Support The Indian Dream Project by contributing here . Hey everyone! Welcome to another episode of The Indian Dream. This is where we explore markets and ideas that are set to explode in the next 3-5 years. This week, we did a deep diver into the word of Space Technology. Before we talk about the episode, let me give you a high level understanding of Space Tech. For years, the various government organizations have been sending satellites in space for various use cases ranging from Communication...
May 19, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 80
We've launched a new show in Hindi in an Exclusive Partnership with Gaana.com. Checkout Founder Journeys on our new show 'Yeh Hai Dhande ki Baat'. The first three episodes with an Export Manufacturer- LNM Auto, Ferns & Petals, and Jiva Ayurveda are out. Check out the show here . In this episode of Business Munchies, Sahil and Sid are back with their usual banter and some interesting ideas. Here's what we discuss: The Business of Rare Plants & Evolution of Gardening in India (1:47) The $1...
May 15, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Hey everyone - welcome to The Indian Dream podcast. In this episode we dig deeper into the trend of Plant Based Meats with Abhinav Sinha , co-Founder of GoodDot and GoodDo . Good Dot is a food tech start-up and was one of the first companies to bring plant-based proteins to India - Good do is their Quick Service Restaurant arm that's bringing plant based foot to airports & many other locations. Join The Indian Dream No-Spam WhatsApp Group Before this conversation, I didn't think plant based ...
May 11, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) talk to Sajal Khanter , former investment banker and current founder of The Boring News Co - a newsletter that brings you daily news without any sensationalism. Check them out ! Join The Indian Dream WhatsApp group here. Timestamps: (0:36) - How do you create trust in SME's using a Social Media or Marketplace model? (11:04) - Creating Bronze Busts of business leaders like Ratan Tata or other super famous people like Narendra Modi (20:54) - Discussion ...
May 07, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 77
We host Varun and Nicole from Good Food Institute (GFI) to talk about the Plant Based Meat sector in India. Our Plant Based Meat Newsletter Join our No Spam Whatsapp Newsletter where we put summaries of the content we create. Join here . Plant Based Meat products are made out of processing Plants in a way that it resembles the taste, texture and nutrition of real meats. Animal Meat has significant environmental impact and is a big contributor for Climate Change. These products are highly ineffic...
May 05, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Sahil (@sahil071) & Siddharth (@sidbetala) are joined by Raj Kunkolienkar (aka @Kunksed ), Co-Founder of Stoa School with us for this episode of Business Munchies. Join our No-Spam WhatsApp group for Weekly updates on our content! We discuss the following ideas: Data Pooling of Recruiting Data Recruitment is consistently rated as one of the toughest parts of entrepreneurship - finding the right people for the right job can make or break a business. However, recruitment faces many issues from...
May 01, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Welcome to the 75th Episode of The Indian Dream! Our Diamond Jubilee! But sadly, India is currently going through a massive covid crisis - if you haven't already, please consider donating to a Covid Relief effort that can help save lives. Links to Donate for Covid Relief: https://donate.indiacovidresources.in Join our No Spam WhatsApp Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KhcYlPKpyWCEYXjVDrnKRk In this episode, we speak to Sridhar Gadhi, the founder & Executive Chairman at Quantela Inc. Quantela ...
Apr 28, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Sahil (@sahil071) & Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out with Harish Uthayakumar , YouTuber at Curious Harish and co-founder of Clinify , for a special episode of Business Munchies - we look at College Side Hustles. Join our No-Spam WhatsApp group for Weekly updates on our content! Timestamps: (0:45) - Start a YouTube channel as a College Side Hustle. (7:45) - Cookie delivery service (13:45) - One stop shop for all college information (19:00) - Hyper local Omegle for College Campuses (20:00) - Mo...
Apr 23, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 74
In this episode, we talk to Vinay Chhajlani about his 3 decade long journey as an Entrepreneur building multiple profitable businesses. We talk to him about the following businesses: 1. Webdunia - India's first Vernacular platform with products and services in Hindi and other regional languages. They were the creators of World's first Hindi Email Service and went on to raise VC funding back in 1999. Post the dot com bubble, they pivoted to being a services company and served the likes of Relianc...
Apr 21, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 73
If you like what we do, consider supporting the The Indian Dream Project at this link . We're joined by a special guest today, Saurav Arya . Saurav is the founder of Small World, WorkStays and Impressive Infographics. He's a digital nomad and has travelled to 90+ Countries. Timestamps: (0:35) - Hacker House in Tier II/III Cities (12:00) - Airbnb for services targeted towards Digital Nomads (20:45) - Building Global Media Properties out of India (28:00) - A Service to Settle in a new city Busines...
Apr 17, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Welcome to The Indian Dream podcast! Our goal is to help entrepreneurs build profitable businesses. We've spoken to more than a hundred founders & investors - our biggest lesson is that we should focus on niche markets to find profitable opportunities. Here's how we do it - we have Trends episodes where each week, we do a deep dive into a business trend that is exploding in India and find the opportunities for you to build profitable businesses. We've dug deep into the hemp industry, seaweed...
Apr 15, 2021•1 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Second episode in our series about Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain - I highly recommend that you listen to the previous episode first to get the understandings of the basics of cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Join Our WhatsApp Group Blockchain Newsletter McKinsey Report on Blockchain including a graph showing the ease of implementation and impact of Blockchain on various industries. We have Abhishek Singh with us in this episode - Abhishek is the CTO of Comdex - a trade financing and trade sett...
Apr 13, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 70
If you like what we do, consider supporting the The Indian Dream Project at this link . We're joined by a special guest today, Alexander Hogeveen Rutter . Alex works at the IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank, where he specialises in increasing renewable energy penetration in Indian power grids. Timestamps: Agriculture Crowdfunding & Community Supported Agriculture (01:26) Solar & Battery Powered Mobile Gensets (15:18) Thrift Store positioned for Sustainability (21:42) Fraction...
Apr 10, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 69
We've been creating these podcasts and newsletters for the last 9 months and if you like what we do, consider supporting the The Indian Dream Project. Link below. If you want to support us, you can contribute here . In the episode today, we host Nishchal Shetty of WazirX to talk about the world of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies. We avoid speculating on bitcoin prices and instead focus on the fundamentals of blockchain. Blockchain and Crypto are often misunderstood. In order to understand it bet...
Apr 07, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 68
Sahil (@sahil071) & Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out with the folks from Dine With Data , Vedika & Armaan, to discuss some great new ideas that we wouldn't have thought up on our own. Dine with Data is an amazing daily WhatsApp newsletter that introduces you to a new startup everyday so that you're always aware of the latest business trends. Join Dine with Data WhatsApp newsletter here. While you're at it, join The Indian Dream WhatsApp newsletter as well! (00:00) - Introduction (00:33) -...
Apr 03, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 67
A couple of weeks back, we covered the Trend of Paid or Private Communities. We explored the rise of these communities amongst millenials and Gen Z and looked at the opportunities that exist in this space in our Trends Newsletter . Today, we have Vivek Narain , Founder of The Quorum , a Member only lifestyle club in Gurgaon with close to $1m ARR. Lifestyle clubs have always existed across the major cities in India. Think the Gymkhanas and Golf Clubs. But, these clubs are now fairly saturated and...
Mar 31, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Sahil (@sahil071) & Siddharth (@sidbetala) announce a new Referral Reward - you can be invited onto this podcast if you get enough referrals to our newsletter. Here's the link that you can use to generate your referral code ! (0:00) - Referral Campaign Thanks (0:45) - Decentraland (3:20) - Regional Newsletters - The New Tropic (14:52) - The rise of Plant Based Foods & Beverages (21:00) - PE Fund for Regional Profitable Companies Join the No Spam WhatsApp Group Decentraland - A new virtua...
Mar 27, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 65
This episode is a deep dive into the business of Restaurants. Hunger Inc. Sameer Seth TID Whatsapp Newsletter (No Spam) We talk to Sameer Seth, Co-founder of Hunger Inc. They've created brands such as The Bombay Canteen, O Pedro & very recently, The Bombay Sweet Shop. Now if you're not from Bombay, you might not have heard about these places. But, ask your friend who lives in Bombay, and they'll most probably have good things to say about these places. We talk to Sameer about his journey of ...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 64
We're doing our first Giveaway! We'll be sending the book 'Psychology of Money' by Morgan Housel to 5 people who help us get the highest number of referrals for our Newsletter. Here's the link that you can use to generate your referral code . Sahil (@sahil071) & Siddharth (@sidbetala) munch on these ideas during the episode: (00:50) - The Indian Dream Book Giveaway - Psychology of Money (02:06) - Gumroad Investment & Equity Crowdfunding (09:05) - Biostimulants & Sea6 Energy (16:25) -...
Mar 19, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Private communities are being built across India and globally as traditional communities built around religion, physical location and trade are being disrupted. New age digital first communities focused on hobbies and learning interests are gaining traction. Leap.Club is one of those exciting private communities that is shaping the landscape of India. Only a year after its founding, Leap.Club has 1000 paying members and more than 8000 people in the waitlist. But this is not a one-off phenomenon....
Mar 17, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Sahil (@sahil071) & Siddharth (@sidbetala) have some fun discussing the helicopter rental industry in India and how it's shockingly profitable. We have some exciting business ideas that we discuss on this episode of business munchies. Join our Spam Free WhatsApp Group. Timestamps: (0:45) - The Indian Dream Fund for Bootstrapped/Profitable Businesses (11:05) - The Economics of the Helicopter Rental Business in India (26:25) - Wealth Management with Social Commerce (37:00) - Opportunities in t...
Mar 13, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Jatin Modi, a serial entrepreneur whose latest venture FrogIdeas is one of the leading B2 B marketing companies in the world with world class clients such as Tata communications, SAP, HCL and many more. Join Our No Spam WhatsApp Group FrogIdeas Jatin Modi Our conversation with Jatin starts in his college hostel where he starts his first venture. after that he tries many ventures before starting MadeinHealth.com, one of India's first ecommerce companies which was eventually sold to healthkart. af...
Mar 09, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Sahil (@sahil071) & Siddharth (@sidbetala) have some fun discussing how Siddharth made $1,000 in one week by trading NBA cards. We also have some interesting business ideas in this episode of business munchies. Join our Spam Free WhatsApp Group. For the first time ever, we were not too lazy to provide timestamps. Timestamps: ( 0:00) - Introduction (0:33) - Final Conclusion to Practo for Lawyers and CA's (2:35) - Summary of two the ideas of the podcast (3:32) - Sikkim Tourism centralised mark...
Mar 05, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 59
This week, we're covering Hi-Tech or New Age Farming. There are tons of niche farming opportunities that can be turned into massively profitable businesses. We wrote about them in our newsletter last week . We also released an episode with the largest seaweed producer in India. In the episode today, we talk about large scale Mushroom farming. We are joined with Avdhesh Kumar, Co-Founder of CEO of Jiwa Foods, which produces over 100 tonnes of mushroom per month! And they're just getting started. ...
Mar 03, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 58
In this episode of Business Munchies, we explore some interesting business ideas and how they can be leveraged in order to build new businesses. We hope you like them! Timestamps: (0:00) - Introduction (3:00) - Pre-School/Day Care Industry (15:20) - Creator Economy (20:42) - Invoice Discounting (30:58) - Non-Alcoholic Beer Join our WhatsApp group here: https://bit.ly/2LgDN2n 1. Pre-School/Day Care Industry: Urbanization is increasing, and nuclear families are on the rise. Combine this with the f...
Feb 27, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 57
High Tech/New Age Farming Newsletter 3 weeks back, the Indian Union Budget was released and within that was a special nugget of information that got us very curious. The government had approved a proposal to spend 640 Crores in setting up a large multi-purpose seaweed park in Tamil Nadu. Now, our initial thought was, who is going to eat so much seaweed? Are we exporting to Japan and China, coz those are the countries that consume seaweeds in their food. We were horribly wrong. Turns out, Seaweed...
Feb 24, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 56
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 (0:18) - No Code (9:47) - Shopify Growth (20:18) - Virtual Exhibitions (30:45) - Lawyer/CA/Agencies Directory (37:09) - Building Niche Websites Join our WhatsApp group here: https://bit.ly/2LgDN2n Business Ideas Discussed on this Epis...
Feb 20, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 55
We speak to Vineet Gupta, Managing Director at Jamboree Education and Founder & Trustee at Ashoka University, one of India's first University for the Liberal Arts. Vineet has had an interesting entrepreneurial journey - we spend the first half of the podcast going into detail about how he started his career and the second half focused on the passion for improving India's education which eventually led him to founding Ashoka University. We actually go into the specifics with Vineet on how he ...
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 54
In this week's Trends Newsletter , we covered the $10 Billion IoT Market. In our previous episode with Kush Mishra, we discussed the opportunities that exist in the overall IoT market. We go further niche in this one. As regular listeners of TID would know, we love niches. In the episode today, we discuss the IoT Industry as it pertains to the automobile industry. Globally, we're now moving towards Smart Mobility, basically all automobiles connected to the Internet. We have Sonia Bajaj with us t...
Feb 13, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 53
We're going to dive deep into the trend of Internet of things which has seen a huge resurgence in the past few years. We have Kush Mishra with us – he’s the CTO and COO of an IoT company called Senra. Through our conversations with various people in this industry we've actually come across an opportunity for a young business leader to become the business head or CEO of an industrial iot based company - if you or someone you know is interested please send an email. Email Us Kush Mishra Senra IoT ...
Feb 10, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 52
