In the eighth episode of the IIMB Podcast Series, Prof. Suresh Bhagavatula, Professor in the Entrepreneurship Area at IIM Bangalore, shares his insights on starting up in a virtual world amidst the changes induced by the pandemic for workforce and collaboration. Prof. Bhagavatula brings his insights from his work on entrepreneurial networks to educate on how collaboration, serendipitous encounters, and other startup characteristics stand changed in this COVID world. The podcast revolves around questions on various legs of starting up, such as finding problems to solve, ideation, team building, hiring and raising funds, and how they stand impacted because of the changes induced by COVID-19.