The Indian Startup Show

Today I speak with Neetal Parekh (@neetal_parekh) Founder & CEO of Innov8social.com an online platform to make it easier for people to engage in the social impact space. Neetal has over a decade of experience in corporate, education, nonprofit, government, and social enterprise.

A passionate advocate for social entrepreneurship and impact innovation, Neetal believes that this field empowers us to creatively re-imagine how businesses and individuals can create meaningful impact and lasting value.

She is the host of the Innov8social Podcast, featuring interviews with thinkers and doers in the social impact space. She is also an adviser to social enterprise startups and as a mentor at the Sustainability Innovations Lab at GSVlabs. She has been selected as a Starting Bloc Fellow for 2016.

We talk about how she got started. how YOU can get started with social enterprise, to her volunteering work in India with her mother.

She also talks about her time as a mentor inspiring social entrepreneurs during the Startup Tech For Good Week in San Francisco last year

links

Website: innov8social.com

Book - 51 Questions on Social Entrepreneurship: http://www.innov8social.com/book

Podcast: http://www.innov8social.com/podcast

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Today I speak to Charanjeev Salva, (@theflyingsikh) Founder of SinghStyled. The world's first style store created exclusively for the Sikh community. The team handpicks and curates a special subscription box every month with Turbans, styling, grooming and lifestyle products.

We talk about how he got the idea, The importance of the Turban , how he & team goes about curating products, to plans for the future. They launched around 3 months ago and are doing really well. Its an interesting fact 68% of purchases are actually made by non-Sikhs. So listen in to find out why!

links

Website http://www.singhstyled.com/

Twitter https://twitter.com/singhstyled

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/singhstyled

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Naveen Jain (@Naveen_Jain_CEO), is a billionaire, and founder of World Innovation Institute, Intelius, Moon Express, inome and Infospace. He is also a trustee of the board at the X Prize Foundation, where he focuses on finding entrepreneurial solutions to challenges in education, poverty, agriculture, health and clean water.

We talk about Moon Express which plans to send a rocket tho the moon as a business venture to collect minerals and resources and bring them back to earth. We also talk about his new project Blue Dot and his time at the XPRIZE Foundation

Naveen pushes big dreams into action, spurring massive cultural and technological change. We also talk about what makes a good leader, the one thing founders should be focusing on, the best advice he ever received, to whether there is life on Mars.

Great episode!

Awards

Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year, Silicon India's "Most Admired Serial Entrepreneur," and the receiver of "Albert Einstein Technology Medal" for his pioneers in technology, he has been repeatedly honored for his entrepreneurial successes. Red Herring also recognized him as one of the "Top 20 Serial Entrepreneurs" and with the "Lifetime Achievement Award."

Websites

http://www.naveenjain.com/

http://www.xprize.org/

The Indian Startup Show is hosted and produced by Neil Patel

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Today we have Ryan Chadha (@RyanChadha) the co-founder of an international pre-school called Jigyasa in Bangalore, India. Jigyasa is a state-of-the-art preschool which offers a mixed age environment which encourages children to work and play collaboratively,

Ryan Started the school with his mother over 2 years ago with 5 kids an not much money! But they now have over 30 kids and doing really well. They are now looking at developing their own educational apps in the future.

Ryan is also an accomplished sportsperson, having represented the UAE at all age group levels for first class cricket. So we talk about scoring hundreds, to dealing with screaming kids.

Enjoy the show!

Links

Website: http://www.jigyasatheschool.com/

Facebook: Facebook.com/jigyasatheschool

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Ferdinand Kayulff, is the founder & CEO of CodersTrust. Coderstrust provides micro-finance for underprivileged talents to upgrade their coding skills, so they can earn more money on freelance portals. They have trained many developers in Bangladesh, India & Kenya.

Ferdinand was also a Captain of the Danish army he served as recovery officer in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussain . He pioneered a recovery project with the allied forces, bringing internet and e-learning to the citizens of the region in which he was stationed. The project was a massive success and inspired him to eventually create CodersTrust!

Links

www.coderstrust.com

Super Heroes vs Master Hackers

The financial services industry is changing, and it’s time someone comes in to save the day. The old ways aren’t working.

Enter Super Heroes vs Master Hackers, the Mumbai edition!

So this an amazing 36-hour hackathon that will superhero punch some awesomeness into Fintech!

Calling all Mumbai and Pune’s best developers, designers and entrepreneurs get yourself down to the world famous Bombay Stock Exchange on 28-29th November 2015.

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create the future of banking, now!

3 Tracks: Mobile Money, Merchant Payments and Customer Onboarding

Winners will receive 3 months co-working space and a fast track interview for the Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars.

Prizes also include: Up to 6 lakhs in cash prizes, Apple TV, YU Yuphoria phone, Sony MDR XB-540 Headphones and more.

Partners: Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Salesforce, Foursquare, CitrusPay, PayUMoney, Zone Startups India, AceHacker and many more.

Join the battle at: http://www.heroesvshackers.com #heroesvshackers or call +91-988-011-2117

So if you have an idea , sign up TODAY join a super cool team , build something amazing, get investment , change the world , come on the show and talk about it!

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Barbara Maim is the Co-founder and CEO of Minsh, a community messaging system, a private social network with your own customised brand. In 2008, she co-founded Minsh, and a few years later, in June 2011, she moved from Lausanne to Bangalore with her husband and Co-founder, Jon. We talk about her time in India, working with her husband ,and plans for the future. Enjoy the Show.

links

https://minsh.com/

The Indian Startup Show is hosted and produced by Neil Patel

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Today I speak with Amar Vyas (@amarauthor). He is an author, a soon to be podcaster, and is a self-described nomad, who has lived in fifteen cities over the past twenty years in two continents. Somewhere in this timespan life he went to graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and business school at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Amar's debut novel NRI:Now, Returned to India was published in August 2014. NRI is the first in a four part series featuring the protagonist Amol Dixit and it is a humorous tale of woes experienced by Amol when he returns to India in haste.

We talk about the book , his life in America and India., The fiction scene in India, his new podcast and his plans for the future. Enjoy the show!

links

Website: http://www.amarvyas.in

Podcast: http://www.mykitaab.in

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With the ongoing refugees crisis in Europe i chat to Anne Riechart co-founder of Refugees on Rails. A coding school for refugees based in Berlin, Germany . Their aim is to help refugees to build and expand their qualification as software developers and provide them the opportunity to work with startups and tech companies.

They only started 6 weeks ago and they have over 200 volunteers. Germany has been particularly welcoming and innovative when it comes to refugees.

We talk about how this got started , aims and objectives, her time spent in Japan and plans for the future.

key takeaway

No matter how bad life gets there are people like Anne who will will help you!

links

Website: http://refugeesonrails.org/

twitter: @RefugeesOnRails

P.S Refugees on Rails are looking for old laptops , so if you want to donate go to their website http://refugeesonrails.org/

The Indian Startup Show is hosted and produced by Neil Patel

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Today I am joined by Kavita Kapoor (@kavitakapoor) who is the author of a new book called Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Kaam.

The book is based on her first hand experience across India. The book helps young professionals answer their questions and navigate the dynamic ever changing work space. So if you are struggling with what to do next in your life , then please listen.

We talk about a wide range of subjects from her experiences of leadership and mentorships , what makes a good boss, what happens if your boss is not very good , her side projects , blogging, entrepreneurship to women in tech.

Enjoy the show.

Links

kavitakapoor.org

The Indian Startup Show is hosted and produced by Neil Patel

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In this episode I talk with Devin Miller , the lead engineer at NextDrop a startup based in Bangalore. Nextdrop is a for-profit enterprise with a social mission, they want to rid the world of its water problems.

Devin is originally from America studying computer science but decided to quit to try and come over to to India and to tackle India’s water issues. We talk about how it works, how they attract customers, his first impressions of India and plans for the future.

links

Website: www.nextdrop.org

twitter: @nextdrop

The Indian Startup Show is hosted and produced by Neil Patel

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