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Founded in 2006, the firm invests in companies targeting the Indian consumer and enterprise market at the seed, early and early growth stages. Z47 has invested in several market leading companies such as Ola (local transportation), Quikr (online classifieds), Practo (digital health platform), Dailyhunt (mobile local language platform), Treebo (digital hotel chain), Limeroad (social e-commerce platform), Mswipe (mobile POS), Five Star Business Finance (SME lending), OfBusiness (credit led B2B marketplace), Vogo (scooter sharing) and Cloudnine Hospitals (leading chain of maternity hospitals), among others. Z47 has advisory offices in Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai. Z47 has a global network of funds investing in the US, China and India. Further information is available at www.z47.com
I would love to see where these e-commerce companies and taxi hailing companies are profitable? Where these these numbers coming from? In my opinion They are far away from making profits, they continue to burn investor money and will Continue to go on for sometime
Would be interesting to know how platform models in digital lending have evolved and how soon such startups should start to manufacture loans/start NBFCs (not just be matchmakers)
Dear Eximius team, We know you’re really busy and that you get a lot of Dms, so this will only take sixty seconds to read. We are the founders of Hustlee and Heartt and would love to have Pearl Aggarwal on our podcast. We’d love if you could spend 1 hour and share your insights with us. We are really inspired by what you have created and we would love to hear the story of your success. We would like to share our details if you could provide your contact information Best Regards, Team Hustlee and Heartt
Hii Pranay, We know you’re really busy and that you get a lot of Dms, so this will only take sixty seconds to read Dear Eximius team, We know you’re really busy and that you get a lot of Dms, so this will only take sixty seconds to read. We are the founders of Hustlee and Heartt and would love to have Pranay Desai on our podcast. We’d love if you could spend 1 hour and share your insights with us. We are really inspired by what you have created and we would love to hear the story of your success. We totally understand if you’re too busy to respond, but even a one- or two-line reply would really make my day. Best Regards, Team Hustlee and Heartt
Hello Rajat Aggarwal, I know you are really busy and get a lot of emails so this takes only 60 seconds to read. I am Vivek kubadia, I am host of podcast called hustlee.and.heartt and would like to invite you to my podcast as guest. I would love if you could really spend an hour and share your insights with us. I totally understand if you are busy to respond but even a one or two line reply would make my day. Best Regards, Team Hustlee.and.heartt
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I just stumbled upon a reel of yours on linkedin and awed with the visual quality and jumped here. Its just brillant colour grading and smooth and cool colours, just one suggestion, conversation is little heavy so to counter and make it fast pased i would - Have little closer frame (Mid Close short) - And have a split screen frame of Action & Reactions booth of them at the same time. - Add subtitles stamped in to the video if time and cost permits. - There are too many wides, please use that as an extablishing shot and then focus on just closeups and once in every 5 or 10 mins or off recording moments or for credits for wide frame Great attempt. Will be following your series
@@aman.goeliitb Definitely! With your track record and what you've achieved so far, combined with your attitude of humility, taking nothing for granted, and customer focused orientation, with good old hard work, you'll create an amazing startup. My best wishes to the team over at GreyLabs AI.
Amazing podcast, I am also one phygital founder in the cosmetic distribution category, your insight is very helpful, it helped me to present my startup with more strong data. Thank you 🙂
1. Domain expertise matters. There's no doubt about it. It helps founders get off the ground faster. It's just an advantage. A lever. 2. Once the air-craft has taken flight, what matters really is this - How you react to the weather conditions. So, unless a founder is - innately good at finding talent, - taking decisions, - smart enough to steer his/her way out of crisis, - more importantly have the lens of frugality,... financial success is very hard to come by. You can have Vc-success i.e. create enough momentum to exit at next-round; But not long-term financial success. 3. Alpha is a very intimidating word almost bordering on negativity,. In fact, the word 'alpha' is screaming complacency; A better & simple word would be 'Domain-expert' or 'insider-advantage' founder. 4. Ex-bankers leaving their big-jobs and starting-up is simply an example of 'being opportunistic'. It is no proxy for 'success' by being a 'domain-alpha'; In fact many of these businesses fall right at the door-step of 'infringement' because somewhere these founders left the big-banks with some data or information gathered during their employment at the big-bank. So, I don't think this must be celebrated. Even the roller-decks you mention were 'acquired' while at the bank. It's just information asymmetry and nothing else. Nonetheless, a good conversation.
