Shows
The SandhillStartups And Marketing on Day Zero- A discussion with Anirban MozumdarWe talk about what startups should have by way of resources on day Zero- especially in marketing. Thanks to Mohammed Boumiza for a great photo on Unsplash.2021-03-3137 min
The SandhillThe Good Food Experience with Ian Ohan in UAE.Ian runs Krushbrands which brings you great and healthy food from wonderful local brands. It's about empowering local food businesses and bringing experience back to convenience. Something that stands out from the usual delivery businesses.2021-03-2932 min
The SandhillA Better Tommorow For All with Timothy LiTim and I speak about the immigrant experience. Discussing a problem that is out there is important-for everyone. Talking about our fears and wishes is the first step towards building a better tommorow. Tech lets us do this.2021-03-1930 min
The SandhillA new way to finance SaaS companies- A Conversation With Shahram Rezasadeh.A Private Equity investor for almost two decades in his previous life, Shahram has become an established founder recently launching BRIDG to finance SaaS companies and make Recurring Revenues an easily tradable asset, the Nasdaq for Recurring Revenues, as he describes. We discuss his journey as a founder and his markets in Europe and Singapore and a lot else too.2021-03-1632 min
The SandhillBrand In An Agile World- A Sunday Chat with Anirban MozumdarOne of the foremost exponents of startup brand practice discusses Agile with me and its impact on brands. We talk about marketing, the place of product and decentralisation. We will have an intellectual pow-wow every weekend so if you wish to join, one seat every episode is open.2021-03-0738 min
The SandhillOrange County Fintech Episode 3 with Timothy LiTim and I picked up where we left off. Long podcast recordings can be interrupted. That will end with live streaming. Tim talks LatAm, lending and life. The culture of work and entrepreneurship is there too. Great insights in his calm, laid-back fashion. You want wisdom, listen to Tim.2021-03-0614 min
The SandhillOrange County Fintech Ep2. Tim talks about TrustalchemyIn this episode, Tim and I talk lending, his company and fintech. We had a rough start to this episode due to some buffering. This is real bootstrapped audio folks, don't mind-ok?2021-03-0417 min
The SandhillThe Orange County Fintech Special Episode 1- A chat with Timothy Li, fintech veteran+academician.Tim talks about his early days as a Bay Area kid, dot-com founder, his work in banking, fintech and academia. We also talk about family. Since we are both Englishmen, we spend a lot of time on the weather.2021-03-0312 min
The SandhillTalking About Knackstor. The Unique Gig Economy Platform for those above 55 years.Teri and Kaushik chat with Anirban and I about Knackstor, which brings self-sufficiency and meaning to the lives of older people. This is a very relevant and timely topic for all of us. The conversation is highly informative and fascinating as well as opinionated. We will do more of this soon.
I have quoted here from their website-"Knackstor is a subscription and fee-based online talent shop that enables adults55+™ to market their services and provides them with paid engagements, content and community.
Knackstor creates a gig economy for the retired, while serving sm...2021-02-2638 min
The SandhillA Superb Conversation with Ricardo Parro, CTO in Copenhagen.Ricardo is CTO and co-founder of Superb, a fast growing startup in the hospitality s/w business. He is also a global traveller. We talk about Copenhagen, engineering, noisy tools and eating your own dog food. His sunny disposition and commitment to his trade come out strongly. I hope to hear more voices from other global startup folks! Here, on The Sandhill.2021-02-2635 min
The SandhillThe Future Of Knowledge Graphs- A conversation with Gary Ng, San Diego, CA. Part 1Gary and I talk about dependency graphs, knowledge management, machine language abstraction and ontologies. And the challenge of graph economics. We will have more episodes soon. 2021-02-2340 min
The SandhillThe World Of Data- A chat with Gurudutt PB of SeeburgerGuru, a veteran of the data space, gives us his insight on handling information complexity and harnessing business opportunities.2021-02-2231 min
The SandhillThe Philosophy and Practice of Start-Up Brands- A chat with Anirban Mozumdar, chlorophyllWe talk about branding of startups, marketing, narratives and human drama.2021-02-2032 min
The SandhillBack To The Future of Bitcoin-David Chaum and the CypherpunksI touch upon a now ignored but vital part of what made bitcoin possible and infused it with it's special ethos.2021-02-1910 minThe SandhillMonday Morning with Jack Sim, social entrepreneur extraordinaire and visionary.Jack Sim made waves globally by setting up the World Toilet Organisation. Today, he is building a new ecosystem to empower the Bottom Of Pyramid population. Jack believes in the need to change our thinking around success, economics and doing good.2021-02-1522 min
The SandhillMiami Digs Bitcoin. What does that mean?Mayor Francis Suarez got his wish on bitcoin usage in Miami city. But is Bitcoin headed where it was meant?2021-02-1309 min
The SandhillApps Among Us-Measuring Consumer ResponseThe success or failure of an app depends largely on consumers. I ask three questions around this issue. Join the discussion, come and have a chat on The Sandhill. Thanks to Nathan Dumlao for a grt pic via Unsplash. 2021-02-1107 minThe SandhillInvestment Apps- Optimism but Caution amidst the fury.Wombat gives reason to be cautiously optimistic about investment apps. Crypto needs to change it's game. People hold the key.2021-02-1005 min
The SandhillTech and Sustainability- Nanda Devi and Shipton's GhostThe Nanda Devi glacier break up gives us a reason why we should all care about sustainability. IEspecially those of us in tech. Shipton's ghost is watching. Shipton taught us about being light, nimble and respectful of nature. We can do that in tech today. It matters. Really, natural capital does.
Thanks to Swapnil Vithaldas for an amazing photo via Unsplash. 2021-02-0805 minThe SandhillDeposits, Interests and Crypto. Where is money headed?An offering of interest on deposits by Gemini opens up new, old questions about money.2021-02-0305 min
The SandhillBlockchain, Youth And The Pink City-A chat with Bhavya NarulaWe speak about what young blockchain developers think of tech, community and crypto. We also talk about The Pink City and how life and tech mirror one another. There is a little gap at the start, which happens as I sit down and adjust my headphones. Apologies for that.
Disclaimer-Both I and the interviewee make these comments in our personal capacities and we stay away from comments on specific companies. There is no implicit or explicit recommendation to buy tokens-only opinions of people are recorded. We provide no investment advice. Do your own research. 2021-02-0122 minThe SandhillTech has liberated creativity. It needs to engage moreThe engagement imperative for tech. Listen on.2021-02-0105 min
The SandhillFrom Media Planning To Travel Start-Up -The Many Journeys of Madhusudhan NarayananMadhu runs his own travel start-up, 5sensestours.com, which offers curated cultural packages to inbound tourists in India. As we all look forward to resumption of normal life, let us hear his story.2021-01-3028 min
The SandhillGameStop. Grapevine. Opportunity.The GameStop episode brings to us the power of the grapevine. It also hints at a larger transformation. Institutions are resilient and nimble and will see this as an opportunity.
Disclaimer-There is no investment advice, I own none of the stocks mentioned and please be responsible to yourself and society.
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The SandhillContent In The Global South-The post-Billion Investment OpportunityDear Reader, Writing and reading are necessities of our civilized way of life. It is inevitable that content creation would get a lot of attention from an increasing number of people in the venture capital domain. The walls that separate writing from success have not come down yet. This is despite the best of intentions. The reason is that every innovation on publishing is being born in the US or someplace like it and that means access to funding. That makes it a tech story. Not a story story, not an art story or anything like...2021-01-2811 min
The SandhillContent In The Global South-The post-Billion Investment OpportunityMost content publishing innovation is in the Global North, practically and symbolically. A massive market, otherwise penetrated by tech, is getting left out. The answer is not software but networks of empathy. The opportunity is massive.
"...The walls that separate writing from success have not come down yet. Despite the best intentions. This is because every innovation on publishing is being born in the US or someplace like it and that means access to funding. That makes it a tech story. Not a story story, not an art story or anything like that. Now, that gap is...2021-01-2711 min
The SandhillThe Clubhouse, Paywalls and ContentThe Clubhouse has burst upon the scene as a phenomenon. It holds out transformational possibilities for content. Beyond that, it promises change to how we see innovation.
Singapore received 17.2 Billion dollars in investments in 2020, considerably more than 2019 and the highest annual number since 2008. It is being said that in general, inflows into Southeast Asia will continue. Innovation has the fuel it needs. Innovation can lead to spectacular things. And we will talk about one of the shiniest in that particular corner. Welcome to the Sandhill.
Clubhouse is a place where the favoured few hang out...2021-01-2510 min
The SandhillLive and Uncut on a Rainy Evening-Edward Burton and Conversational CommerceEdward lives in Spain and tells us about life there, his passions, tech and other stuff. Uncut, unedited.2021-01-2114 min
The SandhillSavings, Crypto and A Second SatoshiSubscribe at kaustuv.substack.com2021-01-2104 min
The SandhillCrypto, Savings And A Second Satoshi(Blockchain was not created for savings growth. That diminishes it's rightful global role. It is possible to change that).
The cult-like infatuation of the crypto faithful for a particular car brand is very well known. The intent to disrupt finance is being carried on the back of some very expensive wheels. That may sound like the mother of all paradoxes. But there is a larger paradox embedded at the heart of crypto. Welcome to the Sandhill.
As the highly visible demand for crypto grows, it is slipping further and further away from the...2021-01-2104 min
The SandhillWattapad and Naver. Changes in the global content game.Subscribe at kaustuv.substack.com2021-01-2007 min
The SandhillWattapad and Naver. Changes in the Global Content GameWattapad is to be acquired by South Korean group Naver. Naver owns both Line and Webtoons. This sends out a few signals. South Korea is pressing on with it’s efforts to become a global creativity hub. The extent of Korean soft power realized through content beamed into homes worldwide is not often appreciated. There is more to tech than tech itself. Welcome to The Sandhill.
Wattapad has around 90 Million viewers. It is a platform where audiences and stories come together through a mobile app. Many of it’s users are young people with a significant skew towa...2021-01-2007 min
The SandhillBring In The New-3D Printing and Cross Border VCThere are some unusual things happening right now in the field of tech ventures. We need to look beyond the headlines to see the trends. The world is very noisy after all. It’s like those elevators outside my apartment. Welcome to The Sandhill.
Desktop Metal is one of the few high-profile firms in the field of 3D printing. And it was listed on NYSE via SPAC. It has bought Envision Tec, which is a specialist in polymer 3D printing. The battle for turf in Industry 4.0 is being fought on many fronts. We are only seeing the ea...2021-01-1805 min
The SandhillBring In The New-3D Printing and Cross Border VCThere are some unusual things happening right now in the field of tech ventures. We need to look beyond the headlines to see the trends. The world is very noisy after all. It’s like those elevators outside my apartment. Welcome to The Sandhill.Desktop Metal is one of the few high-profile firms in the field of 3D printing. And it was listed on NYSE via SPAC. It has bought Envision Tec, which is a specialist in polymer 3D printing. The battle for turf in Industry 4.0 is being fought on many fronts. We are only seeing th...2021-01-1805 min
The SandhillBakkt And Coffee-Digital Assets In The Consumer MarketBakkt is going for a NYSE listing via a SPAC. The implications for consumer retail payments are profound. Good morning and welcome to The Sandhill. A note of caution-you will hear some background noise. That is life in the age of social distancing and WFH. I deliberately do not edit that because we are not living in a sanitized world. Noise matters as much as voice. 2021-01-1311 min
The SandhillBakkt And Coffee-Digital Assets In The Consumer MarketBakkt is going for a NYSE listing via a SPAC. The implications for consumer retail payments are profound. Good morning and welcome to The Sandhill. A note of caution-you will hear some background noise. That is life in the age of social distancing and WFH. I deliberately do not edit that because we are not living in a sanitized world. Noise matters as much as voice. Subscribe at kaustuv.substack.com2021-01-1311 min
The SandhillThe hard path of starting upStartups should not be a vehicle for just employment. They are agencies of change. If you want to join a start-up, keep this mind. Also remember- this is an entity that is starting up. The team has no one else to look to but itself. The company will live and die by it’s own sword. Welcome to The Sandhill.
Research concludes 21.5% of startups fail in the first year, 30% in the second year, 50% in the fifth year, and 70% in their 10th year. While the term start-up carries glamour, it is really not very different from “normal” shops and bu...2021-01-1105 min
The SandhillThe hard path of starting upStartups should not be a vehicle for just employment. They are agencies of change. If you want to join a start-up, keep this mind. Also remember- this is an entity that is starting up. The team has no one else to look to but itself. The company will live and die by it’s own sword. Welcome to The Sandhill.Research concludes 21.5% of startups fail in the first year, 30% in the second year, 50% in the fifth year, and 70% in their 10th year. While the term start-up carries glamour, it is really not very different from “normal” shops...2021-01-1105 min
The SandhillChange, Inevitable. Bitcoin, BNPL.Tech is often used to maintain status quo. But it lands up unleashing change, much of which we adapt to and then innovate on. Payments is often the area where this is most visible. 2021-01-0803 min
The SandhillChange, Inevitable. Bitcoin, BNPL.Tech is often used to maintain status quo. But it lands up unleashing change, much of which we adapt to and then innovate on. Payments is often the area where this is most visible. Subscribe at kaustuv.substack.com2021-01-0803 min
The SandhillWood Products, Supply Chains and Treasury-Fintech and SustainabilityThe interrelationships between very disparate industries come out strongly during disruption. Wood products are central to our lives and WFH is making them more important. There lies a story. Oh, by the way, I recorded this at an open window. Yeah, kids shouting in the background. I tripped over a line. That's life. Not perfect.2021-01-0605 min
The SandhillWood Products, Supply Chains and Treasury-Fintech and SustainabilityThe interrelationships between very disparate industries come out strongly during disruption. Wood products are central to our lives and WFH is making them more important. There lies a story. Oh, by the way, I recorded this at an open window. Yeah, kids shouting in the background. I tripped over a line. That's life. Not perfect. Subscribe at kaustuv.substack.com2021-01-0605 min
The SandhillContext In Finance-A Product Creation Opportunity For Start-UpsWe pursue context within Knowledge Graphs. Context matters not only to the UI designer and the backend engineers who are building out a full product. It has a direct impact on an ongoing basis in the training of artificial intelligence interfaces. When the banks extract insights from the interactions between their apps and customers, they should be able to extract context as well. So there is an encoding and decoding of context at all levels which is necessary. Also read the blog https://kaustuv.substack.com/ and I look forward to your comments. Thanks to Aditya C...2021-01-0406 min
The SandhillContext In Finance-A Product Creation Opportunity For Start-UpsWe pursue context within Knowledge Graphs. Context matters not only to the UI designer and the backend engineers who are building out a full product. It has a direct impact on an ongoing basis in the training of artificial intelligence interfaces. When the banks extract insights from the interactions between their apps and customers, they should be able to extract context as well. So there is an encoding and decoding of context at all levels which is necessary. Also read the blog https://kaustuv.substack.com/ and I look forward to your comments.
Thanks to Aditya...2021-01-0406 min
The SandhillThe Sales Challenge for B2B Start-UpsEnterprise sales for startups is always a challenge and a necessity. A new product from a new company is likely to have an extended time to contract, as someone told me over coffee. A start-up has limited resources for trade marketing. Even with reliable distributors and partners, it pales in front of the formidable track record of more established products. Enterprises prefer to stay with existing brands-after all, no one gets fired for buying….well, you know.All of the above are true. These truths are compounded further by the fact that the sta...2020-12-2905 min
The SandhillThe Sales Challenge for B2B Start-UpsEnterprise sales for startups is always a challenge and a necessity.
A new product from a new company is likely to have an extended time to contract, as someone told me over coffee. A start-up has limited resources for trade marketing. Even with reliable distributors and partners, it pales in front of the formidable track record of more established products. Enterprises prefer to stay with existing brands-after all, no one gets fired for buying….well, you know.
All of the above are true. These truths are compounded further by the fact that the start-up ha...2020-12-2905 min
The SandhillThe shift from legacy digital towards DefiBundesbank looking at programmable money. Programmable money=Defi, an evolution from classical digital payments2020-12-2806 min
The SandhillThe shift from legacy digital towards DefiBundesbank looking at programmable money. Programmable money=Defi, an evolution from classical digital payments Subscribe at kaustuv.substack.com2020-12-2806 min
The SandhillWealth and Assets-Change Is In The AirThere is pent-up demand for wealth creation and people with some cash are ready to take some risks. It is no longer possible to keep it in the salary account and do anything. What does that mean for banks? Well, Goldman Sachs wants you and me to put our weekly latte expenses into buying things we could not buy before. In our part of the world, there might be a knock-on effect. Marcus might be a more pervasive cultural brand in the months ahead. Subscribe at kaustuv.substack.com2020-12-2610 min
The SandhillWealth and Assets-Change Is In The AirThere is pent-up demand for wealth creation and people with some cash are ready to take some risks. It is no longer possible to keep it in the salary account and do anything. What does that mean for banks? Well, Goldman Sachs wants you and me to put our weekly latte expenses into buying things we could not buy before. In our part of the world, there might be a knock-on effect. Marcus might be a more pervasive cultural brand in the months ahead.2020-12-2610 min
The Unpublishable PodcastThe Unpublishable Podcast Episode 4 - Kaustuv Ghosh, Chiara Cozzilino, Robin Ouzman Hislop, and Eve GoreThis week on the Unpublishable Podcast, we are featuring one returning "unpublishable" poet, Kaustuv Ghosh, with the quaint "Clarke Quay, 2020" as well as three newly-featured poets: Chiara Cozzilino, with their romantic "Long Nights on Your Porch," Robin Ouzman Hislop with the imagery-rich "About Aboutness", and Eve Gore with the ferocious "Towers of Time."
The Unpublishable Podcast features poems published in our zine, the Unpublishable Zine. If you would like to submit to Unpublishable for the chance to be published and have your poetry read on the podcast, please visit our site at http://www.theunpublishablezine.wordpress...2020-08-1510 minThe Unpublishable PodcastThe Unpublishable Podcast, Episode 2: Samuel Strathman, Sierra Edwards, and Kaustuv GhoshThis week on the Unpublishable Podcast, we are featuring three of our newly-featured poets: Samuel Strathman, with an adventurous and fantastical poem "Excommunicator"; Sierra Edwards, with her raw and tragic poem "Voodoo Doll"; and Kaustuv Ghosh, who brings us the frantic and descriptive "Missing the Last Flight Out."
Please note that there is a trigger warning on this episode, as the poem "Voodoo Doll" may be triggering to listeners who have previously struggled or are currently struggling with eating disorders. If this triggers you, you may skip the audio from 3:18 - 4:34.
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