If your goal is to build India's largest consumer D2C brand then this is the episode for you. š In this episode, our guest, Jatan Bawa takes us through his journey of building Perfora. š„ā£
Perfora is one of the fastest growing D2C oral care brands in India doing revenues of 70 crore / year and disrupting a boring and traditional FMCG category like oral care. šÆā£
In this Jatan breaks down:ā£
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How to find your ideal co-founderā£
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How to identify the right categories to build inā£
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How to crack product development ā£
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How to sell on D2C, marketplaces, quick commerce and offlineā£
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What metrics to track across all platformsā£
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Brand building and content creation playbookā£
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How to raise money from some of India's best fundsā£
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How to apply to Shark Tank, get funding and leverage the platform for maximum growthā£
Catch the full episode today and let us know if it's helpful in your journey of building a D2C brand. ā¤ļøā£
Content Timelines:ā£
- 00:00 - Pre-capā£
- 00:42 - Introā£
- 01:05 - India wins the WCā£
- 05:00 - What inspired Jatan to start-upā£
- 12:30 - Studying in DU and building confidenceā£
- 14:30 - Why Perfora, why oral care? How to do category research?ā£
- 20:30 - Finding his co-founder on Jagriti Yatra.ā£
- 24:15 - Validating category thesisā£
- 30:15 - Numbers and current tractionā£
- 35:30 - Important metrics to track across platformsā£
- 43:30 - Cracking quick commerceā£
- 49:00 - Raising funding from Sauce.vc and other top consumer fundsā£
- 56:30 - Shark Tank: raising funding from Vineeta, Namita and Peyushā£
- 1:04:00 - Content marketing playbookā£
- 1:08:42 - Are the Sharks helpful? ā£
- 1:11:20 - Building a community of founders who help and supportā£
- 1:15:00 - Ending remarks