

Prime Venture Partners Podcast
Prime Venture Partners: Early Stage VC Fund
A podcast for entrepreneurs who are looking to build & grow their startups. Avoid common traps & learn uncommon strategies & tactics from makers & doers of startup ecosystem. Prime Ventures is a early-stage venture fund which focuses on startups that not only need capital but also require mentoring to transform them into disruptive companies. We share a passion for working closely with entrepreneurs and enjoy sharing their journey in a high-frequency, interactive and fun environment.Read more about us at http://primevp.in
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Dec 30, 2022 • 33min
#120 Prashant Tandon, Founder 1mg on Conventional Wisdom, Reasons to Exist & Building an Integrated Healthcare Platform
Prashant Tandon Founder 1mg chats with Amit Somani, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about02:00 - Start Up When YOU Are Ready08:00 - New Healthcare: From Doctor Centric to Patient Centric13:15 - Acquiring Consumers in Healthcare19:00 - Different Customer Segments in India22:00 - Building a Digital Only Healthcare Company24:15 - Be Very Clear About Your Reason to Exist29:30 - Conventional Wisdom Doesn’t Build Anything NewClick here to read the full transcriptWant to learn more about about building a building a category-defining startup in India? Listen to this episode with Vidit Aatrey, Co-Founder & CEO, Meesho where he talks about Meesho’s Core Value of Always Listening to UserTeam building, Hiring and Retaining Talent at Startups, Current Landscape of the Indian E-commerce Sector, Importance of Trust and Accessibility in E-commerce and more. Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/ This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Dec 22, 2022 • 38min
#119 SaaS Deep Dives: TAM, Product, Pricing & Community with Srikrishnan Ganesan Co-Founder & CEO Rocketlane
Srikrishnan Ganesan Co-Founder & CEO Rocketlane chats with Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about01:30: Joining SaaS World: From B2C to B2B08:00 - Analysing TAM: Is it a feature or a Company? 14:00 - When an MVP is Not Enough20:00 - Reducing the Time to Wow25:00 - Building a Community as a SaaS Business32:30 - Working with Industry Analysts36:00 - 2 Books That Have Helped Sri as a FounderClick here to read the full transcriptWant to learn more about about building a global SaaS business from India? Listen to this episode with Khadim Batti, Co-Founder & CEO Whatfix where we talk about Finding PMF & The Right Customer Segment, Pricing & Product For Enterprise, Building Sales Cycle & Sales Force in US, Four Pillars of Category Awareness and a lot more. Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/ This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Dec 15, 2022 • 45min
#118 How to Think About Market Size(the ✅ way) with Ashmeet Sidana, Founder & Chief Engineer, Engineering Capital
Ashmeet Sidana Founder & Chief Engineer, Engineering Capital chats with Amit Somani, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about02:00 - The High Cost of Getting The Market Size Wrong10:00 - When Should You Use Top Down Market Size15:30 - Calculating Market Size: Precision Vs Accuracy23:30 - Great Products Expand Markets28:30 - Creating a Category is a Continuum35:00 - Disagreeing with the Market SizeClick here to read the full transcriptDo you have unanswered questions about the world of startups and entrepreneurship? If so, here is your chance to get your burning questions answered.(And also to get featured on the podcast!) We are looking for interesting and thought-provoking questions about all aspects of building a startup. Submit your questions here(https://bit.ly/PvpMailBag) and a set of hand-picked ones will be answered by the Prime team on the special podcast episode. Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/

Dec 8, 2022 • 38min
#117 SaaS Deep Dives: PMF, GTM & Maverick Marketing with Arvind Parthiban, CEO & Co-Founder SuperOps.ai
Arvind Parthiban CEO & Co-Founder SuperOps.ai chats with Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about01:00 - From Zoho to Zarget to Freshworks to SuperOps.ai11:00 - Finding PMF: It’s About Predictability18:30 - GTM: Answer These 2 Questions First 24:00 - SaaS Marketing: Lead Gen & Brand Building33:00 - Why, When & How to work With Industry AnalystsClick here to read the full transcriptWant to learn more about about building a global SaaS business from India? Listen to this episode with Khadim Batti, Co-Founder & CEO Whatfix where we talk about Finding PMF & The Right Customer Segment, Pricing & Product For Enterprise, Building Sales Cycle & Sales Force in US, Four Pillars of Category Awareness and a lot more. Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/ This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Dec 1, 2022 • 46min
#116 From Soil to Sale: Organising India’s Food Supply Chain with Karthik Jayaraman Co-Founder WayCool Foods
Karthik Jayaraman, Co-Founder WayCool chats with Gaurav Ranjan, VP Investments Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about01:30 - Push-Led Supply Chain to Demand Led Supply Chain10:00 - Role of Tech in Food Supply Chain18:00 - Depth in One Category Vs Building Breadth30:00 - Build in-house, Acquire or Use 3rd Party Service Providers?35:00 - Solving Credit for Farmers38:00 - Resource Allocation: Physical CFO & Digital CFO42:00 - “My Job is to Develop Leaders”Click here to read the full transcriptWant to learn more about about AgriTech in India? Listen to this episode with Shashank Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO DeHaat where we talk about Scalability and Monetisation in AgriTech; Role of Tech(Enabler or Revenue Generator); Managing Scale in a Fast Growing Startup; New Startup Opportunities in AgriTech Space and a lot more. ----------We are organising a B2B commerce Roundtable, followed by a mixer, on 7th December in Bangalore. Join us if you are building in the B2B commerce space and would like to get insights from entrepreneurs and investors in the space. Panelists include:- Sanjay Dasari, Co-Founder WayCool Foods- Nishant Verman, Co-Founder Bzaar- Shashank Singh, Co-Founder Poshn- Shivani Kulkarni, Senior Associate Prime Venture PartnersThis is a curated event and has limited slots. Please register at the earliest to confirm your participation. Register here: https://lu.ma/B2BCommerce----------Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/ This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Nov 24, 2022 • 35min
#115 How to Communicate Things That Matter with Matt Abrahams, Lecturer Stanford Graduate School of Business
Matt Abrahams, Lecturer Stanford Graduate School of Business and host of Think Fast Talk Smart Podcast chats with Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about03:00 - Communication Game: Reflect, Practice & Iterate13:00 - The Art of Engaging Your Audience18:30 - Was it a Great Meeting?21:30 - Matt’s “what, so what, now what” feedback technique31:30 - Negotiation: Is it a Battle or a Game?Click here to read the full transcriptNext, learn how to use storytelling to build a personal brand. On this episode Ankur Warikoo talks about how storytelling is a skill that every entrepreneur should have, the existing discomfort among founders to tell stories, the stigma of hiding one’s emotions, building a personal brand on social media, overcoming assumptions and developing skills, the necessity of having a failure resume and a lot moreEnjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/ This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Nov 11, 2022 • 39min
#114 Building Enterprise SaaS Business: Deep Dive with Khadim Batti, Co-Founder & CEO, Whatfix
Khadim Batti, Co-Founder & CEO Whatfix chats with Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about03:00 - GPS for Software09:00 - Finding PMF & The Right Customer Segment15:30 - Pricing & Product For Enterprise 21:00 - Building Sales Cycle & Sales Force in US29:00 - Four Pillars of Category Awareness36:00 - Start Selling to Enterprise Click here to read the full transcriptWant to learn more about building large Enterprise Businesses? Listen to this episode where Bhavin Turakhia, a Serial Entrepreneur, shares his framework for building large SaaS Business. We cover Template for Building SaaS Companies, The Three Objective Measures Of Product Market Fit, The Goal Of Fundraising and a lot more. Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/ This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Oct 27, 2022 • 31min
#113 Web3 Gaming📱, Cricket 🏏 & Community 🤝 with HitWicket Co-Founders Kashyap Reddy & Keerti Singh
Keerti Singh & Kashyap Reddy, Co-Founders HitWicket chat with Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about02:00 - Cricket is a Game of Strategy11:00 - Games are Where Gamers Hang Out18:00 - India Gamers & Bharat Gamers20:05 - Web3 Gaming: Technology, Game Play & TokensClick here to read the full transcriptWant to learn more about Web 3 Gaming? Listen to this episode where we talk about What is Web3 Gaming; NFTs, Tokens & Monetisation; “There is No Game Without the Gameplay”; Future of Web3 Gaming: Crypto & Micro payments. Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/ This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Oct 13, 2022 • 32min
#112 Finding Pitch Market Fit, Solving Hard Problems & Moneyball for Enterprises with Ashutosh Garg, Co-Founder & CEO Eightfold.AI
Ashutosh Garg, Co-Founder & CEO Eightfold.AI chats with Amit Somani, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about04:30 - How to Find if there is Enterprise Demand08:30 - Find Pitch Market Fit before Product Market Fit14:30 - “I didn't build anything before I raised the first dollar. “16:00 - Why Job Descriptions are Useless23:30 - Moneyball for Enterprises30:00 - From an Engineer to a Business PersonClick here to read the full transcriptWant to switch gears and learn about scaling SaaS products and leveraging qualitative metrics? Listen to our podcast where Chargebee Co-Founder and CEO, Krish Subramaniam talks about his unique insights with Chargebee, how to align pricing with customer success, the necessity of qualitative metrics and how partnerships can help build a SaaS business. Tell me moreEnjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/ This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Sep 29, 2022 • 50min
#111 How AgriTech is Evolving in India with Shashank Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO DeHaat
Shashank Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO DeHaat chats with Gaurav Ranjan, VP Investments Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about05:20 - "We Started when AgriTech was Agriculture"14:40 - Scalability and Monetisation in AgriTech 23:00 - Role of Tech(Enabler or Revenue Generator)37:10 - Managing Scale in a Fast Growing Startup 43:30 - New Startup Opportunities in AgriTech SpaceClick here to read the full transcriptNext, Learn the secrets of unlocking growth as a tech startup by harnessing the power of positioning. We were in conversation with April Dunford, who talks about her own experience of discovering the power of positioning, how to position a product in a market category, positioning yourself against a Giant, standing out in a crowded market, positioning trends and more. Tell me more Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/ This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback