The Indian Startup Show

Barbara Maim is the Co-founder and CEO of Minsh, a community messaging system, a private social network with your own customised brand. In 2008, she co-founded Minsh, and a few years later, in June 2011, she moved from Lausanne to Bangalore with her husband and Co-founder, Jon. We talk about her time in India, working with her husband ,and plans for the future. Enjoy the Show. links https://minsh.com/

Today I speak with Amar Vyas (@amarauthor). He is an author, a soon to be podcaster, and is a self-described nomad, who has lived in fifteen cities over the past twenty years in two continents. Somewhere in this timespan life he went to graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and business school at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Amar's debut novel NRI:Now, Returned to India was published in August 2014. NRI is the first in a four part series featuring the protagonist Amol Dixit and it is a humorous tale of woes experienced by Amol when he returns to India in haste. We talk about the book , his life in America and India., The fiction scene in India, his new podcast and his plans for the future. Enjoy the show! links Website: http://www.amarvyas.in Podcast: http://www.mykitaab.in

With the ongoing refugees crisis in Europe i chat to Anne Riechart co-founder of Refugees on Rails. A coding school for refugees based in Berlin, Germany . Their aim is to help refugees to build and expand their qualification as software developers and provide them the opportunity to work with startups and tech companies. They only started 6 weeks ago and they have over 200 volunteers. Germany has been particularly welcoming and innovative when it comes to refugees. We talk about how this got started , aims and objectives, her time spent in Japan and plans for the future. key takeaway No matter how bad life gets there are people like Anne who will will help you! links Website: http://refugeesonrails.org/ twitter: @RefugeesOnRails P.S Refugees on Rails are looking for old laptops , so if you want to donate go to their website http://refugeesonrails.org/

Today I am joined by Kavita Kapoor (@kavitakapoor) who is the author of a new book called Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Kaam. The book is based on her first hand experience across India. The book helps young professionals answer their questions and navigate the dynamic ever changing work space. So if you are struggling with what to do next in your life , then please listen. We talk about a wide range of subjects from her experiences of leadership and mentorships , what makes a good boss, what happens if your boss is not very good , her side projects , blogging, entrepreneurship to women in tech. Enjoy the show. Links kavitakapoor.org

In this episode I talk with Devin Miller , the lead engineer at NextDrop a startup based in Bangalore. Nextdrop is a for-profit enterprise with a social mission, they want to rid the world of its water problems. Devin is originally from America studying computer science but decided to quit to try and come over to to India and to tackle India’s water issues. We talk about how it works, how they attract customers, his first impressions of India and plans for the future. links Website: www.nextdrop.org twitter: @nextdrop

“SOFTWARE is eating the world,” proclaimed Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz. So this week I speak to Pushkar Gaikwad the founder of AeroLeads, a prospect and lead generation software tool. Pushkar has bootstrapped his SaaS (software as a service) startup company for the last 7 months & now has over 1500 B2B customers around the world and a decent amount of turnover. In last 4 years, he has built 3 startups and multiple products. Which he regularly blogs about We discuss how to generate sales for your business. Using marketing channels like Linkedin to generate leads. He is a firm believer that startups require lot of hard work and if you are not having fun and doing what you find it exciting, you will soon lose motivation. website: https://aeroleads.com/ Pushkar's blog: http://gaikwad.in/

Reema Sathe is the founder of Happy Roots. An initiative helping farmers build high value alternate income sources. Did you know more than 50% of people in India still depend on agriculture for their earnings. She started out as a chemical engineer for a big corporation and then quit to follow her dreams of helping farmers in her region. Since launching she has created her first commercial pilot scheme and produced over 1000 organic eggs, which she supply's to high end restaurants in Pune. It's a great episode! Links Blog: www.storiesisee.com Twitter : @reema_sathe Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/happyroots1

Addresses in India are so confusing! So, In this podcast I speak to Krishna Yogi the founder of Maptags. who has come up with a simple, innovate solution to this problem! Maptags is a web application that shortens your address to your favourite word & makes sharing address as easy as sharing a word. All you need is a smartphone and a GPS signal. http://mapta.gs/ Krishna started this entrepreneurial journey 5 months ago. He and his team have attracted 4,000 users from across the globe. Reached $1500 in revenue. Over 20,000 map tags have already been taken. I interviewed Krishna , while on holiday! We talk about his journey so far, the best moments. The huge potential of Maptags around the world. Maptags have also created a marketplace so you buy and sell tags. Krishna also shares his advice on launching your own startup Links Map tags home page - http://mapta.gs/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Maptagss

Joining me today is Stewart Noakes, Co-founder of TechHubs in Bangalore & Boston. TechHub creates spaces around the world for tech entrepreneurs to meet, work, learn and collaborate, and runs a load of great events, advice sessions and more. Stewart is a successful entrepreneur and wanted to start a give back project to the people of Bangalore. So Stewart brought TechHub to India. At the time it was the first step for them outside of Europe. Launched in June 2014 with an empty room, no chairs with the words IF NOT NOW THEN WHEN! painted on the walls. . They have grown to over 400 members+ and is now one of the top co-working spaces in India. Stewart shares his inspiration and experiences of being the co-founder of TechHubs in Bangalore & Boston along with some of the challenges & opportunities of working in Bangalore where: -- 80,000 IT graduates come out of Bangalore alone. -- startups Received $2.7 Billion in funding last year -- 37% of all IT spend of India goes through Bangalore. We also talk

Arik Marmorstein is the founder of Refresh Box. Refresh box enables people to subscribe or create 5-link-collection newsletters. Think of it like a platform for newsletters. So anyone can subscribe or create different newsletters. It’s currently a side project with two friends and its getting great traction. Since launching Refresh box has 2500 users , 530 curators and more than 7,000 subscriptions. All without spending any money on marketing! It recently got featured on TechCrunch. http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/13/refreshbox-lets-anyone-create-newsletters-featuring-the-weeks-best-reads/ We talk about product market fit, raising funding. time spent working on a startup at Dreamit’s accelerator in New York & Paul Grahams essay’s. How he juggles 3 jobs and at the same time looking after a new born baby! Quote “If you are working too much on design maybe you are covering something up” - Arik Marmorstein Links www.refreshbox.co Paul Graham - Do things that don’t scale http://paulgraham.com/ds.html ==> STAR

In today’s podcast I interviewed Bilal Budhani entrepreneur & now developer at CrowdFire. We discuss his break in the startup world to how he become young entrepreneur of the year in 2013. Bilal talks about his experience of running his own startups. How he taught himself web development in the cyber cafes in Mumbai to working at CrowdFire. A tool for social analytics & social publishing. Which has over 11 million users and a series A funding. Twitter: @BilalBudhani Website: http://bilalbudhani.me/ Quora post on Crowdfire’s culture. http://www.quora.com/Which-startups-in-India-have-the-best-workplace-cultures/answer/Priyanka-Sharma-121?srid=3gh2&share=1

i talked with Sahil Arora - Entrepreneur & Founder of Vuzelaa. Sahil is a 17 year old entrepreneur who raised $40,000 while still at school!. Vuzelaa is an iPhone app which uses retina recognition for logging into social media and other cool stuff. I talk about the highs & lows of being an entrepreneur. We discuss the future of social networking. How he manages a team of 14 staff & pitching a VC during at school break. It’s full of practical advice , useful ideas for anyone building an app with no design or coding knowledge. Enjoy! Neil www.neilpatel.co Links The Vuzelaa home page : www.vuzelaa.com Twitter: @TheSahilsays

i talked with Deepak Abbot - head of mobile growth at Times Internet part of the Times of India corporation. One of the largest media houses in the world. Learn how he and his team mange the growth and analytics of 14 + mobile apps & 50+ million users Deepak talks about his decision-making methods, techniques, and processes including retention and referral strategies. A recent trip to Google HQ in mountain view. It’s full of practical advice , useful ideas for anyone looking at promoting an app in India Enjoy! Neil neilpatel.co Links The Times of India App Link: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-times-of-india/id427589329?mt=8 Twitter: @deepakabbot Blog: medium.com/@deepakabbot. Its an App World: A publication all about Growth Hacking, Mobile Marketing & Data Analytics: https://medium.com/its-an-app-world

In this episode we talk to Harshdeep, a young entrepreneur from India, he has spent the last 3 years building an iPhone App , called Wrap it up. And at 6ft 8 the tallest person i have interviewed. We talk about why he is anti-social! What kept him going. Why he read Steve Jobs autobiography 15-20 times! And a 15 day coding streak. Links App Link: https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/wrapitup-text-summariser/id1017676504?mt=8 Website: http://harshdeephura.com/wrapitup/ Twitter: @theharshdeep Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlWtXzkBfxc Product Hunt: http://www.producthunt.com/tech/wrapitup