The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast (The Builders Club)

Part 2 here: https://bit.ly/2Pn6IUn

Sanjay is one of the founding team members of PayPal and is credited by Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman with significant contributions that helped make the Paypal business model work.
he is now an evangelist and helps people from around the world get together to make billions from millions.

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For This Saturday's Watercooler conversation, we had Kaustubh Dhargalkar as our guest.   

Kaustubh is the Author of ‘It’s Logical: Innovating Profitable Business Models’ https://bit.ly/ItsLogical.   

A serial entrepreneur since 1990. Founded four companies and now on two more ventures. In 2006, sold commercial interests in his first 3 companies and plunged into academics and research.  

He was also Honored as 'Entrepreneurship Educator & Mentor' Award by the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship-Govt. of India, INTEL, British Council, NEN, EDII.  

An acclaimed professor of Innovation & Design Thinking Currently, a visiting faculty @ IIT-Bombay, IIM-Sirmaur, ICT-Mumbai, NMIMS, WeSchool. Mentor at various startup incubators, active on various startup forums s.a. ET-Power of Ideas, WF Global, etc.

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The Builder's Club is a community of startup founders & Enthusiasts who help each other build great products and businesses. You can join the community here: https://discord.gg/UXgeVk36Rp

We hold Watercooler Chats every Saturday - This is an interactive voice chat we have as a community about a topic with an industry expert. The whole community participates, and adds a lot of value to everyone to hear different perspectives. You can join yourself on Saturdays on our discord Server as well.

Hey Guys, 

This week, we discussed about the EdTech industry with Ayush Agrawal, CEO - Codefoxie ( https://www.codefoxie.com). CodeFoxie is a Pune based EdTech startup which teaches kids how to code.

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Bhavik Vasa is Founder and CEO of GetVantange - Asia’s leading Revenue Based Financing fintech platform. He is a 2X Founder who has more than a decade of experience in FinTech, Alternative Financing, Digital Payments, Mobile technologies & Startups. Previously he served as a founding team member and Chief Growth Officer at ItzCash and was a Founding Member of Radical Payments and ISTS Worldwide.

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Arjun Vaidya is a sixth-generation Vaidya who has inherited the family's 100 India FDA-approved medical formulations and 50 trademarks, accumulated over 150 years. 

After graduating from Brown University and working at LVMH's private equity arm, Vaidya decided to start an Ayurvedic healthcare company that would combine the family's traditions with cool branding, easy to use products, and online retail channels. 

Dr. Vaidya’s repackaged the ancient Indian science of Ayurveda for modern consumers and emerged as India’s largest Ayurveda brand online. In 4 years, it successfully reached 1.5m+ consumers across 500+ cities and 16,500+ pin codes in India and launched 70+ products.

The brand was recently acquired by RP Sanjiv Goenka Group – making it one of India’s first D2C exits.

Kazi Hassan is the founder and CEO of  Happihub, which is the first bill receipt scan-based digital cashback/reward platform in Bangladesh. 

Happihub is helping middle/lower-middle-class consumers in Bangladesh by offering the easiest purchase savings option through cashback and digitizing the small & medium retailers with a data-driven re-marketing tool. He also worked for Daraz.com as a Campaign Manager. Moreover, where he was responsible for managing social media and overall channel performance evaluation of Daraz Myanmar.

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Udit is an entrepreneur who has bootstrapped his way to making his business a $20M valuation. He is also an angel investor in 20+ startups and a member of the Forbes Business Council.

Udit has tons of experience and learnings  in the industry that he was keen on sharing with us! 

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The Builders Club had its first townhall with Ankur Warikoo.

Ankur Warikoo is an entrepreneur, angel investor, mentor and public speaker, and now a content creator as well. He founded nearbuy.com in 2015 and was the CEO until 2019. Prior to that, he started the Groupon India business in 2011 and was the APAC GM, until 2015.

He is an active angel investor and invests in early stage tech startups and mentors the founders on Product-Market-Fit, Talent hiring & retention and the founder mindset.

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Akash is the COO and co-founder of Instamojo, India's largest on-demand payments platform that allows anyone with a mobile number and bank account to start an online business. 

In his free time, Akash likes reading and traveling. He’s also a football aficionado. 

Instamojo was one of the first startups from India to join the prestigious 500 Startups Silicon Valley Accelerator Program. It has also been featured as one of the hottest startups by Economic Times in 2015. With more than 400,000 registered merchants, Instamojo's vision is to democratize e-commerce and be the 360º digital-enabling partner for SMEs of all shapes & sizes.

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About The Builders Club :

​The Builders Club is a community driven platform which acts as an enabler in your startup journey

​We have multiple initiatives and events which we do regularly to help you accelerate your growth and move to the next stage of your startup life cycle.

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Vineet Saxena is the cofounder of Myntra, one of the most celebrated startups on India.

He talks about his beginnings, the beginning of Myntra and the rise of e-commerce in India.

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Rahul Basak, Co-Founder and CEO of Amar Canvas, as well as co-founder and chief editor of My Canvas Talks, joins us this week. He is an entrepreneur by trade, but he is also an artist at heart and a passionate public speaker. Amar Canvas is a web-based platform that allows artists to directly showcase and sell their products while earning a 100% profit. Rahul is also a renowned keynote speaker, who has been featured on TEDx (3-Times), Josh Talks and Dev Talks. He is a passionate photographer whose works were featured as "Wall of fame" by MTV Nescafe Lab, India

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Atul is the cofounder of Staqu technologies.

Staqu strives to utilise technology in solving real-world problems. Founded in 2015, the company provides state-of-the-art image recognition,language independent proprietary speaker identification, and text processing, including sentiment analysis, text classification and summarization.Staqu was handpicked by the British High Commission as the Best AI Start-up in the country.Furthermore, triumphing at IBM’s Global Entrepreneur Program, Staqu has successfully raised investment from Indian Angel Network.

Atul has done Master of Science (M.S.) in Artificial Intelligence from University of Manchester and has about 7 and a half years of experience in the business development and entrepreneurship domain and has hands-on experience in Computers and Machine learning. He has also been a research associate at University of Szeged and research consultant at University of Hertfordshire.

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The Builders Club is a community driven platform which acts as an enabler in your startup journey

We have multiple initiatives and events which we do regularly to help you accelerate your growth and move to the next stage of your startup life cycle.

Know more: ⁠https://www.thebuildersclub.me

Hey Guys, this week we had Sankar Thiagasamudram, CEO, Audeze as our guest.  ( https://www.audeze.com/ ) .   

Sankar is a passionate entrepreneur and business leader with a solid track record delivering great products. He is the CEO of Audeze, the award winning headphone company based in California. Sankar wore multiple hats (Engineer, CFO, etc) as he grew Audeze from a bootstrapped startup, raising seed capital, taking it though series A funding and establishing a manufacturing plant. 

Sankar holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California and a B.S. In Electrical Engineering from PSG College of Technology (India).   

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Pratham is the Founder of ENTREESPHERE, An Incubator re-conceptualizing entrepreneurship through experiential learning for those with creative and innovative ideas to transform their passion into reality ( http://www.entreesphere.com/). Entreesphere partnered with T-HUB, One of the world’s largest tech startup hub.

Previously, He started and headed two startups, Wissenarie and Tech Amaush

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Part 1 here: https://bit.ly/3udJQ8T

Sanjay is one of the founding team members of PayPal and is credited by Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman with significant contributions that helped make the Paypal business model work. he is now an evangelist and helps people from around the world get together to make billions from millions.

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Tanishq is Co-Founder and CEO at Skyber and Dhanda, Skyber aims to fuel the future of businesses and if you own/run any business, irrespective of the size, industry, or stature whereas  Dhanda is Bharat ka business app, Powered on Skyber. He also mentors a few startups for the sheer love of helping people and building something sustainable. He makes it a point to talk to one person who is either a small business owner, aspiring entrepreneur, an interesting stranger, or an early adopter of Skyber every day.

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Abhinav Pathak is the Founder/CEO of Perpule - Forbes 30 Under 30  of Retail E-Commerce platform acquired by Amazon in an All-Cash deal!!

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Ravi Handa is the founder of The Desi Fire Podcast - a podcast where he talks about Financial Independence and Retiring Early. He has been a founder himself, running and successfully exiting Handakafunda.com and nowadays spends his time talking about business, startups and FIRE on social media.

He is also one of the first guys to be monetized by Twitter, and talks about how to make money on twitter, monetization opportunities on different social media platforms and the future of digital content landscape.

Ashish is the Co-Founder and Chief Everything Officer of POSist(www.posist.com),

They are the leaders in India, and top 5 globally in the cloud-based restaurant technology platform market. They offer scalable, reliable, and easy to use point-of-sale technology, enabling businesses to automate operations, integrate with aggregators, delight guests, and grow their revenue.

Today they serve 9,000+ clients spread across 22 countries.

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Hey Guys, For This Saturday's Watercooler conversation, we have Shrehith Karkera as our guest.

Shrehith Karkera is one of the Co-founders of Finception, a startup trying to simplify all things finance. Their flagship product Finshots- a 3-min daily newsletter already has close to 3,50,000 subscribers and is one of the most widely read newsletters in India.

Ditto, another flagship product of Finception, where you don't just compare insurance. You understand it. Narrow down the choices. Avoid pitfalls and make better decisions.

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Rajit is the Founder and CEO of Data Sutram, an AI-enabled Location Intelligence Enterprise ( www.datasutram.com )."Data Scientist is the sexiest job of the 21st Century" - Following a global interest in data, Rajit began to dabble into its potential and by the time he was 19, was already involved in creating unique data-driven solutions for social and commercial sectors. His first clients include organizations like Future Group, Nirulas, Apollo Pharmacy, and various other MNCs.He was also Recognized under Top 15 Entrepreneurs from Eastern India by Youth 4 Business - an initiative by US Consulate and Contact Base.

For this Podcast, We would be talking about High tech SaaS Startups: Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges

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Co-Founders of Castler,  Vineet (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vksingh/) and Dinesh(https://www.linkedin.com/in/indin/) know the art of scaling businesses from scratch to a 100+ crores in profits.They contributed to the growth of several reputed companies such as Naukri.com, MagicBricks, Treebo, Mobiwik, 99acres, Barclays, Kotak, OLX, Yes Bank, ICICI bank.

Castler is Saas based digital escrow solution provider to make transactions easier and safe. It is a secured transaction ecosystem lead by industrial experts. The motive is to make escrow faster, safer, and easier to eliminate the financial burden of every transaction.

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Mohammed Amaan is an early-stage venture capitalist at Ankur Capital who has previously worked at Startups & Organizations of all scales and has keenly observed the Problems Faced by Entrepreneurs

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 Namit Chugh, Venture Capitalist at W Health Ventures, joined us for the LIVE recording of the Watercooler Conversations and will talk about “Building the Future of Health care Delivery”. 

​W Health Ventures, founded in 2019 by Sunil Wadhwani and his family, is a Boston based venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build the future of healthcare delivery.

​Namit is an investment professional and an ex-management consultant focussed on the healthcare sector India. Prior to joining W Health Ventures across sectors and worked closely with entrepreneurs in the journey to scale up ventures He has previously worked with consulting firms such as Alvarez & Marsal and PwC and focused on strategy and commercial due diligence assignments for private equity clients. Namit holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and has completed Level I and II of the CFA program.

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Rahul Rana is a venture builder and investor with specialties in finance and astronomy. 

He works for Lux Capital, one of the most prestigious venture capital firms in the world, and writes for Not Boring, an influential newsletter with a community of 125,000+. He has past experience in nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and public policy.

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The Builders Club got in touch with Vijetha Shastry- Associate Director, Dexter Capital, a VC firm focussing on growth stage companies, new age entrepreneurs in their funding process.

Vijetha Shastry has about 28 years of experience working with different startup communities like NASSCOM, TiE, BHIVE and how he is helping start apps grow via Dexter Capital.

He is a certified mentor from NEN and mentor/ speaker at the SAARC Chambers! He specializes in open innovation, marketing and implementing tie- ups, mentoring and advising startups.

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The Builders Club is a community driven platform which is an enabler in your startup journey.

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Bharat is a serial entrepreneur who has already built two successful businesses, PosterGully and iDecorama in the past. Both of these were digitally native brands. With this experience, He started Swmabhan Commerce Private Limited to focus on creating digitally native vertical brands in large untapped markets in the FMCG sector in India. 

In their latest round of funding Swmabhan was led by Reflex Capital, a VC firm, 9 Unicorns Venture Capital Fund with participation from Keiretsu Forum, and a clutch of other prominent strategic investors.

Currently, He is building Rage Coffee, a  digitally native FMCG company that manufactures, markets & distributes innovative coffee products.

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Talha Shaikh - Co-Founder of Biddano, a company that aims to simplify the logistics of pharma companies and hospitals with technology & works in the healthcare supply chain and logistics.

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​Vatsal is Principal & CTO at 100X.VC and Web3 investor @ 2AM Ventures and Mehta Ventures. 100X.VC is the first VC to invest in early stage startups using India SAFE Notes. While being an angel investor, he looks after diligencing and sourcing Web3 deals for 2AM VC as well!

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The Builders Club is a community driven platform which acts as an enabler in your startup journey

We have multiple initiatives and events which we do regularly to help you accelerate your growth and move to the next stage of your startup life cycle.

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Ruchin Kulkarni is the cofounder of Toplyne, a SaaS platform that helps businesses monetize their product-led growth. They are a part of the Sequoia Surge Program and recently raised $15mn from Sequoia, Tiger Global, Together Fund, and other angel investors.

In this podcast, we talk about how product led growth in SaaS startups can help increase topline while reducing operational costs and how TopLyne is leading the change in Product Led Startups.

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Nishita and Nikita who have made it to Forbes 30 under 30 list, are dynamic leaders and have Co-Founded Nexus Power that manufactures rechargeable, bio - organic and biodegradable batteries for electric vehicles. At this early age, they are dominating a niche market which is expected to grow many folds in the upcoming future.

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Varun is the co-founder and CEO of Avalon Meta, It is an alternative online education platform that teaches you skills relevant to the present-day world, to help you develop the tools & mindset you need for building great careers. Experts across various disciplines help you learn, mentor you, and transform your career prospects.

He is also the author of the book “Pyjama Profit”(#1 Amazon Business bestseller), on his journey building a sustainable remote business and freelance career, published by Bloomsbury.

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Shruti Agarwal is the Founding Member of D2C Insider, Director at Shopmatic. Shruti has experience in the E-commerce and consumer technology industry while she was associated with eBay, Unicommerce and KartRocket.🛒 

D2C Insider is a unique community of more than 1000 direct-to-consumer native brands in India. The Community is the largest gathering of founders and core team members of direct-to-consumer firms where they can all learn and grow together!🤝 

The D2C summit that was held last year was a great success. They were also a part of the conference Engage'22. The D2C insider platform has featured some of our past Watercooler Conversation guests like Bharat Sethi and Arjun Vaidya as well.🚀 

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Niyati Merchant, cofounder, Arre Voice has spent close to a decade in the content ecosystem, and talks to us about the changing content paradigm.

​Arré Voice is a short-form, women-first audio social app. The app has a rapidly growing community across relationships, storytelling, K-pop, K-Drama, music, mental wellness,  spirituality in multiple languages. These will soon be available in more Indian languages & dialects and content genres followed by a global rollout.

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Satanik Roy is the Co-Founder of ‘hyperXchange' - India's leading marketplace for refurbished electronics.  He is a Stanford graduate who has been a Mentor at PM Yuva Scheme for Entrepreneurship and is also the Principal Investment Partner at Drishtycone Ventures.

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The Saas industry in India is rapidly growing and having a great team can change the trajectory. Listen to scale your startup from scratch!

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Piyush Kumar is the CEO & Co-Founder at Rooter.

Rooter is the biggest Indian Game Streaming Platform.

Rooter is the only Indian Company ever to be selected for prestigious IeAD Sports Accelerator Program run by Adidas Family in Berlin, Germany. IeAD Fund is also a key investor in the company aside from other funds like Paytm, Anthill Ventures, Founder Bank Capital, Venture Catalysts and famous personalities like Actor Boman Irani, Suresh Babu etc.

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For This Saturday's Watercooler conversation, we had Sanjay Chakraborty (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjay-chakraborty-55403b13) as our guest.   

Sanjay is the Founder and Chief Marketing Communication Advisor at ESSKSEE Consultancy. He has more than 25 years of extensive experience in Sales, Marketing, Communication, and Advertising. Creativity – in any field – motivates him. He is a passionate Author, Contentful, Columnist. Recently, He was the Winner of the National Creative Excellence Awards 2020 [Bronze] organized by Population First( Supported by UNFPA).

James Mayes is the Co-Founder and CEO for Mind The Product - the world's largest and brightest community of Product Managers with over 300,000 members in 200 cities across the world.

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Sairee Chahal is the Founder, CEO of SHEROES – a community platform for women, offering support, resources, opportunities, and interactions via Sheroes.com and the SHEROES App. Sairee is credited with building up women at work and future-of-work conversations in India, besides building a strong technology play to solve the problems of gender disparity in India.

Recognized for her achievements globally, Sairee is a Devi Award winner, apart from the Femina Achievers Award, Cartier Award, Editor’s choice for L’Oreal Femina Women’s Award, Business Today, and Most Powerful Women in Indian Business. In 2018, she was ranked 53 on Onalytica’s “Future of Work Top 100 Influencers” list.

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Unocoin is the earliest crypto exchange of India, and Sathvik and his team have seen the whole trajectory of the crypto ecosystem in India right from the beginning.

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Taran Chhabra is the Founder of Neeman’s Shoes. He completed his graduation from Northern Illinois University and is a business strategist and data analysis expert with about 17 years of experience working with a2c IT Consulting, RCG Global Services, High Point Solutions, etc. He was also in the BW 40 under 40 list and Fortune 40 under 40!

Neeman’s Shoes is India’s first Startup to use the World’s most revolutionary natural and renewable fibers in the footwear industry. The aim is to change the way we wear shoes that look good, feel good and also do good to the environment!

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Jaineel is Co-Founder and CEO at Planet Superheroes, India's only omni-channel consumer brand dedicated to licensed character merchandise like Superheroes, Cartoons & Comics. In addition to its own website, Planet Superheroes has 25+ stores across 12 states in India and sells via both online and offline channels.

The Story of Planet Superheroes was also mentioned in the well-celebrated book “Funding Your Start-Up and Other Nightmares" by Authors Dhruv Nath and Sushanto Mitra.

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Rahul Raj, Founder and CEO of FloBiz. 

Flobiz has emerged as a growing global economic startup network to drive technology inclusion in Small and Medium Businesses. Based in Bengaluru, the venture established a neobank for SMBs backed by renowned investors like Sequoia Capital, Elevation Capital,Greenoaks Capital, Beenext and Think Investments. Its primary objective is to introduce a completely new way of doing business for small & medium enterprises with creative use of technology. Its marquee offering, called myBillBook helps SMBs digitise their invoicing,streamline businesses accounting and automate workflows of their enterprises.

Rahul Raj, an IITian is the founder and CEO of Flobiz and has competence for entrepreneurship, international trade and business, event organization, startups, etc. He has also been a delegate at Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) Conference 2014 at Tokyo, Japan. He was also an Associate Manager at the Corporate & Media Relations, Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur. He has about 14 years of experience in the business development and entrepreneurship domain.

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The Builders Club is a community driven platform which acts as an enabler in your startup journey

We have multiple initiatives and events which we do regularly to help you accelerate your growth and move to the next stage of your startup life cycle.

Know more: ⁠https://www.thebuildersclub.me

Hey Guys, 

This week, we had Abhishek Asthana, commonly known as @gabbbarsingh on Twitterverse, for our watercooler chat.

Apart from being a twitter influencer with over 1.3mn followers, Abhishek is also the founder of GingerMonkey, a marketing consulting firm he has been bootstrapping for the past 6 months, and has seen exponential growth in terms of business from his clients.

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Sharmin is one of the Fortune 40 under 40 Entrepreneurs and Forbes’ story target for Women in SaaS.

Entrepreneur, author and public speaker- Sharmin Ali founded Artirightis Theatre Group and Instoried. Instoried is an AI driven tool that analyses the emotional parameters of your content to get social marketing right.

Instoried is an augmented writing platform that improves customer interest and engagement to help writers in the e-Commerce biz, news, etc. to optimize their content. Sharmin is also a published author having written “Y. O. U”- a bestseller according to the New Indian Express and Oxford Bookstores and “How I was forced to become a staunch RACIST”.

Sharmin Ali has years of experience in analytics and talks about entrepreneurship in the analytics sector congruent with Sharmin’s efforts with Instoried. The startup has been awarded with several titles like “Best Startup 2018”, “Economic Times Innotribe Awards”, “Best Women Driven Startup in India”.

Join in to ask questions LIVE to Sharmin Ali while we talk about building an artificial intelligence based content managing startup and her journey of propagating her novel idea through her startup!

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The Builders Club is a community driven platform which acts as an enabler in your startup journey

We have multiple initiatives and events which we do regularly to help you accelerate your growth and move to the next stage of your startup life cycle.

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Listen to Part 1 here: https://anchor.fm/thebuilders/episodes/Jaineel-Aga-Startup-fk-ups-that-no-one-talks-about-e12cqms

Jaineel (@J.AGA) is Co-Founder and CEO of Planet Superheroes, India’s first and only omni-channel consumer brand dedicated to licensed character merchandise like Superheroes, Cartoons & Comics. Before being an entrepreneur, he has also worked as a consultant for one of the major consulting firms and an investment associate at a private equity firm.

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Ankur is the Founder of Hostel Fund, A Startup Fund for Students by Students powered by investors and industry experts (www.hostel.fund). He is also a VC at SenseAI Ventures, India’s leading VC fund backing AI startups. 

A member of the National Startup Council of India (CII). Apart from all of these, He is an advisor at multiple startups and a mentor @ Founders Institute.

In this podcast, we discussed about his life as a VC and funding Student Startups.

Tanveer is the Co-Founder and CEO of SOVA.Health, India's first Precision Nutrition platform to prevent and manage lifestyle diseases.

He has been an entrepreneur for over 8 years and has an academic background in Business Studies and Design Thinking (Advanced Track @HPI). His primary area of focus is to enhance the quality of human lives through proactive nutrition.

He co-founded an Indo-German Design Innovation firm that specializes in developing sustainable business models that are user-centric and future-ready. He has worked with Indian, German, and Swiss companies, helping them build new products and services. In the past, he collaborated with a Fortune 100 company on designing the future of food recipes.

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Prof. Dhruv Nath has decades of experience in nurturing early stage startups. He is the director of lead angels, India's leading Angel network, and also a professor in MDI Gurgaon where he teaches entrepreneurship.

In this podcast, we talk about the persistent framework, a framework designed by Prof. Nath himself for evaluating the strength and sustainability of startup ideas.

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The Builders Club is a community driven platform which acts as an enabler in your startup journey

We have multiple initiatives and events which we do regularly to help you accelerate your growth and move to the next stage of your startup life cycle.

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Ecommerce is an ever-expanding world. And it is likely said that many brands soon adapt the DTC model to grow their brand.

Kaus Manjita, Founder and CEO at Mason, joins us this week. She is a no-code evangelist, 3rd-gen content nerd, and serial product builder. Right now she is building out a no-code toolkit for modern e-commerce brands and marketplace. A platform that brings designs + data + Channels together in one single place.

Kundan is the founder and CEO of LegalPay, a  tech-based B2B litigation finance company. He is also the founder of a litigation finance platform called advok8, in which he excelled in ample investment methods related to litigation finance. He is a specialist to write articles on various topics like  Private Equity, Alternative Investment, FinTech, Payment, Credit Risk, Legal Insurance, Microinsurance.

Kashish is the CIO of LegalPay and a founding member of a food & beverage start-up. He is an investor, mentor, and guest speaker with a previous experience of PwC in Goldman Sachs.

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The Indian market is booming and is expected to grow many folds in the upcoming years. Listen to Shayak Mazumder on how to take your brand global

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Chqbook is India’s leading neobank which offers solutions for India’s 64 million small business owners. Aligning with the vision of Digital India Initiative, Chqbook aims to empower small business owners with digital access to financial services across banking lending and insurance. 

​ Vipul Sharma, Co-founder and CEO at Chqbook, has done BA Honors in Economics from Loyola College where he worked as Editor for the magazine of Economics Department, “Oikonomikos”. He has also done MBA in finance and marketing from International Management Institute, New Delhi. Vipul has nearly 20 years of experience in marketing and management.

​Rajat Kumar, Co-founder and COO at Chqbook, has done MBA in International Business from Panjab University. Rajat has also been to Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore where he acquired the skills of Executive General Management and Organisational Leadership. Rajat has almost 27 years of experience and has been the founder and CEO of The Money Estate. 

​Mohit Goel, Co-Founder and CMO at Chqbook, has completed his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya and is graduated from the Hindu College, University of Delhi in Physics. Mohit has over two decades of experience in Marketing, Sales and Customer Experience across Telecom and Financial Services.

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The Builders Club is a community driven platform which acts as an enabler in your startup journey

We have multiple initiatives and events which we do regularly to help you accelerate your growth and move to the next stage of your startup life cycle.

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Narayanan is the Co-Founder & CBO of Unschool that ranks 3rd on Linkedin's 2020 Startup List in India and is funded by Y Combinator. 

Unschool is an e-mentorship platform that allows students, graduates, young professionals, entrepreneurs and "anyone with the curiosity to learn" to create an online learning ecosystem that fits their needs and industry demands.

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Brendon Rogers the Co-Founder of 2amVC, India's Only Genz focused Venture Fund, and Wag Labs Inc - an on-demand dog walking platform. He also has experience in funding startups like Bluelearn, BimaPe, etc. and is an advisor & mentor to Vinovest, Proguides, TechStars, and many more!

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Why India's healthcare system is struggling? The main reason is, in this world of digitalization our healthcare is not yet digitalized!

Farmako is a centralized health record system. They have raised $1.5M funding from Y Combinator and other investors. They are on a mission to digitalize the health care system of our country.

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Pratap is a passionate entrepreneur and performance technologist.He has successfully run large-scale Learning & Development and Vocational Education Operations and also created, coached and mentored several high performance teams. Pratap has been an entrepreneur since he was 15 and continues to create simple and scalable solutions for complex training challenges.

Currently, He is leading the Capability Development function at HCL Technology

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Jatin Chaudhary is the Co-founder of e-Chai ventures and has a knack for entrepreneurship, international trade and business, event organization, startups, etc. He also spoke at the D2C meetup in Ahmedabad at the Center For Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmedabad.  He was a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum as well! He has about 17 years of experience in the business development and sales domain.

Based in Ahmedabad, the venture has built a network that enables you to engage in meetings and induce growth. Its primary goal is to facilitate local meetups and cross-border interactions and collaborations.

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Shyatto Raha is the Founder & CEO of MyHealthcare. He has spent 20+ years in the media ecosystem and is now working on digitizing & digitalising  the Indian healthcare ecosystem.

MyHealthcare  is a digital speciality healthcare ecosystem that partners with hospitals in setting up an integrated, digital patient care ecosystem – placing the patient in the centre and building around them a complete environment of patient care services across consultation, diagnostics, health monitoring, preventive health and more. MyHealthcare has grown to become a leading speciality care ecosystem in India, over 130 leading super speciality hospitals have adopted the platform. MyHealthcare has also launched its healthcare financing product – MyHealthFin, to help make healthcare delivery more affordable. As on date, the MyHealthcare ecosystem manages the healthcare needs for over 40 million patients. To expand this continuum of care to Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities of India and  for regional expansion in SE Asia and Middle East,  MyHealthcare is close to finalizing their Series B round of funding.

Sumith is the Founder and CEO of KickstartX, redefines the professional lifestyle by driving the young passion towards the right vision with a direction. He is Chief Dad at Backbenchers. He was also Ex-president Confederation of Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (CIMSME).

He was also one of the “20 under 20 Entrepreneur” by Entrepreneur India in 2019.

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For all those who are building tools using no-code, this one is for you guy.

​How many of you dream of building a SaaS business? How many of you are willing to spend 17 years building it? and how many of you want to do it without raising any money?

​We have one who is profitable, clocking upwards of $2.5mn ARR, but has picked just $1mn funding!

​Our numbers might be a bit outdated, but it remains true that DronaHQ is up to something exciting and we had to get the cofounders on our podcast to understand more about what they are doing.

​For those who do not know, DronaHQ is a low code platform helps engineering teams and product managers to build internal tools, custom user journeys, digital experiences, automations, custom admin panels, operational apps 10X faster.

​They operate in a segment where Retool has raised $45mn at a valuation of #3bn+.

​Jinen Dedhia and his team have been building this tool for almost 17 years now, and his story is of perseverance, grit, determination, pivots and lastly, sustenance.

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Hey Guys, 

This week, we discussed about lean Startups and How early stage startups can apply it in their growth process with Brant Cooper. 

Brant Cooper is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur and CEO of Moves the Needle. With over two decades of expertise helping companies bring innovative products to market, he blends agile, design thinking, and lean methodologies to ignite entrepreneurial action within large organizations. You can buy his book here: http://amzn.to/3nYYa23

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