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In the second part of the Startupcentral Beer Fridays: Bootstrapping Stories session held in July, Vishal Agarwal, founder of Spatial Ideas, and Neha Juneja, co-founder of Greenway Grameen Infra, share their experiences in taking their idea to prototype. Guiding the discussion was our guest moderator Aditya Mishra, who well known in Mumbai’s startup circles for his work through HeadStart. Read the full story

The July edition of Startupcentral Beer Fridays returned to Bootstrapping Stories as its theme. Founders of four startup companies, each at different stages in their journey, came together to share their experiences and lessons. The session was moderated by Aditya Mishra, co-founder and director of Headstart Network Foundation.

The Bootstrappers

Neha Juneja, co-founder, Greenway Grameen Infra

Greenway Grameen Infra is a Mumbai-based startup involved in developing sustainable products and infrastructure for rural consumers. Juneja is an alumni of FMS Delhi and spent three months at Tata Administrative Services before starting Greenway with co-founder Ankit Mathur, an IIM Ahmedabad alumni.

Anand Anupam, founder and CEO, Healthizen

Healthizen is an online personal health management solutions portal based in Mumbai. Anupam is an alumni of IIM Lucknow and IIT Kharagpur. He worked at ITC and Emcure for a while before starting Vnurture Healthcare Software Solutions, the company that owns Healthizen.

Abhishek Rai, founder, Vikreyta

Vikreyta is a Pune-based startup that is building an online and mobile platform where small and medium retailers can showcase their offers, products and prices. Rai is an engineering graduate who decided to start his own company after spending a decade in the corporate sector.

Vishal Agarwal, founder & CTO, Spatial Ideas

Spatial Ideas is a GIS startup based in Mumbai, whose data fusion application LocoBuzz enables users to map Facebook and Twitter updates. An alumni of Penn State University, Agarwal earlier worked with Rolta, Cognizant Technologies and ESRI. Read more about them here.

Photos from the July edition of Startupcentral Beer Fridays. Our panelists – Anand Anupam, founder of Healthizen; Vishal Agarwal, founder of Spatial Ideas; Neha Juneja, co-founder of Greenway Grameen Infra; Abhishek Rai, founder of Vikreyta — shared their experiences in bootstrapping their startup businesses. The session was moderated by Aditya Mishra, co-founder and director of Headstart Network Foundation.

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Last Friday, Startupcentral put together a group of entrepreneurs from the ecommerce sector to talk about the opportunities and challenges in their respective businesses.

The event was part of the Startupcentral Beer Fridays series of round tables that brings together entrepreneurs once a month to share their ideas and experiences through their startup journey. Sequoia Capital is the exclusive venture partner for the current series.

Our panelists were Rahul Yadav, Scopial Fashions; Vikhyat Srivastava, Groffr; Sailesh Lakhani, Sequoia Capital India; Samuel Ziza, WittyGift; and Jiby Thomas, Quikr. Read more about them here. Watch the video here.