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Two by TwoIf B-schools were invented today, would students run placements?Business schools are among the most coveted higher educational institutions. Students go through some of the most competitive exams and pay significant fees because they hope that at the end of their degree, they will get a great job.Yet, the onerous process of finding, soliciting and bringing dozens of companies to campuses each year falls mostly on final-year students, who are part of elected/selected placement committees.For as long as we can remember, these committees have always been accused of bias, arrogance and power play by other students.Yet, the fact...
2025-02-171h 27
Two by Two (Private)If B-schools were invented today, would students run placements?Business schools are among the most coveted higher educational institutions. Students go through some of the most competitive exams and pay significant fees because they hope that at the end of their degree, they will get a great job.Yet, the onerous process of finding, soliciting and bringing dozens of companies to campuses each year falls mostly on final-year students, who are part of elected/selected placement committees.For as long as we can remember, these committees have always been accused of bias, arrogance and power play by other students.Yet, the fact...
2025-01-161h 25
IIFAll India Rank, PoacherFilm critics Rahul Desai and Uday Bhatia discuss Varun Grover's debut film ALL INDIA RANK and Richie Mehta's new series, POACHER.
2024-02-261h 02
SaaS Talk with Varun UdayWinning as a Sales rep in 2023This episode of SaaS Talk features Craig Davis, who's spent over a decade and a half selling software to enterprise Life Science companies worldwide.
Varun and Craig talk about what it takes to be a successful sales rep in today's market, the importance of networking, and building trust, Craig's stint in stand-up comedy, and how that has helped him become a better salesperson and more. Tune in to find out!
2023-04-2850 min
Tollywood KaburluRevisiting Pilla Zamindar (2011): Review + Interesting FactsBanner: Shri Shailendra cinemas
Cast: Nani, Hari priya, indu Madhavi, Rao Ramesh, Nagineedu, Srini Avasarala, MS Narayana, Sameer, Dhanraj, Jai Venu, Thagubothu Ramesh, Raghu Karumanchi, Ranadhir, Vennela Kishore, Dr. Siva Prasad, Subhashini, Satya,
Music: Selva Ganesh
Cinematography: Sai Sriram
Dialogues: Chandra Sekhar
Art: Mani Varma
Editing: Praveen Pudi
Story - screenplay - direction: Ashok G
Producer: DS Rao
Release date: October 14th, 2011
Interesting Facts
Watched it in 2014 on Youtube, I was like how did I miss this amazing movie for so long. And over the year...
2023-03-2444 min
The Chaat RoomBONUS! Now Re-Playing: "Student of the Year"The movie that started it all for Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan & Siddharth Malhotra. The movie that even Karan Johar sometimes wonders (by his own admission), "Why did I make this?" We're talking about NONE OTHER than Student of the Year!
This gem of the 2010s is coming up on its TEN-YEAR ANNIVERSARY (crazy!!) and we could not have had a better guest join us than actor/comedian Dhruv Uday Singh. We laughed, we debated - but one thing is for certain: this movie is more entertaining than we clearly remembered. Enjoy!!
2022-08-2647 min
Think Fast with Varun and SuchitaNetflix India, Uday Shankar's Return, + All Things NFT with Nameet PotnisIn this episode, Varun and Suchita end the month with a detailed analysis of Netflix's struggle to get a hold in the Indian market and Uday Shankar's return into the Biz and Media world with Viacom18. They also touch upon some interesting developments- like Reliance trying to build a Nykaa rival named 'Tiara', Air India's 'gharvapasi' as Tata takes over the reigns, Swiggy's promotion to becoming a 'Decacorn', and Caroline Speigel's Audio erotica company- Quinn. In this episode, we feature Nameet Potnis, founder of DrumWorks, and someone actively involved in the Web3 space. We ask him all our...
2022-01-311h 05SaaS Talk with Varun UdayABM and Field Marketing with Nick BennettVarun Uday had a chat with Nick Bennett, the Director of Field and Account-Based Marketing at Alyce about the buzz surrounding ABM in SaaS.
The conversation touched upon aspects of ABM and Field Marketing such as - Targeting, Personalization, Collaborating with Sales, Events, Gifting and a whole lot more!
2021-06-3014 minSaaS Talk with Varun UdayTales from a Marketer turned SaaS FounderSwpely spent $0 on their marketing and in less than a month of their launch, have about 1000 users in their kitty!
Tech and Marketing people bring very different ideas to the table so when Jay Desai, a marketing genius launched Swpely, I just knew that I had to talk to him about it and he was kind enough to hop on to SaaS Talk!
What we spoke about:
How Jay’s audience building on LinkedIn helped him in launching Swpely
What’s Swpely and where did the idea stem from?
The research process and...
2021-03-2432 min
Speaking of CricketIPL 2021 Auction to be held on Feb 18 in Chennai. Who's retained? Who's released? Ep.45The following players from the eight franchises were retained in the squad:
Chennai Super Kings:
Retained Players: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, KM Asif, Deepak Chahar, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, N Jagadeesan, Karn Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shardul Thakur, Sam Curran, Josh Hazlewood, R Sai Kishore
Delhi Capitals:
Retained Players: Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Prithvi Shaw, R Ashwin, Rishabh Pant, Shikhar Dhawan, Shimron Hetmyer, M...
2021-01-2905 minSaaS Talk with Varun UdayEverything Micro SaaS with Preetam NathWe've all heard of SaaS. But Micro SaaS? What's that? Varun Uday uncovers the smaller world of Micro SaaS with the CEO of DelightChat, Preetam Nath.
What we spoke about:
- What is Micro SaaS and what is it not?
- How do you come up with Micro SaaS ideas?
- Is revenue generation not important here?
- What comes first? Minimum Viable Audience or Minimum Viable Product?
- How to get the first 10 customers and then moving on to 1000
- Does Micro SaaS have a gla...
2020-12-0128 minSaaS Talk with Varun UdayBuilding an audience firstAudience first of product first? New age SaaS founders are finding themselves in a soup when it comes to this part. Although, after talking to many people, I’ve come to realise there’s no right way to do it. Each approach brings its own goods with it.
To find out more, I spoke to Stewart Hillhouse over the weekend about taking the audience-first approach and the merits of it.
We covered quite a lot. Let me break it down for you -
Stewart's views on building an audience first as opposed to a prod...
2020-11-2624 min
The Edges & Sledges Cricket PodcastDefinitely Not (CSK Special)On the first half of this week’s episode Varun, Ashwin and DJ wrap the last full week of the IPL group game. It’s all still to play for with the group stage going all the way to the last game! The second half of the show is a chat with seven (!) Chennai SuperKings fans from all over the world! We talk to them all about this season’s disappointment and their past glory. Dhoni comes up a couple of times! Our World Cup semi-final episode and the Dhoni debate: https://open.spotify.com/episode...
2020-11-0259 minSaaS Talk with Varun UdayPodcasting for B2B brandsEmily Kingland, the Lead Content Writer at Sweet Fish Media talks to Varun Uday about podcasting in the B2B space and the intricacies of it.
2020-10-2017 minSaaS Talk with Varun UdayMaking your cold outreach strike goldMatt Aird, the CEO of Sales Science talks to Varun Uday about the science behind a sales cold outreach campaign and best practices to make it strike gold for you.
2020-10-1422 minSaaS Talk with Varun UdayTaking your SaaS product to the Southeast Asian marketIn this episode of SaaS Talk, Varun Uday talks to Rohit Srivastav, the Head of Growth @ Netcore Solutions about how to go about conquering the Southeast Asian market.
Topics discussed were:
4:55 Why are billions of dollars being invested in the Southeast Asian tech sector in recent years?
6:39 How do you ensure scalable growth given the diversity in the region?
9:33 Do sales teams deal with a language barrier?
10:44 Do you treat Singapore as a gateway to SEA?
13:43 Importance of having a local presence
15:46 Rohit's advice for startup...
2020-08-2919 minSaaS Talk with Varun UdayYour SaaS content marketing essentialsContent marketing is extremely important in SaaS businesses and it oftentimes acts as the sole lead generation channel in many startups. Here's Varun Uday having a conversation with Sam Grover, a SaaS content strategist, and ex Global Messaging Specialist at Xero about the following topics:
2:39 How does content contribute to the marketing pipeline?
6:25 Nurturing leads through different stages of the funnel
8:29 Importance of a content calendar and how to go about it
15:30 Distributing content
17:30 Measuring the ROI of content marketing
22:26 How to keep the content engine running
2020-08-1329 minSaaS Talk with Varun UdayGrowth marketing for SaaS startupsIn this episode of SaaS Talk, Varun Uday talks to Ashwin Krishna about getting started with growth marketing in an early-stage startup.
Topics discussed in this conversation are:
@3:45 What is growth marketing and at what stage of a company does a growth marketer get hired
@6:50 How does a startup at level 0 start off with growth marketing?
@17:52 What is your typical day like as a growth marketing head?
@22:28 How do you go about planning for growth and who else is involved?
@26: 43 Experimenting with new channels for growth
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2020-08-0841 minSaaS Talk with Varun UdayHow marketing is changing in the post pandemic worldThis is me, Varun Uday having a conversation with Vyshak Simha, who is the Chief Marketing Officer of Kaizen Institute about how marketing and consumer behaviors have changed in the post-pandemic world. Post Covid-19, marketing has changed drastically given the changes in the economy and the way products and services are being bought and consumed. The pandemic has also brought about changes in the way marketing teams are conducting events.
Topics covered are:
1. Marketing in the post-pandemic world
2. Traditional events vs virtual events
3. Virtual events best practices
2020-07-2348 minSaaS Talk with Varun UdayHow to market to Enterprises | Enterprise Marketing | ABM CampaignsIn this podcast I, Varun Uday, talk to Devdutt Manay about marketing software to Enterprise customers and ways to break into the Enterprise segment. There is a marked difference between the way Enterprises and SME customers view the buying process and that's exactly what we're discussing here.
Here are the topics discussed:
0:25 Difference between marketing to Enterprises and SME's
2:50 Difference between the way Enterprises and SME's buy products/services
4:55 How much say should marketing have while scaling a product to be Enterprise-Grade?
7:14 Importance of collaborating with Sales and Product team...
2020-07-2321 min
SaaS Talk with Varun UdayWhat is product marketing and how it helps sales and support teamsThis is me Varun Uday, having a conversation with Sahith Krishna, the Product Marketing Manager as well as the Head of Inbound Marketing at Exotel about the importance of Product Marketing and how an effective Product Marketing engine can benefit the sales and support teams.
The topics covered in this podcast are:
- The importance of Product Marketing for SaaS products
- Creating an effective user onboarding experience
- How Product Marketing helps the sales and support teams be better at what they do.
2020-07-2319 min
The Gyaan Project50: Audiogyan turns 1 - Best of 2017Today, I am very excited to release our 50th episode and also Audiogyan turns 1 today. Since it's inception, I have interviewed 45 people and it has been a great learning experience. Not only from the gyan sessions but also from the wonderful interactions I have had with all the guests. In the past year, I was exposed to a whole lot of new philosophies and realized how deep and wide the canvas is for design and arts.In this anniversary episode, I have collected few of the questions and answers from various people that I have interviewed. These snippets...
2017-12-2728 min