer globally, and what are the key problems being faced by the female patients? How did you arrive at launching breast prosthesis as well as brassier i.e. what was your research behind launching these? What are the typical challenges that you've across so far, and how did you overcome them? What's your ...
Jul 29, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Gigi Levy-Weiss General Partner, NFX Founder & Chairman, Tectonic Sharing his valuable insights on: The 7 Rules of Hiring for the Early-stage Startups ! Source: His Twitter Profile
Jul 14, 2021•6 min•Season 1Ep. 56
Rachita Kumar PE, Madison India Capital Sharing her valuable insights on: Why should startups remain focused, especially during the early stages? 2 contrast case studies, 1 which has drifted away from its core focus, another which has remained focused and benefitted immensely? Finally, how should startups really expand, while keeping their core focus intact?...
Jul 06, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Daniel Lewis CEO/Founder, Convoy Sharing his valuable insights/learnings on building a unicorn startup, Convoy! Source: Full Podcast .
Jul 04, 2021•4 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Immad Akhund CEO & Founder, Mercury (Bank) Sharing his valuable insights on: How to Build a Compelling Story or Narrative for Your Startup ? Source: This twitter thread !
Jun 27, 2021•5 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Alexandre Covello VC Partner, Defrocked VC Sharing his valuable insights on: Key reasons behind the failure of over 70% funded startups? Journey from Seed to Series A. How should founders effectively scale up from Seed to Series A Round? When scaling up (from Seed to Series A), what are the pitfalls to watch for, and how to avoid them? What should the founders do, when not fundraising? Finally, about his venture "Defrocked VC," and its investment thesis?...
Jun 15, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 52
This podcast is inspired from a post by Paul Graham , the co-founder of Y Combinator on his website , dated back in February 2009. These 13 wisdom points are so relevant for the Founders, even today.
Jun 14, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Chad Fox Managing Partner, Fox Ventures Sharing his valuable insights on: What is a Micro VC, and how are they different from a traditional VC fund? What are the nitty gritties involved in starting a Micro VC Fund? Why should early-stage startups opt for Micro VCs vis-a-vis a traditional VC? In comparison to angel groups/syndicates, when does it makes sense for the founders to instead opt for a Micro VC Fund? About his venture "Fox Ventures," and it's investment thesis?...
May 30, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Shital Kakkar Mehra Executive Presence Coach for CEOs TEDx Speaker, Best-selling Author Sharing her valuable insights on: Why is communication so important, especially for entrepreneurs? Key signs to indicate if one lacks in communication skills. How to improve one's communication skills? What does it mean to engage with empathy? How to empathetically engage with all key stakeholders (i.e. employees, customers, suppliers, etc?) Finally, about her recent book "Executive Presence," and how to get ...
May 14, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Alex Garcia , CEO & Founder at The Hustle helps companies generate sales & leads using digital platforms. In a thread on his Twitter account, Alex shared valuable insights on, how should you build a lead funnel and effectively generate sales. He used a similar approach to help his friends achieve over $25K of eBook sales with barely any ad spend....
Apr 26, 2021•6 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Sweta Rau Angel Investor, White Ventures Member at XA Network Sharing her valuable insights on: Why Angel Investors make more sense at the pre-seed/seed stage? Strategy to target the prospective investors, and get a lead investor. Her assessment criteria for investing in early-stage startups? Her advice for bootstrapped founders, facing a high burn rate. An elevator pitch that wowed her? A brief on one of her investment success stories....
Apr 13, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Janine Sickmeyer founded and built legal startup NextChapter, which she bootstrapped for over 6 long years. As a first-time founder, Janine steadily grew to 20 employees, and was instrumental in achieving 6K customers as well as 14% MoM consistent growth for 3 long years. Eventually her startup was acquired in September 2019 by Fastcase! This podcast is taken from her thread on Twitter, where she shared her experience on, why being a first-time founder is so hard! According to her, for the first...
Apr 12, 2021•4 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Shubham G Dungarwal Founder & CEO, GFresh Agrotech Sharing his valuable insights on: Challenges of the Onion Farmers Role of GFresh in Solving these Challenges His Journey Experience Using Blockchain in the Future His Growth Plans for GFresh
Apr 06, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Elizabeth Yin , the co-founder of Hustle Fund VC on her Twitter account, shared a series of tweets on " How to Set the Prices for Your Product or Service ?" This podcast is the extract of that thread.
Mar 22, 2021•4 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Prashant Narang Co-Founder, Agility Venture Partners Sharing his valuable insights on: Why is cash flow so important for startups or small businesses? How can the entrepreneurs systematically manage their finance? What strategy would you recommend for getting payments/accounts receivables on time? How can founders create their simple 3-5 year financial projections without hiring an analyst? Share a brief about Agility Ventures and the investment criteria for startups?...
Mar 20, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Karthik Sridharan Co-founder & CEO at Flexiple & Remote.Tools Sharing his valuable insights on: You spent $5K each on your 1st and 2nd products but eventually both failed, what really went wrong? Then as a masterstroke, you instead used GoogleSheets as a product and went on to generate $100K in revenues, how did that go? So, what's the learning here for the founders who're building their first MVP? Having bootstrapped Flexiple for 4 long years, tell us about this whole journey of yours? ...
Mar 05, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Bhavik Vasa Founder at GetVantage, India's first Revenue-Based Financing platform Sharing his valuable insights on: What is Revenue-based Financing (RBF), and Who is it for? The major considerations, when opting for RBF? What flat fee does GetVantage charge? What are the qualifying criteria, and the repayment options involved in RBF? How does GetVantage really work? 2 success stories of startups that opted for GetVantage's RBF, and gained invaluably?...
Feb 25, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 41
James Church Author, Investable Entrepreneur Co-founder & COO, Robot Mascot Sharing his valuable insights on: Why is it so difficult to raise funding in the early-stages? Most common mistakes that entrepreneurs do, while pitching to the investors? How does one create a great pitching story for their business? How can entrepreneurs make their ventures, truly fundable/investable? What all metrics should be tracked by the entrepreneurs, which will make them a credible investment opportunity? Le...
Feb 21, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Vinod Khosla , the founder of Sun Microsystems and Khosla Ventures, during his Talk at Stanford Graduate School of Business, in May-15 really emphasised on two key skills for all founders i.e. perseverance and conviction. Here are some excerpts of that interview, which is highly relevant even today.
Feb 16, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 39
David B Horne Award-winning Author of "Add then Multiply" TEDx Speaker Sharing his valuable insights on : Why is the organic growth method quite slow, and limited for any venture? What are the perils of scaling-up/growing too fast? His advice to the founders of early-stage startups! How can entrepreneurs use his "FACE Methodology" to exponentially grow their venture? 2 case studies where David applied it to grow exponentially?...
Feb 09, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Hernan Fernandez Lamadrid Cofounder & Partner, Angel Ventures, Mexico 17 Investments for a total of $14 Mn Sharing his valuable insights on: Brief on Latin America's Startup Ecosystem. Challenges and the future of Latin America's Startup Ecosystem. His advise to those entrepreneurs, who are at the ideation stage? How is Angel Ventures, Mexico enabling the startups across Latin America? 2 success stories of startups, invested by him?...
Feb 04, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 37
John D. Hanson Director, Accelerated Revenue CX & Winning Consultant Sharing his valuable insights on: What is Customer Experience (CX), and Why is it so Important? Role of Customer Love/Obsession in Investors' Funding, and How can CX help? How can CX help SaaS Startups Retain their Customers? How Customer Experience be a Strongest Moat for the Startups? Case Study of Zappos.com, how they engraved CX as its culture, to eventually get acquired for $1 Bn by Amazon!...
Feb 01, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Yamika Mehra Venture Partner, Favcy Co-Founder, Refittings.com Sharing her insights on: Why Should Professionals Opt for Angel Investing? Risks and Potential Returns Involved in Angel Investments? How to do an Initial Due Diligence, before Investing? About Favcy Venture Builder, and Investing through them?
Jan 29, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 35
