The Startup Operator

In this episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, Gunjan and Roshan break down the week's startup news and more!

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00:00- Intro
01:17- Apple’s vision pro 2
04:13- Startup India's performance 
12:55- Appraisal season of FY25
17:39- DMI acquires zest money
19:33- Supercomputing Hubs in India 
22:01- Pixxel's spacecraft manufacturing facility 
24:06- Fundraises of the week
25:34- talk of the town

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Useful Links:
Unicorn Report(YourStory): https://yourstory.com/2024/01/indian-tech-unicorn-journey-shortens-orios-report

Indus Valley Report (Blume Ventures): https://blume.vc/reports/indus-valley-annual-report-2023

Goldman Sachs Report: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/markets/5-charts-from-goldman-sachs-that-capture-rapid-rise-of-affluent-india-12043901.html

Roundup where Roshan talks about Zestmoney: https://youtu.be/zNbjDjLFzfo?si=bwE2KFJEqLfjN262&t=546

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In this episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, Gunjan and Roshan break down the week's startup news and more!

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00:00- Intro
01:00- India Startup Week
04:05- EaseMyTrip Suspends Flight booking 
10:56- Carta leaking information 
15:55- Massive lay-offs by US companies 
20:06- Upekkha's $15mn new fund
23:20- Fundraises of the week
24:04- Talk of the town

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In this episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, Gunjan and Roshan break down the week's startup news and more!

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00:00 Intro
02:18 Startup Wrapped
09:06 Why Adobe-Figma deal failed
13:55 Govt to amend IT act for AI
17:52 India's LLM Race heats up
19:55 26Bn - India's App downloads in 2023 
22:05 India’s first AI city
23:45 Fund raises of the week
25:23 Talk of the town

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Karthik Sridharan is the co-founder and CEO of Flexiple, a startup fully focused on tech talent hiring. Karthik champions bootstrapping and talks about the nuances of building a bootstrapped business and the real reasons to raise VC money. He shares amazing insights about the approach to building a business and what entrepreneurship is all about, why it is hard and how working backwards from a certain goal helps you get there.

Topics:

00:00 Intro

02:47 Bootstrapping Vs VC funding

12:55 First step is not funding

25:03 Idea to product to company

37:54 Deciding to be an entrepreneur

46:07 Getting the first 10 customers

48:07 Growing from 10 to 100 customers

57:07 Building content for Business

01:02:50 Extending your brand

01:11:40 Service Vs Products Business

01:17:07 Keeping the team lean/small

01:24:43 Conclusion

Don't miss out on this insightful episode of Startup Operator Podcast, where you'll gain valuable lessons for sustainable business growth.

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In this episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, Gunjan and Roshan break down the week's startup news and more!

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00:00 Intro
02:20 Google's Gemini to take on GPT-4
08:14 Byju's liquidity crisis
12:57 ONDC's new initiative 
15:25 RBI's regulatory framework  
18:27 Zestmoney shuts down 
20:37 Zerodha's insane growth 
25:00 Fund Raises of the week 

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In this episode of The Startup Operator, Roshan spoke with Preethy Padmanabhan, the senior director, Platform & AI Marketing at Freshworks. Preethy is a marketer, tech startup advisor and a podcast host and in this podcast she shares her experiences, her journey, tips on staying relevant and building global brands. She delves into her learnings from her failures and successes, working with prior marketers and common marketing mistakes.

Some of the takeaways from this conversation include -

• Personal Branding 
• Building global brands
• Common Marketing mistakes 

Tune in to this engaging discussion on sustainable business growth and gain valuable lessons that can be applied to your own entrepreneurial journey.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

01:30 Preethy’s experience

03:05 Evolution of marketing

07:26 Staying relevant

13:06 Personal branding

18:23 Building global brands

23:05 Lessons from the journey

28:14 Working as a team

30:04 Common marketing mistakes

33:13 Working with prior marketers

37:10 Books and podcast recommendations

Don't miss out on this insightful episode of Startup Operator Podcast, where you'll gain valuable lessons for sustainable business growth.

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In this episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, Gunjan and Roshan break down the week's startup news and more!

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00:00 Intro 
01:10 Charlie Munger’s passing away
05:50 Warren Buffett’s exit from Paytm
08:48 Bike taxi driver’s jobless
12:49 Swiggy’s IPO plans
17:11 Phonepe’s Indus appstore
22:36 Group of Ministries to to decide fate of online gaming 
27:45 Upgrad loses more money
32:08 Fund raises of the week
32:50 Talk of the town
36:04 Conclusion

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In this episode of The Startup Operator, Roshan spoke with Vimal Kumar, the founder of Juspay. Juspay is a fintech startup that provides payment solutions for businesses. They are also the creators of the BHIM UPI app, one of the most popular UPI apps in India. Juspay also developed the Namma Yatri app, an autorickshaw-hailing app that shot to popularity in Bangalore and is giving a serious competition to the likes of Uber and Ola in the city. It is a direct-to-driver app, which means that there is no commission or middle-men. Namma Yatri is also a community-driven app, which means that it is developed and operated by auto rickshaw drivers in the city.

Some of the takeaways from this conversation include -

1. Building Namma Yatri as a side project 
2. Designing solutions for scale
3. Relevance of payment companies today 

Tune in to this engaging discussion on sustainable business growth and gain valuable lessons that can be applied to your own entrepreneurial journey.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro 

01:35 Importance of first principles 

06:52 Choosing software engineering over being a scientist 

09:44 Designing solutions for scale

14:51 Choosing payments over other fields

23:17 Relevance of payment companies today 

30:40 The best payment infrastructure in the world

42:32 Why they choose to be a payment provider 

50:43 Future of payments 

53:18 The origin of Namma Yatri 

58:22 Difference between network and platform 

1:12:22 Building Namma Yatri as a side project 

1:18:47 Building an engineering team

1:23:30 Best part of Building Namma Yatri 

1:30:00 Taking Namma Yatri to a national level

1:31:16 Localizing Namma Yatri 

Don't miss out on this insightful episode of Startup Operator Podcast, where you'll gain valuable lessons for sustainable business growth.

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In this episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, Gunjan and Roshan break down the week's startup news and more!

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In this episode of The Startup Operator, Roshan spoke with Kaushik Mudda, the co-founder of Ethereal Machines. Ethereal Machines is a Deep-Tech start-up leading the innovation of 5-Axis CNC technology in India. 5-Axis machining solves gaps in manufacturing, for industries extending from plastic to aerospace to drone manufacturing to healthcare industries.

Some of the takeaways from this conversation include -

1. Dealing with Rejections 
2. Future of fully automated facilities in India
3. Building future proof capabilities

Tune in to this engaging discussion on sustainable business growth and gain valuable lessons that can be applied to your own entrepreneurial journey.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:50 63 Rejections/Dealing with Rejections

03:03 Why CNC machines

16:30 Keeping your team motivated

20:54 Understanding your market

28:44 Running 2 business models 

30:48 Customer Acquisition

33:08 Customers’ success stories

36:44 Future of fully automated facilities in India

38:00 Path to Atma Nirbhar Bharat

41:16 Building a better manufacturing ecosystem

46:39 Building future proof capabilities

49:55 Book recommendations

52:25 Conclusion

Don't miss out on this insightful episode of Startup Operator Podcast, where you'll gain valuable lessons for sustainable business growth.

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