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The 12 Best Podcasts For Entrepreneurs
The 12 Best Podcasts For Entrepreneurs
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The first season was a breakthrough, with host Alex Blumberg taking listeners inside a startup from conception to funding and many more challenges. That startup: his own, podcast network Gimlet Media. The second season, which ended this summer, switched to follow Dating Ring, a dating company founded by two women in the 20s. Some of the challenges were similar, others different—including founder disagreements and sexism.
Built To Sell
Built To Sell fills a very specific niche: addressing how and when and why to sell your business. Serial entrepreneur John Warrillow wrote one of the best business books of 2011, Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You, which discussed how to create a company that you can eventually sell. Now he talks every week to a recently cashed-out entrepreneur to learn more about that process.
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This new podcast, started in July, comes from Y Combinator, the accelerator behind companies like Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Zenefits, and Instacart. The show, hosted by YC partner Aaron Harris and former cofounder of failed tutoring marketplace startup Tutorspree, talks practical advice on starting, funding, and scaling companies through interviews with founders. A weekly extension of YC’s Startup School conference, it’s worth checking out.
The Pitch
Enjoy Shark Tank, but want something with a little less fake reality TV drama? You’ll like The Pitch, a podcast where early stage startups pitch their company and then three investors give real feedback and talk about whether or not they will invest—and why. A different startup and investor group every two weeks, The Pitch will keep you hooked.
Collective Wisdom For Tech Startups
Some podcasts stand out as much for the format as the content. A podcast from Founders Collective, a seed-stage venture capital firm that has invested in companies like Uber, Buzzfeed, MakerBot, and SeatGeek, Collective Wisdom is one of those. The show features interviews with founders—and then breaks up each full 30 minute to an hour episode into minute-long bites of wisdom.
She Did It Her Way
Enough with the men. If you’re looking for a women’s perspective on growing a company, look no further than She Did It Her Way. Every week, they talk with a successful female entrepreneur. And it’s a diverse group of startups and people, far from your typical tech company overload.
Reboot
Former venture capitalist Jerry Colonna is now an executive coach. His podcast Reboot focuses less on the business challenges than the psychological issues that founders deal with. On each episode, which come out twice per month, Colonna talks with leaders and business owners about the emotional struggles they face as they try to grow their startups.
Zen Founder
Sticking with the emotional theme, here’s another podcast that looks more at personal health of founders as they juggle work, family, and more. The co-hosts are a serial entrepreneur and a psychologist who specializes in trauma work, a unique combination for learning how to stay sane while starting up.
Rocketship
With three hosts and one startup founder, Rocketship has an unbalanced lineup but an engaging show. At 30 minutes per episode, this is an easy to digest conversational interview that you can learn from—and it’s prolific too, with two episodes per week for the last year and a half.
a16z
Want a window into the world of a top venture capital firm? Look no further than Andreessen Horowitz’s flagship podcast. This is a prolific podcast, often producing multiple episodes per week, is typically made up of interviews with startup founders and various partners and analysts at the firm. Good insight here not just into growing a business with venture capitals, but also into tech trends in general.
Re/code Decode
If you’re a tech entrepreneur, Re/code Decode is a great view into the decisions of some of the biggest and most successful tech founders and CEOs. Kara Swisher, with a mostly no-nonsense interview style, hosts Silicon Valley veterans like Marc Andreessen, Slack’s Stuart Butterfield, Y Combinator’s Sam Altman, and LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner.
Traction
Traction is a podcast focused on going from zero to one: how do you raise your startup from nothing? A podcast from seed fund NextView Ventures, Traction host Jay Acunzo and his guests talk about doing things that may not scale, but help get results.
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Reliance Jio -4G services through own LYF brand smartphones allow customers Internet-based calls. LTE (VoLTE), voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-FI), high definition voice and high definition quality video
RIL spends Rs 93,000 crore on Jio, to start handset sales by Diwali
Posted on: 08:40 AM IST Oct 17, 2015
Mumbai: Reliance Industries on Friday said it has
already pumped in close to Rs 93,000 crore into its telecom venture
under the 'Reliance Jio' brand and will start selling its 4G handsets
under the LYF brand from Diwali. "We've substantially completed our
network expansion now having already completed 2.5 lakh route
kilometers. We are on course to begin distribution of the handsets under
the LYF brand name from Diwali."We have already tied up with 1,200 primary distributors for this," Reliance Jio president for devices Sunil Dutt said on Friday evening.
The 4G smartphones will enable customers
to make Internet-based calls like voice over LTE (VoLTE), voice over
Wi-Fi (VoWi-FI), high definition voice and high definition quality video
calling on Jio network.
When asked about how much the company has spent out of its Rs 1 trillion capital into the telecom venture, Reliance Group deputy CFO V Srikanth said it has almost completed the capex by spending close to Rs 93,000 crore so far. But, he ruled out any fresh capital infusion into the telecom venture saying the company is well-capitalised now.
Anshuman Thakur, head of business strategy development at Reliance Jio said, the company has tied up with five OEMs for handsets and the company will begin by offering 4G services through its own LYF brand smartphones that will allow customers to make Internet-based calls.
He also said going forward the company will start manufacturing the handsets locally and the work is on in this regard. The second leg of the roll-out will have MiFi handsets, Thakur added.
"Though we wanted to have the first batch of handsets to be locally made, things could not progress as planned. But our commitment to local manufacturing is not negotiable," Dutt said.
"Reliance Retail will soon launch its own brand of 4G LTE smartphones under the brand LYF. The brand built on the premise of unmatched user experience will offer high-performance handsets that deliver a true 4G experience comparable to the best in the world," Thakur said.
The company is likely to offer LYF handsets with dual SIM facility and is expected to be available in the market from November.
On telecom mast sharing plans, Thakur said the company has already notified the DoT about its tie-up with RCom in seven circles under which it will share RCom towers in the 850 MHz band.
"We have tied up with RCom for seven circles for the 850 MHz band spectrum, which takes care of about 35 per cent of the market. We are also in discussions with other operators for tower/spectrum sharing as well as spectrum trading, provided there is consensus on pricing," Thakur said.
The 4G smartphones will enable customers to make Internet-based calls like voice over LTE (VoLTE), voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-FI), high definition voice and high definition quality video calling on Jio network.
The company holds the highest amount of liberalised spectrum among telecom operators which can be used for deploying any technology for mobile services. It has a total of 751.1 MHz spectrum across 800 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2300 MHz bands.
"Jio plans to provide seamless 4G services using LTE in 800 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2300 MHz bands through an integrated ecosystem," the company said, adding it has substantially completed its network rollout across the country and the network is currently being tested and optimised.
There are 10,000 testers doing quality testing across the country now. As we move closer to launch, we will add more testers, Thakur added. Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani in June had told the shareholders that the company would launch the much-awaited telecom services by December, offering high-speed data, digital commerce, media and payment services for about Rs 300-500 per month, wherein it will sell smartphones at affordable rates of Rs 4,000-5,000 apiece as well as high-end ones.
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