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Startups driving behavioral change should target large enterprises over SMBs
“People say when you are in a startup, go to a smaller companies who can write a check quickly, take a decision quickly. And this was advice I got from many of my mentors, but I went against it. I went to the enterprise because in GE, I know to bring a change, …”
Kumar: Raising VC without a proven US parallel is very difficult
“In a stage where nobody has ventured, it's very difficult to get the venture money because there is no parallel. Today, a lot of investment happened because there's a parallel in US or somewhere it has worked or in a similar market.”
Text advisory outperforms audio calls because rural farmers hang up
“We can do audio also, but you know, what we in our study, what we have found that nobody picks the phone and even somebody picks the phone, they cut because that's the, because it's coming from some number. So, so in order to be more relevant, it's better to h…”
Farm advisory is ineffective without financing for recommended agricultural inputs
“If the farmer doesn't have access to financing, nothing is going to change. If he has surplus money, he can do experiment. If he has the money, he can use your advice and put some right, you know, input into his farm. But let's say if you give him a best of th…”
Kumar: Products solving India's complex agriculture can scale globally anywhere
“Look at India as a sandbox where you can build products. You can experiment products because there's so much complex problems to solve here in agriculture. And once you solve this problem, you can scale it globally. And if you can build the product, which can …”
Kumar: True Recruiting Is Learned Pitching Early Vision With No Employees
“When you are hiring the first guy for your company sitting on a one room, 10 by 10, and you are selling a vision of a billion dollar, actually you will learn HR. Because if you are hiring for some, you know, established company, it's easy to hire. But when you…”