Sean is a media guru, starting out as an entrepreneur himself (trying to automate the process of buying and selling TV ads) to a industry executive. His journey has taken him through HBO, Discovery, MTV and Bertelsmann, trying to bring innovation in terms of technology and content to various media platforms. He talks about the similarities and differences between being an entrepreneur on the outside, versus being an entrepreneur within a large enterprise. And while there may be resources available, finding the product-market fit, and being able to sell management on the overall ROI create some parallels with startups. Keywords: media, entertainment, audio, music, video, creatives, artists, content...

Conversation about Surya's journey from college, finding a gap in the market, to launching, pivoting and scaling Skill-lync. The goal is to have tangible takeaways for entrepreneurs -- understanding the key learnings along the way, from the "aha moment" to "finding tailwind in the pandemic" to a "vision for creating a $1B revenue company (not a $1B value company) from India for the world". Key words: skilling, training, education, college, engineering, placement, hiring...

Conversation about Surya's journey from college, finding a gap in the market, to launching, pivoting and scaling Skill-lync. The goal is to have tangible takeaways for entrepreneurs -- understanding the key learnings along the way, from the "aha moment" to "finding tailwind in the pandemic" to a "vision for creating a $1B revenue company (not a $1B value company) from India for the world". Key words: skilling, training, education, college, engineering, placement, hiring...

Listen to the customers, not necessarily the investors. Journey from consulting to entrepreneurship and especially getting to initial paying customer before raising a dime of external capital. Aha moment -- enterprise customers were looking for a comprehensive solution from the get-go, rather than a focused point solution (and then extending the product portfolio which is the typical advice from venture investors). Key words: cloud, cost optimization, security, compliance, governance, management...

Listen to the customers, not necessarily the investors. Journey from consulting to entrepreneurship and especially getting to initial paying customer before raising a dime of external capital. Aha moment -- enterprise customers were looking for a comprehensive solution from the get-go, rather than a focused point solution (and then extending the product portfolio which is the typical advice from venture investors). Key words: cloud, cost optimization, security, compliance, governance, management...

Karthik is an incredible combination of academic brilliance and business acumen. He is a serial entrepreneur, an angel investor, a renowned professor of marketing at Wharton, a one man incubator (several companies have been launched by his students including Yodle, Warby Parker etc.) with his support and guidance. His newest venture, Jumpcut, is all about democratizing TV and video using data to discover and elevate new talent. Karthik has a keen eye for using broad marketing canvas to create a connection with the customer by leveraging online and offline marketing and branding. He was influential as an advisor during Iron Pillar Fund I, and worked closely with our onmi-channel jewelry company, BlueStone. While on sabbatical from Wharton, he also happened to write a screenplay that he wanted to turn into a movie. That is when he discovered the gaps in the movie/video industry that led to the founding of Jumpcut. Keywords: movies, hollywood, bollywood, talent, discovery, video, artists,

Shan is a serial entrepreneur and someone who made the not so natural leap from gaming (Zynga) to fresh fish. This is the story of bringing technology to actually having an impact and making a difference. Shan decided that there was a better way to get fresh fish and produce from sea shore to the doorstep in 24-36 hours at a competitive price point. He also decided to take the business global from India to the middle east. He dives into the how, when and why of expanding the business from one geography to multiple in India, and then eventually overseas...and the technology leverage that gives him the edge in the market. Keywords: fish, seafood, online grocery, fresh, convenient, value,

Shan is a serial entrepreneur and someone who made the not so natural leap from gaming (Zynga) to fresh fish. This is the story of bringing technology to actually having an impact and making a difference. Shan decided that there was a better way to get fresh fish and produce from sea shore to the doorstep in 24-36 hours at a competitive price point. He also decided to take the business global from India to the middle east. He dives into the how, when and why of expanding the business from one geography to multiple in India, and then eventually overseas...and the technology leverage that gives him the edge in the market. Keywords: fish, seafood, online grocery, fresh, convenient, value,

Talal is a hard core computer scientist (multiple degrees from Cornell) but with a passion for Intellectual Property. He was part of the team that developed the original water marking technology for digital rights management. And now, at the helm of Intertrust, focuses on utilizing IP as both a defensive and an offensive strategy. And while execution is still key to success for entrepreneurs, IP can play an important role in terms of differentiation and keeping competition at bay. Keywords: IP, intellectual property, patents, offensive, defensive, strategy, competition, differentiation...