Startup Gateway Interview: Siddhartha Chandurkar, Founder & CEO ShepHertz

■Why is this important ?
This gives an opportunity to our fellow community members to take next leap, where one can learn, ask and take mentorship from these successful people who are “ready to help” and share their knowledge.

By doing so we unleash the full potential of knowledge sharing and converting it into some value for whole community in Japan & India.

■Meet Siddharth Chandurker
Yesterday, we were fortunate to have Siddharth Chandurkar, who spoke his heart out on his personal jounrney, his venture and also answered questions asked by the participants making it an open and engagable for all.

To give you more context :
Siddharth Chandrukar started up ShepHertz Technologies in 2010 as a platform for product development and services, Cloud Computing and SaaS. One of the most prominent players providing app development features for developers and enterprises alike, ShepHertz now claims to have had 130 billion API calls and 70K registered across 150 countries so far.

Having raised about $1.6 million from investors including Blume Ventures and Kae Capital, ShepHertz is now profitable.

We thank Siddhartha for making time in his schedule during his visit to Japan and all the participants also special mention for Anil Raj.

■What we covered in this interview:

– Entrepreneurship is a personal decision
– Valley of Deaths & Numbers
– Entrepreneurship is a mindset
– Professional Background and Road to venture
– Initial venture days/Trespassers will be recruited 🙂
– Funding
– Loosing control to VCs
– Leveraging partnerships with likes of Microsoft
– Plans for Japan expansion
– Countering competition from Low cost countries
– Government support system for Startups In India
– Case study of ShepHertz solution
– How can one associate with ShepHertz ?
– ShepHertz – The name
– Security threat concern in Cloud Computing
– What are your products & offerings
– Profile before venture
– Product differentiation that worked for you.
– How raising the price, gave us better results ?
– Product connected with ERP, AI and others ?
– Identifying Customer need & Validation Of idea
– Validating the idea before the plunge..
– Initial idea might not work, but don’t stop
– When rubber hits the road

Note: Since recorded live, please bear with us the audio quality.

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