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Startup Dialogue 2018
F E B R U A RY 2nd - 3rd
About Startup Dialogue 2018
Startup Dialogue is one of the prestigious
conference in India which intends to
create an exciting platform for all the
stakeholders like - enablers, social & for
profit startups, VCs/investors, startup
enthusiasts, leaders of the Indian startup
ecosystem to come together and
celebrate the spirit of entrepreneurship.
It is organized every year by Sandbox
Startups, one of the initiatives of
Deshpande Foundation.
The Startup Dialogue comes with a series
of exciting panels lined up to
comprehensively enable the ecosystem,
networking sessions for all the stakeholders
along with Startup Challenge: B-Plan
competition, Speed Dating with VCs,
Startup Expo and Developthon.
Startup Dialogue 2018
Highlights
200+ STARTUPS
30 PRODUCT STARTUP EXPO
20 VCs / ANGEL INVESTORS
5 CSR HEADS
350+ TECH GEEKS
N U T S H E L L
P A N E L
Vision for the startup Dr. Gururaj ‘Desh’
Deshpande
ecosystem in India Founder, Deshpande Foundation
Jaishree Deshpande
Co-founder, Deshpande
The panel covered various topics centered around building a Foundation
startup ecosystem that entrepreneurs can take advantage of.
The people, the government, and the larger well-established Ravi Narayan
companies, all play a role in the same. Looking back at the growth Global Director Microsoft
of the IT sector through the years, they envisioned the setup,
Rajendran Dandapani
growth, and challenges of the new age incubator network, which Director of Engineering, ZOHO
led them to highlight the importance of collaboration, partnership
and thinking of technology as an enabler. They encouraged Gaurav Gupta
youngsters to focus on solving much larger problems that persist Principal Secretary, GoK
in society.
MODERATOR
Overall, the advice given to startups was - think different, try small Dr. Aravind Chinchure
but interesting things, fail fast to learn fast, and most importantly Sandbox Startups
have the big picture in mind.
There is a need to focus on addressing the challenges and problems
of the next billion people in the world and the new entrepreneurs
should focus on addressing those issues.
G AUR AV G U P TA
IT & BT Government of Karnataka
We should be proud that India had been ranked third in the world
for having largest startup base. Budding entrepreneurs should
understand that along with success there would be failures and one
should take them as learning experiences.
RAVI NARAYA N
Microsoft
With the advent of technology, geography has become history. With
high speed Internet available everywhere, one need not go to Silicon
Valley or Bengaluru to venture into the field of entrepreneurship. One
needs to experiment and fail fast or early to become a successful
entrepreneur.
R AJ E NDR A N DANDAPANI
Zoho
An aspiring entrepreneur should take small steps but he or she should
have a bigger vision to succeed.
DR. GURURAJ ‘DESH ’ DESHPANDE
Deshpande Foundation
We need to create 200 million jobs in India in next 30 years which
means 10 million jobs in a year. Startups will play an important role in
providing these job opportunities.
DR. A R AVI ND CHI NCHURE
Dr. Aravind Chinchure, Chair Prof. of Innovation, Symbiosis University
N U T S H E L L
P A N E L
Entrepreneurial Journey & Phanindra Sama
Co-founder, redBus.in and
Successful Exits Chief Innovation Officer, Govt. of
Telangana
This was an insightful discussion, where the founders of RedBus Raghunandan G
Founder, Taxi For Sure
and TaxiForSure shared their entrepreneurial journey and
successful exits. They enlightened the audience with the story
of how the idea for their business originated. This included the MODERATOR
initial challenges they faced during executing and implementing
Manish Anand
the business and how it would have been different if they had the CEO, Utilis Capital
entrepreneurial ecosystem available at that time. Reminiscing
the time when they had to build their business when the term
‘startup’ was mostly unknown, Phanindra Sama brought to light
how the TiE chapter in Bangalore helped and guided him in their
path. Unaware of the impact that their innovation would have,
they advised budding entrepreneurs the importance to think big
and to be authentic.
They also threw some light on the challenges faced while
expanding their business to multiple cities and how they tackled
them. The session ended with both of them advising budding
entrepreneurs on a list of dos and don’ts, the importance of
authenticity, having a Plan B and dealing with investors and VCs.
Anecdotes of raising the first check from investors happens from
your own strategy - 1. Micro or Macro finance 2. Important to project
yourself - Be you!
PHANI NDR A SAMA
redBus.in & GoT
The things that we don’t do is a part of leadership as a company. The
true feedback of a startup lies in the minute simplicity and ground
work.
RAGH UNANDA N G
Taxi For Sure
N U T S H E L L
P A N E L
Biggies! Support to Startups Rajendran Dandapani
Engineering Director, Zoho
Sandeep Agarwal
Senior Vice President CoE and
IOT, Happiest Minds
A panel where the startups gained insight into how they can
benefit from collaborating with corporates. With corporates
Naveen Asrani
wanting to collaborate and not compete, the main requirement Director-Startups, Microsoft
from startups is to be agile and unique in the solution that they
provide. Apart from corporates, it is also important for startups Rama K
Senior Director, Ola
to learn how to collaborate with the ecosystem, i.e., the other
startups. As long as the product is customer centric rather than
MODERATOR
technology led.
C.M. Patil
Encouraging startups to adopt a global concept and customise CEO, Sandbox Startups of
it for the local market, they encouraged startups to take a leap Deshpande Foundation
of faith and experiment with interesting solutions fast. In respect
to funding, they were made aware of the fact that money is
easy to get but credibilities, hard to receive, hence not to chase
just funding initially. Find a mutually beneficial area where the
solution that you provide is adjacent to what the corporate does,
so that it complements rather than making the situation complex.
Most importantly, they were advised to focus on reaching out
to a corporate in the same vertical and find a balance between
scaling up and sustaining. The panel wrapped up the session by
answering questions from the audience.
The Corporate needs you as much as you need the corporate. When
it comes to startups - Small is the New Big.
N AVE E N ASR A NI
Microsoft
We can become successful entrepreneurs only if we have leadership
quality, marketing knowledge and vision.
RAJENDRAN DANDAPA NI
ZOHO
The entrepreneurs should have a clear idea about what to do and
what not to do. And always have a Plan-B, in case we fail in Plan-A,
keeping substitute ready will go a long way in overcoming failures
and walking towards the path of success.
SANDE E P AG ARWAL
Happiest Minds
N U T S H E L L
P A N E L
Secret to Succeed in Our Sunil Nalavadi
Ecosystem
CFO, VRL
Vivek Pawar
Chairman, Sankalp
A panel discussion about the secrets to succeed in the ecosystem
Semiconductor
from the ones who’ve ‘Been There, Done That’. The panelists
shared tips and tricks they learned with the help of ecosystem for
Jayant Humbarwadi
doing business in second tier cities. Acknowledging the challenges
MD, Ashok Iron Works
that they faced, they threw light on the biggest turning point of
their journey.
Sasisekar Krish
CTO, NanoPix
They also shared the experience of how much institutes likes
Deshpande Foundation have helped them to be successful.
MODERATOR
Contrasting life in Bangalore and life in Hubballi, they shared the
positives and the negatives and how to use the ecosystem to
overcome the negatives. The importance of the ecosystem and Raj Belgaumkar
Chairman, KLS IMER
association with relevant institutes was a major highlight that
was mentioned by all the panelists. The discussion ended with a
Q&A session with the audience.
One of the reasons why VRL is a top Logistic brand is the non
involvement of family members in the daily affairs of the company.
Apart from various technical, operational and marketing fields, which
are the key elements, VRL is always on the lookout for experts and
not the involvement of family members.
SUNI L N A L AVADI
VRL
Hubballi too has an excellent quality of education and an amazing
ecosystem where you could find great talents. Hubballi is more
heavenly than any metro cities, where you get good amount of time
to think on professional and personal front.
VIVEK PAWA R
Sankalp Semiconductor
The skills have to undergo change for sure now. The expectations
of customers and market are different in today’s world. The types
of products available in the market now as compared to some
twenty years back showcases a huge gulf and all this is because of
the technology. The challenges are manifold, hence the capability of
people and technology setup requires changes.
JAYA NT H UM BARWADI
Ashok Iron Works
Because of Deshpande Foundation we got a huge reach which we
didn’t even get in Bengaluru. The Foundation is a great support
system for us. The delegates who participate in Development
Dialogue visit us and enquire about our products and services and
because of Deshpande Foundation we have explored various other
platforms of business and services. North Karnataka is a source of
medicine for the success.
SASISEKAR KR I SH
NanopixN U T S H E L L Presentations by the Legends Startup Dialogue was full of entrepreneurial inputs, networking opportunities and examples from real-life experience. Another attraction of this conference was the presentations by the legends like - RamG Vallath, Ex-COO Airtel & Motivational Speaker on ‘Power of Resilience’; Venkatesh P, Advisor to Health and Glow/ Foodworld on ‘How to Build Scalable and Sustainable Ventures’, Niket Karajagi, CEO, Atyaasaa Consulting Pvt. Ltd. and Certified Marshall Goldsmith Coach on ‘Hiring the Right Way!!! & Getting Behind the Perfect Business Pitch for Investors’ and Shesh Rao Paplikar, CEO, BHIVE Workspace on ‘ The Great Indian Jugadu Founder’.
Resilience is the ability to bounce back quickly from a very difficult
situation. Individual leader should have resilience and perseverance
to make an organization succeed.
R AM G VA L L AT H
Motivational Speaker
The success of Health & Glow is a result of focus on customer benefit
and disciplined execution. And we did let go when we did not know
enough or felt it was out of our control.
VENKAT E SH P
Health and Glow
If you are achieving your ideal self in life you are an entrepreneur and
first lesson of entrepreneurship is make your product or service idea
so simple that people are just able to understand it in the first go.
NI K E T K A R A JAGI
Atyaasaa Consulting Pvt. Ltd
An entrepreneur should see opportunity in every problem,
opportunity to solve the problem with a sustainable idea. I felt there
is an infrastructure problem in my country and came up with co-
working space concept through BHIVE.
SH ESH RAO PAP L IKA R
BHIVE WorkspaceN U T S H E L L
P A N E L
Manish Anand
CEO, Utilis Capital
Sunil Jain
MD, Sprout Ventures
Rema Subramanian
Co-founder, Ankur Capital
Thirukumaran
Nagarajan
Investment Fundas for CEO, Ninja Cart
Startups MODERATOR
Chiranth Patil
Peer venture capitalists engaged in an insightful discussion on
the investment scenario in India as in 2018. The common thread
that connected them was the opinion they shared on capital
availability for startups. “There is investment”, they said, and
what is required for the startups to rise to the next level to be
worthy of it.
Gone is the euphoria surrounding venture capitalism and now
startups need to focus more on solving persisting challenges
rather than focusing on profit. They need to be aware of the
market requirements, and be innovative with their solutions.Capital availability is on the rise. To attract investors, startups must
have a clear idea on how to scale, how to grow, and how to manage
their operations and sales.
MANI S H A N A ND
Utilis Capital
Startups must envision ahead. Investors are more intelligent now and
they will want to know where the road is leading. Startups might burn
but it must lead to a scenario where they’ll earn.
SUNIL JA I N
Sprout Ventures
The idea of an effective revenue model is not always to have a
product cost cheap but the quality, and people would opt it even if it
were set at a certain price.
R E MA S U B R A MANI AN
Ankur Capital
Startups have to move their focus away from making money and
start to focus on existing pain points. Once a startup evolves into a
value creation company, the tables will turn and the investors will be
chasing them.
THIRUKUMARAN NAGARA JA N
Ninja CartN U T S H E L L
P A N E L
Kishore Biyani
Chairman & CEO, Future Group
Amit Chandra
MD, Bain Capital
MODERATOR
Dr. Gururaj ‘Desh’
Deshpande
Founder, Deshpande Foundation
Startups! Then, Now and in
Future!
An interactive session with a couple of big names in the industry,
who started small and made it big. Audience had their questions
answered on some of the burning questions about startups. How
do you start? How do you graduate? And how do you grow from
there? Do you really need professionals to run your company?
Can someone else sell your product better than yourself?
The answers contained the principles and guidelines on not just
running a business but on believing in yourself to be able to do it.We founded the company with our own values, values of positivity,
introspection, Indianness and we are very ethical whoever we deal
with. If you look at the culture and origin of India, every truth is
subjective and contextual here. We follow the spirit of the law.
It took a bit for me to cope up with emerging digital world and
technology. I understood how technology is helping in reducing space,
K I SHOR E
time and increasing social interaction. Once you understand what
BIYA NI technology does it becomes easier to deal with it. This is definitely
Future Group helped to adopt new things and grow more.
I chose fields like banking, private equity where I did not have
to compromise my ethical values. At the same time I do agree,
unfortunately manufacturing is a field where entrepreneurs may
have to compromise. Because there is a reality of working in that
market place which makes life really difficult for folks.
AMIT CHA NDR A
Bain CapitalGlimpses
from
STARTUP
Dialogue 2018DD Chair Organizing Committee
Naveen Jha
Deshpande
Foundation C.M.Patil Amrut Patil
Chief Executive Manager
Meghana Morey Siddu P Ra ju
Incubation-Lead Operations-Lead Social medial-Lead
Sharanu Nikhil Manjunath G
IT- Lead Accounts-Lead Startup EvangelistMedia Coverage
Startups: Government’s role is
catalytic, says Gupta
Hubbali celebrates the spirit of
entrepreneurship
Big problems can be solved with
believe
Money doesn’t confined success
Don’t loose hope, be strong to
start again
Startups number: India is at 3rd
positionFEEDBACK FROM PARTICIPANTS
This is one of the best events I have gone to and there is so much of energy around
the place. It is commendable that Hubballi is hosting such a huge event. It proves
the future of India is not just the metros. Every development has to come from tier
2 and tier 3 cities and Hubballi is definitely one of the examples.
RamG Vallath
Motivational Speaker
First of all congratulations to Deshpande Foundation and Sandbox team for
organizing such a fantastic conference. This conference is scaling year by year and
I really like the diversity of thinkers, speakers and doers coming here. This is one of
the few conferences where you see the ideas meet execution. I take back so much
of learnings from this conference every year.
Naveen Asrani
Microsoft
I am very happy that this conference has been held. It is a wonderful platform to
network, more importantly to share ideas and to learn from real life experience
and success stories of the legendary entrepreneurs. The startup ecosystem
Deshpande Foundation has set here allows the entrepreneurs to taste and nurture
their ideas.
Ra j Belgaumkar
KLS IMER
I was not familiar with what is happening in tier 2 and tier 3 cities. But I am
positively surprised by what I experience today in this conference. I feel so glad
to know about the kinds of companies exist here and the kinds of work have been
done here in Hubballi.
Shesh Rao Paplikar
BHIVE Workspace
Startup Dialogue is an inspiring conference for entrepreneurs. There are lot of new
ideas, experience stories, advice for entrepreneurs by the entrepreneurs. I feel
very positive about the ecosystem is getting build here.
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