PODCAST · business
Breaking The Borders
by Rohit Gandrakota
Breaking the Borders is an exclusive podcast where we take a closer glimpse into the stories of successful immigrant entrepreneurs. Each session of Breaking the Borders features a remarkable immigrant entrepreneur with a story that is unique in its own way.
Episodes
-
How to build a successful coaching business with Li Lin
Li Lin is the founder of thesuccessfulimmigrant.com where she helps immigrants realise their dreams by getting a kick ass job in the US. Listen to this episode to learn more about how she moved from getting fired as an SEO consultant to started her own company and making $100k in revenue.
-
Learning to Be an Angel Investor by Becoming an Entrepreneur with Ravi Trivedi
Ravi Trivedi is the founder of couponrani.com, which receives 200,000 to 1,500,000 visits a month, and 10,000 to 40,000 transactions monthly. They reached this level after only about two years. He earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science then went to work in Hewlett Packard, where he learned...
-
Preparing for H1-B Visa Applications with Jason Finkelman
Today’s guest is Jason Finkelman. Jason is an immigration lawyer, and you may remember that he’s been a guest on Breaking the Borders once before. Then, he talked mainly about visas for exceptional and extraordinary talent. This time he explains the H1-B visa process. The H1-B is a temporary...
-
Helping Women Take a Step Back and Relax with Neha Gupta
From her own experience and that of her closest friends, Neha Gupta realized that women needed their own space to come together and relax. Creating such an environment is the goal behind the aptly named Women Relaxology. This India-based startup helps women connect, come together and enjoy...
-
Staying True to Your Motivation with Kumar Ramachandran
Defying the axiom that if you stay in a job more than five years you’ll become too comfortable to leave, Kumar spent ten years at Cisco before successfully transitioning to being a startup founder with CloudGenix. Ultimately, it was his deep-seated motivation to have a substantial impact that…
more -
Taste, Talent and Drive – Marc Fleishmann Outlines The Entrepreneurial Spirit
Marc Flesichmann is a serial entrepreneur with several companies under his built. Currently, he is a co-founder at Datera, but in today’s interview, we talk mostly about his experience at Transmeta, which gave Intel a run for its money. For Marc there are two key qualities that have kept him…
more -
Managing Online Reputation with Ajay Prasad
Ajay Prasad is a serial entrepreneur, talking today about his company RepuGen, an online reputation management system for businesses. This service helps filter out unsatisfied customers so the business can address their issues before the customer posts their review online. Ajay transitioned from...
-
Diamonds are an Entrepreneur’s Best Friend with Anish Godha
Anish Godha and his cousin were able to turn an 8th-generation family business into something new, creating a starting with $2 million in revenue. Diamondere is their e-commerce business which allows customers to design their own jewelry, bringing an ancient art into the realm of modern…
more -
Bringing Quality Writing to Contractors Online with Sunil Rajaraman
Almost anyone can write - but who can write well enough to get paid for it? Sunil Rajaraman helped create a platform for freelancers where the hard work of evaluating their ability isn’t left with the client; it’s done by Scripted.com’s own team so that contractors can hire with confidence. Sunil...
-
Turning 12 Hours a Day of Playstation into an Entrepreneurial Career
He was in 6th or 7th grade when he got his first Playstation, and Ravi Matena went to the extreme of playing 12 hours a day. Now, he dedicates himself to his startup game studio, 9 Tail Studios, turning his passion into his career. Ravi went to an engineering college, but it never sat right with...
-
Building Bridges Through US Immigration with Romish Badani
His own family’s immigration experiences - and a desire to bridge the gap between technology and service - led Romish to become a founder of Bridge.us, an online service designed to assist employers in filing immigration applications for prospective foreign national employees. In just their…
more -
Broadening Horizons and Gaining New Experiences with Munir Usman
It took Munir a while to really develop the confidence to start a company and take the big steps for it to grow properly, but he’s moved in that direction after scaling then selling his first company, Pi Labs, then moved to the US and is growing his second startup, Remote Interview. Munir grew up...
-
Managing HR, Benefits and Payroll in One Place, with Laks Srini
Overseeing human resources payroll and benefits is can be a huge burden for a startup or small business. Zenefits offers an integrated software solution to make the whole process simpler and less painful. Cofounder and CTO Laks Srini talks today about the company and how it grew to be valued at…
more -
Rebounding from Panda and Penguin: Lakshmi Kodali of LAD Solutions
Lakshmi Kodali, a founder of LAD Solutions and of Privme.com, has always looked to learn the “next step” in his plan to be an entrepreneur, and to always be moving forward. Before beginning his own entrepreneurial journey, he set out to learn everything necessary. He advises that other aspiring...
-
Helping Entrepreneurs Navigate the Immigration System with Jason Finkelman
Jason is an immigration lawyer who concentrates his practice on entrepreneurs who are seeking either temporary or permanent visas in the US. Originally based in Miami, Jason now works out of Austin, Texas, but has clients throughout the US and world. His goal is to help the best and brightest…
more -
Getting a Healthy Balance Online with Sol Orwell
Sol Orwell talks about limiting ego, refusing venture capital and trusting employees to do their jobs. The founder of Examine.com seeks to be true to his purpose and mission and to live comfortably - and that means not growing his companies at all costs. Sol is the founder of Examine.com, where…
more -
How do you bruise your passport? With Savi and Vid
Travel bloggers Savi and Vid decided to stop counting the number of countries they’d visited - they guess it’s in the 70s, but they realized they enjoy spending time in each country more, rather than simply crossing them off their bucket list. This now-married couple met when they were about 16,...
-
Bringing Big Companies to Your Local Search with Dev Basu
Dev Basu has never wasted time in his professional life. He incorporated his business, Powered by Search, just a day after graduating college, giving up a six-figure job he’d already gotten while still a student. He continues to grow and expand his business, with $6 million expected revenue for...
-
If You Get Too Comfortable, Something’s Wrong – The Passion of Mohit Aron
Mohit Aron is a founder of Cohesity, which is revolutionizing the secondary data storage market. He talks in this interview about the entrepreneurial mindset and recognizing when you’re getting too comfortable; his methodology for vetting new ideas, why passion is far more important than money…
more -
Making Podcasts Pay with Sachit Gupta
Sachit Gupta has been able to assist some of the biggest podcasters in the world - all without being an influencer himself. By helping secure sponsorships and in other ways, he increases their income - which in turn becomes the source of his income. In this interview you’ll hear about his early...
-
Making Online Shopping a Social Experience
Aditya Kothadiya founded Shopalize, which was eventually bought by 24[7], where he now works. Shopalize created the social shopping market, by enabling e-commerce businesses to add social sharing buttons to their products. It helped facilitate a new form of advertising, by allowing the buyer to...
-
Dancing His Way to Success! With Lavesh Pritmani
Today’s guest is Lavesh, the producer of the Learn Bhangra app. Bhangra is a traditional Indian dance which is rapidly growing in popularity as both part of Indian culture and as a fitness craze. If you’ve already seen - or tried - Bhangra, you know it’s a physically demanding dance form, which…
more -
How to Validate Your Business Concept? Learn from Ashish’s Experience!
Ashish Baldua is the Executive Director, Project Management at JPMorgan Chase. He co-founded many startups, among them Wowzio and most recently Bloomspot which was acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2013. Ashish grew up in Mumbai, India. After getting his Bachelor’s degree, he moved to the U.S. and...
-
How to be a Serial Entrepreneur: Meet Someone with Vision, Perseverance and Flexibility.
Do you have what it takes to be a lifelong entrepreneur? David Fox does. He has been an entrepreneur since he was ten years old, selling vegetables to neighbors from his backyard garden. Since then, he has continued to dream about and invest in the next thing. David works with Strategic Value...
-
Seeking Clarity and Growth through Hardship and Meditation with Karan Bajaj
Can there be benefits to solitude, strenuous activity, and meditation? Karan Bajaj, author of The Yoga of Max’s Discontent, thinks so! Karan is a New York Times bestselling, multi-faceted author, whose latest novel came out this past May 2016. He is also Chief Marketing Officer of Aden & Anais.…
more -
Customer Impact is the Key with Pradeep Padala
“The real impact is making (the product) work for the customer,” Pradeep Padala realized during his research internships with Hewlett Packard and Microsoft. This spurred his transformation from a desire to stay in research to work more directly where he could have “real customer impact”, through...
-
Redefining the relationship between a women and her wardrobe with Purva Gupta
Purva Gupta is the founder of Lily, which, “helps women discover & buy clothes according to their emotions and perceptions about their own body.” She is a graduate and mentor at The Founder Institute and the Recipient of the Harley Lippman Entrepreneurial Fellowship. She graduated with an MBA and...
-
How Coding Early in Life Can Lead to Start Up Success Later
Today’s guest is Sharib Khan. Sharib is the Co-founder and CEO of TrialX, the patient connection company and Applied Informatics an award winning Healthcare Information Technology solutions company. Built in 2008 as one of the first apps on the Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault platforms…
more -
How Building an Educational Start Up Can Lead to Business Success
Aditya Singhal is the co-founder of Transtutors, a leading international online education portal. Imparting education, apart from being a business, is also a passion for Aditya. He is avidly indulged in helping students develop their skills and counsels them for their career aspirations. He is...
-
Leveraging Your Experience to Build a Start Up Worth $2 Billion
Today’s guest is Dheeraj Pandey, who started from scratch and built a company that is now valued at more than $2 billion. A 2013 Forbes magazine article about Dheeraj says this, “He brings over 14 years of experience working at high-growth enterprise software companies like Aster Data (now...
-
How to Leverage Your Network to Get Your First Customers with Zaky Prabowo
Zaky Prabowo was born in Indonesia. His Father was in the Air Force and his Mother was a housewife who was also an entrepreneur. His Mother managed the business of a dorm of students for their room rental business. Zaky is the youngest child in his family, and he always felt like he had something...
-
How to Grow an App Organically Without Funding with Nidhi Gupta
Nidhi Gupta is the CEO and Co-Founder of SoLo Mob. She started from scratch and grew to over 2 million downloads in a few years. She bootstrapped the company entirely on her own. Today I have her on to talk about how to grow an app completely organically without any outside funding. Nidhi was...
-
How to Sustain a Passionate Start Up Over the Long Haul with Shilpi Sharma
Shilpi Sharma is the co-Founder and CEO of Kvantam Inc., a marketing attribution and performance company. She helps brands understand how their marketing dollars are working and makes sure they are spending on the right things. They start by tying marketing dollars to sales and figuring out where...
-
The Vision, the Opportunity and the Journey, with Sanjiv Gupta
Sanjiv Gupta is the founder of OpsVeda, a cloud operations software company. He is originally from India and moved all over India because his Father was in the Indian Air Force. He studied engineering in India, and came to the US as an SAP engineer. Sanjiv has been in Silicon Valley for about 20...
-
How to Keep Moving Forward When You Have the Entrepreneurial Bug with Ankit Jain
When you have the “Entrepreneurial Bug”, sometimes your career path can get a little bumpy and it can be the source of conflict with friends and family. Whether you are born with the entrepreneurial bug or whether you cultivated it by exposing yourself to the wonderful adventures of entrepreneurs...
-
How to hustle your way to making more by working less with Ian Balina
Ian Balina was born in Uganda and moved to the US when he was 8 yrs old. He has been in the US since that time. Although his family was well off by Ugandan standards, but once they came to the US, his entire family was living off his Father’s student stipend as a PhD. He experienced culture shock...
-
How to use networking to build communities and businesses with Raj Daniels
Raj Daniels was born in London to parents from India. He grew up in London and moved to the US when he was a teenager in the late 80’s. His family settled into the Dallas area and he absolutely loves it. He studied at the University of Texas, worked in the family business, and also started his…
more -
How to take your side gig to 1000+ paying users in a year with Tim Hill
Tim Hill is from Australia and comes from over 8 years in advertising and digital agencies including Hoodlum, Reading Room and BMF. He is passionate about data-led marketing and leads product direction and operations at Social Status. He always knew there was a better way to quantify the results...
-
How to validate your product idea in 4 weeks with Murali
Murali is the founder of Agile Entrepreneurs where he runs a program called 4 Week Startup (4WS). 4WS teaches entrepreneurs how to validate a product idea in just 4 weeks. Murali was also an active board member of Immigrants' Support Network (ISN) where he played a pivotal role in lobbying for…
more -
How to Create a Start Up to Build Technology Products with Tomasz Kolodziejak
Tomasz Kolodziejak was born in Warsaw, studied in California. For two years he taught Microeconomics as an adjunct professor at San Jose State University, and was the Founder of Polish Government’s initiative in Silicon Valley – Silicon Valley Acceleration Center. Tomasz Co-Founded Inteliclinic,...
-
How to build a million dollar mobile app empire with Gonzalo Juarez
He was born in Argentina, and came to the US to play soccer on a scholarship with U of Maine. When he got his business degree, he moved to Geneva, Switzerland and worked for HP. He and his brother started etips.com while he was still in Switzerland in 2009. His mobile app tips earned $1 million…
more -
How to build a company and sell it with Yuri Moreno
Yuri Moreno is from Sao Paulo, Brazil. He got a start early in life in the digital marketing world. He entered digital marketing at 19 and by the time he was 21, he was the head of one of the largest digital marketing firms in Brazil called UnderDOGS. Solving his customer challenges led him to...
-
How to Go From Employee to Venture Capitalist with Ashu Garg
Ashu Garg was born in India and has lived in India, Nigeria, and the Sudan, and today makes his home in California with his wife, Pooja (an entrepreneur as well), and their two sons. Ashu has a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi and an MBA from the Indian...
-
How to start a software company to get acquired with Gaurav Mantri
Gaurav Mantri was born in India and moved to the US in 1999. He worked in a corporate job and dabbled in start ups during the dotcom era, but he eventually decided to move back to India to build a software company, Cerebrata. Cerebrate was eventually acquired by Red Gate Software. Gaurav shares…
more -
How to ace it in the US as an international student with Tayo Rockson
Using his company to fund his education is an ace of a strategy! Tayo Rockson is the CEO and President of UYD Media, a media company that encourages people all over the world to use their difference to make a difference while celebrating diversity and educating others. He is an avid writer whose...
-
How to travel the world following your passion with Subash Jayaraman
When your passion overtakes your work, it's time to make your passion your work. Subash Jayaraman loved Cricket as long as he can remember. He’s never not had Cricket in his life. Growing up in India, Cricket was always a part of his family life. He came to the US in 1998, and he found that he...
-
How to use your experience to become a better entrepreneur with Sachin Duggal
An entrepreneur learns from experience and improves Sachin was born and raised in India. Sachin Dev Duggal is an innovator, serial entrepreneur, and an advocate of enterprise that touches lives and benefits the world at large. He is the co-founder of Shoto – a new startup that lets find unseen...
-
How to become your most productive self with Timo Kiander
Timo Kiander lives in Finland. Timo got his start in IT, where he worked for 15 years and faced the struggles of the cubicle life. Timo’s life changed after he began running and worked up to running a marathon. This lit the fire under his desire to take his physical performance to a new level....
-
How to Build a Start Up in Your Home Country with Dinesh Agarwal
Dinesh Agarwal is the founder of Pro Start Me. In 2011, he was helping a friend with his startup and realized the larger problem that entrepreneurs with great ideas faced. The technical talent needed to execute an idea was either not good or too expensive. Long term interests were always missing…
more -
How to find your essence and make the money follow with Allen Vaysberg
Allen Vaysberg was born in the USSR and came to US at the age of 14, with his parents and $300 in their pockets in 1989 to make a better life. They settled in Chicago and that’s where Allen was raised. Allen did make a better life and by mid-2012, seemingly had it all with a multi-million dollar...
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
No topics indexed yet for this podcast.
Loading reviews...
ABOUT THIS SHOW
Breaking the Borders is an exclusive podcast where we take a closer glimpse into the stories of successful immigrant entrepreneurs. Each session of Breaking the Borders features a remarkable immigrant entrepreneur with a story that is unique in its own way.
HOSTED BY
Rohit Gandrakota
Loading similar podcasts...
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does Breaking The Borders have?
Breaking The Borders currently has 75 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Breaking The Borders about?
Breaking the Borders is an exclusive podcast where we take a closer glimpse into the stories of successful immigrant entrepreneurs. Each session of Breaking the Borders features a remarkable immigrant entrepreneur with a story that is unique in its own way.
How often does Breaking The Borders release new episodes?
Breaking The Borders has 75 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
Where can I listen to Breaking The Borders?
You can listen to Breaking The Borders on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts Breaking The Borders?
Breaking The Borders is created and hosted by Rohit Gandrakota.
URL copied to clipboard!