The Startup Operator

Jen Abel is the co-founder of JJELLYFISH. She is a B2B go to market specialist and helps Indian founders expand into the US market. In this episode we dive deep into some of her tweets hiring Salespeople.

Tweets:

00:00 Introduction

00:57 https://twitter.com/jjen_abel/status/1433168864439902209

05:18 https://twitter.com/jjen_abel/status/1373271691414138882

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenabel/

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator

​Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​​

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Rajamanohar is a serial entrepreneur and is currently the founder and CEO of Aquaconnect. In this episode he spoke about why he decided to startup in this space after having been in the Tech space for several years. He also spoke about what Aquaculture is and where India is globally in this space, the nuances of operating here and several such topics in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa.

00:00 Introduction

01:45 The Aquaculture Ecosystem

03:29 Insights on operating in the space

05:25 Standardizing fish & shrimp production

07:29 What is Aquaconnect? Use cases 

12:48 Being a full stack solution from Day 1

15:22 Raj's background and how he get started

20:53 Building trust with the stakeholders

24:54 Team structure at Aquaconnect

25:54 Raising Debt v/s equity funding

26:35 High level challenges Raj is solving

27:07 Nuances of operating in the space

28:57 Books and podcasts recommendations

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/rajamanohar

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Welcome to #63 episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Today we have Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussing - 

1. Zomato announces 10-minute delivery service in top cities

2. Ola: invests in StoreDot; acquires Avail Finance

3. RBI unveils new innovation hub in Bangalore

4. Netcore invests $100mn in Unbxd

5. Unicorns: CommerceIQ, Oxyzo

and more!

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Jen Abel is the co-founder of JJELLYFISH. She is a B2B go to market specialist and helps Indian founders expand into the US market. In this episode we dive deep into some of her tweets on founder led sales. 

Tweets:

00:00 Introduction

00:41 https://twitter.com/jjen_abel/status/1496463146214690817

02:59 https://twitter.com/jjen_abel/status/1501234114661388294

06:11 https://twitter.com/jjen_abel/status/1499091183930421253

07:29 https://twitter.com/jjen_abel/status/1500457090762031104

12:06 https://twitter.com/jjen_abel/status/1500435161586016256

19:00 https://twitter.com/jjen_abel/status/1499418694983823367

23:54 https://twitter.com/jjen_abel/status/1473978021916860419

24:38 https://twitter.com/jjen_abel/status/1442821711485980677

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/jjen_abel

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenabel/

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator

​Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​​

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Saurabh Saxena is a serial entrepreneur and has co founded startups like Lakshya and Vedantu and is currently the founder of Uable. In this episode he spoke about making the decision to pivot Uable from an edtech to a teens only social app, the nuances of managing such a pivot, how to build for teenagers and more in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa.

00:00 Introduction 

01:36 Why Saurabh decided to Pivot

06:28 Selling a pivot to your stakeholders 

09:33 Nuances of managing a pivot

13:53 Advice to entrepreneurs on pivoting

16:34 Best advice Saurabh received on Pivoting

18:26 Uable 2.0 

21:43 Nuances of building for teenagers

24:53 User acquisition for a teen app

26:57 The "AHA" moment for a Uable user

30:28 Content moderation

33:53 Saurabh's thoughts on Content Community and Commerce

36:20 High level challenges Saurabh is solving

39:20 Saurabh's thoughts on the Indian startup ecosystem

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabh-learn/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Saurabh_Learn

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Check out our old episode with Saurabh

Building in Edtech: https://youtu.be/hPRBeCatC2A

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator

​Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​​

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Welcome to Roundup #62 of The Startup Operator. Today we have Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussing - 

1. Tax reforms on Capital Gains

2. IT Raid on startup founders

3. Falguni Nayar: Richest self made Woman billionaire

4. Manipal hospitals partnering with Connected Life

5. Amagi Turning unicorn

6. Acquisitions and fundings

and more!

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Jen Abel is the co-founder of JJELLYFISH. She is a B2B go to market specialist and helps Indian founders expand into the US market. In this episode we dive deep into some of her tweets on founder led sales. 

00:45 Who is Jen Abel?

01:29 Tweet 1 https://twitter.com/jjen_abel/status/1501315384871460865

07:10 Tweet 2 https://twitter.com/jjen_abel/status/1500132712241418250

10:30 Tweet 3 https://twitter.com/jjen_abel/status/1500093894524117001

12:54 Tweet 4 https://twitter.com/jjen_abel/status/1496479701916954625

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenabel/

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator

​Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​​

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Swapan is the co-founder and CTO of Haptik, a conversational AI platform founded in 2013 and was acquired by Reliance in 2019. In this episode he spoke about the founding story of Haptik, the nuances of building a conversational AI, building a good org culture and what being a part of the jio revolution is like and more in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa.

Topics:

00:00 Introduction

00:59 Founding story of Haptik

08:25 Lessons from the journey

12:28 Building for B2C v/s B2B

17:07 Building for users v/s businesses

17:49 Nuances of building Conversation AI

22:07 Building context aware AI

25:18 How customer expectations evolved 

28:29 New use cases for NLP &  AI 

32:32 Building a good org culture

37:41 Being part of the Jio revolution

42:13 Insights for new entrepreneurs in conversational AI

46:11 Books and podcast

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/swapan-rajdev-64a0591a/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SRajdev

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Welcome to #61 episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Today we have Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussing - 

1. RBI's ban on PayTM payments bank

2. IPOs: EbixCash and Navi Technologies 

3. Edtech News: Byju's fundraise & Unacademy opens store

4. Ather Energy partners with Foxconn India 

and more!

Episodes mentioned:

Atlan: https://youtu.be/bs93nW1PMik

Kuku FM: https://youtu.be/fQ5brqhTT58

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Kirti Jangra is the Co-founder & COO of Animall Technologies, an online platform that facilitates the buying and selling of cattle and empowering farmers to usher in a new era of white revolution. In this episode she spoke about solving a full stack of problems, what it takes to enable the next white revolution, the nuances of scaling a managed marketplace and more in her conversation with Roshan Cariappa.

Topics:

00:00 Introduction

01:00 Founding story of Animall

03:21 Solving a full stack of problems 

06:10 Lessons from building for the Bharat user

09:38 Enabling the next White Revolution

11:00 Nuances of scaling a managed marketplace

13:55 Nuances of managing a cattle marketplace

15:13 Nuances of onboarding users 

16:40 Educating the customer

18:21 North Star Metric for Animall 

19:46 The next couple of years for Animall

21:41 Animall: the next Amul?

22:40 High level challenges Kirti is solving

24:55 Importance of having a co-founder

25:46 Advice for aspiring entrepreneurs

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/KirtiAnimall

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