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 Community journalism on election and holding on to an independent...

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 management & remote business 19:36How pricing models are thought through and...

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 testimonial from the ground. Idea of SIP (Systematic investment Plan) in...

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, cryptocurrencies & expanding business. 36:57Customer adoptions and trends...

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 entrepreneur before the start. ZERO-ONE principle to start...

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 happened next? How entrepreneurship was taught 09:58Being in Finland, and...

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: From senior leadership in Corporate to New track of Entrepreneurship 16:42Team...

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 automation in data analytics, machine learning products 12:39Incubation platforms...

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 together 22:54Different Hero products targeting niche gaps for varied Indian EV...

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 the business, and decision making challenges 18:05Business opportunities and market...

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 product 16:16Starting with co-founders & how are the fundings managed? - Is...

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 and retention; and statistics around 13:11Association with Startup Incubation -...

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 employee to entrepreneur; additional considerations and alternative revenue...

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 existing network; and importance of saying “YES” 11:05Early day challenges,...

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 gradually 17:54Global leadership & transitioning to entrepreneurship;...

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” 14:14East meeting west; Global leadership with Indian knowledge & wisdom 17:55Team...

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 back03:58Must know information about Wadhwani...

Today’s guest:Sasank Chilamkurthy, AI Scientist Founding member (Qure)Website: https://qure.ai/ You will learn:01:40Background - College, specialization & focus on AI04:05Qure - Mission to healthcare affordable, AI for radiology, and products for...

Today’s guest:Nitin Sisodia, Founder & CEO (Sohum Innovation labs)Website: https://sohumforall.com/ You will learn:01:40Background - Childhood, Academics & career with Innovation focus04:06Sohum Innovation lab - What it is, the team & focus...

Today’s guest:Aravind S & Rohit Reddy, Founders (Docupilot)Website: https://docupilot.app/ You will learn:01:16Background - Academics & career days at Zoho02:00Docupilot - What it is, Ideation, what problem it solves? &...

Today’s guest:Venkatesh Kothandaraman, CEO & Founder (Collective Minds)Website: https://thecollectiveminds.com/You will learn:01:43Background - Academics, career, early day intra-preneurships13:17Collective minds creations - Robotics process...

Today’s guest:Rajeev Ranjan , Co-Founder (Taomish & Xceler.ai)Websites: https://taomish.com/ ; https://xceler.ai/You will learn:01:26Background - Academics, career, Idea for technology company04:57Curiosity & developer mindset - It all begins...

Today’s guest:Vinusha M K, Founder, CBO (Four Seasons Pastry)Website: https://fourseasonspastry.com/ You will learn:02:37Background - Schooling and business passion at young age04:16Four verticals under the brand “Four Seasons Pastry”08:05Awards,...

Today’s guest:Satish Medapati, CEO, Founder (Intentico)Website: http://intentico.ai/ You will learn:02:12Background - academics & career03:02Intentico: What is a “Cognitive AI” platform?  and it’s products05:32Impacts of AI products in - Small...