The Indian Dream

Welcome to The Indian Dream podcast! Our goal is to help entrepreneurs build profitable businesses. We've spoken to more than a hundred founders & investors - our biggest lesson is that we should focus on niche markets to find profitable opportunities.  Here's how we do it - we have Trends episodes where each week, we do a deep dive into a business trend that is exploding in India an...

Second episode in our series about Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain - I highly recommend that you listen to the previous episode first to get the understandings of the basics of cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Join Our WhatsApp Group Blockchain Newsletter McKinsey Report on Blockchain including a graph showing the ease of implementation and impact of Blockchain on various industries.  We have Abhi...

If you like what we do, consider supporting the The Indian Dream Project at this link .  We're joined by a special guest today,  Alexander Hogeveen Rutter . Alex works at the IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank, where he specialises in increasing renewable energy penetration in Indian power grids. Timestamps: Agriculture Crowdfunding & Community Supported Agriculture (01:26) Sol...

We've been creating these podcasts and newsletters for the last 9 months and if you like what we do, consider supporting the The Indian Dream Project. Link below. If you want to support us, you can contribute here .   In the episode today, we host Nishchal Shetty of WazirX to talk about the world of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies. We avoid speculating on bitcoin prices and instead focus on t...

Sahil (@sahil071) & Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out with the folks from Dine With Data , Vedika & Armaan, to discuss some great new ideas that we wouldn't have thought up on our own. Dine with Data is an amazing daily WhatsApp newsletter that introduces you to a new startup everyday so that you're always aware of the latest business trends. Join Dine with Data WhatsApp newsletter...

A couple of weeks back, we covered the Trend of Paid or Private Communities. We explored the rise of these communities amongst millenials and Gen Z and looked at the opportunities that exist in this space in our Trends Newsletter . Today, we have Vivek Narain , Founder of The Quorum , a Member only lifestyle club in Gurgaon with close to $1m ARR. Lifestyle clubs have always existed across the majo...

Sahil (@sahil071) & Siddharth (@sidbetala) announce a new Referral Reward - you can be invited onto this podcast if you get enough referrals to our newsletter. Here's the link that you can use to generate your referral code ! (0:00) - Referral Campaign Thanks (0:45) - Decentraland (3:20) - Regional Newsletters - The New Tropic (14:52) - The rise of Plant Based Foods & Beverages (21:00...

This episode is a deep dive into the business of Restaurants. Hunger Inc.   Sameer Seth TID Whatsapp Newsletter (No Spam) We talk to Sameer Seth, Co-founder of Hunger Inc. They've created brands such as The Bombay Canteen, O Pedro & very recently, The Bombay Sweet Shop.  Now if you're not from Bombay, you might not have heard about these places. But, ask your friend who lives in Bomb...

We're doing our first Giveaway! We'll be sending the book 'Psychology of Money' by Morgan Housel to 5 people who help us get the highest number of referrals for our Newsletter. Here's the link that you can use to generate your referral code . Sahil (@sahil071) & Siddharth (@sidbetala) munch on these ideas during the episode: (00:50) - The Indian Dream Book Giveaway - P...

Private communities are being built across India and globally as traditional communities built around religion, physical location and trade are being disrupted. New age digital first communities focused on hobbies and learning interests are gaining traction. Leap. Club is one of those exciting private communities that is shaping the landscape of India. Only a year after its founding, Leap. Club ha...

Sahil (@sahil071) & Siddharth (@sidbetala) have some fun discussing the helicopter rental industry in India and how it's shockingly profitable. We have some exciting business ideas that we discuss on this episode of business munchies. Join our Spam Free WhatsApp Group. Timestamps: (0:45) - The Indian Dream Fund for Bootstrapped/Profitable Businesses (11:05) - The Economics of the Helicopt...

Jatin Modi, a serial entrepreneur whose latest venture FrogIdeas is one of the leading B2 B marketing companies in the world with world class clients such as Tata communications, SAP, HCL and many more.  Join Our No Spam WhatsApp Group FrogIdeas Jatin Modi Our conversation with Jatin starts in his college hostel where he starts his first venture. after that he tries many ventures before starting M...

Sahil (@sahil071) & Siddharth (@sidbetala) have some fun discussing how Siddharth made $1,000 in one week by trading NBA cards. We also have some interesting business ideas in this episode of business munchies. Join our Spam Free WhatsApp Group. For the first time ever, we were not too lazy to provide timestamps. Timestamps: ( 0:00) - Introduction (0:33) - Final Conclusion to Practo for Lawyer...

This week, we're covering Hi-Tech or New Age Farming. There are tons of niche farming opportunities that can be turned into massively profitable businesses. We wrote about them in our newsletter last week . We also released an episode with the largest seaweed producer in India. In the episode today, we talk about large scale Mushroom farming. We are joined with Avdhesh Kumar, Co-Founder of CE...

In this episode of Business Munchies, we explore  some interesting business ideas and how they can be leveraged in order to build new businesses. We hope you like them! Timestamps: (0:00)     - Introduction (3:00)     - Pre-School/Day Care Industry (15:20)  - Creator Economy (20:42)  - Invoice Discounting (30:58)  - Non-Alcoholic Beer Join our WhatsApp group here: https://bit.ly/2LgDN2n 1. Pre-Sch...

High Tech/New Age Farming Newsletter 3 weeks back, the Indian Union Budget was released and within that was a special nugget of information that got us very curious. The government had approved a proposal to spend 640 Crores in setting up a large multi-purpose seaweed park in Tamil Nadu.  Now, our initial thought was, who is going to eat so much seaweed? Are we exporting to Japan and China, coz th...

Business Munchies is an exploration of business ideas and how they can be leveraged in order to build new businesses or scale up existing businesses. This week, we had an interesting line up of strange ideas, we hope you like them! Timestamps: (0:00)    - Introduction (0:18)    - No Code (9:47)    - Shopify Growth (20:18) - Virtual Exhibitions (30:45) - Lawyer/CA/Agencies Directory (37:09) - Build...

We speak to Vineet Gupta, Managing Director at Jamboree Education and Founder & Trustee at Ashoka University, one of India's first University for the Liberal Arts. Vineet has had an interesting entrepreneurial journey - we spend the first half of the podcast going into detail about how he started his career and the second half focused on the passion for improving India's education wh...

In this week's Trends Newsletter , we covered the $10 Billion IoT Market. In our previous episode with Kush Mishra, we discussed the opportunities that exist in the overall IoT market.  We go further niche in this one.  As regular listeners of TID would know, we love niches. In the episode today, we discuss the IoT Industry as it pertains to the automobile industry. Globally, we're now m...

We're going to dive deep into the trend of Internet of things which has seen a huge resurgence in the past few years. We have Kush Mishra with us – he’s the CTO and COO of an IoT company called Senra. Through our conversations with various people in this industry we've actually come across an opportunity for a young business leader to become the business head or CEO of an industrial iot...

Thanks for listening to another episode of The Indian Dream. Join our WhatsApp group here: https://bit.ly/2LgDN2n We're looking for social media interns! You can email us at theindiandream20@gmail.com As always, Business Munchies is an exploration of business ideas and how they can be leveraged in order to build new businesses or scale up existing businesses. This week, we had an interesting...

We hit 50 Episodes last week! (We didn't even realize!). Consider this as the 50th Episode Special: Our take on The 2021 Union Budget. At The Indian Dream, our goal is create a community of knowledge seeking founders who are looking to build Profitable Businesses. A big part of building these businesses is being aware of the direction the government is focusing on. It always helps to be build...

Thanks for listening to another episode of The Indian Dream. Join our WhatsApp group here: https://bit.ly/2LgDN2n As always, Business Munchies is an exploration of business ideas and how they can be leveraged in order to build new businesses or scale up existing businesses. This week, we had an interesting line up of strange ideas, we hope you like them! Timestamps: (0:00)    - Introduction (2:06)...

Today's show is a result of a phone call that I got after one of our listeners heard our Business Munchies episode. As we got talking, I realised his line of work is extremely interesting and operates in a niche. As our regular listeners might know, we love NICHE businesses. As they say, Niches build Riches.  Around 2009-10, Rishabh & Pranav wanted to start an Electronics Accessories bran...

Thanks for listening to another episode of The Indian Dream. Join our WhatsApp group here: https://bit.ly/2LgDN2n As always, Business Munchies is an exploration of business ideas and how they can be leveraged in order to build new businesses or scale up existing businesses. This week, we had an interesting line up of strange ideas, we hope you like them! Timestamps: (0:00)    - Introduction (1:17)...