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You’re listening to #TheBarbershopWithShantanuS2: #RaisersEdge. In this episode, you’ll hear the team of Aspire For Her: Divya Sampath and Madhura DasGupta Sinha discuss the journey behind creating and running Aspire For Her - an organisation which in their words is by women, for women and of women!
Stay tuned till the end of the episode to see whether our equity seekers - Shantanu Deshpande, Toshan Tamhane, Arjun Purkayasth and Ashu Suyash decide to invest in them or not.
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00:00:00 Coming Up.
00:00:54 Welcome to Raiser's Edge.
00:01:51 Today's Equity Seekers.
00:03:42 Meet Aspire for Her.
00:06:33 Why build Aspire for Her?
00:10:36 On ensuring effective mentorship.
00:14:42 Tools deployed for learning.
00:15:21 On building communities.
00:16:56 Gig-Economy/Freelance work.
00:17:17 Making women financially free.
00:19:24 On women quitting careers.
00:20:37 On communities being necessary.
00:21:06 Entrepre-naris and making job creators.
00:21:31 On rebuilding women facing devastating losses.
00:22:50 Demographic breakdown.
00:23:24 On dealing with business fragmentation.
00:26:40 Who are the customers?
00:27:11 What are the revenue models?
00:27:48 Breakdown of expected revenues.
00:29:22 Should companies outsource DEI?
00:35:08 On the need to raise funds.
00:36:09 Why alternative means of funding won't work.
00:39:36 Gender Parity in India vs USA.
00:41:13 Trouble in financial projections?
00:45:22 The Ask 00:45:53 Strategic Timeout.
00:46:01 Financials Being Wrong.
00:46:50 Concerns around why dilution is considered.
00:50:30 Ending up with more questions than answers.
00:52:30 Struggle to make the business easy.
00:55:20 The Verdict
APPLY NOW We are looking for early stage stage companies with: - Amazing Founders - Operating in large markets - Are post revenue - TBWS will put in the first or second institutional cheque! Email us about you and your start-up on barbershop@bombayshavingcompany.com.
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ABOUT OUR CHANNEL
My name is Shantanu and I am the founder of Bombay Shaving Company and Bombae. I LOVE entrepreneurship. Personally, I would rate myself as an average (at best) entrepreneur, but I love great ones.
The BarberShop with Shantanu S2: Raiser’s Edge goes beyond our conversations from S1 on our podcast to tangible help. With the help of our sponsors at BSC and Bombae we have put together a season which brings together a corpus of 50+ equity seekers looking to support 20+ start-ups in their growth and success.
We will be releasing an episode every Friday at 9 pm. Tune in and hope you enjoy. :)
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