Sapne Salamat: Recent Episodes
Rohit Chandra
Indepth discussion on Marketing/Branding etc. for Consumer Web and Mobile Technology Companies
Having successfully started, sold, and IPO-ed companies: Pal talks about his experiences.
Ajay talks about his life, and how he started Smart Modular with $80,000 from his family, was rejected by VCs, and yet took the company public (IPO) with a market cap. of $500 Million, and eventually $2.2 billion acquisition. Subsequently bought the same company back for $110 million and took it IPO yet again at a $400 million market cap.
Detailed discussion on how to get your company funded with an understanding of the internals of a Venture Fund
Visualize the VC inside a glass box, and us looking in to see how a deal progresses internally
What prevents more people from becoming entrepreneurs: "Fear of Failure" or "Fear of The Unknown"
Serial Entrepreneur speaks about how to write an Executive Summary, what needs to go in it, and how to create a PowerPoint presentation about your company
Serial Entrepreneur speaks about how to start a company, best practices, methodology etc.
Serial Entrepreneur speaks about how to focus on customers and get the first few reference customers; with Rohit Chandra
Serial Entrepreneur speaks about the various companies he started and took public (IPO), with Rohit Chandra
Rohit Chandra (as guest) talks about his Life, and his Entrepreneurial Journey with Madhu Iyer
Barbara Kamm (CEO of Tech CU) talks about co-operative benefits of Credit Union for entrepreneurs and individuals
AGK talks with Rohit about Bootstrapping and building a business without any external funding.
Indians Helping Indian. ex-President of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE) Raj Jaswa and Rohit Chandra
Venture Capitalist (Storm Ventures Founder) shares his story and talks about what kinds of deals they fund
Conversation with Siva about following his dreams and building a non-profit band that performs for non-profit organisations.
Learn how to get Buzz for your company. How PR works. What are the ways of PR that are working today.
In-depth discussion on how and where to buy properties that will generate positive cash flow right from the outset.
How to buy bank foreclosed properties and have positive cash-flow right from day 1. Please visit this podcast at http://roohit.com/radio
How to handle rejection: Turned down by 67 VCs for seed round, Series 'A' and Series 'B' were oversubscribed, since then has raised about $25 million. Please visit this podcast at http://roohit.com/radio
How to raise money: Chat with the founder of 8 Venture funded startups, 5 of which have already been sold for about $2 billion. Raised about $250 million across 30 rounds, and 20 venture funds. Perhaps the most prolific founder ever! Please visit this podcast at http://roohit.com/radio
Chat with Shankar Hemmady: an entrepreneur, poet, philanthropist, engineer, linguist, engineer, philosopher, and "friend". Started two companies, raised angel, venture and strategic (corporate) capital, mumbles in 40 languages, 700-800 poems written, has 5000 friends on Facebook...Please visit this podcast at http://roohit.com/radio
In depth chat with Beerud Sheth: abot Viral Marketing: the definition, how it works, and how to get it to work for you. Beerud has raised about $100 million for companies he has co-founded. His current company (SMS GupSghup) boasts of about 25 million users. Please visit this podcast at http://roohit.com/radio
Anatomy of a Startup, and, Open Forum: Today talk about Identifying a Problem, coming up with a Solution, and how important is the Name you pick for your company. Please visit this podcast at http://roohit.com/radio
Heart to heart chat with Indu Navar: about how a little girl from India dreamed of the freedom of having her own apartment, driving down the freeway in her own car - music blaring. Now the Founder/CEO of Serus (has raised $17million in equity financing). Please visit this podcast at http://roohit.com/radio