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You’re listening to #TheBarbershopWithShantanuS2: #RaisersEdge. In this episode, you’ll hear the team of Aspire For Her: Divya Sampath and Madhura DasGupta Sinha discuss the journey behind creating and running Aspire For Her - an organisation which in their words is by women, for women and of women!

Stay tuned till the end of the episode to see whether our equity seekers - Shantanu Deshpande, Toshan Tamhane, Arjun Purkayasth and Ashu Suyash decide to invest in them or not.

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00:00:00 Coming Up.

00:00:54 Welcome to Raiser's Edge.

00:01:51 Today's Equity Seekers.

00:03:42 Meet Aspire for Her.

00:06:33 Why build Aspire for Her?

00:10:36 On ensuring effective mentorship.

00:14:42 Tools deployed for learning.

00:15:21 On building communities.

00:16:56 Gig-Economy/Freelance work.

00:17:17 Making women financially free.

00:19:24 On women quitting careers.

00:20:37 On communities being necessary.

00:21:06 Entrepre-naris and making job creators.

00:21:31 On rebuilding women facing devastating losses.

00:22:50 Demographic breakdown.

00:23:24 On dealing with business fragmentation.

00:26:40 Who are the customers?

00:27:11 What are the revenue models?

00:27:48 Breakdown of expected revenues.

00:29:22 Should companies outsource DEI?

00:35:08 On the need to raise funds.

00:36:09 Why alternative means of funding won't work.

00:39:36 Gender Parity in India vs USA.

00:41:13 Trouble in financial projections?

00:45:22 The Ask 00:45:53 Strategic Timeout.

00:46:01 Financials Being Wrong.

00:46:50 Concerns around why dilution is considered.

00:50:30 Ending up with more questions than answers.

00:52:30 Struggle to make the business easy.

00:55:20 The Verdict

APPLY NOW We are looking for early stage stage companies with: - Amazing Founders - Operating in large markets - Are post revenue - TBWS will put in the first or second institutional cheque! Email us about you and your start-up on barbershop@bombayshavingcompany.com.

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ABOUT OUR CHANNEL

My name is Shantanu and I am the founder of Bombay Shaving Company and Bombae. I LOVE entrepreneurship. Personally, I would rate myself as an average (at best) entrepreneur, but I love great ones.

The BarberShop with Shantanu S2: Raiser’s Edge goes beyond our conversations from S1 on our podcast to tangible help. With the help of our sponsors at BSC and Bombae we have put together a season which brings together a corpus of 50+ equity seekers looking to support 20+ start-ups in their growth and success.

We will be releasing an episode every Friday at 9 pm. Tune in and hope you enjoy. :)

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