The Indian Startup Show

Today we are going to talk about UX (User experience) with my guest Raveesh Bhalla (@raveeshbhalla) Raveesh is the founder partner of AppsCulture (@Appsculture). Which is a brand new design consultancy. In this conversation, we talk about: What is UX? His own process Current challenges The next big trend in the UX design industry Interesting projects he has worked on His favorite UX tools, websites & apps and much more… If you have subscribed to The Indian Startup Show. I would love your opinions & feedback so far. Go to neilpatel.co/podcast . Fill in the google form,it only takes 60 secs. Please be honest. Links Blog https://medium.com/@raveeshbhalla Contact: @raveeshbhalla Indian Startup Survey http://www.neilpatel.co/podcast/ Hosted And Produced by Neil Patel https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/neilpatel2 Enjoyed this episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Share this episode with your friends. Listen and Subscribe to More Episodeshttps://www.indianstartupshow.com/ Music by Punch Deck.https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kdduxAVaFnbHJyNxl7FWV

Today we are going to talk about Clean Technology with my guest Dev Arora who is the founder of 8Minutes (@8MinutesSolar) 8Minutes is on a mission to revolutionize the solar energy sector by helping homeowners and businesses make the transition to solar energy. We cover a lot of ground, including: What is clean technology How he got the idea The current state of the Indian clean technology scene in 2016 (its like the 1980’s!) How big the market is in India Great marketing advice if you don’t have a budget! Advice on anyone wanting to start a clean tech company And much more… Links Twitter - @8MinutesSolar Website - http://www.eightmins.com Contact - switch@eightmins.com Dev's favorite book - The FountainHead by Ayn Rand http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Fountainhead-Ayn-Rand/dp/0141188626 Hosted And Produced by Neil Patel https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/neilpatel2 Enjoyed this episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Share this episode with your friends. Listen and Subscribe to More Episodeshttps://www.indianstartupshow.com/ Music by Punch Deck.https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kdduxAVaFnbHJyNxl7FWV

Today I speak with Neetal Parekh (@neetal_parekh) Founder & CEO of Innov8social.com an online platform to make it easier for people to engage in the social impact space. Neetal has over a decade of experience in corporate, education, nonprofit, government, and social enterprise. A passionate advocate for social entrepreneurship and impact innovation, Neetal believes that this field empowers us to creatively re-imagine how businesses and individuals can create meaningful impact and lasting value. She is the host of the Innov8social Podcast, featuring interviews with thinkers and doers in the social impact space. She is also an adviser to social enterprise startups and as a mentor at the Sustainability Innovations Lab at GSVlabs. She has been selected as a Starting Bloc Fellow for 2016. We talk about how she got started. how YOU can get started with social enterprise, to her volunteering work in India with her mother. She also talks about her time as a mentor inspiring social entrepreneurs during the Startup Tech For Good Week in San Francisco last year links Website: innov8social.com Book - 51 Questions on Social Entrepreneurship: http://www.innov8social.com/book Podcast: http://www.innov8social.com/podcast Hosted And Produced by Neil Patel https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/neilpatel2 Enjoyed this episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Share this episode with your friends. Listen and Subscribe to More Episodeshttps://www.indianstartupshow.com/ Music by Punch Deck.https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kdduxAVaFnbHJyNxl7FWV

Today I speak to Charanjeev Salva, (@theflyingsikh) Founder of SinghStyled. The world's first style store created exclusively for the Sikh community. The team handpicks and curates a special subscription box every month with Turbans, styling, grooming and lifestyle products. We talk about how he got the idea, The importance of the Turban , how he & team goes about curating products, to plans for the future. They launched around 3 months ago and are doing really well. Its an interesting fact 68% of purchases are actually made by non-Sikhs. So listen in to find out why! links Website http://www.singhstyled.com/ Twitter https://twitter.com/singhstyled Facebook https://www.facebook.com/singhstyled Hosted And Produced by Neil Patel https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/neilpatel2 Enjoyed this episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Share this episode with your friends. Listen and Subscribe to More Episodeshttps://www.indianstartupshow.com/ Music by Punch Deck.https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kdduxAVaFnbHJyNxl7FWV

Naveen Jain (@Naveen_Jain_CEO), is a billionaire, and founder of World Innovation Institute, Intelius, Moon Express, inome and Infospace. He is also a trustee of the board at the X Prize Foundation, where he focuses on finding entrepreneurial solutions to challenges in education, poverty, agriculture, health and clean water. We talk about Moon Express which plans to send a rocket tho the moon as a business venture to collect minerals and resources and bring them back to earth. We also talk about his new project Blue Dot and his time at the XPRIZE Foundation Naveen pushes big dreams into action, spurring massive cultural and technological change. We also talk about what makes a good leader, the one thing founders should be focusing on, the best advice he ever received, to whether there is life on Mars. Great episode! Awards Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year, Silicon India's "Most Admired Serial Entrepreneur," and the receiver of "Albert Einstein Technology Medal" for his pioneers in technology, he has been repeatedly honored for his entrepreneurial successes. Red Herring also recognized him as one of the "Top 20 Serial Entrepreneurs" and with the "Lifetime Achievement Award." Websites http://www.naveenjain.com/ http://www.xprize.org/ Hosted And Produced by Neil Patel https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/neilpatel2 Enjoyed this episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Share this episode with your friends. Listen and Subscribe to More Episodeshttps://www.indianstartupshow.com/ Music by Punch Deck.https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kdduxAVaFnbHJyNxl7FWV

Today we have Ryan Chadha (@RyanChadha) the co-founder of an international pre-school called Jigyasa in Bangalore, India. Jigyasa is a state-of-the-art preschool which offers a mixed age environment which encourages children to work and play collaboratively, Ryan Started the school with his mother over 2 years ago with 5 kids an not much money! But they now have over 30 kids and doing really well. They are now looking at developing their own educational apps in the future. Ryan is also an accomplished sportsperson, having represented the UAE at all age group levels for first class cricket. So we talk about scoring hundreds, to dealing with screaming kids. Enjoy the show! Links Website: http://www.jigyasatheschool.com/ Facebook: Facebook.com/jigyasatheschool Hosted And Produced by Neil Patel https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/neilpatel2 Enjoyed this episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Share this episode with your friends. Listen and Subscribe to More Episodeshttps://www.indianstartupshow.com/ Music by Punch Deck.https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kdduxAVaFnbHJyNxl7FWV

Ferdinand Kayulff, is the founder & CEO of CodersTrust. Coderstrust provides micro-finance for underprivileged talents to upgrade their coding skills, so they can earn more money on freelance portals. They have trained many developers in Bangladesh, India & Kenya. Ferdinand was also a Captain of the Danish army he served as recovery officer in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussain . He pioneered a recovery project with the allied forces, bringing internet and e-learning to the citizens of the region in which he was stationed. The project was a massive success and inspired him to eventually create CodersTrust! Links www.coderstrust.com Super Heroes vs Master Hackers The financial services industry is changing, and it’s time someone comes in to save the day. The old ways aren’t working. Enter Super Heroes vs Master Hackers, the Mumbai edition! (http://www.heroesvshackers.com) So this an amazing 36-hour hackathon that will superhero punch some awesomeness into Fintech! Calling all Mumbai and Pune’s best developers, designers and entrepreneurs get yourself down to the world famous Bombay Stock Exchange on 28-29th November 2015. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create the future of banking, now! 3 Tracks: Mobile Money, Merchant Payments and Customer Onboarding Winners will receive 3 months co-working space and a fast track interview for the Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars. Prizes also include: Up to 6 lakhs in cash prizes, Apple TV, YU Yuphoria phone, Sony MDR XB-540 Headphones and more. Partners: Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Salesforce, Foursquare, CitrusPay, PayUMoney, Zone Startups India, AceHacker and many more. Join the battle at: http://www.heroesvshackers.com #heroesvshackers or call +91-988-011-2117 So if you have an idea , sign up TODAY join a super cool team , build something amazing, get investment , change the world , come on the show and talk about it! Hosted And Produced by Neil Patel https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/neilpatel2 Enjoyed this episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Share this episode with your friends. Listen and Subscribe to More Episodeshttps://www.indianstartupshow.com/ Music by Punch Deck.https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kdduxAVaFnbHJyNxl7FWV

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/ Hosted And Produced by Neil Patel https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/neilpatel2 Enjoyed this episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Share this episode with your friends. Listen and Subscribe to More Episodeshttps://www.indianstartupshow.com/ Music by Punch Deck.https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kdduxAVaFnbHJyNxl7FWV

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 Hosted And Produced by Neil Patel https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/neilpatel2 Enjoyed this episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Share this episode with your friends. Listen and Subscribe to More Episodeshttps://www.indianstartupshow.com/ Music by Punch Deck.https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kdduxAVaFnbHJyNxl7FWV

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/ Hosted And Produced by Neil Patel https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/neilpatel2 Enjoyed this episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Share this episode with your friends. Listen and Subscribe to More Episodeshttps://www.indianstartupshow.com/ Music by Punch Deck.https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kdduxAVaFnbHJyNxl7FWV