Dr Anil Gupta on what entrepreneurs must learn from grassroots innovators
I first heard of Dr Anil Gupta some ten years ago. Finally, I met him earlier this month to talk about grassroots innovation.
Wingify’s Paras Chopra on bootstrapping his startup from zero to $18m revenue
There’s something fascinating about the entrepreneurs who stay away from the VC funding frenzy and quietly build their startups one baby step at a time. Doing a startup overall is a crazy, bold thing to do, in the first place. The odds are stacked against you. On top of that, if the entrepreneur decides to […]
Ashish Sinha on Indian startups’ underbelly and going back to his product roots
In this episode of Outliers, I met a new Ashish with his bearded looks.
ThreadSol founders on what it means to not be “an Uber of anything”
“It’s a game of belief,” Manasij Ganguli tells me about getting customers, investors and employees around you. We are sitting in his living room at Noida home, east of capital New Delhi, with his wife Mausmi Ambastha. This becomes “a game of thrones” if the startup idea you’re pitching doesn’t have a global equivalent. For […]
Ashish Hemrajani of BookMyShow says he’s a cockroach, and not a unicorn
Who wants to be a Unicorn? It’s almost every entrepreneur’s dream to build a company that crosses the $1 billion dollar valuation mark. For investors too, the starting question is whether a pitching startup can become the next Unicorn. For Ashish Hemrajani, the co-founder of BookMyShow, who started his company in 1999, the journey is […]
Zainab Bawa on lessons in building the HasGeek community
What’s the best way to build communities that last?
Lessons Amit Ranjan learnt in building products for the government
On Wednesday, we published the first part of Outliers Podcast with SlideShare co-founder Amit Ranjan in which he shared entrepreneurial lessons in building a consumer internet product. In the second part, Ranjan talks about his ongoing assignment with India’s government where he’s helping build next generation digital products.
Lessons Amit Ranjan learnt building SlideShare
Consumer Internet products are tough to build, and even tougher for them to survive on their own. If the product is good, it’s more likely to be gobbled up by a large software dinosaur. And if it’s not adding millions of loyal users at speed, a slow, painful death is the only way forward. In […]
Makemytrip founder Deep Kalra shares ‘the founder’s mentality’
In this episode of Outliers, Kalra talks about lessons in building Makemytrip, and his views on letting go and finding a successor.
A masterclass from Sridhar Vembu in building a successful company without VC money
In this week’s Outliers, Sridhar Vembu tells Pankaj Mishra why he shunned VC money, and why he respects speed limits in growing his company.