Sramana Mitra: What is your business model? Are you acquiring customers on behalf of banks or are you acquiring customers on behalf of yourselves? Luvleen Sidhu: We are acquiring customers on behalf of ourselves.We have two strategies. The first is a direct to consumer one that is pursued through PR, marketing and word of mouth.
Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down into some of these trends areas. Since you started talking about Freshdesk, we know that case study very well. Freshdesk is cloud-based customer support for small businesses. If you look at that style of company out of India, what are some of the companies in your portfolio that have achieved
Sramana Mitra: What trends are you seeing in the entrepreneurs who are coming to you for funding? What kinds of entrepreneurs are coming? What resonates with you? Aniruddha Malpani: As I said, the social impact piece resonates with me because I actually think these companies will be far more profitable, partly because of the financial
This interview is an interesting window into how financial technology is addressing specific niches within the banking sector. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and BankMobile. Luvleen Sidhu: I’m the Co-Founder and President of BankMobile. BankMobile is the largest and fastest-growing digital bank that serves the underserved and low middle income
This feature from Mashable covers the highlights of the recent 2018 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference held in San Jose last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.
If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Anand Daniel of Accel Partners was recorded in May 2016. Anand Daniel, Partner with Accel Partners, discusses Accel India’s
Sramana Mitra: To net it out, you are agnostic to B2B or B2C. You are really interested in learning about something new. That’s your primary motivator. Aniruddha Malpani: I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I’m good at what I do. This is what I call the T-shaped model of living a life. I have
Jeff Swearingen: From an entrepreneur’s perspective, there’s always opportunity. The technology market is so saturated with companies and yet the market is moving so quickly. A young and agile company with some domain expertise can spot an opportunity and a gap in the market. That’s what SecureLink did. We found a gap in the market.