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The Neon Show
Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journey from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys.
Hence was born the Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself…
Episodes
The Neon ShowSelling my bootstrapped business for $20 Million Ft Rohit Anand, Founder, 1DigitalStack
As per a recent Entrackr report, Indian startups saw over 250 acquisitions in 2021. Edtech startups like Byju’s, Unacademy, and upGrad have been in the…
The Neon ShowSaahil Goel on building Shiprocket, a $900 Million Logistics Tech company
Many founders try to build for large markets. But Saahil Goel, Founder, Shiprocket thinks differently. In his opinion, it’s okay to build small or lesser…
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Satej Sirur, Founder, Rocketium on building design SaaS, competing with Adobe and working with 1200+ brands inc Groww, Meesho, Urban Company
Suppose you're a marketer or have a marketer friend/colleague. During an event like IPL or Diwali, you need to get 100+ variations of creatives with 20-30…
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How to identify your customer’s problem ft Shashank Bijapur, Founder, SpotDraft, Contract Automation SaaS
"You never know when and where you can be "bitten by the entrepreneurship bug." Something similar happened with our guest Shashank Bijapur. A graduate of…
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Karan Shroff, Partner & CMO, Unacademy on finding Creativity, creating timeless Marketing Campaigns and building an iconic Brand
# Marketer of the Year 2018 and 2019 by IAA Leadership Award held by International Advertising Association (IAA) # Most Influential Youth Marketing…
The Neon ShowRajesh Jain on selling IndiaWorld to Sify for $115M in the country’s first dotcom acquisition, founding Netcore Cloud, and his learnings over the last three decades
Do you know about the most interesting headline of all Indian business newspapers on 30 November 1999? It was India's most prominent Internet deal at the time…
The Neon ShowThe Joys of Compounding with Gautam Baid
# Does the word 'Compounding' excite you? # Have you always wondered what 'Value Investing' is and how can you follow this approach? # Are you biased in your…
The Neon ShowGrowth lessons from building Bijak, a B2B Agritech marketplace ft. Founder, Nukul Upadhye
As per the recent data by Tracxn, there are 1338 AgriTech startups in India. However, with 118.7 million farmers, who contribute to a mere 17-18% of Indian…
The Neon ShowThe Gardening approach of Seed Investing ft. Bipin Shah, Partner, Titan Capital
Since early 2020, we've noticed numerous startups becoming Unicorn one after another. But something a bit unnoticed by the wider audience is the valuations of…
The Neon Show10 years, 100+ investments, 8 exits: Journey of Abhishek Rungta, Founder, Seeders VC & Indus Net
When you hear the word Startups & Angel Investing, which cities do you most commonly think they are based out of? Bengaluru, Delhi / Gurugram, Mumbai, or…
The Neon ShowEx IPS Officer & Founder, HabitStrong, Rajan Singh on building life changing habits
Habits! Our habits make us who we are as a person. Since an early age we’ve been told by our parents and mentors, the distinction between a good and a bad…
The Neon ShowAvlesh Singh on building WebEngage, a 100 cr revenue company and being resilient in the last 10 years
# 5M+ Shopping Moments Personalized #400M+ Monthly Active Users Engaged #30B+ Messages Sent Monthly #$10B+ Additional Revenue Delivered These are some of the…
The Neon ShowBootstrap to IPO in 10 years ft. Prashant Pitti, founder EaseMyTrip
"The world is going through one of the worst recessions, and you plan on starting a Travel venture. You must be out of your mind!" This was precisely the…
The Neon ShowSabeer Bhatia on building Hotmail, acquisition from Microsoft and the journey ahead
4.03 billion people! That’s the most recent reported number of email users worldwide. No platform even comes close to the potential reach of email. The latest…
The Neon ShowSupermorpheus, India's first community driven fund ft. Founder, Sameer Guglani
A founder’s role is challenging, requiring expertise in multiple enterprises. From funding to hiring, it is entirely the onus of the founder to convert visions…
The Neon ShowSAAS from India to US: Myths Debunked ft. Anand Jain, Co-founder CleverTap
A notion amongst most Indian SaaS entrepreneurs is to move to the US to expand or start from the US from Day 1 itself. However, in today's episode, we've…
The Neon ShowInvesting Lessons from Anjali Bansal, Founder, Avaana Capital and The next Decade in VC
With so many Indian startups achieving unicorn status in 2021, the situation begs an answer to the question: # Is this growth sustainable or are we in a…
The Neon ShowSecrets to Financial Independence ft Deepak Shenoy, Founder & CEO, Capitalmind
# What is Financial Independence? # Does everybody need precisely 10 crore to be happy? # Is the process of “Wealth Creation = Cutting out on all your wants &…
The Neon ShowThe $100Billion market of Electric Vehicles in India ft Arpit Agarwal, Blume Ventures
Diwali just got over, and following the fatal trend of smog in the nation's capital for the past five years, it is here again. It is alarming to recognize that…
The Neon ShowThe rise of Crypto in India ft. Ashish Singhal, Founder, CoinSwitch
"Don't be afraid of failure. Always optimize for success, but be prepared for failure." - Ashish Singhal. In today's episode, we've brought Ashish Singhal…
The Neon ShowKushal Bhagia, CEO, FirstCheque on Early Stage Investing and building moat as founders
As per a recent article by Economic Times - “Early stage investing is at an all-time high in post-pandemic India with the country averaging one seed round a…
The Neon ShowBuilding an Ed-Tech Unicorn with Vamsi Krishna, Founder, Vedantu
During and post the pandemic, several sectors have seen a dramatic rise in customers & sales, specially the ones which were ready to embrace the new change and…
The Neon ShowHealthifyme Founder, Tushar Vashisht on Funding, Growth, Healthcare in India
According to WHO, obesity has doubled since the turn of the century, and almost 40% of all adults globally, i.e. 2 billion people - are overweight or obese…
The Neon ShowRaj Shamani on Content Creation, Organic Growth and Making Money
Personal branding is something that’s drawing a lot of attention from people across all domains. And the only proven way, to create a personal brand for…
The Neon ShowAmrit Acharya, Founder, Zetwerk, on bringing the next revolution in manufacturing
India is becoming the world's fastest-growing startup ecosystem with over 60+ Unicorn Startups, out of which 25+ have gained their Unicorn status in 2021…
The Neon ShowHow WakeFit became a 700 crore revenue D2C brand ft. Founder, Ankit Garg
Normally for the most of us our buying focus is around products like - # Which smartphone to buy? # Which laptop to buy? # Which car to buy? And so on. But…
The Neon ShowKshitij Jain, Founder Joveo on his journey being a 2x founder, key insights, learnings and the must-have skills for all the entrepreneurs
Have you heard about “Programmatic Advertising”? Well for those of you who haven’t, Programmatic Advertising, also known as programmatic display advertising…
The Neon ShowManish Pandey on mentoring the best Content Creators and the future of Creator Economy
How often and sincerely do you help someone for free? Moreover when it's related to building/growing their business? Only some of us can confidently say yes to…
The Neon ShowWhy & How Clarity and Depth outscores storytelling ft Vani Kola, Managing Director, Kalaari Capital
In whichever industry or ecosystem you are, there are some people you just can’t not know about, because they are the ones who have either - # had a major role…
The Neon ShowFampay Founder on Fintech for GenZ, Funding ft. Sambhav Jain
Did you used to get pocket money before the age of 18 to manage your expenses? I personally used to get a fixed & tiny pocket money after 10th, thanks to my…
The Neon ShowHasura Founder on Building For Developers ft. Tanmai Gopal
Data access for App development for startups and enterprise is very complex and has a lot of security concerns. It gets even worse when you plan to scale the…
The Neon ShowFrom Bootstrap to IPO ft. Rajdip Gupta, Founder, Route Mobile
Venture Capital or Angel investments aren’t a must have, to make your startup successful. This has been demonstrated again and again by several bootstrapped…
The Neon ShowPower of Storytelling ft. Roshan Abbas, Investor | Entrepreneur | Actor | Director | Producer
Today most companies around us follow two approaches to presenting their user data via Ads - # Company A - We have 60% of our users coming from Tier-I cities…
The Neon ShowThe future of Healthcare in India ft. Prasad Kompalli, Founder, Mfine
During the pandemic & lockdown since last year: # Initially people weren’t able to visit a doctor personally; # And, currently both the patient & the doctor…
The Neon ShowDisrupting Indian Grooming ft. Shantanu Deshpande, Founder, Bombay Shaving Company
How often do you see an entrepreneur’s last employer putting equity in their idea? Well, this is exactly what happened with the guest of our today’s episode…
The Neon ShowMarico Founder, Harsh Mariwala on Brand building, Growth and Culture
# Saffola - Cooking Oil # Parachute Advansed - Hair Oil # Nihar Naturals - Hair Oil # Set Wet - Hair Gel # Livon Hair Serum and many more... You must have seen…
The Neon ShowNitish Mittersain on building Nazara Technologies, a 5000 Crore Gaming company
In a recent report as per KPMG, “Online gaming industry in India is going to be worth Rs.29,000 crore by FY25.” Have you heard about Nazara Technologies?…
The Neon ShowHow Josh Talks went viral in India? ft. Co-founder, Supriya Paul
Would you dare to create a TEDx version from scratch for the Indian audience -Right out of college? -Without any good-paying job? -And living on a shoestring…
The Neon ShowJourney of Reliance acquired, Fynd with Founder, Farooq Adam
Have you ever heard about Infotel Broadband Services Limited (IBSL)? Even if you haven’t, I’m very much sure that you can’t deny that you don’t know its…
The Neon ShowAshvin Chadha, Anicut Capital on backing the best D2C companies with Debt & Equity Funding
Venture debt was introduced in India 15 years ago. However, it has gained traction in the last decade. In the last 6 years itself, approximately $4 bn of debt…
The Neon ShowInvesting in outliers with Madhukar Sinha, Founder, India Quotient
“We don’t think of ourselves as fund managers. The fund manager is someone managing 100s of millions of dollars, your job is largely doing money management…
The Neon ShowUnderstanding mental models of Wealth Creation with Paras Chopra, Founder, Wingify
“Financial independence is nothing but freedom of thought, freedom of action, and I think that’s invaluable. If you have to constantly work in your life to…
The Neon ShowDisrupting real estate market with Amit Agarwal, Founder, NoBroker
In this episode, we chat with Amit Kumar Agarwal, NoBroker. NoBroker, as the name suggests eliminates the middle-man/broker most of us have to go through when…
The Neon ShowA recipe for success with Chef and Entrepreneur, Sanjeev Kapoor
In this episode, we chat with Sanjeev Kapoor, the famous Indian celebrity chef, Padma Shri-awardee, entrepreneur and television personality. He rose to fame…
The Neon ShowThe unconventional journey of Karan Bajaj, Founder, WhiteHatJr
In this episode, we chat with Karan Bajaj, Founder, WhiteHat Jr. From being the CEO at Discovery, to being an author with Penguin Random House & HarperCollins…
The Neon ShowRanjeet Pratap Singh on the story & culture of Pratilipi, India's largest vernacular storytelling platform
Ranjeet Pratap Singh is the Co-founder & CEO of Pratilipi. Prior to Pratilipi, he worked at Vodafone with stints in Marketing, Retail, and Channel Sales…
The Neon ShowThe journey of a 100 cr D2C brand in India with The Moms Co. Founders, Mohit and Malika Sadani
In this episode, we chat with Malika Datt Sadani & Mohit Sadaani, The Moms Co. which deals with toxic-free products for newborns and mothers. The Mom’s Co’s…
The Neon ShowInside the mind of Pravin Agarwala, building BetterPlace, the operating system for blue collar workforce management
In this episode, we chat with Pravin Agarwala, founder BetterPlace. Blue-collar workforce management is one of the biggest industries in the Indian economy…
The Neon ShowAbhishek Goyal, Co-Founder, Tracxn on angel investing in 130 startups in the last 10 years
From investing all his savings in Sahil Barua's Delhivery in 2011 to becoming an angel investor in 130 Indian startups, the story of Abhishek Goyal…
The Neon ShowInside the mind of Jumbotail Founders, S Karthik Venkateswaran and Ashish Jhina
In this episode, we chat with Ashish Jhina & Karthik Venkateswaran, co-founders of Jumbotail, a 5-year-old online wholesale marketplace for grocery and food…
The Neon ShowInside the mind of Harpreet Singh Grover, Co-Founder, CoCubes, & Author, Let's Build a Company
Harpreet Singh Grover founded CoCubes.com, an online platform for assessments and hiring along with his batchmate Vibhore Goyal in 2007 after completing his…
The Neon ShowMitesh Shah from being a CFO at Ola & BookMyShow to start Inflection Point Ventures
In this episode, we chat with Mitesh Shah, who has headed finance at startups like Ola, BookMyShow & Being Human Clothing, and currently is co-founder at…
The Neon ShowInside the mind of Mamaearth Founders, Ghazal & Varun Alagh
In this episode, we chat with Ghazal and Varun Alagh, Co-founders, Mamaearth. Ghazal & Varun’s entrepreneurial journey began when they were expecting their…
The Neon ShowDilipkumar Khandelwal on building a strong portfolio of B2B SaaS companies as an Angel Investor
In this episode, we chat with Dilipkumar Khandelwal, Limited Partner with Stellaris Venture Partners & Fireside Ventures, and an active Angel Investor in 25+…
The Neon ShowStarting as an angel investor, developing an understanding of spaces and sourcing potential deals with Arun Venkatachalam
In this episode, we chat with Arun Venkatachalam, who comes from the Murugappa Group - family, and is also an active Angel Investor. Arun has invested in 25+…
The Neon ShowInside the mind of Nishith Rastogi, Co-Founder & CEO, Locus
In this episode, we chat with Nishith Rastogi, Founder of Locus.sh; a startup that uses technology and proprietary algorithms to provide smart logistics…
The Neon ShowBhaskar Majumdar, Founder of Unicorn India Ventures on his unconventional bets in Investing
In this episode, we chat with Bhaskar Majumdar, Founder of Unicorn India Ventures; an early-stage fund with portfolio companies such as - Inc42, OPEN Bank, and…
The Neon ShowDr. Geetha Manjunath on building Niramai, the most affordable product for breast cancer detection in the world
In this episode, we chat with Geetha Manjunath, Founder of NIRAMAI; one of India’s most awarded health tech startups using AI to solve the detection of…
The Neon ShowA deep dive into the Influencer Marketing Space with Viraj Sheth, Co-Founder & CEO, Monk Entertainment
In this episode, we chat with Viraj Sheth, Co-founder, Monk Entertainment and the man behind one of the fastest-growing Influencer marketing agencies in India…
The Neon ShowJon Sakoda, Founder, Decibel Partners on investing and importance of having a coach for early stage founders
On our 102nd episode, we chat with Jon Sakoda, Founder, Decibel Partners, a Cisco-backed venture fund. Jon founded Decibel to push through the conventional…