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Karan Bajaj is an Indian technology entrepreneur, author, yogi, backpacker and hiker. Best known as founder and CEO of WhiteHat Jr., an Ed-tech company specializing in distance learning which was acquired by BYJU'S in 2020. He has put his visualizations to words in his 4 published novels and intends to plan a career in Public Service. In this podcast we have put voice to articles he published online, aimed at inspiring and guiding young entrepreneurs.
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How do you determine a founder’s salary at a startup, especially if you’re a mid-career founder who’s likely at 10x typical early-stage startup market salary?โดย Karan Bajaj
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How to Write a Successful Startup Pitch Deck: 12 Slides that Matter (+Top 5 Indian Venture Capitalists to pitch)
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10% of StartUps will deliver 80%+ of a fund’s returns.Does your deck immediately demonstrate that you’ll be in the 10%?A top Venture Capitalist(VC) accepts 1 among 150 pitches made to them¹.Can you be The One?Fortunately, I learnt how to write better pitch decks in subsequent funding rounds. Here I share my best learnings on how to write a successf…
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Here are 3 mental models to help you decide whether you should startup or continue in your job, which I used in my own deliberations-hope they’re of some use to budding entrepreneursโดย Karan Bajaj
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How much time does it take to go from idea to startup? When to scale 10x? What is the best time to raise funding?โดย Karan Bajaj
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5 Success advice for wanderersโดย Karan Bajaj
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Learnings from Karan Bajaj on Startup Scaling - 3 surprising tools that workโดย Karan Bajaj
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How to Always Build an A-Team in a Startup One great early-stage hire can make a startup. WhiteHat Jr’s destiny would be completely different if I had a different CTO or the wrong first curriculum hires. A-players hire A-players, B-players hire B-players, and so forth, and a Startup can’t afford a single B-Team in the early stages. How do you build…
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HOW TO THINK INDEPENDENTLY I had a sinking feeling in my gut when I told my boss at P&G that I was leaving to travel and write a novel more than a decade ago in 2008. The timing felt wrong. I was 29. My friends from college were buying their first houses and sharing pictures of their newborns. And I was going nowhere. Yet, I had some instinct that …
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How to Raise Startup Funding with No Product My 3rd novel, 'The Seeker', was rejected sixty-one times in the US. Eventually, Penguin Random House, published it worldwide after 42 months of nearly daily revisions. Four years of life gone in publishing a novel! I found the startup fundraising process much saner in comparison. It took 60 days from ide…
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