Thanks for listening to another episode of The Indian Dream. Join our WhatsApp group here: https://bit.ly/2LgDN2n We're looking for social media interns! You can email us at theindiandream20@gmail.com As always, Business Munchies is an exploration of business ideas and how they can be leveraged in order to build new businesses or scale up existing businesses. This week, we had an interesting line up of strange ideas, we hope you like them! Timestamps : (0:24) - Update on the Seasonal Fruit D2C I...
Feb 06, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 51
We hit 50 Episodes last week! (We didn't even realize!). Consider this as the 50th Episode Special: Our take on The 2021 Union Budget. At The Indian Dream, our goal is create a community of knowledge seeking founders who are looking to build Profitable Businesses. A big part of building these businesses is being aware of the direction the government is focusing on. It always helps to be building in industries that the government is focusing on. Consider the example of Baddi and the Pharma boom t...
Feb 03, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Thanks for listening to another episode of The Indian Dream. Join our WhatsApp group here: https://bit.ly/2LgDN2n As always, Business Munchies is an exploration of business ideas and how they can be leveraged in order to build new businesses or scale up existing businesses. This week, we had an interesting line up of strange ideas, we hope you like them! Timestamps: (0:00) - Introduction (2:06) - AI Powered Writing Tools (9:35) - Productizing Your Services (15:30) - Luxury Direct to Consumer Fru...
Jan 30, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Today's show is a result of a phone call that I got after one of our listeners heard our Business Munchies episode. As we got talking, I realised his line of work is extremely interesting and operates in a niche. As our regular listeners might know, we love NICHE businesses. As they say, Niches build Riches. Around 2009-10, Rishabh & Pranav wanted to start an Electronics Accessories brand and upon more research, they realized it was difficult to compete with existing brands without a solid m...
Jan 27, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Thanks for listening to another episode of The Indian Dream. Join our WhatsApp group here: https://bit.ly/2LgDN2n As always, Business Munchies is an exploration of business ideas and how they can be leveraged in order to build new businesses or scale up existing businesses. This week, we had an interesting line up of strange ideas, we hope you like them! Timestamps: (0:00) - Introduction (1:17) - Clout Kitchens (5:50) - Virtual influencers (10:25) - High End Ice (14:45) - Cohort Based Learning (...
Jan 23, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 47
I'm really excited for this episode where we interview Vidur Gupta From stranger and sons – a brand of craft gin. This episode is a continuation of our deep dive into the Trend of craft alcohol in India . You should also listen to our previous episode with Brew Whale about the craft beer scene in India. Craft Alcohol Newsletter Brew Whale Episode I'm not gonna lie, Gin and Tonic has recently become my favourite drink after beer. I was first introduced to Stranger and Sons as a birthday gift and ...
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Welcome to another episode of Business Munchies at The Indian Dream. We explore different business ideas on this segment of our podcast. We had a friend of the show with us on this episode: Animish Gadve from The Wandering Band, an indie video game publisher. Having worked with Zynga games & EA in the past - Animish was able to provide us with a lot of insights into how the gaming industry is shaping up in India and what opportunities still exist for people looking to enter. Animish also gav...
Jan 17, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Our guest today is an ex- Merchant Navy Officer who, through an interesting sequence of events, became an Insurance Executive and eventually an Entrepreneur. He currently runs a Global Products & Services business in the Insurance Domain with a team 1900 people spread across 9 countries. This journey began little over 7 years ago when Arun Balakrishnan was heading the Berkshire Hathway's Indian Insurance Business. When Berkshire decided to wind up the India business, Arun spotted an interest...
Jan 14, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Welcome to the 5th episode of Business Munchies. This will now be a regular segment of the show with Sahil and I hosting the show with other guests (friends of the show). If you're not familiar with our Business Munchies episodes, I'd urge you to start with the first one 4 weeks ago. We continue a few discussions from the previous episodes. For our episode today, we discuss the following topics: 1) Update on the E-Com business in US that we are trying to acquire (3:11) 2) Using a portfolio of en...
Jan 09, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 42
In this episode, we talk to two brothers about their journey of setting up and selling a packaging manufacturing business in 10 years. We discuss Market Research, Positioning, and Customer Centricity as it pertains to a Manufacturing Business. This episode is relevant for folks who have interest in Packaging as a product and/or run manufacturing businesses. For others, check out last week's Business Munchies Episode :) Creative Stylopack Acquired by Essel Pro Pack - News Article Reachout to us h...
Jan 04, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Happy New Year Y'all! Thank you for supporting us and allowing us the room to experiment with different content styles around profitable businesses in India. Business Munchies (Yet to finalize the name) is now going to become a more formal part of the content that we create. New Business Ideas, across industries depending on the emerging trends. The idea is to look at the business ideas as an optimist and see how to make it work. Most of our ideas will probably be bad, but we are sharing a point...
Dec 31, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 40
This episode is a pure exploration of business ideas. Business Munchies is our attempt to explore different business ideas while discussing the underling trends that make these ideas interesting and potential go to market strategies. This is by no means supposed to be a deep dive on each business idea as these haven't been discussed earlier. If you enjoy this content, please join our WhatsApp group, we are already 500 strong! We explore the following topics in the episode: 1) Personal Leverage (...
Dec 27, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 39
In this episode we speak to Pranav Mehra, Co-Founder of Brew Whale – a craft beer brewing company based out of Bombay. Craft Alcohol Newsletter Pranav Mehra Brew Whale Website Join the WhatsApp Group I'm a big fan of good beer and could not resist doing a few episodes about the changing environment in the beer and alcohol industry in India. Craft beer has become a huge industry in the US in Europe - when you go to grocery store there you will see a number of bears from small breweries. With the ...
Dec 23, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 38
This episode is a pure exploration of business ideas. At The Indian Dream we have a dozen ideas that we discuss everyday but are not able to share with our listeners. This episode is an experiment that we've been planning for months. The idea really took off a few weeks ago when Sahil and Siddharth met up with Saransh in Goa. We started bouncing ideas off each other and realised that it would be great to record this and share with our listeners. If you enjoy this content, please join our WhatsAp...
Dec 19, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Earn in Dollars, spend in Rupees. That's one way to build a bootstrapped, profitable business. Amazon FBA (Fulfilled by Amazon Program) is a great way to target the global consumer. We talk to Rishiraj about building his Amazon FBA business, the playbook and what is he planning next. Listener Survey Link Republic of Sellers The global e-com marketplaces coupled with digital marketing reach have enabled Indian businesses to target their products to the global customer base. It presents a great op...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 36
In today's episode we have Himanshu Arora from Social Panga again bringing us a D2C Marketing Playbook. We promised in our last episode with Himanshu that we would go deep into the digital marketing aspects of Direct to Consumer (D2C) brands and that's exactly what we do today. D2C Playbook Newsletter Join Our WhatsApp Group In this episode we discuss various parts of Direct to Consumer (D2C) digital marketing that are being used by all the biggest modern brands such as Mama Earth, Yoga Bar and ...
Dec 12, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 35
This episode is a pure exploration of business ideas. At The Indian Dream we have a dozen ideas that we discuss everyday but are not able to share with our listeners. This episode is an experiment that we've been planning for months. The idea really took off a few weeks ago when Sahil and Siddharth met up with Saransh in Goa. We started bouncing ideas off each other and realised that it would be great to record this and share with our listeners. If you enjoy this content, please join our WhatsAp...
Dec 09, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Listener Survey Link Email us at theindiandream20@gmail.com Thank you for supporting us on our journey of building The Indian Dream Project. This episode is just Sahil and Sid talking about Why started The Indian Dream, the journey so far and the plans for our future. We're focused on creating content around Profitable Entrepreneurship in India. We look at the past to create playbooks of building successful businesses through our Founder Journeys episode. We look at the future to identify opport...
Dec 05, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 33
In the episode today, we have Navjor Kaur, Vice President at a Venture Capital firm that provides growth capital to early stage consumer brands. We go through the playbook of building a D2C Brand covering functions such as Marketing, Logistics, Manufacturing, Hiring. D2C Newsletter Direct to Consumer Business Model: In this business model you cut out all the middlemen that exist in the traditional supply chain - your wholesaler & retailer primarily. You leverage the internet and build your p...
Dec 02, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 32
We have Dhimant Parekh on the show to talk about building an Audience First D2C Brand with The Better Home. In the episode today, We discuss the journey of building TBI, how they were able to leverage the community to build out their D2C business and what it's like to work with your significant other as a co-founder. Let's jump in. Links: The Better India Website The Better Home Products Audience First Products Newsletter For our next edition of Trends, we are covering a new way of building cons...
Nov 28, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 31
In this episode we have Himanshu Arora from Social Panga which is a 360 degree Digital Marketing Agency. The pandemic has accelerated the digitalisation of traditional brands and has led to the growth of many D2C brands. All of us are now our own tiny digital marketing agencies, trying to build either our company or personal brands in the new digital world – just like us with this podcast. Join Our WhatsApp Group Himanshu Arora LinkedIn Social Panga Website In this context, understanding the fun...
Nov 25, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Altigreen is an electric vehicle manufacturer that was started in 2011 with a retrofit product to convert light commercial vehicles to hybrid. Today, they sell their own 2,3, & 4 Wheel Electric Vehicles. We talk about this journey and the kind of opportunities (a TON!) that exist in the EV space. Altigreen's Website Dr. Amitabh Saran's Linkedin Trends #6: Electric Vehicle Newsletter...
Nov 22, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 29
We talk to Bharat Goenka, Founder of Tally Solutions, maker of ERP and Accounting Software for SMBs since 1986. We cover the journey of building Tally, go deeper into their unique point of views on Customer Empathy, Distribution, Piracy and some philosophy across the entire episode :) We also go through the ups and downs that the business has gone through in the last 30 years and how it weathered the different storms to build a business that's thriving today. Tally's Website Tally's Twitter The ...
Nov 18, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Happy Diwali to all our listeners! We hope you have a great Diwali Weekend and a new year filled with Joy. We've had great fun doing this podcast and newsletter over the past few months and hope you've had as much fun listening to it. We have some exciting episodes lined up for you - can't wait to share it! We'd love to hear from you - send us an email at theindiandream20@gmail.com Music: www.bensound.com
Nov 13, 2020•20 sec•Season 1Ep. 27
Today's episode is part of a series about New Mobility which includes self driving cars, car sharing , Internet connected cars and obviously the always talked about Electric Vehicles. The Indian Dream Newsletter - Subscribe to our newsletter! The Indian Dream WhatsApp Group Sachin's LinkedIn Sachin's Newsletter Car Talk Car Talk Issue where Sachin talks about a new form of Car Ownership - Highly recommended reading. When you think about the future of cars what's the first company that comes to m...
Nov 11, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Ayurveda 2.0 Trends Newsletter Dr. Vaidya's Website Arjun's Podcast on Ayurveda In this episode, we discuss the Ayurveda 2.0 Trend. We speak to Arjun about his journey building Dr. Vaidya's, the role of the government in promoting Ayurveda and the business opportunities that exist in this space. Arjun Vaidya started Dr. Vaidya's in 2017, with the goal of taking his family's long history with Ayurveda and bring it to the modern consumer. Arjun's great grand father and grand father practiced Ayurv...
Nov 07, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Welcome to another episode of the Indian Dream Trends. With Trends, we aim to explore new markets and ideas that can explode in the next few years. We look at the Market Gap, the current players and the opportunities that exist. It comes out as a Newsletter as well as a Podcast wherein we record our conversation with Industry experts and startup operators in the Trend that we are covering This week, we're covering Ayurveda 2.0 wherein we're seeing the modernization of a 5000 year Tradition. Here...
Nov 04, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Today's episode is part of our Micro-SaaS edition of the Trends Series. Micro-SaaS Newsletter This is a story about how a 16 Yr Old's quest for pocket money lead to a multi-million dollar software business. , Based out of Calcutta in 2002, Pallav needed all the extra cash he could get to spend at the Bowling Alleys. He came across an opportunity to write a technical article and get paid for it. He set out to write the longest article possible since it paid by the number of words. That technical ...
Oct 31, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Welcome to the Indian Dream Podcast and thanks for listening! Today's episode is part of a series about the resurgence of Ayurvedic brands over the last few years. Because of a host of reasons including increased focus on preventive medicine and Wellness, rising incomes in India and new models such as direct to consumer, the way that ayurveda has been experienced for thousands of years is suddenly changing. You can read our report for a detailed explanation on the changes and the opportunities t...
Oct 28, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Today's episode is part of our Micro-SaaS edition of the Trends Series. Micro-SaaS Newsletter Our guest today is Preetam Nath from SuperLemon who also recently started new product called DelightChat. Preetam Nath SuperLemon DelightChat This is our longest episode yet and this was after cutting out at least 30 minutes of Siddharth and Preetam discussing life philosophy, finances, and other stuff. Preetam and his co-founder built SuperLemon as an app for the Shopify store. The reason they became w...
Oct 25, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 21
