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Welcome to #68 episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Today we have Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussing - 

1. Swiggy begins Drone Delivery Service

2. Wakefit wants employees to sleep at work

3. Deepinder Goyal donates Rs 700Cr 

4. Delhivery Going ahead with IPO

5. Open - India’s 100th unicorn

and more!

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Chirag Taneja is the co-founder and CEO of GoKwik, a startup that enables e-commerce companies and merchants to convert more. In this episode he spoke about the non-Amazon/Flipkart wave in the ecosystem, the e-commerce enablement catergory, prioritizing product roadmaps and more in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa. 

Topics: 

00:00 Introduction

01:18 Evolution of Ecommerce in India

04:31 The non-Amazon/Flipkart wave

06:49 The upcoming ONDC revolution

08:12 The Ecommerce enablement category

11:40 Unique insight that led to GoKwik's founding

15:02 Process of customer validation

17:53 What is GoKwik?

21:16 Prioritizing product roadmap 

24:31 How does acquisition work for GoKwik?

27:08 High level challenges Chirag is solving

30:56 Scaling people from 0-1 to 1-10 journey

33:51 Advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in the ecommerce space

37:33 Books and Podcast Recommendations

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Welcome to #67 episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Today we have Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussing - 

Topics

1. Govt. asks EV Makers to halt launch of new models

2. India launches pilot phase of UPI-type protocol ONDC in 5 cities

3. Flipkart opens up logistics arm for other ecomm players

4. Swiggy launches career accelerator programme for delivery executives

5. Turtlemint raises $120M

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Welcome to #66 episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Today we have Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussing - 

1. Swiggy invests in Rapido

2. Ola enters hyperlocal delivery space

3. OfBusiness aiming for largest tech IPO in India

4. Nykaa announced investments in 3 companies

and more!

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Abhishek Nayak is a serial entrepreneur and has started up 5 times and currently the Co-founder and CEO of Appsmith,  a startup that helps companies build customized applications. In this episode he spoke about how he finds the resolve to startup each time, what tricks he uses to prevent himself from burning out, how to find a remarkable idea to startup on and more in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa.

Topics:

00:00 Introduction

01:24 Being a Serial Entrepreneur

02:39 Lessons along the way

04:28 Making the decision to exit 

07:08 How to prevent burn out

11:23 Building a startup crew

14:57 Why did Abhishek start Appsmith

17:38 Finding a great Idea

19:15 Going from idea to product to company

22:07 What is AppSmith and what are its use cases?

23:51 The low code/no code revolution

26:02 How does Appsmith's customer acquisition work?

27:42 Nuances of selling to developers

29:23 Building a developer community

30:53 Future of AppSmith

32:10 Breaking into the enterprise market

33:07 How is Abhishek preparing for the next leap forward?

34:59 Books and Podcast recommendations

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Arman is a second time entrepreneur and the co-founder of Sleepy Owl, India's first cold brewed coffee brand. In this episode he spoke about the principles to starting up, educating consumers about your product, creating consumer loyalty and more in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa.

Topics:

00:00 Introduction

01:11 Principles to startup

04:25 Surprises in FnB industry 

09:22 The Coffee Value Chain

13:17 Testing a hypothesis

15:33 Educating consumers about the product

18:36 Sleepy Owl's various products

21:57 Working with marketplace platforms

23:54 Creating customer loyalty

26:23 Change in consumer mindset

29:17 Scaling a D2C business

31:27 Venture Studios

32:38 Advice for new entrepreneurs

34:35 Books and Podcast recommendations

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Sunith is the co-founder of Beforest Lifestyle Solutions, a startup that  builds and helps maintain sustainable farms and homes as a collective.  Sunith, previously a tech veteran transitioned into a sustainable  property solutions with Beforest. In this episode he spoke about how he  made the transition from thinking about bits and bytes to atoms and  molecules, getting people to care about sustainability and the nuances  of running a D2C business with Roshan Cariappa.

Topics:

00:00 Introduction

01:26 Transitioning from tech to sustainable properties

03:30 Going through the transition

06:37 Going from a bits & bytes to an atoms & molecules mindset

09:24 What is Beforest?

10:45 Principles to operate in a nascent space

13:13 Getting people to care about sustainability

16:03 What is a collective and what goes into building it?

19:55 Bringing together a collective

23:48 Maintaining ecological & economic balance of a farm

28:25 Nuances of running a D2C business

33:10 What's next for Beforest?

36:48 Advice on building a niche community

39:32 Advice on building in the sustainability space 

42:34 Books and Podcast recommendations

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Welcome to #65 episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Today we have Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussing - 

1. Tata Group officially launches super app Tata Neu

2. Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), is all set to launch its beta version in April.

3. Zomato, Swiggy to face CCI probe for alleged unfair business practices

4. Unacademy lays off 600 employees amid cost-cutting exercise

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Kyle is the co-founder and CEO of MemeChat, a social app made for memers by memers. In this episode Kyle spoke about how he convinced his parents when he started out building MemeChat, how he went from an idea to a product and to a company, their NFT Marketplace, the nuances of building for millennials and GenZ in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa.

Topics:

00:00 Introduction

01:10 How Kyle sold his startup idea to his parents

02:38 Kyle's experience of Meme economy

04:05 Going from idea to product to company with MemeChat

09:56 Are people losing interest in creating for big tech platforms?

11:02 What is MemeChat and who is it for?

13:11 How do you engineer bots to be funny?

14:50 MemeChat's NFT Marketplace

17:13 Nuances of building for the Millennials and GenZ

18:13 Scaling to 100mn+ users

20:03 How do you Scale content

21:17 Customer acquisition strategy

22:38 Working with OTT platforms

23:41 MemeChat in the next 18-24 months

25:07 Developing a mindset for sustainable growth 

26:53 Insights for new consumer tech entrepreneurs

28:43 How is Kyle preparing for the next leap at MemeChat

30:55 Creating a category

32:52 Dealing with failure

34:55 Keeping up with evolving audiences

36:03 Books and Podcast recommendations

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Welcome to #64 episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Today we have Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussing - 

1. Electric 2-wheeler catches fire in Chennai

2. Byju’s launches its subsidiary in Doha after FIFA world cup sponsorship

3. LambdaTest raises $45 million to build 'AWS for testers'

4. Pixxel Bags $25 million in Series A funding 

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