PAC Talks with VJCV: Recent Episodes
Vijay Krishna Chittoor Venkitraman
Chat with Startup Founders as well as with People who have shown that Passion, Attitude and Curiosity takes you to places.
At the community level, football provides a unique platform for people to connect with their neighbours and like-minded individuals. These gatherings, often starting informally with a few people kicking a ball around, grow organically, fostering camaraderie and mutual respect. In such environments, social and economic barriers fade away, replaced by a shared love for the game, friendly competition, and laughter.
The startup ecosystem in Ireland is on a steady growth curve. The number of new startups, new accelerator programs, funds, hubs, 360 degrees ecosystem, all add to this. During the recently concluded National AI Meet in Galway, I had an opportunity to meet Dr. Divya Rajput, CEO of JSS Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park in India. Dr Divya Rajput and myself connected again towards the …
"Our journey has been diverse, our journey has been mixed, but there's been one common thread across.It's to always do what you're passionate about. Be it in corporate, be it as anchor, and now being as an entrepreneur."
We're releasing our product in three key versions. So our main aim our North Star is for real time exercise feedback and analysis. So everyone who is doing physiotherapy at home or training in the gym that they can get live, completely individualised feedback on their movement patterns so they can stop injury risk and then maximise their results.
This is the last of the 5 episodes. In these 5 episodes, Jeri talks about her life learnings, challenges, startup hurdles, leadership lessons and always be prepared for the next 'humbling' moment.
In this 4th episode, Jeri talks about the thought process and research behind Tilt Five's offering. The special light weight Augmented Reality glasses, focal points, interactive gaming, etc. The features and uses of Tilt Five other than just gaming. Jeri spoke about how they worked on the idea of virtual game board, holographs and partnering with board game developers, etc. The challenges and bad sides of emotional excitement including subtle manipulations.
Jeri talks about the early days of Tilt Five. The initial days of putting together the team, technology , why the name 'Tilt Five' and the call she received from Atari founder Nolan Bushnell which actually pushed her to start Tilt Five.
She was surviving on the meagre savings doing part time work but her passion to make many innovative circuit boards, FPGA chips that could act as video screens, sound generators, etc. helped her to focus on her strengths & finally got the first 'engineering' job.
My dad's name is Klaas. That's where the Klaas Kickz comes from. I created a bond with my dad through football. I'm hoping that this can do the same with parent and child all around Ireland and even the world. My dad wasn't big into football until I was big into football. But he knew the importance of playing, activities and being outside in fresh air.
In this episode, Jeri shares the story of her adventures with dirt car racing, learning the basic of building and racing cars from Duke Southard, selling computers through her initial entrepreneurial journey , "Computers Made Easy", the humbling moments, life lessons and much more.
In this latest edition of PAC Talks, it was a pleasure to interview one of the top 20 Artificial Intelligence startups in India. Data Science Wizards (DSW) is a very young company, started in 2019, which is growing at a steady pace in the right direction. I met with the team, Pritesh Tiwari , Founder, Sandeep Khuperkar, Co founder & CEO and Sandhya Oza, Chief …
Adam calls the Millo Air, the 2.0 version as the 'Silent Blender'. He demonstrated this during the interview and even at 1200 rpm, there was hardly any sound. The initial blender from Millo was developed with a focus on user experience, design and convenience. The team behind this wanted to improve this offering and has now launched the new version where they are using the help of a magnetic drive to rotate the blades.
"They are all consuming content, following the teams, going to games, it is a social avenue for people - going to pub watch the game, etc. While doing that they are constantly trading opinions and knowledge, up until now lot of that has been in ether. Who actually knows his football, is it the one who is always yapping or the quiet guy, whereas now you can come in to FutNut , make your predictions and see how you rank against everybody else. So now the talking is over and let us see who actually knows their football. " - Alan Loughrey.
"This market is little bit conservative. This is a time to digitalise our sport. If we do not open our minds in table tennis industry and adapt technology then will lose this sport to new generation. This is the generation that see tech everywhere. We have to do everything to keep the new generation involved in table tennis."
"It is about Passion. Whatever you do in life there are two ways of looking at it - Very Hard and Very Easy, with a fine balance. If we choose the easy path it is not because its easy but you are determined and obsessed to achieve. It is very hard because you think it is hard."
Sitting in her house in North Wales, United Kingdom, Zoey is single handedly managing Fungtn. A myco adaptogenic low alcohol beer brand born in North Wales, courtesy an experiment with mushroom and beer.
When players, teams and clubs across the globe are fighting to get a parity in regard with pay , here is a club from a small town in Sussex who are breaking even the playing field.
If chat is the channel you want to do business on then you would come to Zoko. We will work on WhatsApp, Facebook messenger, Apple iMessage and any chat platform, people will be able to message and we will be the default platform.
“Happiness is the only Selfish motive” says Anoop G, Managing Trustee of Arm of Joy The story started two decades ago, 1999-2000, when Anoop and Rekha who were studying in the same college were discussing about a future together. Both had a common thought about the life ahead of them. They agreed on doing something to make the society better , not big things but …
Story Book is the only App in the world which brings together infant massaging techniques, story and music. For many reasons it is not recommended to have screen time before going to bed. So this is an App, parents will use and kids will listen.
Ganesh Pai, the founder of Dontmemorise.com has a dream to teach 1 billion students.
The YouTube channel of Dontmemorise.com has 1.39 Million subscribers as of today. The daily views garnered by them is 250,000. So by the time complete watching this 45 minutes interview of Ganesh, Dontmemorise.com YouTube channel would have got additional 10,000 views.
The journey which was started to teach 1 million students has been achieved. Now Ganesh has set his dream of teaching 1 billion students. He says "Growth is slow, Future is bright".
Story of Maharani Gin: Bhagya in this fun and candid conversation, in a mix of English and Malayalam, takes us through the journey of meeting Robert, conceptualizing the idea of Maharani Gin, challenges faced by Women in alcohol industry, women leadership, malayalees, kerala and rebel city connection.
Techgentsia is the winner of India Government's Video Conference Solution Challenge
Joy gives complete credit of this achievement to his team. He said "the team has worked 24*7 to come out with this prototype in just one month's time". This 10 year old startup is based out of Kochi and has 50 engineers working with them. They have specialized in the research and development of audio and video based conference solutions for the last 10 years.
The team has worked really hard to bring out this video conferencing solution. They have decided to continue with the project code name 'VConSol' as the brand name, for now. "We are getting lot of suggestions, maybe we will do a poll later to decide the new brand name." added Joy.
Megha said "I usually eat, drink and do everything with table tennis. At home we just talk about table tennis."
She spoke in detail about how one of the fastest racquet sports in the world, table tennis became a part and parcel of her life. It was in 2018 that Megha along with Deepak Malik, the former national player and coach of Indian national table tennis team, decided to start a performance analytics company.
WaitTime, the real time artificial intelligence based crowd management solution, was in the market as a solution to reduce the waiting time. Now WaitTime provides crucial data which can be used to control and make people wait before entering into any premises.
This startup had got associated with major sporting arenas and leagues like Sydney Cricket Ground, Melbourne Cricket Ground, NBA, NFL, US Tennis Association, etc. even before the start of Covid.
Now with crowd management being the key to bring back the normal days , I hope to see technology based solutions like WaitTime to aid government bodies, tourism boards, tourist attractions, public transportation, hotels, etc. to plan the phased reopening of premises.
Once an inter school athlete champion, winning medals for high jump and pole vault, he had a life like a regular able bodied person till the age of 24.
After completing his education in air conditioning technology, he relocated to the then Bombay in 1980. Raju worked there for 4 years before life took away the key feature from him - his mobility. He was stuck with fever and did not take it seriously. This led to trouble in urination and finally got admitted to a hospital. It was a life changing moment for him when he woke up the next day. His lower body was paralysed.
I started working when I was 12 years old & have lot of varied experience working in different sectors. I have worked at Burger King, worked as a Real Estate consultant, and many other sectors. Building bridges in 3D, flying Drones, etc. was the last few things I did before starting TotalCtrl. But we (my co founder & myself) started TotalCtrl with our own experience of working in a grocery store. We spent a lot of time walking around the aisles looking for products which were about to expire / expired. This food was not given out to charity. It was just wasted.
Future Plans for TotalCtrl: Take Out the World :) The plan is to scale our Solutions. Make the most of this situation, provide technology and make more holistic solutions. Make sure we can prevent food waste & make the value chain more Sustainable.
"I talked to a guy who told me that Telecom is a cool thing where money can be made even while you are asleep & that triggered my entry into telecom" says Dave Erickson, Founder & CEO of FreeConferenceCall.com.
I tell my employees that in trouble and in good times, 'I can't wait to see what happens next'. If you are someone struggling with a Startup then you should know that things not happening cannot be the reason for not being prepared. It is all about what is going to happen. When opportunity presents itself , you cannot be flat footed. You should be ready for the next thing and make it in to Sunshine.
Abhigya: I was Startled. The prediction that I made could have been done 100 or 1000 years back as well. The Planetary positions can be predicted. I only found out about this by June, July 2019. I uploaded the video in Aug 2019.
YouTube link of this Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_VrtVf0k9w
YouTube Link of Abhigya's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCco7hZ6tU33lXbAV6aO7XPA
The Co - founder and Co - CEO of NYC based startup Upfluence, one of the leading influencer marketing platforms, Vivien Garnes shared details about his journey - from sleepless nights selling neck ties to becoming the founder of a company which is helping Brands to market their products. Upfluence is pioneering quite a lot: from AI-assisted influencer suggestions and fake follower detection to language recognition technology.
“India in a Bottle” – Wall Street Journal’s description of SomruS. Listen to this candid conversation with Mr. Pankaj Garg, the founder and CEO of Somrus. Pankaj aka PK shares his life story of 35 years which for now is encapsulated in a bottle of cream liqueur. Pankaj Garg was in Ireland to explore the opportunities to expand the footprint of Somrus from the US …