The Indian Startup Show

Naveen Jain (@Naveen_Jain_CEO), is a billionaire, and founder of World Innovation Institute, Intelius, Moon Express, inome and Infospace. He is also a trustee of the board at the X Prize Foundation, where he focuses on finding entrepreneurial solutions to challenges in education, poverty, agriculture, health and clean water. We talk about Moon Express which plans to send a rocket tho the moon as a...

Today we have Ryan Chadha (@RyanChadha) the co-founder of an international pre-school called Jigyasa in Bangalore, India. Jigyasa is a state-of-the-art preschool which offers a mixed age environment which encourages children to work and play collaboratively, Ryan Started the school with his mother over 2 years ago with 5 kids an not much money! But they now have over 30 kids and doing really well....

Ferdinand Kayulff, is the founder & CEO of CodersTrust. Coderstrust provides micro-finance for underprivileged talents to upgrade their coding skills, so they can earn more money on freelance portals. They have trained many developers in Bangladesh, India & Kenya. Ferdinand was also a Captain of the Danish army he served as recovery officer in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussain . He pio...

Barbara Maim is the Co-founder and CEO of Minsh, a community messaging system, a private social network with your own customised brand. In 2008, she co-founded Minsh, and a few years later, in June 2011, she moved from Lausanne to Bangalore with her husband and Co-founder, Jon. We talk about her time in India, working with her husband ,and plans for the future. Enjoy the Show. links https://minsh....

Today I speak with Amar Vyas (@amarauthor). He is an author, a soon to be podcaster, and is a self-described nomad, who has lived in fifteen cities over the past twenty years in two continents. Somewhere in this timespan life he went to graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and business school at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Amar's debut novel NRI:Now, Ret...

With the ongoing refugees crisis in Europe i chat to Anne Riechart co-founder of Refugees on Rails. A coding school for refugees based in Berlin, Germany . Their aim is to help refugees to build and expand their qualification as software developers and provide them the opportunity to work with startups and tech companies. They only started 6 weeks ago and they have over 200 volunteers. Germany has...

Today I am joined by Kavita Kapoor (@kavitakapoor) who is the author of a new book called Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Kaam. The book is based on her first hand experience across India. The book helps young professionals answer their questions and navigate the dynamic ever changing work space. So if you are struggling with what to do next in your life , then please listen. We talk about a wide range of sub...

In this episode I talk with Devin Miller , the lead engineer at NextDrop a startup based in Bangalore. Nextdrop is a for-profit enterprise with a social mission, they want to rid the world of its water problems. Devin is originally from America studying computer science but decided to quit to try and come over to to India and to tackle India’s water issues. We talk about how it works, how they att...

“SOFTWARE is eating the world,” proclaimed Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz. So this week I speak to Pushkar Gaikwad the founder of AeroLeads, a prospect and lead generation software tool. Pushkar has bootstrapped his SaaS (software as a service) startup company for the last 7 months & now has over 1500 B2B customers around the world and a decent amount of turnover. In la...

Reema Sathe is the founder of Happy Roots. An initiative helping farmers build high value alternate income sources. Did you know more than 50% of people in India still depend on agriculture for their earnings. She started out as a chemical engineer for a big corporation and then quit to follow her dreams of helping farmers in her region. Since launching she has created her first commercial pilot s...

Addresses in India are so confusing! So, In this podcast I speak to Krishna Yogi the founder of Maptags. who has come up with a simple, innovate solution to this problem! Maptags is a web application that shortens your address to your favourite word & makes sharing address as easy as sharing a word. All you need is a smartphone and a GPS signal. http://mapta.gs/ Krishna started this entreprene...

Joining me today is Stewart Noakes, Co-founder of TechHubs in Bangalore & Boston. TechHub creates spaces around the world for tech entrepreneurs to meet, work, learn and collaborate, and runs a load of great events, advice sessions and more. Stewart is a successful entrepreneur and wanted to start a give back project to the people of Bangalore. So Stewart brought TechHub to India. At the time...

Arik Marmorstein is the founder of Refresh Box. Refresh box enables people to subscribe or create 5-link-collection newsletters. Think of it like a platform for newsletters. So anyone can subscribe or create different newsletters. It’s currently a side project with two friends and its getting great traction. Since launching Refresh box has 2500 users , 530 curators and more than 7,000 subscription...

In today’s podcast I interviewed Bilal Budhani entrepreneur & now developer at CrowdFire. We discuss his break in the startup world to how he become young entrepreneur of the year in 2013. Bilal talks about his experience of running his own startups. How he taught himself web development in the cyber cafes in Mumbai to working at CrowdFire. A tool for social analytics & social publishing....

i talked with Sahil Arora - Entrepreneur & Founder of Vuzelaa. Sahil is a 17 year old entrepreneur who raised $40,000 while still at school!. Vuzelaa is an iPhone app which uses retina recognition for logging into social media and other cool stuff. I talk about the highs & lows of being an entrepreneur. We discuss the future of social networking. How he manages a team of 14 staff & pit...

i talked with Deepak Abbot - head of mobile growth at Times Internet part of the Times of India corporation. One of the largest media houses in the world. Learn how he and his team mange the growth and analytics of 14 + mobile apps & 50+ million users Deepak talks about his decision-making methods, techniques, and processes including retention and referral strategies. A recent trip to Google H...

In this episode we talk to Harshdeep , a young entrepreneur from India, he has spent the last 3 years building an iPhone App , called Wrap it up. And at 6ft 8 the tallest person i have interviewed. We talk about why he is anti-social! What kept him going. Why he read Steve Jobs autobiography 15-20 times! And a 15 day coding streak. Links App Link: https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/wrapitup-text-summ...