In this episode of Business Munchies, we talk about the recent Drone Mohatsav and about the Make in India push for the Indian Defence Industry. ------------------------------------------------------ **This episode is brought to you by PushOwl . PushOwl is a web push marketing app built for e-commerce busiensses. Trusted by more than 25000 brands across the globe, PushOwl lets you turn one-time store visitors into subscribers, send highly-visible web push notifications, and increase customer rete...
Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 141
On the episode today, we have with us Ankit Agarwal , Founder of Phool.Co Checkout our Youtube Channel and Subscribe! Did you know India produces 8 Million tonnes of Flower Waste that comes from Temples, Events and various other sources. And a lot of this waste lands up in rivers like Ganga, Yamuna and adds to the pollution. This problem led to the birth of Phool, a brand that’s known for its natural agarbattis. A D2C Brand on the face of it, a bio materials company underneath, this was a fascin...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 140
In this episode of Business Munchies, we talk about the fast growing world of Healthy Snacks and talk about Sahil's experience with Mushroom Coffee and Fully Automated Hotels in US. **This episode is brought to you by PushOwl . PushOwl is a web push marketing app built for e-commerce businesses. Trusted by more than 25000 brands across the globe, PushOwl lets you turn one-time store visitors into subscribers, send highly-visible web push notifications, and increase customer retention!** Episode ...
May 22, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 139
**This episode is brought to you by PushOwl . PushOwl is a web push marketing app built for e-commerce businesses. Trusted by more than 25000 brands across the globe, PushOwl lets you turn one-time store visitors into subscribers, send highly-visible web push notifications, and increase customer retention!** -------------------------------------------------- In this episode, we host Verne Harnish , the author of the bestselling book 'Scaling Up: Why some companies make it and why other's don't' ...
May 17, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 138
Hello Hello Hello! Another Business Munchies Segment and this time we talk about the upcoming Venture Capital Winter, Startups we'd like to take a bet on and why Siddharth has stopped Angel Investing. Hosted by Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) . We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter , reels on Instagram and Clips on Youtube. Follow us there to stay updated!...
May 01, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 137
On this episode, we discuss the path for India's economy to be a $10 Trillion Dollar economy. To talk to us about this, we have Mr. Subhash Chandra Garg on the episode. Mr. Garg has served the country as ex-Finance Secretary and Economic Affairs secretary between 2017 and 2019. He’s an IAS Officer who has served in various key positions across the Central Government and the Govt. of Rajasthan. He has also served as the Executive Director at the World Bank. He has recently written a fantastic boo...
Apr 19, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 136
On this episode, we host Sajith Pai to talk about the brilliant report he and Amal Vats published called the Indus Valley Annual Report 2022 . The Indus Valley Report is a report that captures the beauty of the Indian Startup Ecosystem with relevant data points and helps you make sense of what's happened already and the massive opportunity that is in front of us. The podcast is hosted by Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) . If you like our content, join our No Spam Whatsapp Group to ge...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 135
On the episode today, we have with us Shashank Kumar , Founder of PushOwl If you like the content we create, please drop us a review on Spotify & Apple . And join our No Spam Whatsapp Group to get summaries of the content we create. On this episode, we talk to Shashank about his journey of building, scaling and selling Pushowl. We discuss the following topics: (01:41) - Shashank's Thesis that led to quitting Microsoft, and the initial failures (09:25) - Financial Survival for a Bootstrapped ...
Apr 04, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 134
Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram . Follow us there to stay updated! Click here to help TID part time with content creation and distribution. On this episode, we talk about Warehouse, Cold Storage, Virtual Influencers & Portfolio of Small Bets. (00:19) - Update on Portfolio of Small Bets Approach to Building a Career (04:47) - I...
Mar 27, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 133
On this episode, we have with us Vinay Singhal , Co-Founder of Stage.in If you like the content we create, please drop us a review on Spotify & Apple . And join our No Spam Whatsapp Group to get summaries of the content we create. On this episode, we talk about Vinay's current startup - Stage. Stage is building the Netflix for Bharat, starting with a platform dedicated for premium video content in Harayanvi Dialect. This is an amazing story of an entrepreneur and a team who has seen the high...
Mar 20, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 132
Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram . Follow us there to stay updated! Click here to help TID part time with content creation and distribution. On the show today, we do a dive deep on the Circular Economy, specifically Plastic Recycling and E-Waste recycling. (00:23) - Plastic Recycling in India (20:54) - E-Waste Recycling in India Re...
Mar 14, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 131
On the episode today, we have with us Ankit Gupta, Co-Founder of Burma Burma If you like the content we create, please drop us a review on Spotify & Apple . And join our No Spam Whatsapp Group to get summaries of the content we create. On the episode, we talk to Ankit about the business of restaurants, how food entrepreneurs can do market research, how restaurants are conceptualized and the painful processes that restaurant founders have to go through to get a concept to life! Burma Burma is...
Mar 06, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 130
On the episode today, we have with us Gaurav Sekhri, Co-Founder of Fratelli Wines. If you like the content we create, please drop us a review on Spotify & Apple . We talk to Gaurav about the journey of building Fratelli and how they went about building the brand, distribution and more importantly, awareness for wines in India. (01:27) - How did the Fratelli journey start in 2006? (02:51) - How did the Sekhri family attain the knowledge of wine making? (05:46) - How did they manage the long g...
Feb 27, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 129
Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram . Follow us there to stay updated! Click here to help TID part time with LinkedIn & Twitter (0:55) - Update on Altigreen, that raised $40 million in Funding. We've had the founder of Altigreen on the episode in 2020 where he spoke about the work they were doing in the 3-Wheeler EV Market (05:00)...
Feb 19, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 128
On the episode today, we have with us Dr. Ritesh Malik, Founder of Innov8 Coworking (Sold to OYO) and Founder & Trustee of Plaksha University and an active angel investor who has backed 75+ startups. If you like the content we create, please drop us a review on Spotify & Apple . In this conversation, we touch about three broad topics: The Education Sector in India, The Real-Estate Market, and Angel Investing. Here's an outline of the conversation: (02:29) - The Problem with the Education...
Feb 13, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 127
Hey everyone, welcome to the Budget 2022 special of the Indian Dream Podcast with Sarthak Ahuja. In this episode, we do a complete Indian Dream-style breakdown of the 2022 Indian Budget speech to find the biggest opportunities for entrepreneurs to build new businesses. We discuss every business opportunity from the Budget including Drones training & manufacturing, Electronics & Wearables Manufacturing, Battery Swapping for Electric Vehicles, Ethanol production for fuel blending and so mu...
Feb 06, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 126
Today, we have with us Manish Pandey ( Twitter ), Co-Author of the book Booming Digital Stars to talk about the rise of creator economy and what it takes to be a creator in this day and age. Manish has been the force behind some of India's biggest creators and has helped them with content and distribution strategy. In his new book, Booming Digital Stars, he explores the life's of India's biggest creators and talks about the learnings from their journeys. We're giving away 10 copies of the Boomin...
Jan 30, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 125
Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram . Follow us there to stay updated! Click here to help TID part time with LinkedIn & Twitter (4:00) - The Fertility (IVF) Market in India (24:43) - Disrupting Family Managed Business MBA (40:44) - Rural Influencer Network 👉🏽 Fertility Care Market in India The fertility care market in India is e...
Jan 23, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 124
We speak to John Mullins, Professor of Marketing & Entrepreneurship at the London School of Business and author of the fantastic book, ‘The Customer Funded Business’. Timeline: (3:20) - What is a Customer Funded Business? (6:10) - How do Business Authors find the stories for their books? (11:00) - What’s the difference between Cash Flow & Profits? (15:30) - How do you change the processes and business mindset from just Profit to think about Cash Flow as well? (22:00) - What is Float? How...
Jan 16, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 123
Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram . Follow us there to stay updated! Click here to help TID part time with LinkedIn & Twitter Timeline (01:54) - Senior Citizen Market in India (33:27) - Using Drones for Agriculture Senior Citizen Market Market Size Currently, India has more than 138 Million Senior Citizens. 67 Million Male, 71 M...
Jan 09, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 122
On this founder journey, we speak to Rohit MA , co-founder and CEO of Cloudnine Hospitals. It is a chain of maternity hospitals that's spread across 9 cities and has 20+ hospitals. We speak to Rohit about his journey, how he raised capital for the business, how he scaled and the focus on customer experience. Join our No-Spam WhatsApp Group Here's an episode outline: (03:39) - The Thesis behind starting a Speciality Maternity Hospital (10:05) - The Pros & Cons of having experience in the indu...
Jan 02, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 121
Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram . Follow us there to stay updated! This episode is a look back of 2021. This is our first full calendar year of creating podcasts and newsletters for The Indian Dream. Just this year, we've produced ~80 podcasts and written ~30 newsletter talking about Founder Journeys, Market Trends and various opp...
Dec 26, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 120
Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram . Follow us there to stay updated! Click here to help TID part time with LinkedIn & Twitter Job Description for the Content Associate Job at Blume Ventures Click here to apply for the Content Associate Job at Blume Ventures Timeline (00:00) - Introduction with two Job Announcements (02:30) - Def...
Dec 19, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 119
We're doing a Book Give Away! We'll be sending copies of 'The Minimalist Entrepreneur' to folks interested in building a profitable internet business. Just follow us on Twitter or Instagram & tell us about what you want to building using the framework laid out in The Minimalist Entrepreneur book . On the episode, we host Sahil Lavingia, Founder of Gumroad and the author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur. We talk to him about the roller-coaster ride of building Gumroad to a profitable internet b...
Dec 12, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 118
On this founder journey, we speak to Abhishek Goel , co-founder and CEO of Cactus Communications . Abhishek & his brother Anurag have built a culture of excellence into Cactus. They have an on-time delivery of 99.63%! How many other Indian businesses can boast of numbers like that? Join our No-Spam WhatsApp Group On this podcast, we've often spoken about how the best place to build a business is where everyone else avoids. Abhishek and Cactus' journey is a testament to that. Cactus communica...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 117
Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram . Follow us there to stay updated! Timeline: ( 00:58) - Revenue Based Financing (22:56) - Translation Services for Movies, TV Shows on Netflix, Prime Video (33:54) - Life Skill Courses for Teenagers Business Ideas Revenue Based Financing Capital is an essential commodity to grow a business. The trad...
Nov 28, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 116
In this fascinating conversation about the journey of building a Rs. 100 Cr business from a seed capital of Rs. 64,000, we talk to Suveer Bajaj, Co-founder of FoxyMoron & Zoo Media . FoxyMoron is one of India's premier Digital Marketing & Advertising agency. Suveer started FoxyMoron in 2008, when he was just 19. 13 years later, he has been able to scale up the business to 500+ people and built an Advertising Network (Zoo Media) which is 7 agencies under it. Join our No-Spam WhatsApp Grou...
Nov 22, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 115
Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram . Follow us there to stay updated! Timeline: (2:15) - Environmental, Social & Governance standards for big businesses (24:30) - Fractionalization of Real Estate (35:40) - Influencers working with State Tourism Boards (41:50) - Review Website for Cohort Based Courses Business Ideas ESG Investing ...
Nov 15, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 114
Welcome to a really exciting episode of the Indian Dream - we've wanted to talk to this founder for the past 1 year at least. In this episode, we speak to Vivek Sahni, co-founder and CEO of Kama Ayurveda . For the few listeners who haven't heard of Kama, they are an Ayurveda based Hair & Beauty brand that now has 59 retail stores across the country. Join our No-Spam WhatsApp Group The reason we love Kama Ayurveda so much is that they started in 2002 at a time when nobody spoke about Ayurveda...
Nov 07, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 113
Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram . Follow us there to stay updated! Timeline: (00:0) - Introduction (1:59) - Video & Livestream E-commerce (21:43) - Tiger 21 - Peer Network for High net worth individuals (36:54) - No-Code & Low Code Automation Teams at Enterprises & SMEs (41:12) - Indian wear but for Office Idea Details...
Oct 31, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 112
