Forbes India Startup Fridays

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  • Startup Fridays is an open conversation with entrepreneurs, VC investors and other folks doing significant work in India’s startup ecosystem—we discuss their journey, lessons, highs and lows—every Friday morning on Instagram Live. A podcast version is produced from these conversations and published on the same evening. Hosted by Harichandan Arakali, Tech Editor at Forbes India.
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Episodes
  • Startup Fridays S4 Ep6: Nitin Chhabra's fascinating journey from Boomer bubblegum to SaaS to $50 mln retail operator

    Startup Fridays S4 Ep6: Nitin Chhabra's fascinating journey from Boomer bubblegum to SaaS to $50 mln retail operator
    Feb 17 2023
    In this episode, Nitin Chhabra, co-founder and CEO of Ace Turtle, a tech-enabled retail business that's the force behind brands like Lee and Wrangler in India, talks about how the company started out as a SaaS business, selling software for the so-called omnichannel retail. Nitin and co-founder Berry Singh then decided to risk that entire business, convincing their board and investors, to transform Ace Turtle into a retail operator, even as the Covid pandemic was unfolding. They are now looking at more than doubling their sales to become a $100 million company over the next 12 months
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  • Startup Fridays S4 Ep2: 'Find difficult and large problems and prepare for the long haul' �” Rahul Garg

    Startup Fridays S4 Ep2: 'Find difficult and large problems and prepare for the long haul' �” Rahul Garg
    Jan 23 2023
    In today's episode, Rahul Garg, founder and CEO of Moglix, talks about what's next for the company, which he says is knocking on $600-700 million in revenue. He also talks about his love of solving not just difficult problems, but difficult and large ones, which feeds his entrepreneurial decisions. Aspiring founders must understand this, and prepare for the long haul—from the existential challenges of the early years to facing the question 'can you scale profitably,' later on, he says
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  • Startup Fridays S3 Ep10: 'From doer to enabler, I'm optimistic about innovation and inclusion in India' �” Sanjay Jain

    Startup Fridays S3 Ep10: 'From doer to enabler, I'm optimistic about innovation and inclusion in India' �” Sanjay Jain
    Nov 4 2022
    Our guest today is Sanjay Jain, partner at Bharat Fund and chief innovation officer at CIIE.co. Sanjay, who played a leading role in building Google's Map Maker, and later was the founding chief product manager at UIDAI, talks about his journey going "from doer to enabler." With a master's in computer science from UCLA, and experience as a serial entrepreneur himself, Sanjay also talks about how the fund, a Rs. 600 crore corpus, attempts to straddle intellectual-property-led innovation and an inclusion mandate for the Bharat segment of India
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