Making Online Shopping a Social Experience with Aditya Kothadiya

Aditya Kothadiya founded Shopalize, which was eventually bought by 24[7], where he now works. Shopalize created the social shopping market, by enabling e-commerce businesses to add social sharing buttons to their products. It helped facilitate a new form of advertising, by allowing the buyer to spread the word about their purchase. His training and degrees were in hardware, but Aditya saw more profitable opportunities in software. Since the same logic is necessary for … [Read more...]

Dancing His Way to Success! With Lavesh Pritmani

Today’s guest is Lavesh, the producer of the Learn Bhangra app. Bhangra is a traditional Indian dance which is rapidly growing in popularity as both part of Indian culture and as a fitness craze. If you’ve already seen - or tried - Bhangra, you know it’s a physically demanding dance form, which has led to its growing popularity as a fun way to stay in shape. Lavesh’s skill in Bhangra and his popularity as an instructor recently led to him and other members of his dance … [Read more...]

How to Validate Your Business Concept? Learn from Ashish’s Experience!

Ashish Baldua is the Executive Director, Project Management at JPMorgan Chase. He co-founded many startups, among them Wowzio and most recently Bloomspot which was acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2013. Ashish grew up in Mumbai, India. After getting his Bachelor’s degree, he moved to the U.S. and earned a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University in New York. He  went on to work in the technology department at Yahoo for 11 years, rising quickly to … [Read more...]

How to be a Serial Entrepreneur: Meet Someone with Vision, Perseverance and Flexibility.

Do you have what it takes to be a lifelong entrepreneur? David Fox does. He has been an entrepreneur since he was ten years old, selling vegetables to neighbors from his backyard garden. Since then, he has continued to dream about and invest in the next thing. David works with Strategic Value Advisors and helps established business owners plan transitions out of their companies. He builds the road map for how to accomplish that transition - which may take place over … [Read more...]

Seeking Clarity and Growth through Hardship and Meditation with Karan Bajaj

Can there be benefits to solitude, strenuous activity, and meditation? Karan Bajaj, author of The Yoga of Max’s Discontent, thinks so! Karan is a New York Times bestselling, multi-faceted author, whose latest novel came out this past May 2016.  He is also Chief Marketing Officer of Aden & Anais. His past work experience includes positions within Procter & Gamble and Kraft Foods, as well as branding and retail strategy expertise with Boston Consulting Group. … [Read more...]

Customer Impact is the Key with Pradeep Padala

“The real impact is making (the product) work for the customer,” Pradeep Padala realized during his research internships with Hewlett Packard and Microsoft. This spurred his transformation from a desire to stay in research to work more directly where he could have “real customer impact”, through entrepreneurship. In late 2014 Pradeep founded ContainerX, which develops a management platform for virtual containers. Like virtual machines, these containers simplify storage … [Read more...]

Redefining the relationship between a women and her wardrobe with Purva Gupta

Purva Gupta is the founder of Lily, which, “helps women discover & buy clothes according to their emotions and perceptions about their own body.” She is a graduate and mentor at The Founder Institute and the Recipient of the Harley Lippman Entrepreneurial Fellowship. She graduated with an MBA and worked in a startup in India before immigrating with her husband to the U.S. to work with Unicef. Listen as Purva shares her insights and her passion for the startup … [Read more...]

How Coding Early in Life Can Lead to Start Up Success Later

Today’s guest is Sharib Khan. Sharib is the Co-founder and CEO of TrialX, the patient connection company and Applied Informatics an award winning Healthcare Information Technology solutions company. Built in 2008 as one of the first apps on the Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault platforms, to automatically match patients to clinical trials using personal health records, TrialX is today a leading clinical research solutions company. TrialX's mission is to connect … [Read more...]

How Building an Educational Start Up Can Lead to Business Success

Aditya Singhal is the co-founder of Transtutors, a leading international online education portal. Imparting education, apart from being a business, is also a passion for Aditya. He is avidly indulged in helping students develop their skills and counsels them for their career aspirations. He is devoted to the social cause of making education available to the underprivileged by contributing a part of his revenue from Transtutors towards their education. From 2007-2010, he … [Read more...]

Leveraging Your Experience to Build a Start Up Worth $2 Billion

Today’s guest is Dheeraj Pandey, who started from scratch and built a company that is now valued at more than $2 billion. A 2013 Forbes magazine article about Dheeraj says this, “He brings over 14 years of experience working at high-growth enterprise software companies like Aster Data (now Teradata), where he helped build the product and its engineering team from the ground up and at Oracle, where he managed the storage engine group for Oracle Database/Exadata, and … [Read more...]