Indian Startup Stories
"Indian Startup Stories" is a podcast about entrepreneurs and startups. Hear out stories straight from the founders, co-founders & leaders of various startups in India. They talk about how they started with their idea?, the passion which drives them, challenges they’ve faced, their achievements, how they managed bringing in funding and all the insights they have gathered in their journey, making them long runners. And yes! don't miss-out the rapid fire questions, at the end of each episode.
Episodes
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 ...
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 mana...
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...
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, ...
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 ent...
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 ha...
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: F...
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 auto...
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 tog...
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 th...
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 p...
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 an...
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 em...
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 exist...
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...
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”
14:14E...
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 &...
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 countri...
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 I...
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
15:18F...
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