Kstart Podcast

Lisa Shufro, founder of a boutique consultancy specializing in content strategy and development, speaker curation and custom conference design after being the Managing Editor of TEDMED.

Dr. Anil K. Gupta is the Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy, Globalization and Entrepreneurship and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland at College Park. Anil is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy, globalization and entrepreneurship.

Ajay Kela, CEO and President of Wadhwani Group has been committed towards accelerating economic development in emerging economies through large-scale education led initiatives driving skill development and job creation. In this podcast, he summarizes on how to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem in India and how coalescing diverse and allied entrepreneurial ecosystems would solve the problem of unemployment.

Hema Ravichander is Career Human Resources Professional who has spent many years in the manufacturing and IT sectors. She has been associated with startups as a part of their leadership team and now as a consultant. Successful Startups have demonstrated that one of the founders take up HR as a function informally though it is difficult to draw departmental boundaries in the initial days. In this podcast, Hema shares her insights on people mantras that startups will find very useful.

Angel Investor, mentor and author, Ajeet khurana, talks about overcoming early startup challenges.

Lakshmi Pratury, CEO of INK talks, shares insights on the art of story telling for entrepreneurs.

Tuck Lye Koh, Founding Partner and CEO of Shunwei Capital, A China based venture capital firm, shares his learning from over half a decade of investing in Chinese startups.

Jim Hornthal, co founder of LaunchPad Central shares his perspective on how startups can use agile Innovation approach to innovate efficiently at 50x the speed.

Nipun Mehrotra, VP strategic growth and initiatives at IBM, talks about IBM’s evolution over the years and how they now plan to engage with startups. He also shares his perspective on why cognitive technologies are the next big thing.

Lisa Howie, Director of Investments at Yale University, shares her view about how capital scarcity leads companies to build a stronger, more differentiated competitive advantage.

On the occasion of International Women's Day 2016, Nayya Saggi, founder BabyChakra, shares her thoughts on women in entrepreneurship.

In this podcast, Madan Padaki, co-founder of Head Held High, talks about the massive opportunity for entrepreneurs to build technological solutions that bridge the gap between India and Bharat, giving rise to a new rural.

With the evolution of Indian startup ecosystem, there has been a lot of focus and conversation around creating teams and culture that can build startups creating massive impact. In this podcast, Mekin Maheshwari, who has held various positions at Flipkart including head of engineering and Chief People Officer, talks about the dual notions of ownership and meritocracy that have worked for achieving rapid scale and massive impact.

The Indian startup ecosystem has really evolved in the last 5 years. In this podcast, Sunil Rao, Country head for startup relations at Google, talks about the nurturing an inclusive ecosystem for startups.

India, today, is beset with issues that require original thinking. This presents a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs to build a successful, large scale business venture. In this podcast, Ashish Goel, co-founder and CEO of Urban Ladder, shares tips to identify a business opportunity before its hot and leverage it to build a truly ground breaking business from the ground-up.

Startups, in early stages of growth focus a lot on acquiring new customers, often ignoring customer retention. In this podcast, Kunal Shah, founder and CEO of Freecharge talks about how the consequences of customer retention compound over time resulting in long-term growth.

Ravi Gururaj, Founder/CEO of QikPod, is a serial entrepreneur with 5 ventures and 2 public exits, an angel investor, a mentor to numerous entrepreneurs, technology executive, and ecosystem evangelist. In this podcast he talks about the value of creating networks and leveraging them through the startup life cycle.