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Because of all the media buzz around big startups raising millions of dollars of funding amount, most founders today consider funding as a critical part of the process of starting up, which is absolutely wrong.
In this podcast, we will learn about what is the right time/stage to apply for funding of your startup that increases your chances of getting funded.

In this part 2 of the series, I will focus on how I used my time while in college and what caused me to leave the usual high-paying job route and begin the entrepreneurship journey.
The goal of this podcast is to let you all know why going to a college is important towards becoming an entrepreneur and how you should utilise your time inside the college, irrespective of whichever college it is. 

Being an IIT Madras alumnus, I thought of making a series called "My IIT Journey" where I tell you how I prepared for the IIT JEE exam and how was my life inside IIT Madras. The good things I did and the mistakes I made. Why did I leave good-paying jobs and came into entrepreneurship? Answering all this so that no matter which college you are in, you can implement some learnings in your life and hopefully see some positive changes.

This part 1 is all about my school days and how I prepared for the JEE exam.

During the economic downturn in the pandemic and even otherwise, companies always have to come to mass lay-offs and employees suffer the most in these. In this podcast, I am highlighting the mindset of the companies when they prepare to lay-off and how you can safeguard yourself from it.

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Clearing the air on the different popular investment structures available for a startup - loan, equity and convertible notes. I see a lot of founders running around confused on this. Let me just remove all these confusions.

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Busting the most absurd advise that you will find on social media - "Start saving now to get rich tomorrow!". Yes, this is the most absurd advise that you can follow as a youngster. Can you name one person who has become financially successful by saving money?
Listen to this podcast about the one financial principle that I follow in my life. 

When founders are ready to launch their startups, there is always this fear that how will they compete against the existing big players. For example,  Flipkart in the e-comm space, Paytm in the digital payment space, or even globally, Tesla in the electric vehicle space. Can your small startup flourish in the same sector that these giants are in? The topic of discussion of this podcast.

Founders are always confused about the best marketing strategy for their startup to get the first 100 users.
Is it Facebook ads, is it Instagram ads, or is it influencer marketing.
Having grown my company, Z2P, to almost 10lac android downloads with almost zero paid marketing, I will tell you the secret of explosive growth. 

This is a series about the mistakes that I had made as an entrepreneur so that you can avoid these and improve your growth curve.
Now, who doesn't love Steve Jobs, an idol for many? But, for me, over-idolising Steve Jobs turned out to becoming a tyrant boss and destroying my company's culture in the early days. Hear how I learnt and changed from that experience.

Always a topic of discussion - are investors partial towards IIT/IIM founders in giving funds?
Being on both sides of the table - studying in IIT and raising funds while still in college to being an angel investor, let me tell you the reasons of why investors prefer the IIT - IIM tag in founders and what can you do if you are not from these colleges.  

Millions of entrepreneurs in the world. But if you separate out people who have actually executed and not just ideated, you will be left with a handful thousands.
You are not an entrepreneur unless you have executed. You may fail or succeed, that's secondary, but the execution is the primary trait of an entrepreneur and the fear of failure and the quest to achieve perfection is what prevents ideas to turn into real startups.

Confused? Well, that's the truth. Gone are the days when financial services were only limited to a few banks and NBFCs. Today, Amazon to Ola and Oyo, everyone is readying themselves towards a big fintech future. Let's discuss that in this podcast.

With "finding passion" almost becoming like a trend today, you see a lot of influencing personalities to talk about finding your passion and then pursuing it. But no one tells you exactly how do you do that? How do you find that passion, that thing that you enjoy doing the most? Let me end the search for the invisible in this podcast!

I ended up rejecting an investment offer for good and learnt the most crucial lesson of my life.
This podcast is about a life incident in 2017 when I was raising funds for my startup Z2P that shaped who I am today. It taught me that honesty and self-belief can conquer any challenges. And it taught me that even in business, you have to see the goodness and honesty of people before partnering with them.

Looking at all the glamour posted by social media influencers, including me, like the costly cars, the bikes, the travel and the happiness, we often get delusional which induces negativity in us towards our own life. Remember, influencers only post positive content. No one posts about the struggles they have faced to reach here or the challenges they face even today - the fight with their friends or their financial problems.

Through this, I want to make you all aware that chasing the glamour of social media is not a path towards success in life. You have to understand the struggles that go behind making the person who they are, and people rarely post the struggles. No matter what I post here, I am as normal a person as you are. I have faced the same, if not more, challenges than you are facing and whatever I am and post today on social media is the result of years of hard work and sacrifices that I do not share.
Remember, if you are not working hard, you are not going to go up.

Seeing some of the most successful entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of colleges, dropping out is clearly becoming a trend. However, there are both pros and cons about it and we are going to discuss the best practices if you do plan to drop out.

I see a lot of entrepreneurs afraid to share their startup ideas thinking that someone might steal it. In this podcast, we dive into the reality of the claim and bust some myths.

'Analysis Paralysis' a phase of the mind which a lot of entrepreneurs pass-through somewhere in their journey. It hampers the decision-making capabilities and ultimately affects the entire startup and its culture on the whole. In this podcast, we will go deep into the topic and see how should this phase be tackled.