Kstart Podcast

Lisa Shufro, founder of a boutique consultancy specializing in content strategy and development, speaker curation and custom conference design after being the Managing Editor of TEDMED.

Dr. Anil K. Gupta is the Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy, Globalization and Entrepreneurship and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland at College Park. Anil is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy, globalization and entrepreneurship.

Ajay Kela, CEO and President of Wadhwani Group has been committed towards accelerating economic development in emerging economies through large-scale education led initiatives driving skill development and job creation. In this podcast, he summarizes on how to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem in India and how coalescing diverse and allied entrepreneurial ecosystems would solve the problem of unemployment.

Hema Ravichander is Career Human Resources Professional who has spent many years in the manufacturing and IT sectors. She has been associated with startups as a part of their leadership team and now as a consultant. Successful Startups have demonstrated that one of the founders take up HR as a function informally though it is difficult to draw departmental boundaries in the initial days. In this podcast, Hema shares her insights on people mantras that startups will find very useful.

Angel Investor, mentor and author, Ajeet khurana, talks about overcoming early startup challenges.

Lakshmi Pratury, CEO of INK talks, shares insights on the art of story telling for entrepreneurs.

Tuck Lye Koh, Founding Partner and CEO of Shunwei Capital, A China based venture capital firm, shares his learning from over half a decade of investing in Chinese startups.

Jim Hornthal, co founder of LaunchPad Central shares his perspective on how startups can use agile Innovation approach to innovate efficiently at 50x the speed.

Nipun Mehrotra, VP strategic growth and initiatives at IBM, talks about IBM’s evolution over the years and how they now plan to engage with startups. He also shares his perspective on why cognitive technologies are the next big thing.

Lisa Howie, Director of Investments at Yale University, shares her view about how capital scarcity leads companies to build a stronger, more differentiated competitive advantage.