The Indian Startup Show Ep83: [The Best] of the Indian Startup Show - Part 4
Sit back & enjoy some of the best bits of The Indian Startup Show. Today you will hear from Vamsi Krishna, co-founder & CEO of Vedantu. Based in Bangalore, Vedantu is a Live Online Tutoring platform that aims to ‘personalize’ and ‘democratize’ learning in India.
- The online tutoring marketplace in India
- Mentorship
- Advice for students entering higher education
- Stats so far
- Don't apply your MBA brain!
- The hiring process
- Starting his career teaching kids, whose parents worked at a sulphuric processing plant. in Barnala, Punjab
- Advice for startups
- Vamsi has several years teaching experience, so he gave us his revision tips :)
- The 3 main things VCs look for when investing in startups (v.important!)
Neha Motwani - The founder & CEO of Fitternity. Fitternity is a discovery platform for workout classes and other fitness services based in Mumbai. The platform allows users to book free trials with exercise classes, personal trainers, and nutritionists.
- What’s it like being a CEO?
- What most excites her most at Fitternity
- The fitness market in India.
- Core team
- SEO
- Sitters, seekers & hunters!
- Building an MVP
- Just Ship it!
- Overcoming obstacles in the early days.
- Neha's top pitching tips for startups looking to raise money.
Vishal Shah - Founder & CEO of Haute Chef. Haute Chef is a unique "meal kit" concept, They send a box of pre-measured, labelled ingredients along with easy to follow step-by-step instructions on putting together a truly gourmet dish in your home kitchen.
- What Vishal looks for when hiring staff
- Working in finance
- The Indian food Market
- Attention to detail
- Getting his first customers!
- Getting out of the comfort zone
- Dealing with multiple deadlines
- Plans for expansion for the next 3 years
- The startup scene in Mumbai
- His Favourite food!
- What Wall Street is really like!
- The most surprising thing about his entrepreneurial journey so far
- Mistakes first time founders make - (don’t get too attached to your product)
- Bootstrapped v funded startups in India
- Food tips for first-time visitors to India!
Anirban Poddar - Founder & CEO of ShopHop. ShopHop is an e-commerce platform which serves as a curated marketplace for natural, artisanal, home-grown foods and wellness products.
- The vision of the company
- Bacon flavoured Ice-cream!
- Company stats
- Flavours
- Raising money
- Advice on pitching - be prepared!
- What are they working on right now
- Indian e-commerce
- Expanding into the major cities
- Core audience?
- Subscription box
- Winning Pitch 2 Start competition
- What excites him most about this startup
- Business heroes
- Growing Shop Hop's user base
- The hardest part about building this business.
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