Roundtable Recap: February 5 – Niche is Good

During this week’s roundtable, I worked with three founders of niche startups from India. The Reader AI App First up, Midhun Thomson from Bengaluru, India, pitched TheReader.AI app. The product is seeing a small number of paying customers.  KinderStories Next, we had Ajay Sadhu from Hyderabad, India, pitch KinderStories, a niche app for pre-school teachers. 

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