An Effort Story

Today on the show, we have with us an Entrepreneur Ms. Deepa Bachu Co-founder and CEO at Pensaar design. Having more than 2 decades of experience in Design and Product development, she talks about what is design thinking, and why every business needs this.

She also shares a few examples of design thinking and how big companies like Amazon, Airbnb uses design thinking to understand their customers and serve them better.

We also discussed the challenges, who must implement design thinking, and the basic requirements.

If you’re someone who is running a business or planning to start a business, this podcast gives you the answer to why you’ve to use design thinking and how you can implement it as an entrepreneur.

Tune in to listen to the entire conversation. Comment or leave us an audio message and let us know what you loved the most in the podcast.

Today on the show, we have an Entrepreneur Mr. Karthik Sridharan sharing his startup story, and has been sharing all his hard-earned lessons on Twitter and helping many to understand about the startup in every aspect starting from idea, to marketing, to finding customers and more.

Karthik is a co-founder and CEO at flexiple.com which he started along with his friends and bootstrapped it completely without investing a single dollar in paid marketing.

In this episode, we've spoken about his journey from being a job holder to getting into IIM Ahmedabad for his education and then becoming an entrepreneur. 

He has shared his knowledge on finding his first clients from cold emailing to getting inbound leads within 1 year.

Karthik Says,

1. Studying in a good engineering school

2. Working at a reputed Investment Bank

3. Getting an MBA from a top B-school

I achieved societal success.

My second life began when I realized chasing societal success is NOT the same as seeking happiness.

"Your career is supposed to support your life but your life is not supposed to support your career" - Karthik

Want to build a startup from scratch? This episode will help you do that. To all the aspiring entrepreneurs out there, this one is for you. Tune in to listen to the complete episode.

This episode covers the story of an Entrepreneur who quit his job for building a startup that has been backed today by big investors like Sequoia, Elevation and also has top business leaders like Kunal Shah (Cred, Founder), Kunal Bahl (CEO) & Rohit Bansal (Co-founder) at Snapdeal as Advisors.

In this conversation Mr. Sachin Gupta Co-founder at Probo.in talks about his startup journey and also shares his lessons learned while building Probo.in

00:50 Introduction

12:42 Start of Probo.in

23:02 How to hire productively

25:11 Pros and Cons of having Co-founder

27:32 Approaching Investors

30:19 How does sharing startup idea with others helps you move further

32:42  Marketing Strategies at Probo.in

36:45 Learnings of Time management

38:19 Managing personal finances

39:55 Handling challenges

41:17 Rapid Fire

41:52 Final Advice for listeners

43:02 Tips for aspiring entrepreneurs who is planning to build a startup

The biggest challenge for any business is to gain the trust of the clients in the early stages. But, here's a story of an Entrepreneur who has delivered the revenue of USD 500K to his clients within the first year of operation.

Listen to the conversation of Mr. Sushant Pande who is an Entrepreneur, a certified Six Sigma black belt holder, and currently working as a Co-founder at EasyProblemSolving.

In this episode, Mr. Sushant talks about his entrepreneurial journey, the marketing strategy that works well in the initial years of any business, and also shares few lessons that he learned from his failed startup.

If you're dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur as a student, then the best way is to start from your college. 

Here is one such story of an entrepreneur who didn't go to college just for academics but to follow his dreams.

Tune in to listen to the entire conversation of Mr. Atul Kumar who is Co-founder and CEO at Cuvette Tech who has taken an opportunity of his college to become an entrepreneur.

A Young man who quit his CA career and a high-paying job in MNC to help his mother in a health and nutrition company that was built by her at the age of 42.

In this conversation, Sahil Jain who is a Co-founder and CEO at MightyMillets talks about their startup journey and shares the common challenges that have been faced by every entrepreneur in Health and Nutrition industry.

He also shares the lessons that he has learned the hard way and gives advice on how one can learn things and adapt in the business even coming from no business background.

Tune in to listen to this entire conversation and grab some insights for your start-up today!

Journey of two friends Mr. Raghib Khan and Mr. Faisal Abbas (Co-founders at RnF technologies) who quit their high-paying jobs to pursue their dream of becoming entrepreneurs. In this conversation, Faisal and Raghib share their entrepreneurial journey from being Friends to Co-founders and also explained few reasons on why most startups fail in the early stages.

Tune in to listen to this insightful conversation and get some insights for your startup today!

A pharmacist who turned to a retailer to an Entrepreneur. 

In this episode, Ms. Harini Reddy shares her entrepreneurial story and the challenges she has encountered on her way to build a unique and simplified healthy and Ayurvedic beauty product. She also talks about some reasons for many startups to fail in the skin care industry.

Tune in to listen to the entire conversation with Ms. Harini Reddy Founder & Managing Director at La'vedics

A pharmacist who turned to a retailer to an Entrepreneur. 

In this episode, Ms. Harini Reddy shares her entrepreneurial story and the challenges she has encountered on her way to build a unique and simplified healthy and Ayurvedic beauty product. She also talks about some reasons for many startups to fail in the skin care industry.

Tune in to listen to the entire conversation with Ms. Harini Reddy Founder & Managing Director at La'vedics

Many Startups which have been Unicorns today have come from the personal experiences of an Entrepreneur.

Here's one such story of an Entrepreneur who started a Startup to address a common real-life logistics challenge in rural,tier-2, and tier-3 cities.

In this episode, Mr. Abdul Khadeer Mohammed Founder and CEO at AI LOGISTIX talks about his entrepreneurial journey from an Employee to an Employer phase and shares his tips on how to grow on a daily basis as an entrepreneur.

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