The Indian Startup Show E93: Dignite founder Raghuveer Surupa Entrepreneur,TEDx organiser & amateur musician -On building India's first online store dedicated to improving the day to day lives of cancer patients
Every year 1 million patients get diagnosed with cancer in India. So today I speak to Raghuveer Surupa, the founder of Dignite Cancer Care - India's first online store dedicated to improving day to day lives of cancer patients. He talks about how he came up with the idea. Why he gave up a lucrative career in the pharmaceutical industry to pursue his passion. He reflects on his first year anniversary as an entrepreneur. He talks about how he motivates himself and talks about some of the taboos about cancer. He also talks about his role organizing TedX talks and gives great advice if you want to do a TEDx talk. And finally, we talk about his love for the playing the guitar, which he will play for us at the end of the interview. It’s a cover version of a Johnny Cash song called Hurt used in the last Wolverine film. And it was his last ever song he recorded before he died - its an all-time classic!
In this conversation we also talk about:
- Stats
- Was it difficult to walk away from a lucrative career
- Examples of day to day cancer care products
- Why has no one done this before?
- Why he waited 3 years to do this
- Will they ever find a cure for cancer?
- The taboo about telling family members they have cancer
- Organising TEDx talks for the last 6/7 years
- Favourite TEDx talk - Ken Robinson
- Excellent advice on doing a TEDx talk
- Advice on doing a tech for good startup
- Freedom
- Favourite musician
- Raghuveer sings!
- Thoughts on reaching out to cancer patients online
- Book recommendations - The Lean Startup
- How do they plan to scale?
and much more
Links
https://dignite.in/
Ken Robinson TEDx talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en#t-42256 Key Takeaway - if you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original!
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