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How to sidestep common startup pitfalls? Insights from Trainman's Co-founder

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Episode  ·  26:49  ·  Oct 24, 2023

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From having a problem of getting wait-listed on your train tickets to building a whole start-up to solve that problem, Vineet Chirania, one of the co-founders of Trainman, in this episode, talks about his entrepreneurial journey with us. What is the point of Trainman?Trainman is the first train waitlisting confirmation app in India. It started off with giving information about the tickets which go into the wait list and showing confirmed train tickets. Later it developed to booking tickets and gives average delay time for every train available as well. Vineet started off as an engineer but his motivation to solve a major problem in transportation to create a product to help himself as well as others. How do we pick our co-founders?Vineet talks about the importance of having a co-founder correctly for start-ups. He is one of the co-founders with the other two co-founders. He emphasizes working with complementary skills for having a balance while developing a business. If one knows how to build an app, the other person should know marketing or business development. Importance of the growth of the companyHaving no growth mindset in a start-up is one of the mistakes many entrepreneurs make. Only building a product or service will be useless for a start-up. There should be a balance between these two for growing your start-ups.

26m 49s  ·  Oct 24, 2023

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