The Indian Dream

In this episode of Business Munchies, we talk about the recent Drone Mohatsav and about the Make in India push for the Indian Defence Industry. 

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Episode Outline:
(02:11) - Update on Drone Mahotsav - Government Organized Event for Drones
(21:35) - Why India needs to manufacture its own defence equipments
(55:27) - Content Recommendation for this week


Reference Links:
Link to the announcements on Drones Mohatsav

Link to the Drones Episode on The Indian Dream

Link to Drones for Agriculture Research

Link to Research on Make in India for Defence Equipment. 

On the episode today, we have with us  Ankit Agarwal, Founder of Phool.Co

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Did you know India produces 8 Million tonnes of Flower Waste that comes from Temples, Events and various other sources. And a lot of this waste lands up in rivers like Ganga, Yamuna and adds to the pollution.

This problem led to the birth of Phool, a brand that’s known for its natural agarbattis.

A D2C Brand on the face of it, a bio materials company underneath, this was a fascinating conversation with Ankit Agarwal, Co-Founder of Phool.Co.

Episode Outline: 
(03:01) - What led to identifying the problem of Temple Waste and birth of Phool
(07:26) - Initial Journey of Phool
(15:54) - Going ahead with the idea despite advice from Industry Experts
(32:08) - How the World Economic Forum Video came about. Lessons on Bootstrapping
(37:55) - Creating Fleather (Floral Leather)
(47:38) - Solving Waste Management by building sustainable businesses 
(50:12) - Value Chain of Temple Waste Recycling
(01:01:36) - How did Alia Bhatt become Phool's Brand Ambassador 

In this episode of Business Munchies, we talk about the fast growing world of Healthy Snacks and talk about Sahil's experience with Mushroom Coffee and Fully Automated Hotels in US.

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Episode Outline:
(01:44) - Sahil's Experience in a US Business Exhibition
(03:09) - Four Sigmatic Mushroom Coffee, Mushroom derived products in India
(05:27) - A peak into the future - Fully Automated Hotels in US.
(11:29) - Start to the Discussion on Healthy Snacks
(14:13) - Why this industry is set for good growth
(19:59) - Government's focus on Food processing Industry
(22:13) - Startups in the space of Health Snacks
(26:05) - Different Segments within Healthy Snack Market
(33:50) - What does it take to start a Healthy Snack brand
(38:15) - Target Market for Healthy Snacks
(41:23) - Opportunities in the Health Snack Industry
(45:21) - Infrastructure Businesses
(53:40) - Independent Certification Body that does testing for various products?
(59:44) - Content Marketing - The differentiator in D2C Health Snack Brands
(01:01:56) - Our Movie picks for the week

Relevant Links:

Mushroom Farming Episode
Jiwa foods
Soulfull Foods Episode on The Indian Dream
Food Processing Episode
Food Processing Market Size and Growth in India
Link to newsletter comparing how Snack manufacturers game the ingredients to call products healthier! 

Hello Hello Hello! Another Business Munchies Segment and this time we talk about the upcoming Venture Capital Winter, Startups we'd like to take a bet on and why Siddharth has stopped Angel Investing.

Hosted by Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala). We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter, reels on Instagram and Clips on Youtube. 

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On this episode, we discuss the path for India's economy to be a $10 Trillion Dollar economy. To talk to us about this, we have Mr. Subhash Chandra Garg on the episode. 

Mr. Garg has served the country as ex-Finance Secretary and Economic Affairs secretary between 2017 and 2019. He’s an IAS Officer who has served in various key positions across the Central Government and the Govt. of Rajasthan. He has also served as the Executive Director at the World Bank. He has recently written a fantastic book called The $10 Trillion Dream where he talks about the State of the Indian Economy and the Policy Reforms we need as a country. It’s very detailed account of where we stand across sectors like Agriculture, Infrastructure, Technology etc and how we can set up the right policies to grow these sectors and achieve the $10 Trillion Dollar Dream. 

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On this episode, we host Sajith Pai to talk about the brilliant report he and Amal Vats published called the Indus Valley Annual Report 2022.

The Indus Valley Report is a report that captures the beauty of the Indian Startup Ecosystem with relevant data points and helps you make sense of what's happened already and the massive opportunity that is in front of us.

The podcast is hosted by Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala). If you like our content,  join our No Spam Whatsapp Group to get summaries of the content we create. 

In today's episode, we discuss: 

(02:19) - Why India is a country of contradictions?
(06:10) - How India is a combination of different markets - India 1, India 2, India 3
(10:42) - Bunking the myth that Indians don't like to pay. What it takes to make middle class India pay. 
(13:07) - The impact of Jio in India & how India's consumption story is still driven by a small % of the population
(16:38)  - Has India achieve Wang Trifecta? (Cheap Internet, Smartphone Penetration, Digital Payment Ecosystem)
(19:45) - Why India's Per Capita Income is a cause for concern. 
(25:21) - India's emerging Manufacturing story and how are Venture Capitalists looking to invest in this sector
(32:54) - Understand the state of SaaS, Fintech & E-Commerce
(40:46) - Is India an over ventured market? As in too much venture capital flowing in and thus too many startups for the size of the Market?
(45:05) - The Rise of Porn in India (Things that were left out of the report!)
(50:17) - How does a report like this help a VC make investment decisions
(54:42) - Will India see a new set of Founders who can target the Bharat market?
(1:00:00) - How should founders think about their Content Consumption?
(1:04:00) - How can one break into the Venture Capital world if they want to build a career there?
(1:09:49) - How has Sajith's relationship with money evolved over time?

On the episode today, we have with us Shashank Kumar, Founder of PushOwl

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On this episode, we talk to Shashank about his journey of building, scaling and selling Pushowl. 

We discuss the following topics: 

(01:41) - Shashank's Thesis that led to quitting Microsoft, and the initial failures
(09:25) - Financial Survival for a Bootstrapped Business & the Entrepreneur in the initial years
(13:13) - Fighting the psychological battle of quitting when the times are tough
(15:19) - Finding the idea of PushOwl and hiring the first team member
(17:45) - How should Indie hackers decide what's a good time to quit?
(20:19) - Finding Product Market Fit on Shopify
(26:51) - How to Interact with Customers without asking leading questions
(29:22) - Hiring for Bootstrapped Businesses 
(33:14) - Choosing to stay bootstrapped even when there was Venture Capital interest
(39:30) - Decision to Sell the Business to SendinBlue
(41:00) - Risk of Building on someone else's platform - Platform Risk
(44:32) - Headless Commerce - The new wave in E-commerce
(47:38) - Advice for young Indie Hackers






 

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On this episode, we talk about Warehouse, Cold Storage, Virtual Influencers & Portfolio of Small Bets. 

(00:19) - Update on Portfolio of Small Bets Approach to Building a Career
(04:47) - India's First Virtual Influencer, Kaira 
(09:03) - Why is there a boom in Warehousing in India?
(15:08) - Opportunities in Robotics & Automation of Warehouses
(19:22) - What it takes to build warehouses and what are the opportunities
(25:50) - Aggregation of Warehouses
(29:25) - Cloud Warehousing
(32:53) - Cold Storage & Warehousing
(37:54) - Subsidies for Cold Storage Warehousing
(39:15) - Micro Cold Warehouses
(46:09) - Problem Areas and Opportunities in Cold Warehousing
(47:41) - Portable Cold Storage

On this episode, we have with us Vinay Singhal, Co-Founder of Stage.in

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On this episode, we talk about Vinay's current startup - Stage. 

Stage is building the Netflix for Bharat, starting with a platform dedicated for premium video content in Harayanvi Dialect. 

This is an amazing story of an entrepreneur and a team who has seen the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. Before Stage, this team was behind WittyFeed. 

Wittyfeed became the world's second largest media biz in terms of views, right behind Buzzfeed. One fine day, Facebook decided to ban WittyFeed and effectively kill its business overnight. 

Since then Vinay and team have gone back to the drawing board and built a startup that's building premium video content OTT platform for Bharat.