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TamilpreneurJun 03, 2021
Q&A with Rajamanohar - Founder and CEO, Aquaconnect [Club Special]
In this episode of Tamilpreneur, Rajamanohar is joining us.
Rajamanohar Somasundaram is the Founder & CEO of Aquaconnect, a full-stack aquaculture technology platform.
Around five million rural farmers and coastal communities depend on shrimp and fish aquaculture, where traditional farming practices prevent them from achieving production efficiency and disease prediction.
In 2019, He was awarded '40 UNDER 40 Ecosapien' by The New Indian Express for the promotion of sustainable aquaculture practices in Asia.
Aquaconnect has recently raised its Series B funding of $15 million led by Lok Capital.
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Manam Thiranthu Q&A with Arun Prakash - Founder and CEO, Guvi [Club Special]
In this episode of Tamilpreneur, Arun Prakash is joining us.
Arun Prakash, a graduate of a tier-2 city college in Madurai co-founded a one-of-a-kind learning platform called GUVI along with his wife Sri Devi and friend Bala Murugan.
His YouTube tutorial on coding in ‘Tanglish’ had hit one million views which encouraged Prakash to start GUVI
GUVI’s platform offers live classes and self-paced courses across C++, Python, Java, Big data, ML and R programming in major regional languages including Tamil.
GUVI was incubated at IIT- Madras's Rural Technology Business Incubator in 2014.
HCL has recently acquired a majority stake in GUVI. Both HCL and GUVI are working together to create more skilled tech professionals in India and abroad
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100th Episode : Singapenn Radha Rengachari - CEO, Spikra
Radha Rengachari was born in Thanjavur and brought up in Chennai. She did her Bachelors in Bio Informatics from SASTRA University. She always wanted to start something on her own and never failed to try her hands in potential ideas. She had tried multiple things like being a yoga master, school teacher, radio jockey, voice over artist etc.. along with considerable years in the IT industry.
She has worked in product based companies like Freshworks and Zoho as a presales engineer for a few years. She identified that customers faced struggles in finding the right product and implementing them as per their needs. That's when Radha decided to start her own company to help these people.
Spikra Pvt Ltd was started in December 2018. They are currently Zoho exclusive Implementation partners with over 150+ clients and are present in 3 locations including the US. They have recently opened their 3rd office in Thanjavur and are predominantly planning to hire from the Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities.
Her family has been a pillar of support. She has always decided for herself and her family stood with her in every move. That really boosted her up and pushed her off limits.
Being confident is the key, says Radha.
She takes up one professional course every year to learn new things and to experience them. Upskilling is very important and how you merge it with your journey matters. Radha envisions to be the growth and technology partner for startups and medium sized companies in the long run.
"If you have the will, everything else will fall in place" - Radha
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Untold Secrets About LMES - Prem, LMES [Club Special]
Premanand Sethurajan needs no introduction if you watch YouTube and love science.
Premanand is the founder of Let's Make Education Simple (LMES) Academy, which started with a YouTube channel in 2014, today has over 1.6 million subscribers and clocked a total of over 17 Crore views since its inception.
Later, he went on to start multiple ventures around education and career enablement for students with Chitti App, and PickMyCareer.
Chitti App is a learning platform for K-12 students that explains the curriculum-oriented syllabus in an entertaining and interesting manner with real-time stories and animations.
PickMyCareer helps school students to find their dream careers. Their AI-based career assessment, personalized career report, one on one expert session will help the students to find their career interest and maps them to the field that best fits their career.
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"Thambi Tea innum Varala" - Jahabar, ChaiKings [Club Special]
In this episode of Tamilpreneur, Jahabar Sadique is joining us. He is the Cofounder and CEO of Chai Kings.
Chai Kings is a Chennai-based QSR retail chain Chai Kings raised $1 Mn from The Chennai Angels (TCA), Hyderabad Angels, and TiE India Angels. They target to reach 100 stores in 5 years.
Chai Kings sells over 25,000 cups of tea per day, including deliveries and corporate orders. On an average, 7.5 lakh cups of various kinds of tea are sold per month through its 40 stores.
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Entrepreneurial Lessons from Farm Visit - Pongal Special
We tend to overestimate the city life when we are in a village or rural area. We also undermine the life of people living in rural areas.
Some of the biggest entrepreneurial lessons are hidden in rural villages. It's in the simplest of things.
Just like a tea kadai. Think about it. The tea kada annachi is the one gathers the information. He is the community manager.
The tea kada bench is the community platform for discussing interesting stuffs that happen in any particular village.
Have you had similar experiences, share it with us :)
Mukkiyama,
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"Vaa Paathukalam" says Rajesh - Kalvium, Faceprep [Club Special]
In this episode of Tamilpreneur, Rajesh Kumar is joining us.
Rajesh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kalvium. Prior to Kalvium, he co-founded Faceprep (famously known as FACE Academy)
In my honest opinion, parents and students both look for placement opportunities as a key factor before choosing a college. And in 4 years, lot of things change in the job market - whereas the college curriculum still remains the same.
Bottomline : "College doesn't prepare you for the Job Market"
Enter Kalvium. Kalvium is India's first liberal engineering program in Computer Science.
- Classroom learning while building real world applications.
- Guaranteed Placement at the end of 1st year in leading Global Tech Companies
Well, who knows the job market better than the employers themselves. The course curriculum is designed by top CXO's of the tech industry such as Cred, Flipkart, Ola.
They teach you skills that you make you industry ready today and future proof tomorrow. In addition, you graduate with three years of industry experience.
Beauty right !! Lets dig deep in this interview with Rajesh.
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Shorts - "Ungala Nambi start Panunga" | Advice for future entrepreneurs | Kumar Vembu | CEO @ GoFrugal
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- Kumar Vembu, CEO of GoFrugal, a digital-first company offering cloud and mobile ERP solutions to Retail, Restaurant and Distribution businesses.
- He shares his thought on gap in our education system and tips for future entrepreneurs.
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UNCENSORED 2.0 #1 - Elon Musk Private Texts Revealed 🤯 - தமிழ் | Praveen and Venkat | Tamilpreneur
Bored of our interviews? Here we come, UNCENSORED - an unbiased discussion on everything in and around the startup ecosystem For this week, we discuss the following,
- Invact Metaversity Panjayathu
- Tiger Global - Pasithaal Puliyum Pullai Sapdum
- Indian Startups - Velai Illa Pattadhari - Layoffs Spree
- "Kaasu Ila Bha" - Slow down in VC/PE Fund Flow
- Funding Scenario for TN Startups
- "En Vazhi, Thani Vazhi" - Kunal Shah, Founder - CRED
- "Ini Elarume Amazon/Flipkart Aagalam" - Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)
- "Recession Adhiyavasiyam" - Elon Musk
- Internal Tech Email - Private Conversations of Elon Musk with other Founders and Investors
- Live Q&A with Tamilpreneur Club Members
This episode was recorded on June 10, 2022.
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S07E03 - Moonu Perum Childhood friends - Timeless | Co-founders - Sandeep, Prasath, Udhaya | Design | Tamilpreneur
It feels so happy to see people from Tamilnadu are delivering world class products, but disappointing at the same time that no one is bringing out their stories.
Meet Prasath Prabhakaran, Sandeep Prabhakaran and Udhaya Chandran the Co-founders of Timeless Ventures.
They have built products & apps for Smallcase, Ditto Insurance, Freshworks, Chargebee, Privacy.com and much more. Building world class designs just sitting at Pallikaranai, Chennai :)
Their workplace design would definitely inspire one to think different. The founders were so polite and friendly. Sandeep Prabhakaran is also an entertainer who always keeps his team cheerful. Found him sharing a joke with one of his newly married teammate with hands on his shoulders. They have fun friday, play games together and lot of benefits for employees.
They are hiring for different roles like Senior Product Designer, Marketing Intern, Marketing Associate, & HR Interested people please send an email to hello@timeless.co
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S07E02 - World Class Design Startup From Pallikaranai - Timeless | Co-founders - Sandeep, Prasath, Udhaya | Design | Tamilpreneur
It feels so happy to see people from Tamilnadu are delivering world class products, but disappointing at the same time that no one is bringing out their stories.
Meet Prasath Prabhakaran, Sandeep Prabhakaran and Udhaya Chandran the Co-founders of Timeless Ventures.
They have built products & apps for Smallcase, Ditto Insurance, Freshworks, Chargebee, Privacy.com and much more. Building world class designs just sitting at Pallikaranai, Chennai :)
Their workplace design would definitely inspire one to think different. The founders were so polite and friendly. Sandeep Prabhakaran is also an entertainer who always keeps his team cheerful. Found him sharing a joke with one of his newly married teammate with hands on his shoulders. They have fun friday, play games together and lot of benefits for employees.
They are hiring for different roles like Senior Product Designer, Marketing Intern, Marketing Associate, & HR Interested people please send an email to hello@timeless.co
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S07E01 - Competing with Zoho & SAP - Logesh Velusamy, Founder & CEO, Effitrac Solutions| SaaS | Tamilpreneur
What's so surprising is that this startup was running operations from Namakkal initially for the first two years.
They offer 25+ modules across production, marketing, invoicing, inventory, HR management, CRM, accounting to SMEs and startups.
They have a total of 30,000 users till now. As on date, they have processed INR 5 Billion worth of invoices, and INR 2.5 Billion worth of payslips.
Some of their notable customers include Godrej Group, noon, Ola Electric, Schwing Stetter India, Milacron.
The name of the company is Effitrac Solutions and the CEO is Logesh Velusamy.
Happy to be having him on Tamilpreneur's Rising Stars show.
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S06E15 - Ratan Tata funded my startup - Hema Annamalai, Founder, Ampere | E-Mobility| Tamilpreneur
Today it's easy. Imagine doing it in 2007. Yes that's right. Hemalatha Annamalai started Ampere, an EV manufacturing startup in 2008. You would all be seeing Ampere Electric Scooters on road for a long time now. It's Hema's brainchild.
Ampere was acquired by Greaves Cotton in 2019 for Rs.150 Crore. Greaves cotton's long-term strategy was to strengthen and expand its presence in the last-mile e-mobility space.
Post her exit, Hemalatha spends time mentoring and investing in startups. Currently she is a Member - Constitution of Expert Committee for Revival of MSME's.
Tamilpreneur is excited to be interviewing the Founder and Ex-CEO of Ampere Electric on Women's day.
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S06E14 - Thadaigalai Udai - Archana Stalin, Founder, myHarvest Farms | Agriculture | Tamilpreneur
Just like a family doctor, let's have a family farmer"
A typical city brought up who had grown up hearing about connecting to the roots by her father. As an young entrepreneur, Archana Stalin took the lessons from her first venture and created myHarvest Farms in 2016.
myHarvest Farms is a company which delivers fresh produce and organic food directly to customers. Today they have more than 100 farmers serving more than 2800 families with their list grown from 40 items to 200 items. Building a healthy community which enjoys safe, healthy food and practices natural way of living has been the dream of Archana and team. Service to humanity has always been in her mind. She had started an NGO while in college with the sole aim of serving people. Today, she serves as a mentor to many startups and her growth as an entrepreneur in immense.
Few key learnings from her :
1. Pilot your product
2. Pivot when required
3. Necessity will help you take the next step
4. Empathize with your customer
5. Own your decision
Pilot your product(MVP)
Archana and team started with 1 farm and 18 families to pilot their model. They started small so that they can practically learn and understand their mistakes. This pilot phase helped them iterate and work constantly on their model.
Pivot when required
Covid was an unexpected bash for many and so was for myHarvest Farms. They were operating earlier in the subscription model and had to pivot to D2C model when situations demanded. "It was not us, but the local supply chain that won", says Archana.
Necessity
It will help you take the next step Started with a small terrace garden, understood the basics and decided to setup their own farm. Once they started farming, they learnt that there are seasonal vegetables and certain vegetables doesn't grow in certain areas. This urged them to travel to learn and create the ecosystem that is present today.
Empathize
Managing Supply chain was difficult in covid times. And unexpected delays were unavoidable. Being transparent with their customers had helped and Archana insists on being empathetic. Empathizing with customers and farmers has helped them earn their customers' and farmers' trust.
Own your decision
It has not been an easy thing to convince her family. But she and her husband who is her co-founder as well, had showcased strong will and continuous efforts in whatever they did. If you believe and own your choice, everybody around would respect and trust your choice. "If you build something exciting, people will want to use it" - Archana Stalin.
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S06E13 - Digitize Your Business Part 2 - Rajesh Kumar Subramanian, CEO & Co-Founder, Ghoshak | SaaS | Tamilpreneur
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S06E12 - Digitize Your Business Part 1 - Rajesh Kumar Subramanian, CEO & Co-Founder, Ghoshak | SaaS | Tamilpreneur
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Shorts - "Sanda Seyyanum" | Story of Pepul | Suresh | CEO @ Pepul
Suresh Kumar, CEO of Pepul shares what fascinated him to start "Pepul" and the story behind it !!
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Shorts - "Thirupi Velaiku Pogidalama" | Padmini Janaki | CEO@Mind & Mom | Women Entrepreneurship |Tamilpreneur
Padmini Janaki, CEO of Mind & Mom talks about the reality and struggles of Entrepreneurs while they are starting up. She also points that how all the struggles was a learning and how joyful it can be if we take all the struggles as lessons!!
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Shorts - "Ipdi oru startup name ah ?" | Story of the name Ippopay | Mohan | CEO @ Ippopay
Mohan, CEO of Ippopay walks us through the story behind the name Ippopay and How it impressed even an Investor !!
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S06E11 - Everything about Tea Business - Suresh Radhakrishnan, Chief Tea officer | Teakanomics | Tamilpreneur
In this episode,
How Tea shop owners make money ?
How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market ?
What is the roadmap for Chaikanth for next 5 years ?
How to join Teapreneur community ?
And few more questions from lightning round
S06E10 - Chai Star Chaikanth - Suresh Radhakrishnan, Chief Tea officer | Teakanomics | Tamilpreneur
S06E09 - $3 Million ARR Bootstrapped Startup Part 2 - Karthik Sridharan, CEO and Co-Founder of Flexiple | Tech Talent Network | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
Today's guest finished his engineering from BITS and then did his MBA from IIM. He then worked with an investment banking firm. Doesn't sound like an entrepreneur. Isn't it ?
Here you go : In 2016, He started Flexiple, a startup that helps optimize hiring freelancers for companies. They have Top 1% (roughly 25,000) freelance developers and designers with them. What's more amazing ? They have bootstrapped Flexiple into a $3 Million ARR startup
The man behind this - Karthik Sridharan, CEO and Cofounder of Flexiple.
Catch Karthik speaking about the following in part 1 : https://open.spotify.com/episode/3gmwryFsuVN01bY2ICU6aD?si=becdc9559ab04079
- How to narrow down and start working on an idea for your startup ?
- What is the right moment to start your startup ?
- How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market ?
- Which one to solve first - Supply side or demand side ?
- How are they scaling a bootstrapped startup ?
- How to optimize for time in a boostrapped startup ?
In this episode,
- In a marketplace based business, which stakeholder do you charge commission from ?
- How did Flexiple bootstrap their way into Rs.20Cr. Annual Run Rate ?
- How do you decide between bootstrapping and raising funds
- How to manage Salary for employees in a bootstrapped startup ?
- How to split expenses in a bootstrapped startup ?
- Did VCs approach Flexiple for funding ? What happened next ?
- Being supportive when someone is starting up in your family.
- $10Million ARR and $100Million ARR ! When !!
S06E08 - $3 Million ARR Bootstrapped Startup Part 1 - Karthik Sridharan, CEO and Co-Founder of Flexiple | Tech Talent Network | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
Today's guest finished his engineering from BITS and then did his MBA from IIM-A.
He then worked with an investment banking firm. Doesn't sound like an entrepreneur Isn't it ?
Here you go :
In 2016, He started Flexiple, a startup that helps optimize hiring freelancers for companies.
They have Top 1% (roughly 25,000) freelance developers and designers with them.
What's more amazing ? They have bootstrapped Flexiple into a $3 Million ARR startup
The man behind this - Karthik Sridharan, CEO and Cofounder of Flexiple.
In this episode,
- How to narrow down and start working on an idea for your startup ?
- What is the right moment to start your startup ?
- How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market ?
- Which one to solve first - Supply side or demand side ?
- How are they scaling a bootstrapped startup ?
- How to optimize for time in a bootstrapped startup ?
S06E07 - Air Taxi at Uber's Price : Satya Chakravarthy | IITM | Deeptech | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
S06E06 - Rocket scientist vs Rockstar professor : Satya Chakravarthy | IITM | Deeptech | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
S06E05 - Singapenney : Padmini Janaki, CEO and Founder of Mind and Mom | Femtech | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
You don't hear this phrase more often.
Today, We have Padmini Janaki who broke all the rules, who broke all the stereotypes and stands along with Tamil Women entrepreneurs like Radha Vembu, and Ashwini Ashokan.
The interview was on Women entrepreneur day and Men's day.
What motivated Padmini to start Mind and Mom ?
Important men in Padmini's life that supported her in startup journey
How did she convince her family to startup ?
Struggles she faced before starting up
She's on a search for a cofounder still - Lucky people who read this far, please reach out to her.
Work vs life - How does she manage both
Stereotypical responsibilities - Mindset shift needed ?
Guidance for women who aspire to startup
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UNCENSORED #2 - Chumma Kizhi | Startup Updates | Shyam and Praveen | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
Bored of our interviews ?
Here we come, UNCENSORED - an unbiased discussion on everything in and around startup ecosystem
For this week, we BEEP on -
- DOGE to the moon in Feb '22 ?
- Elon Musk sold all his Tesla shares ?
- Zepto delivering groceries under 180 seconds ?
- Zepto to get Rs.3000Cr funding soon.
- Self-made richest Billionaire women : TN not 1st anymore.
- Startups getting into thermodynamic equilibrium
- Bounce's EV is going to be 3 times cheaper than Ola ?
- Kamath brothers are now poorer by 25% - Enter Philanthropy.
- Untold secrets about Zerodha
- Paytm employees are getting cashback in Crores, how ?
- Mobikwik vs Paytm : Undefeated one defeated.
- Money in IND and IND money.
- Uncensored take on Razorpay
Even if there are no festivals, just be happy folks.
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S06E04 - NFTs : Future is now | Vijay Pravin, CEO and Founder of bitsCrunch | NFT | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
Today's guest is a renowned tedX speaker.
Today's guest's father is a policeman.
Should I say "like father like son" and introduce Vijay as the mastermind behind the startup which
acts like a policemen for NFTs or
Should I say "Growing up at Sankaran koil to starting up in Munich, Germany"
Well well,
We have Vijay Pravin Maharajan talk about bitsCrunch - The guardian angel for NFTs.
We talk about,
- Data is the next oil ? no ! data is the next gold ! How Vijay's expertise in Data science is helping him in his startup ?
- India troubles you so much if you are starting up in NFT/crypto space ? Just kidding...
- How VC are racing towards funding NFT based startups
- The art of Channelizing VC money once you raise funds
- Blue tick for NFT's ? will make sense once you hear it :)
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UNCENSORED - Koluthi Poduvom | Diwali Special | Shyam and Praveen | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
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Here we come, UNCENSORED - an unbiased discussion on everything in and around startup ecosystem
For this week, we BEEP on
- If you liked Squid Game token at $2800, you will definitely like it at $0.0007
- Elon's feast to solve world hunger problem
- Bajaj will eat only OATS for breakfast it seems
- Coinbase acquired Bengaluru based startup
- We have an idea for 5min delivery. We will be raising $120M soon
- Nykaa IPpO enna panranga
- Tamilpreneur Fellowship program
- Top names from Tamilpreneur Fellowship Program
- We have an idea for electric charging stations
- Commercial vehicles or Consumer vehicles : who will adopt e-vehicle first
- YC's NET Worth
- Are we living in the METAVERSE already ?
- METAVERSE is not Mark's original idea ?
- Eyyy, Metaverse ku oru Competitor parcel.
Happy Diwali Folks.
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S06E03 - User Research Masterclass : Shyam Siddarth, CEO, Tamilpreneur | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
So, for today's Masterclass, (Drumroll) Let me welcome myself.
The masterclass is about User-research.
So I'll kill your time for a few minutes without going into the episode with the takeaways from
MacAppStudio Suresh's episode. You ask why ? Because it is important.
We don't want you to miss important things,
- Youtube : https://youtu.be/MxUHrSsLH_E
- Podcast : https://anchor.fm/tamilpreneur/episodes/S05E15---MacAppStudio-Suresh--Season-Finale--Tamilpreneur-Fellowship-Program--Tamil-Entrepreneurship-Podcast--Tamilpreneur-e1844jd/a-a6k8n43
Takeaways from Masterclass 1
- It starts with an idea ? Wrong.
- You want to startup to make money ? Wrong.
Which one is right ? Tune in :)
Alright alright,
- You got only 30 seconds to pitch your idea to an investor from Sequoia or Accel or A16Z. How do you do it?
- How do you find out whether people are willing to pay for your product ? By talking to them ? Just kidding.
- You first ask yourself this question - "Whom to talk to for my user research"
- What if you can find out all the potential users who would be willing to pay for your product. Awesome right ? I give it you in a single slide. You can get it here.
- And then Just like love is in the air, tomatoes were in the air. Yup. We discussed on how Zomato would have chosen their target audience.
Once you have asked yourself the first question, I give you a few questions to your "target audience"
That's the end of it ? No.. The last few minutes will change the way you think about your startup.
If you read this far, but did not click the play button on the episode yet, the previous line was probably a bait.
Common, Tune in :)
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S06E02 - Raising $35 Million in Series C | M2P | CEO and CoFounder Madhusudanan R | Part 2 | Fintech | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
M2P's CEO and co-founder Madhusudanan spoke about Kunal Shah, Bootstrapping vs raising funds, planning Seed to Series C in the previous episode - https://anchor.fm/tamilpreneur/episodes/S06E01---M2P--Tamilnadus-greatest-fintech-startup--CEO-and-CoFounder-Madhusudanan-R--Part-1--Fintech--Tamil-Entrepreneurship-Podcast--Tamilpreneur-e18pq99/a-a6n00rq.
Check it out if you missed the previous episode
In this episode,
- How is M2P revolutionizing banking systems ?
- The founder market fit Myth
- Why M2P is investing in fintech startups like Ippo Pay ?
- Chennai, a Fin-tech capital ? "Not at all, We are not doing enough"
Lightning round :
- Has anything stopped Madhu from becoming an entrepreneur ?
- Who helped him get to this position ?
- What is the one successful habit that helped him become successful ?
- What resources does he use to keep himself organized ?
- Book suggestions for becoming an entrepreneur ?
- What does M2P and YAP target to achieve next
- What piece of advice would Madhu give to aspiring entrepreneurs
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S06E01 - M2P, Tamilnadu's greatest fintech startup | CEO and CoFounder Madhusudanan R | Part 1 | Fintech | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
If you asked an entrepreneur " what's the one thing that you miss doing during the pandemic ?" He'd say innovation.
None of us is as smart as all of us. When you need to innovate, you need collaboration
VISA Tamizh Sangham kelvi patrukingala ?
If I told you Tamilnadu's greatest fintech startup came out of tea conversation, would you believe ?
M2P's CEO and co-founder Madhusudanan is here to tell you why you should believe and,
1. How did Kunal shah invest in his startup ?
2. How Kunal shah is paying it forward for the startup ecosystem ?
3. How it was decided to take a profitable bootstrapped startup to venture funded startup ?
4. Seed stage to Series A, B, C : how to plan ?
5. How did M2P capitalize demonetization and pandemic lockdown
6. How is M2P revolutionizing banking systems ?
7. The founder market fit Myth
8. Why M2P is investing in fintech startups like Ippo Pay ?
9. Chennai, a Fin-tech capital ? "Not at all, We are not doing enough"
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S3E7 - Startup Series 007 : Crowdfunding your startup | Startup Series |Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
The startup series in Tamil covers everything from why to startup and how to startup with daily examples from the startups and mobile applications that you see and use.
In this episode:
- Startup series Introduction :https://open.spotify.com/episode/2PFCU5c8SXVqxggOwpO0HY?si=LMKen7qxSFWy9CK5Dy3bEQ
- Startup series : How to check if your idea works : https://open.spotify.com/episode/1AY4qwj9xCKqcBcVSp8QQL?si=Fe7UE8kuRjuZONhrfTwZ0Q
- Startup series : How to register your startup : https://open.spotify.com/episode/1AtEexWA4LFbcDXNuNYo5b?si=BO19dUUVSPS86wyDtnIHYQ
- Startup series : How to name your startup : https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Lh56LK5aTRYsAB0U6zjf1?si=f5fbc46d15bc4938
- Startup series : Minimum Viable Product : https://open.spotify.com/episode/6GzAb0KSuF1GaP51BL7ekE
- Startup series : Bootstrapping your startup : https://open.spotify.com/episode/5qtm0ryFfWw53nlGMrs5xG?si=XWJNGPDXQW-XWEJVZLzSpw&dl_branch=1
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S05E15 - MacAppStudio Suresh | Season Finale | Tamilpreneur Fellowship Program | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
Back when the pandemic hit, there were two people from Tamilnadu who were on almost all youtube channels. They are two best friends who ran a startup. They are known for the company culture that they had developed over the years. We know that you know whom we are talking about. So, I'll quit the intro and say what we spoke about in this episode.
Interview -
- Why was Macappstudio started ?
- When was the seed sown for Macappstudio
- What is the thought process behind Macappstudio's dream-company-culture
- How the Next gen social platform Pepul is planning to compete against Facebook
Masterclass -
- What is the difference between startup and a business ?
- How to think of ideas for your startup ?
- How to execute once you get an idea ?
- How to decide whether your startup needs investment or not ?
Q&A session -
- I have a vera-level idea. What should I do next ?
- I have launched the product too, but I don't get enough response. What do I do ?
- What should I do, if a big player tries to eat my startup
- What Quality to look for while building a team and how to find your cofounder
- How do successful entrepreneurs learn from their failures ?
- "Jeichuttu Karuthu sollu, Jeichuttu free ah class edu"
- Top regrets of successful entrepreneurs.
- "Irutta irukku - enna panradhu nu therila na."
- What kind of support do successful entrepreneurs get from family during initial stages ?
- How to make decisions in startups when you are inexperienced ?
S05E14 - First Tholvi, Appram Vetri : Vegroute , COO and CoFounder Shyam Prashad - Part 2 | Agritech | Supply chain | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
Shyam Prasad is a 25 year young social activist who has delivered more 500+ motivational talks. But his blood flows into the heart of vegroute. Although his job title "COO" would make one believe he handles only the operations, one would realize he is Master of all trades once you listen to his startup journey
If you haven't listened to the part-1, click here
In this episode -
1. How failure from previous startup moulded his journey
2. How does one get started on his startup journey
3. How can Young students at college get comfortable towards entrepreneurship.
4. What should colleges do inorder to encourage students pursue entrepreneurship
5. How is vegroute solving the food wastage problem
Quotes in this episode :
Failure, criticism, Backstabbers are my best friends
No tech, but my team is what helps me organize my team
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S05E13 - Saaku Moota Vechu Startup ah : Vegroute , COO and CoFounder Shyam Prashad - Part 1 | Agritech | Supply chain | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
But his blood flows into the heart of vegroute. Although his job title "COO" would make one believe he handles only the operations, one would realize he is Master of all trades once you listen to his startup journey
1. How to choose investors for your startup ?
2. What's the story behind starting vegroute ?
3. How did he choose this person as his co-founder?
4. Kookgramathukkum Kiwi Kuduppom. Epdi !!
5. How does a supply chain startup ensure quality of products delivered ?
6. How does vegroute differentiate from big players in the market ?
7. Oru Customer oru farmer oda interact panna mudiyuma ? adha vidunga...AI Oru farmer oda interact panna mudiyuma ?
8. How did he solve the supply side (FYI he's got 1500+ farmers under veg route)
9. What is the kind of team that is required for an Agri-Supply chain based startup
10. How can farmers make money through Vegroute ?
11. How is vegroute making money ?
S05E12 - Building a Multimillion dollar SaaS startup : Gofrugal Technologies, CEO and Founder Kumar Vembu - Part 2 | SaaS | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
S05E11 - 90s Laye startup : Gofrugal Technologies, CEO and Founder Kumar Vembu - Part 1 | SaaS | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
In this episode, we have a Visionary Mr.Kumar Vembu of Vembu brothers. Kumar Vembu is the CEO of Gofrugal technologies. In this episode,
1. What made Kumar Vembu to quit a job at Silicon Valley and come to India?
2. How did Kumar Vembu and Sridhar Vembu develop startup mentality during late 90s
3. Kumar Vembu's Employee to entrepreneur Phase
4. Flashback on telephone and internet connection in the 90s
5. Made in India, Sold in America - A Vembu brothers partnership.
6. How do you develop intrapreneurship culture in minds of your employees ?
7. How to choose between bootstrapping and raising funds for your startup ?
9. How does Kumar Vembu make his investments in startups ?
10. Made in India, For India - A Kumar Vembu Venture.
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S05E10 - From Zero to a Billion dollar company - Thyrocare Managing Director Dr. Velumani | Med-tech | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
S05E09 - Success story of Thyrocare - Managing Director Dr. Velumani | First love and First job, No one forgets | Med-tech | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
S05E08 - Unique way of Solving Food Wastage in India : Deepak Rajmohan | Part 2 | Founder & CEO of GreenPod Labs| Agri-tech | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
Did you miss Part 1 of this episode? We feel that you have lost a lot of information from that episode. Click this to listen : https://open.spotify.com/episode/6vJChpLUDIjOKZd2Yt85EK?si=YxmMBqQlRYWl2KAbavu99g&dl_branch=1
In this episode...
- How his family helped him with startup?
- Incubation and Acceleration Journey
- StartUp TN, Deepak and GreenPod Labs
- Funding and Investments in Biotechnology
- Deep Dive into Biotechnology Markets
- Overview of GreenPod Labs
- Lightning round
- Message from Deepak to Budding Entrepreneurs.
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S05E07 - Vera Level Agri-Biotech startup : Deepak Rajmohan | Part 1 | Founder & CEO of GreenPod Labs| Agri-tech | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
S05E06 - Village Payyan to Forbes Magazine : Mohan K - Part 2| Founder of Ippopay | Fintech | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
S05E05 - TamilNadu's first UPI App : Mohan K - Part 1| Founder of Ippopay | Fintech | Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
Important Announcement : Launch of Tamilpreneur Club
S05E04 - Deriving success out of all failures : Durairaju K | Founder of Webboombaa | Digital Marketing |Tamil Entrepreneurship Podcast | Tamilpreneur
Founded in December 2016 and bagging many awards from Central Ministry, Webboombaa was co-founded by Mr. Durairaju, who faced multiple failures in his college life, but a winner of Top 30 under 30 award from Impact Weekly Magazine, and his co-founders and friends, Sarath Ravikumar and Varun Kumar. Mr. Durai is also one of the few founders who has taken an exit from his startup.
Mr. Durairaju is an Engineering Graduate from Anna University, Marketing and Operations Graduate (MBA) from Sri Sairam Group of Institutions, Artificial Intelligence Powered Marketing Graduate from IIM, Calcutta and also learnt Product Growth and Marketing from GrowthX.
He was a Business development Student Ambassador in Uniq Technologies, Co-Founder and CEO of Astute Fanfare, and now is also the Co-Founder of Brandinfluencerz. His startup Astutue Fanfare was started while he was a college student.
Want to learn more about a Startup, founded by a Marketing executive and his friends? Tap the Play Button!
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