Sramana Mitra: You may have read my article on this subject especially in the context of fashion. I did the first e-commerce in fashion with exactly this premise – that it needs to be a personalized store. You have to use technology in the backend, and it’s a very expensive technology to build. Daniel Gulati:
Prashant Fuloria: Let me explain the SMB to B concept a little bit more because it’s a fascinating and sometimes overlooked area. You and I interact a lot on an ongoing basis with small businesses that are fundamentally B2C. You talked about e-commerce. You might go down to a coffee shop and get your morning
Sramana Mitra: The part of retail that I find interesting is the niche. Let’s take fashion. I don’t wear big designers as much anymore. I also shop a lot when we’re traveling in esoteric designers that don’t have big footprints. These kinds of things are not accessible. If there’s a small retailer that assembles and
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FinTech is making great strides today with the help of AI and bringing to small businesses certain kinds of financial services that were only available to much larger ventures once upon a time. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Fundbox. Prashant Fuloria: Fundbox is a midstage Fintech
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Rather than reinventing the wheel as you build your startup, you should be trying to learn the lessons of those who have successfully walked the path you are on before you. Here are the startup stories of a diverse group of entrepreneurs who have all built profitable businesses. Have a listen to these approximately 30-minute
Sramana Mitra: I’ve thought about this quite a lot. My observation is that you have to have private-labeled brands to compete with Amazon at this point. In whatever category that you’re working in, you need a product that you can differentiate with. You can’t really differentiate on the basis of other people’s products that easily