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Meet Singhal co-founder of Stamurai. On building the world's biggest digital therapy app for stuttering & stammering.
The Indian Startup Show
03/31/21 • 36 min
Giving a voice to people who don’t have a voice. Today my guest is Meet Singhal. Co-founder of Stamurai. A Mobile app that helps you learn & practice speech therapy exercises for stuttering & stammering. So in this episode he talks about how stuttering controlled his life almost having a breakdown and how he turned it all around by developing this mobile app. Talks about the initial prototype & acquiring his first customers. Which now has 40,000+ installs across 155 countries around the world. Talks about the science and psychology around stuttering. Never ordering food he liked only ones that were easy to say. Dealing with speech therapists. (30% sceptical , 70% encouraging) Talks about the best day so far. What you should and should not do when dealing with a person who stutters and telling his first ever joke! Talks about the subscription based business model . Does music work? - We talk about the headphone scene from the King's Speech! And finally gives great advice about raising finance & finding product market fit. Its an inspiring story and one that will inspire you!
In this conversation we also talk about:
- Traditional speech therapy is expensive
- Growing 15% every month.
- His Initial assumptions - would people use a self-directed product?
- Honey is not the cure for stammering & other quacky myths!
- Speech therapy has not changed for the last 100 years.
- Being a 2x entrepreneur
- Why do people stutter?
- Biggest learning from the initial MVP
- Why his first startup failed (Khan academy for india)
- Being Inspired by Charlie Munger.
- App design challenges.
- ‘Getting rich is never easy in a well formed society’
- How they onboard users.
- Getting help from Prosus, a global consumer internet group.
- Why do products fail?
- ‘It's a hard journey , but filled with meaning’
- Product roadmap - expanding into other speech disorders.
links
https://stamurai.com/
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Futurepreneur Grand Challenge winner Radhika Timbadia Owner of Champaca , Campaca is a unique cafe venture around books, food, curation and a strong community. She talks about how it got started. Talks about spotting the gap in the market . Thoughts on building a community. Talks about not being taken seriously by vendors and also challenges of retaining employees. She talks about dealing with Covid19. Advice for first time entrepreneurs. Great book recommendations, why she loves books, Bangalore traffic! Spotting snow leopards and online pub quizzes.
In this conversation we also talk about:
- Creating online voucher system during the shutdown.
- Getting help from fellow cafe owners
- 360 degree personality change
- Was it a difficult concept to sell in the early days
- What will the cafe shop look after Covid19?
- Book recommendations Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities
by Harini Nagendra, Seema Mundoli and Exhalation - Ted Chang - Making tough decisions
- Exploring different niches.
- Bangalore weather.
- Motivating herself in the lockdown.
and much more!
Links
Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) and Facebook India launched the FUTUREPRENEURS GRAND CHALLENGE for women mass entrepreneurs in the Food and Beverage Sector (F&B) in Bangalore to catalyse women entrepreneurs and recognize and reward the best among them. GAME is a non-profit platform for mission-aligned partners to learn, innovate and collaboratively build a self-sustaining mass entrepreneurship ecosystem. By identifying and scaling breakthroughs with partners, we want to build a movement for creating and sustaining 10 million job-creating ‘mass entrepreneurs’, half of whom will be women. For more information:
https://massentrepreneurship.org/
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Chicken 2.0 - Dr Siddharth Manvati (Ph.D) Co-Founder of Clear Meat. On building India’s first cell based meat company
The Indian Startup Show
08/11/19 • 26 min
Anyone fancy a lab-grown chicken burger? Today I speak to Dr Siddaharth Manvati Co-founder of Clear Meat. This company seeks to produce India’s first cell-based chicken minced meat. In this exciting episode you will learn how they create lab grown meat from molecules. He also talks about business models B2B & B2C. He talks about being part of an accelerator a global food accelerator programme shaping the future of food. He talks about the importance of being patient. Raising finance and discusses price points. Working with farmers not against. And finally some interesting ideas on what were going to eat and drink in a 100 years time!
in this conversation we also talk about:
- The aim in the next 2/3 years
- Thoughts on plant based v lab based meat
- Taste?
- What about fish & bacon etc.
- The future of food - Chicken Nuggets with insulin & bubble water
- Advice for first time founders
and much more!
Links
http://www.clearmeat.com/
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Reinventing Student Living - OxfordCaps CEO Annu Talreja & COO Priyanka Gera on building India’s largest student accommodation business
The Indian Startup Show
12/03/19 • 45 min
Student living 2.0! Today I speak with Annu Talreja and Priyanka Gera they have co-founded OxfordCaps. OxfordCaps is Asia's first branded and tech-enabled student housing company they started in Singapore and now growing rapidly in India so in this episode they talk about how they went from quitting their corporate jobs to raising $10 million dollars in funding. They talk about how they are enhancing the student experience, female entrepreneurship , the hardest part about doing business in India , they talk about pitching to investors and knowing each other since childhood. And finally some Steve jobs, Jack Ma chat.
In this conversation we also talk about:
- Going from 200 beds to 15000 beds
- Are they growing too fast?
- First impressions of each other
- How they divided the different roles & responsibilities at the start.
- Appreciating each other
- Getting customers
- Having supportive investors
- Lion mom culture & stress
- Technology
and much more!
links
https://oxfordcaps.com/
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Helping Global Indians Find Love - Naina Hiranandani COO & Co-Founder of Sirf Coffee
The Indian Startup Show
11/15/19 • 53 min
What do women want? & how do you deal with those annoying Aunties! Well today your going to find out. My guest is Naina Hiranandani, COO & Co-founder Sirf Coffee. Sirf Coffee is a bespoke dating service revolutionising dating for global Indians. In this exciting episode she talks about servicing clients around the world using an offline approach to dating and why they take this approach. She talks about the operational side of the business and why the business model has not changed over 10 years. She talks about why they don’t spend money on marketing or take investment and finally she shares some great dating advice you can try if your footloose and fancy free!
In this episode we talk about
- How many dates have they have setup
- Walking away from a lucrative career to do this
- Building a prototype
- Word of mouth marketing
- Do opposites attract?
- What it takes to be a COO
- The future of dating
- Being different to the rest of the competition
- Having courage
- Book recommendation Sapiens - Yuval Harari & Modern Romance - Aziz Ansari
and much more
links
https://www.sirfcoffee.com/
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Supari Studios co-founder Advait Gupt on building an award winning digital content studio & creating India’s answer to The Simpsons.
The Indian Startup Show
08/20/19 • 29 min
'Get out of bed! & do the stuff your excited about' - Today I speak to Advait Gupt founder of Supari Studios an award winning digital content studio. They help brands build scalable, immersive content to Gen Y and Gen Z audiences online. Over the past 7 years, they have produced over 450 projects that have been viewed over half a billion times online, for brands such as Red Bull, Google, Estee Lauder and Twitter. In this episode he talks about creating content at scale. How they manage the creative side with making money. You will learn how to grow your own content on Youtube. He also talks about the streaming wars in India. And finally he talks about creating a Simpsons type animation show set in a post-apocalyptic world where humans have gone extinct. It follows the adventures of a cow , chicken , goat and a pig four crime fighting vigilantes. & working with one of Indians biggest rappers Divine.
In this conversation we also talk about:
- Working with top international brands
- Business models
- Book recommendation - Creativity inc & Measure what matters
- Animation scene in India
- Think about the consumer
- Aims & objectives in the next 3 years
- Advice on how to be taken seriously.
- You don't need a fancy degree!
and much more
links
http://suparistudios.com/
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The Indian Startup Show ::Trailer
The Indian Startup Show
03/18/20 • 6 min
The Indian Startup Show Trailer - A weekly podcast Show about Indian startups, entrepreneurs & more ! Hosted by Neil Patel & friends.
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Prateek Madhav CEO of Assistive Technology Accelerator (ATA) on running an accelerator to help startups build tech-based solutions for people with disabilities
The Indian Startup Show
07/22/19 • 31 min
Disability is a large problem, 1 Billion people in the world have some or the other kind of disability. 2. 2 Billion people will need at least 1 assistive product by 2030. Today I speak to Prateek Madhav the Co-founder & CEO of the Assistive Technology Accelerator . ATA is india’s first ever assistive technology accelerator. They help startups build tech based solutions for people with disabilities. He talks about how it all got started , examples of tech for good products. He talks about funding, product market fit and the biggest challenges within the disability ecosystem. He talks about the mistakes startups make when pitching to investors , how to scale , thinking globally and after the doom and gloom of India getting knocked out of the World Cup. We talk about an Indian cricket team who are world champions.
In this conversation we also talk about:
- How do they identify startups
- Biggest insights so far
- Technology does not discriminate
- 70% of Indian disabled people live in rural areas.
- When's the best time to launch?
- walking away from corporate life
- Social sector world v corporate world.
- Indian blind cricket team.
- Validating your ideas
- Book recommendation - Zero to one - Peter Thiel
- Running marathons
and much more!
links
www.atalabs.org
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Being a kid obsessed with J.A.R.V.I.S Aarushi a 17 year old student Entrepreneur has created Aaru - an AI-based virtual , personal assistant. Aaru is a one-stop solution to integrate any application to various interfaces and mode of communications. So in this exciting episode she talks about how it all got started. Being inspired by her father. Getting customers, learning to code , what motivates her. She gives us a demo , she talks about balancing school life with startup life, pitching to investors , lessons learned so far, and finally her love of physics.
in this conversation, we also talk about:
- Learning to code
- What her teachers & school friends think.
- Scaling the business
- Pitching in front of successful entrepreneurs
- Book recommendation - Steven Hawking -Brief answers to big questions
- Thoughts on machine learning
- Favourite startups
- The hardest bit about building this startup
- Advice for first time founders
and much more
Linkedin profile
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The Indian Startup Show - The Best Bits [Part12]
The Indian Startup Show
06/15/20 • 76 min
Having been stuck inside coronavirus lockdown since late March. I decided to listen back through the archives and put together some of the best interviews.
Today you will here from 'The Recycle Man of India' Dr Binish Desai Forbes 30 under 30 Asia social entrepreneur & founder of Eco-Eclectic. We talk about:-
- Being inspired by Captain Planet!
- Building houses, toilets, lamps & other products out of waste - What's next?
- First brick looking like a roti
- Working in slums
- Dealing with negativity & proving people wrong.
- Why he takes 2 bricks with him everywhere he goes!
- Creating a micro social enterprise to help women
- 3D printing houses in the future
- Dreaming of getting on the Forbes list & getting on the list.
- Being cheated by a partner & what kept him going
Next up is Krishnan Nair -CEO of Geektrust he talks about on creating an online platform that connects talented developers with great opportunities. We talk about :
- Taking the plunge
- Stats so far
- Being a first generation entrepreneur
- Being In it for the long haul.
- Figuring out your core value
- It's time to move on from the outsourcing industry and build kick-ass products for the world from India!
- Marketing strategies - Writing things from the heart! not clickbait.
- Don't drink your own Kool-Aid!
- Business model
- Being mentally prepared. Startup life is a lonely journey.
- Indian VC's, China VC's, American VC's
And finally I speak to the amazing Pooja Dhingra Celebrity chef, entrepreneur & founder of Le15 Patisserie. We talk about:
- Starting with 3 people and now employing 140+
- Falling in love with Macaroons!
- Bringing a piece of Paris back to Mumbai
- Starting a business being young & female
- Going to events in the early days and getting asked about her husband and father
- Dropping out of law school after 2 weeks.
- Management styles
- Building a brand
- Eating dark chocolate
- Being open to change
- Setting crazy goals.
- Oprah Winfrey chat
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FAQ
How many episodes does The Indian Startup Show have?
The Indian Startup Show currently has 208 episodes available.
What topics does The Indian Startup Show cover?
The podcast is about India, Tech, Web, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Podcasting, Startups, Podcast, Podcasts, Technology, Entrepreneurs and Business.
What is the most popular episode on The Indian Startup Show?
The episode title 'Meet Singhal co-founder of Stamurai. On building the world's biggest digital therapy app for stuttering & stammering.' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Indian Startup Show?
The average episode length on The Indian Startup Show is 38 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Indian Startup Show released?
Episodes of The Indian Startup Show are typically released every 10 days, 16 hours.
When was the first episode of The Indian Startup Show?
The first episode of The Indian Startup Show was released on Aug 12, 2015.
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