In this episode of Startup Talks, I interact with Arjun Vaidya (co-founder of Dr Vaidyas and Ventures Lead at Verlinvest. Arjun takes us through the journey of building, scaling and selling his venture within 5 years. He also talks about the challenges that founders face and how to navigate through them.
What part of his journey did you like the most? What questions would you like answered next? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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0:00 – Introduction
1:01 – Multitasker Arjun
1:58 – Journey
4:34 – Why did Arjun come back to India from USA?
6:34 – Solving a genuine Problem is the first thing to answer when you are starting up.
8:36 – Launched offline and FAILED
11:19 – Consumer Perception- How important it is for D2C brand?
16:30- How CACs are going up for D2C brands? How to control that?
18:51 – Online & Offline Debate. Offline is still 90-95% of the market.
22:32 – Cold emailing- Wrote cold mail to Zomato CEO
24:55- Raising capital- strategic Investor/VCs/Angels?
26:40- Why did you sell Dr. Vaidya’s?
29:01-Arjun back to Investing role with more empathy towards Founders?
30:44- Lightning Round
Covers one sentence pitch, Shark Tank dialogues (with Helium air), D2C home of Arjun,
Siddhant Bhandari