The Indian Dream

On this founder journey, we speak to Rohit MA , co-founder and CEO of Cloudnine Hospitals. It is a chain of maternity hospitals that's spread across 9 cities and has 20+ hospitals. We speak to Rohit about his journey, how he raised capital for the business, how he scaled and the focus on customer experience. Join our No-Spam WhatsApp Group Here's an episode outline:  (03:39) - The Thesis...

Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram . Follow us there to stay updated! This episode is a look back of 2021. This is our first full calendar year of creating podcasts and newsletters for The Indian Dream. Just this year, we've...

Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram . Follow us there to stay updated! Click here to help TID part time with LinkedIn & Twitter Job Description for the Content Associate Job at Blume Ventures Click here to apply for the Content...

We're doing a Book Give Away! We'll be sending copies of 'The Minimalist Entrepreneur' to folks interested in building a profitable internet business. Just follow us on Twitter or  Instagram & tell us about what you want to building using the framework laid out in The Minimalist Entrepreneur book . On the episode, we host Sahil Lavingia, Founder of Gumroad and the author of...

On this founder journey, we speak to Abhishek Goel , co-founder and CEO of Cactus Communications . Abhishek & his brother Anurag have built a culture of excellence into Cactus. They have an on-time delivery of 99.63%! How many other Indian businesses can boast of numbers like that? Join our No-Spam WhatsApp Group On this podcast, we've often spoken about how the best place to build a busi...

Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram . Follow us there to stay updated! Timeline: ( 00:58) - Revenue Based Financing (22:56) -  Translation Services for Movies, TV Shows on Netflix, Prime Video (33:54) - Life Skill Courses for Teena...

In this fascinating conversation about the journey of building a Rs. 100 Cr business from a seed capital of Rs. 64,000, we talk to  Suveer Bajaj,  Co-founder of FoxyMoron & Zoo Media . FoxyMoron is one of India's premier Digital Marketing & Advertising agency. Suveer started FoxyMoron in 2008, when he was just 19. 13 years later, he has been able to scale up the business to 500+ peopl...

Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram . Follow us there to stay updated! Timeline: (2:15) - Environmental, Social & Governance standards for big businesses (24:30) - Fractionalization of Real Estate (35:40) - Influencers working...

Welcome to a really exciting episode of the Indian Dream - we've wanted to talk to this founder for the past 1 year at least. In this episode, we speak to Vivek Sahni, co-founder and CEO of Kama Ayurveda . For the few listeners who haven't heard of Kama, they are an Ayurveda based Hair & Beauty brand that now has 59 retail stores across the country. Join our No-Spam WhatsApp Group Th...

Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram . Follow us there to stay updated! Timeline: (00:0) - Introduction (1:59) - Video & Livestream E-commerce (21:43) - Tiger 21 - Peer Network for High net worth individuals (36:54) - No-Code &a...

Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) host Piyush Kumar , Founder of Rooter to talk about Game Streaming & E-Sports in India. Gaming is a $160B market globally, and game streaming is one of the fastest growing segments within that. Youtube and Twitch are the most popular global game streaming platforms! Youtube has over 40 million active gaming channels. Twitch, on the other hand, has 9...

In today's episode we speak to Prashant Sharma , founder of Build by Skip the Line - a combination of a Cohort Based Course and Bootcamp course that takes people from ideation to launching a side-project that can make them financially independent. One of the most popular side projects launched during the Build Cohort is called LetterHunt which generated more than $2000 in revenue in the first...

Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala)  host Gajendra Jangid, Co-founder of Cars24 to talk about the disruption in the Used Car Market.  To get summaries of the content we create, join this NO SPAM Whatsapp group.   Today, we're talking about Cars24 and the $20B Pre-owned or Used Car market in India.  In Financial Year 19-20, 4.4 Million pre-owned cars were sold compared to 2.8 Million...

Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. Support us and show us your love by buying us a some beer/chai on this link. Timeline: (00:0) - Introduction (2:00) - Detailed account on how we bought a US based e-commerce business from India (25:43) - What are NFT's? (40:00) - Sales Processes for B2B SaaS Business Ideas: Ho...

In this episode, we host Ryan Valles, Co-founder of Interview Kickstart to talk about Marketplace Businesses & Ed-Tech Roundup.  (00:51) - Ryan's Professional Journey as an Entrepreneur, Operator, Investor (10:27) - Different Kinds of Marketplace Businesses (18:00) - The Marketplace Cold Start problem & scaling marketplaces (24:40) - Growing Marketplace using performance marketing (30...

We talk to Bharat Goenka, Founder of Tally Solutions, maker of ERP and Accounting Software for SMBs since 1986. We cover the journey of building Tally, go deeper into their unique point of views on Customer Empathy, Distribution, Piracy and some philosophy across the entire episode :) We also go through the ups and downs that the business has gone through in the last 30 years and how it weathered...

Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. Support us and show us your love by buying us a some beer/chai on this link. Timeline: (00:0) - Introduction (1:28) - Drone Market in India (25:43) - Account Aggregator Framework of India Stack (37:42) - How to get rid of Annoying Cold Calls for Loans and Real Estate (42:34) - Busi...

While preparing for this episode, I kept wondering - How do you even think about bootstraping a video production business? Equipment rental by itself is almost unaffordable in this industry - you have to rent video cameras, lenses, lights and much more. Despite this, Advait and Akshat still managed to bootstrap Supari Studios from a seed capital of just Rs. 75,000 to ride the wave of content produ...

A journey that started 6 years ago has resulted in one of the few Profitable Unicorn startups in India.  In the episode today, we speak to Asish Mohapatra, Co-Founder & CEO of Ofbusiness, a B2B Commerce & Lending startup focused on serving the Small & Medium Businesses of India.  Episode Outline:  (00:00) - Introduction (03:32) - Decision to quit a career as a Venture Capitalist to bec...

 Heads Up For Tails is India's leading Pet Care ecommerce business and we're super excited to share their story on The Indian Dream. Whoever has heard enough episodes of this show will know that I'm a huge animal lover and have an adopted street dog named Lola. That's why Heads Up For Tails has been on our target list for a long time and we're super excited to speak to its...

Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out to look back at the 100 Episode journey of The Indian Dream. Yes, we've now release 100 Episodes of content around profitable businesses.  Support us and show us your love by buying us a some beer/chai on this link. Timeline: (00:18) - Discussing the learnings from 100 Episodes of TID (10:00) - Update on Business Digitisation Course (21:00...

In this episode, we talk to Shrey Badhani  to talk about the journey of Building Kapiva. Kapiva is an Ayurveda 2.0 Brand that combines the two trends that we've written about previously: Ayurveda & Direct to Consumer .  We talk to Shrey about the initial thesis behind Kapiva, the pivot to becoming a consumer brand, their process in creating products and how they've scaled up the bran...

A journey that started 33 years ago has resulted in a company that does over Rs. 1250 Cr in revenue and has a public market cap of more than 10,000 Crs. This is the story of Mr. Dinesh Thakkar, CMD of Angel Broking. Before we start, let;s define a stock broker. These are entities that act as the middlemen between stock buyers and the stock exchange. And that's how Mr. Dinesh Thakkar started h...

Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out to discuss some business ideas. Timeline: (00:40) - Latest regulations surrounding Bill Discounting (6:11) - Vitamin D & B12 Deficiency Epidemic (16:40) - Disrupting Water Purifier Market (27:30) - Prediction Gambling  (34:00) - Unbundling of Upwork Business Ideas from the episode Regulations in Bill Discounting Market : Recently, the Lok S...

We have Angad Soni from Sepoy & Co. - a manufacturer of high end tonic water and carbonated beverages. The very idea of of a high quality tonic water did not exist in India before 2017 or 18. It's only in these last few years that we've seen the simultaneous explosion of domestic gin and then tonic right along with them as a great pairing. Now, Sepoy & Co is leading the charge in...