Understanding D2C in India with Abhishek Goenka, Head, RPSG Capital Ventures

The direct-to-consumer market, known as the D2C market had a size of about $33 billion in India in 2020. By 2025, the total addressable D2C market is forecast to grow almost threefold and reach $100 billion. […]

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Gallabox Founder on Starting up at age 50 & Building Gallabox

Karthik shares the backstory of what led him to starting up at the age of 50, building something for SMBs, Building and growing sustainably in crisis, Company culture in India Vs the US, and more.
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Tiago Forte On How To Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

During the episode, Tiago talks about our mental blockers which hold us back from taking effective notes, how to get back at reviewing them later, how to get started with step 1, and more.
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Jaspreet Singh On Starting Druva From Pune, India To Making It a Global Leader in Cloud Computing

Druva is trusted by over 4,000 global organizations. The company has such strong faith in these data-protection systems, that they even offer a Data Resiliency Guarantee up to $10 Mn against five key data risks. In today’s episode, Jaspreet shares with us the backstory of what led him to start Druva, move to the US, and more. […]

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Top skillsets + Learnings from 200+ podcast episodes ft Siddhartha & Nansi, founders, 100x Entrepreneur

What are some of the valuable learnings and inspirations Siddhartha and Nansi got after recording 200+ episodes with the most successful entrepreneurs, VCs, and creators on the 100x Entrepreneur podcast? […]

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The process and preparation for IPO, with Tracxn founders Neha Singh and Abhishek Goyal

In 2021, 125 Indian companies raised over $18 Bn through initial public offerings (IPO) in public markets.

Out of $18 Bn, over $7.3 Bn was raised by 11 Indian Tech Startups from Nazara to MapmyIndia.

In today’s episode, we talk with Abhishek Goyal & Neha Singh, Co-founders, Tracxn, which recently went IPO.

But unlike the other major tech startups which went IPO in recent years, at Tracxn, they decided to go IPO at a probably early stage, considering their ARR of $10 Mn.

During the episode, they share there view point on why they chose to do it on an initial ARR rather than going IPO, once they’ve grown big enough and more. […]

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The Inside Story of BharatPe ft CEO Suhail Sameer and Founder Shashvat Nakrani

To know how digital payments turned out as a big break for them, we’ve got BharatPe CEO Suhail Sameer & Founder Shashvat Nakrani to our guest seats this time. Listen to this conversation to hear the story of young yet resilient players in the Fintech industry. […]

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How Purplle Became a Billion Dollar Marketplace for Cosmetics

As per Statista, Market size of the cosmetics industry across India which was at $3 Bn in 2010 is expected to grow to atleast $20 Bn by 2025.

In today’s episode, we talk with Manish Taneja, Co-founder and CEO, Purplle, which was started back in 2012.

During the podcast Manish talks in detail about –

How he along with his Cofounders have always thought for the long-term?
Problems they faced back in 2012 in Vertical Ecommerce.
How MOATs against competitors are mostly in the minds of the founders? rather than being actually relevant to Indian customers, who are most price and value sensitive.
What’s unique about their culture that has helped them retain as well as hire new talent?
And more…

Lastly before we dive deeper into the podcast, something that Manish mentioned during the episode – “Our 2nd part of the journey has been about, believing in yourself, doing things that are contradictory to the world but at the same time, we think could create massive value in the future.” […]

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Helping Startups Grow Through Organic Marketing | GrowthSchool

Thinking about Entrepreneurship or Startups which of the following do you think really matters –

# Having Degree from a Tier-1 college?

# Having or finding the right Co-founder?

# Sky-rocketing your scale up as soon as you secure funding?

# Pouring in your resources to get as many customers as fast as possible via Ads?

Well the short answer to all the above questions is, IT DOESN’T.

In today’s episode we’ve with us Vaibhav Sisinty, Founder, GrowthSchool. And in this episode, while sharing his experiences of building and scaling GrowthSchool, he busts all the above myths one-by-one.

For all of you, who’ve been active on Linkedin, in the past few years, especially around themes like marketing and growth hacking, you would have surely noticed a post or an Ad by Vaibhav, or his perfect case of personal branding and self-curated courses on Sisinty.com.

During the episode, we talk with Vaibhav about how he learnt and grew his marketing skills during his job at Uber and Klook, how he used a brilliant growth hacking method even while raising his first round and much more.

Lastly before we dive deeper into the podcast, something that Vaibhav mentioned during the episode – “True Product Market Fit is, If I shut down my product today, will 25 people line out of my office, requesting to please turn it ON.”
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