The Startup Operator

Ram and Smita are the Co-Founders, Director and CEO of Rang De, a Peer-2-Peer lending platform. They started Rang De to solve the problem of low credit access  and bring the community together through social entrepreneurship. They spoke about their founding journey, finding product market fit, building a community through trust and communication and more in their interview with Roshan Cariappa. 

Key highlights:

00:00 Introduction

01:44 Founding journey of Rang De

09:24 Estimating size of the problem

11:05 Lessons from solving credit access

13:47 Misconceptions with P2P Lending

16:47 Finding Product Market Fit

21:48 Principles to curate supply and demand

26:35 Building a community

29:14 Learnings from working through covid

34:54 Picking a problem and solving it

37:27 Closing Remarks

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Connect with Ram:

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ram_nk

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Connect with Smita:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smita-ram-7095358/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/smitaram

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Connect with Us: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startupoperator

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

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Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss - 

👉🏽 Tata Digital's Acquisitions of 1MG, Dunzo and Curefit

👉🏽 BharatPe's Acquisition of Payback India

👉🏽 Whatfix's fundraise and more

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Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss - 

👉🏽 Tata Digital's Acquisitions of 1MG, Dunzo and Curefit

👉🏽 BharatPe's Acquisition of Payback India

👉🏽 Whatfix's fundraise and more

Hit the like button if enjoyed this roundup, and do not forget to share among your operator friends! 

Listen to our interviews and conversations with investors, operators, and founders on your favourite podcast platforms.

#startups #unicorns  #technology #roundup #podcast #news

Ashwini is the founder and CEO of Mad Street Den, a Computer Vision & Artificial Intelligence Company building the AI architecture of the future. She is also the founder and CEO of Vue.ai. Ashwini spoke about building deep tech startups, finding product market fit and more in her interview with Roshan Cariappa. 

Key Highlights of this episode:

00:00 Introduction

01:02 Founding journey & Key Milestones of Mad Street Den

04:27 Vertical integration vs horizontal integration of services

08:48 Ashwini's work as an interaction designer

13:45 Focussing on 2 different products

17:00 Building an Enterprise Company 

21:27 Building a Deep Tech Enterprise Startup  

25:15 Finding Product Market Fit

32:04 Importance of storytelling for founders

37:00 Empowering teams to enable customer success

41:16 Hiring in SaaS

44:48 Learning from Working through Covid

47:46 Evolution of SaaS ecosystem and Founders in SaaS 

51:12 Advice for founders on their 0-1 Journey

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Connect with Ashwini:

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LadyAshBorg

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Connect with Us: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startupoperator

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

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Ashwini is the founder and CEO of Mad Street Den, a Computer Vision & Artificial Intelligence Company building the AI architecture of the future. She is also the founder and CEO of Vue.ai. Ashwini spoke about building deep tech startups, finding product market fit and more in her interview with Roshan Cariappa. 

Key Highlights of this episode:

00:00 Introduction

01:02 Founding journey & Key Milestones of Mad Street Den

04:27 Vertical integration vs horizontal integration of services

08:48 Ashwini's work as an interaction designer

13:45 Focussing on 2 different products

17:00 Building an Enterprise Company 

21:27 Building a Deep Tech Enterprise Startup  

25:15 Finding Product Market Fit

32:04 Importance of storytelling for founders

37:00 Empowering teams to enable customer success

41:16 Hiring in SaaS

44:48 Learning from Working through Covid

47:46 Evolution of SaaS ecosystem and Founders in SaaS 

51:12 Advice for founders on their 0-1 Journey

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Connect with Ashwini:

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LadyAshBorg

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Connect with Us: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startupoperator

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

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Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss - 

👉🏽 Urban Company Achieves unicorn status

👉🏽 xto10x's acquisition of Dockabl

👉🏽 Past week's fundraises and more

Highlights:

00:00 Introduction

01:17 Urban Company achieves unicorn status

05:43 Delhivery fundraise ahead of IPO

09:38 Mensa Brands fundraise

12:55 FarMart fundraise

17:45 LambdaTest fundraise

21:34 xto10x's acquisition of Dockabl

24:54 Vembu's wisdom

26:22 Upcoming episodes

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Listen to our interviews and conversations with investors, operators, and founders on your favourite podcast platforms.

#startups #unicorns  #technology #roundup #podcast #news

Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss - 

👉🏽 Urban Company Achieves unicorn status

👉🏽 xto10x's acquisition of Dockabl

👉🏽 Past week's fundraises and more

Highlights:

00:00 Introduction

01:17 Urban Company achieves unicorn status

05:43 Delhivery fundraise ahead of IPO

09:38 Mensa Brands fundraise

12:55 FarMart fundraise

17:45 LambdaTest fundraise

21:34 xto10x's acquisition of Dockabl

24:54 Vembu's wisdom

26:22 Upcoming episodes

Hit the like button if enjoyed this roundup, and do not forget to share among your operator friends! 

Listen to our interviews and conversations with investors, operators, and founders on your favourite podcast platforms.

#startups #unicorns  #technology #roundup #podcast #news

Murali is a serial entrepreneur and has co-founded Radaptive and PipeCandy and has also founded Ideas2IT, an IT company that turns ideas into products with their IT expertise. In this interview Murali spoke with Roshan about going from an Idea to Product to Company, the evolution of SaaS in India and more!

Key Highlights:

00:00 Introduction 

01:20 Founding journey of Ideas2IT

06:15 Secret sauce to running a services company

08:58 Recruiting the perfect engineer

12:47 Enabling your engineering team

16:23 Going from Idea to Product to Company

21:04 Nuances of pivoting from services to products

27:00 What makes SaaS stand out as a business

32:17 Selling to a global market from day 1

35:05 Lessons from operating during Covid

37:40 Evolution of SaaS in India

41:02 New initiatives at Ideas2IT and Future Plans

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Connect with Murali:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/murali-vivekanandan/

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Connect with Us: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startupoperator

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

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