This podcast is a conversion of my video upload on the topic on YouTube: RajatYadav

Because of all the media buzz around big startups raising millions of dollars of funding amount, most founders today consider funding as a critical part of the process of starting up, which is absolutely wrong.

In this part 2 of the series, I will focus on how I used my time while in college and what caused me to leave the usual high-paying job route and begin the entrepreneurship journey.

Being an IIT Madras alumnus, I thought of making a series called "My IIT Journey" where I tell you how I prepared for the IIT JEE exam and how was my life inside IIT Madras. The good things I did and the mistakes I made. Why did I leave good-paying jobs and came into entrepreneurship? Answering all this so that no matter which college you are in, you can implement some learnings in your life and hopefully see some positive changes.

During the economic downturn in the pandemic and even otherwise, companies always have to come to mass lay-offs and employees suffer the most in these. In this podcast, I am highlighting the mindset of the companies when they prepare to lay-off and how you can safeguard yourself from it.

Clearing the air on the different popular investment structures available for a startup - loan, equity and convertible notes. I see a lot of founders running around confused on this. Let me just remove all these confusions.

Busting the most absurd advise that you will find on social media - "Start saving now to get rich tomorrow!". Yes, this is the most absurd advise that you can follow as a youngster. Can you name one person who has become financially successful by saving money?

When founders are ready to launch their startups, there is always this fear that how will they compete against the existing big players. For example,  Flipkart in the e-comm space, Paytm in the digital payment space, or even globally, Tesla in the electric vehicle space. Can your small startup flourish in the same sector that these giants are in? The topic of discussion of this podcast.

Founders are always confused about the best marketing strategy for their startup to get the first 100 users.