The Startup Operator

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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Prukalpa Sankar is the Co-founder of Atlan a hub for various data teams to socialise and collaborate on their work. Prior to co-founding Atlan Prukalpa co-founded Socialcops. In this episode she spoke about the nuances of building a collaboration software, the nuances of being a global company from day 1 and more.

Highlights:

00:00 Introduction

01:14 Founding Story of Atlan

04:54 Building a platform for different personas

08:25 Nuances of building collaboration software

13:38 The Product v/s Platform debate

16:20 Being early in a category 

20:22 Popular use cases for Atlan's product

21:35 Buyer persona 

23:47 How and When to build a data team

28:08 Nuances of being a global company from day 1

31:54 High level Challenges right now 

34:53 Learnings from being a serial entrepreneur

37:27 Optimism for the Future

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Connect with Prukalpa:

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/prukalpa

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Connect with Us: 

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

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

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Prukalpa Sankar is the Co-founder of Atlan a hub for various data teams to socialise and collaborate on their work. Prior to co-founding Atlan Prukalpa co-founded Socialcops. In this episode she spoke about the nuances of building a collaboration software, the nuances of being a global company from day 1 and more.

Highlights:

00:00 Introduction

01:14 Founding Story of Atlan

04:54 Building a platform for different personas

08:25 Nuances of building collaboration software

13:38 The Product v/s Platform debate

16:20 Being early in a category 

20:22 Popular use cases for Atlan's product

21:35 Buyer persona 

23:47 How and When to build a data team

28:08 Nuances of being a global company from day 1

31:54 High level Challenges right now 

34:53 Learnings from being a serial entrepreneur

37:27 Optimism for the Future

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Connect with Prukalpa:

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/prukalpa

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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 - 

👉🏽 Zeta Achieves unicorn status

👉🏽 Zerodha's ESOP Buyback

👉🏽 Past week's fundraises and more

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

👉🏽 Zeta Achieves unicorn status

👉🏽 Zerodha's ESOP Buyback

👉🏽 Past week's fundraises 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

Amit is the founder and CEO of iMocha, a skills assessment solution API platform that helps organizations with their hiring. Previously he was the founder of Radix Business Models, an IT services and outsourcing company. In this interview Amit spoke about his journey as a founder, transitioning from services to products company, the nuances of building an assessment product and more with Roshan Cariappa.

Key highlights of this conversation:

00:00 Introduction

00:53 Founding journey and key milestones 

11:53 Transitioning from Services to products

18:02 Nuances of achieving product market fit

24:08 Standing out in the crowded recruitment space 

29:07 Nuances of building an assessment product

37:58 Closing the loop on quality of hire 

41:08 Pros v/s Cons of working with the HR function

44:22 High level Challenges Amit is solving now 

48:03 Nuances of going from $1-10M in SaaS 

51:01 Improving ACV and Customer Marketing

54:57 The Indian SaaS ecosystem

57:27 Optimism for the future

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Connect with Amit:

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/amitdmishra

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Connect with Us: 

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

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

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Amit is the founder and CEO of iMocha, a skills assessment solution API platform that helps organizations with their hiring. Previously he was the founder of Radix Business Models, an IT services and outsourcing company. In this interview Amit spoke about his journey as a founder, transitioning from services to products company, the nuances of building an assessment product and more with Roshan Cariappa.

Key highlights of this conversation:

00:00 Introduction

00:53 Founding journey and key milestones 

11:53 Transitioning from Services to products

18:02 Nuances of achieving product market fit

24:08 Standing out in the crowded recruitment space 

29:07 Nuances of building an assessment product

37:58 Closing the loop on quality of hire 

41:08 Pros v/s Cons of working with the HR function

44:22 High level Challenges Amit is solving now 

48:03 Nuances of going from $1-10M in SaaS 

51:01 Improving ACV and Customer Marketing

54:57 The Indian SaaS ecosystem

57:27 Optimism for the future

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Connect with Amit:

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/amitdmishra

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Connect with Us: 

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

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

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Rahul is the founder and CEO of Flobiz, a company that primarily builds billing and inventory management softwares for Indian SMBs and works towards digitizing the SMB space. Rahul is a serial entrepreneur whose previous startups were Zaaika and Koinex. In this interview he spoke about building for SMBs, building trust with SMBs and more!

Key highlights of this conversation:

00:00 Introduction

01:23 Rahul's entrepreneurial journey so far

03:58 Market to Idea to Company

07:16 Building for SMBs

11:35 SMBs' perception of software

14:20 Flobiz's popular use cases

18:16 Building for the Bharat User 

23:49 Pricing a SaaS product

28:27 Building Trust with SMBs

34:13 Digitizing SMBs through covid

37:37 Flobiz's opportunities for expansion

39:28 Rahul's take on Atmanirbhar Bharat 

43:08 Learnings from being a serial entrepreneur

48:00 Lessons from Operating through Covid

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Connect with Rahul: 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/startupkesari/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/startupkesari

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Connect with us:

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

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

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Rahul is the founder and CEO of Flobiz, a company that primarily builds billing and inventory management softwares for Indian SMBs and works towards digitizing the SMB space. Rahul is a serial entrepreneur whose previous startups were Zaaika and Koinex. In this interview he spoke about building for SMBs, building trust with SMBs and more!

Key highlights of this conversation:

00:00 Introduction

01:23 Rahul's entrepreneurial journey so far

03:58 Market to Idea to Company

07:16 Building for SMBs

11:35 SMBs' perception of software

14:20 Flobiz's popular use cases

18:16 Building for the Bharat User 

23:49 Pricing a SaaS product

28:27 Building Trust with SMBs

34:13 Digitizing SMBs through covid

37:37 Flobiz's opportunities for expansion

39:28 Rahul's take on Atmanirbhar Bharat 

43:08 Learnings from being a serial entrepreneur

48:00 Lessons from Operating through Covid

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Connect with Rahul: 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/startupkesari/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/startupkesari

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Connect with us:

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

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

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Feedback is important for any workplace setting for the organization to function well. In this byte Roshan Cariappa talks about why anonymous feedback is BS and how you can provide good feedback without it being anonymous. 

If you liked this byte, let us know in the comments and share with your friends and family. 

Connect with Roshan: 

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoshanCariappa

Connect with us:

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