It's a topic that I am very passionate about. How do we make starting up easier? How do more founders get it right, the first time?

In conversation with Ishwar S - Founder- Unsolved.xyz with host Bimlesh Gundurao from PITCHCAMP

Some nuggets

✅ 9 out of 10 ideas don’t become side project

✅ 9 out of 10 side project don’t become a startup

✅ 9 out of 10 startups fail

✅ Collectively the ecosystem has learned more, more experience

✅ Immensely easy to Start unlike earlier (Website Design, Payment gateway etc)

✅ Access to Cloud Services to build prototypes and not ending physical servers

✅ Smaller teams can achieve more

✅ Founders with an exit, are reinvesting in new startups

✅ 42% of startups fail because there is no Market need (YC)

✅ Founders who are “Coachable’ tend to thrive more

✅ Defining the right problem, finding a solution, and getting paid - Perfect state to be in quickly

00:00 Welcome

01:45 Introduction

11:35 changes in the startup ecosystem from 2010-2020

20:55 New ideas/skill current first-time entrepreneurs are bringing to the table

26:40 Building a Product Vs Business

28:30 One Key Skills for an entrepreneur

32:12 Perils to talking during problem discovery

32:33 Role of an Entrepreneur

34:15 Evaluating ideas

40:06 Giving feedback to startups that are stagnant with revenue growth

46:12 Lean Startup method

49:00 Filtering out ideas

51:34 Closing thoughts for first-time entrepreneurs

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