As we celebrate this milestone, we hope to share insights from the firm’s shared history with you, in this riveting two-part podcast series.

We begin with a look at the past, and how startups and investors evolved over the years; moving on to investing today, and why many call 2023 the year of reset in VC.

Finally, we look to the future, with timeless lessons the next generation of investors must carry forward.

The 56th episode of the INSIGHTS podcast features Sairee Chahal, Founder and CEO of SHEROES- a social networking platform with over 20M women. Sairee is also an Aspen Fellow and serves on the board of Paytm Payments Bank. She has been an entrepreneur for 15+ years. In this episode, Sairee shares insights on building successful products around communities

To learn more about Sairee’s inspiring journey, tune in to the latest episode of the Insights Podcast by Accel.

In this episode, we hear from Vetri on what OKRs are, how they are different from other goal-setting frameworks, how businesses can go about adopting them, and some common challenges and pitfalls to be careful about.

To learn more about how you can adopt OKRs as a powerful tool in your organization to increase alignment and engagement around achieving goals, tune in to the latest episode of the Insights Podcast by Accel.

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In today’s special episode of the INSIGHTS podcast on ‘student entrepreneurship’, we cover the journeys of two well-known founders in the startup community whose entrepreneurial journeys started right from their college days: Shashank Murali from Tapchief and Farid Ahsan from Sharechat.

We hear from Shashank and Farid on their early life and college days, how they decided to take up entrepreneurship, how they arrived on the idea they went after, how they worked progressively to build their companies, and finally how they would do it differently if they were to do it all over again.

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In this episode of the INSIGHTS podcast, we have with us Neeraj Arora, who played a pivotal role at WhatsApp as an early employee and then as the Chief Business Officer.

We hear from Neeraj on his early career days, non-obvious career moves, learnings from the WhatsApp journey, the multi-billion dollar Facebook- Whatsapp deal, his experiences from investing in India, and finally some advice for startup founders.

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Anand and Sudheer give a glimpse into their respective startup journeys – skillsets they brought from their previous experiences, new challenges that they were not prepared for, and milestones that marked their journey.

The podcast covers all the different phases of their journeys: from identifying the problem to go after and building the MVP to scaling the product, figuring out monetization, and solving for Sales GTM and funding.

To learn more about what it takes to build scalable global SaaS companies out of India, tune in to the latest episode of the Insights Podcast by Accel

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04:24 – Early days of startup journey

11:22 – Picking the right mountain and validating it (Vertical vs Horizontal SaaS)

20:40 – Finding the first set of customers

29:55 – Business model and monetizing

34:55 – Funding the early phase: bootstrapping vs fundraising

39:20 – Scaling up phase, expanding geographies

48:30 – Advise for early-stage SaaS founders

50:30 – Rapid Fire Round

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Alex throws light on how the entrepreneurs from frontier markets are reinventing startup best practices and offering a brand new playbook for innovation that looks different from that of startups in the valley.

The podcast centres around the shift of innovation from the silicon valley to the global playground. Alex talks about the incredible stories of entrepreneurs in emerging markets who maneuver challenging environments to build resilient sustainable businesses that create large social impact.

To hear more from Alex on global innovation trends, tune in to the latest episode of the Insights Podcast by Accel

Notes:

02:31 – Genesis of ‘Out-Innovate’, the book

04:44 – Future is at the frontier: Innovation increasingly coming from emerging markets

08:49 – Social impact of creators

16:59 – The camel approach: Building sustainability from Day 1

20:50 – Going global from the Get-go

23:55 – Frontier innovators = Ecosystem builders