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Month on Month, Quarter after Quarter, there is only 1 thing a startup needs to do.

“Grow at a rapid pace!”

Meet Shashank ND, Founder and CEO of Practo.

Practo is a hyper-growth healthcare startup which has managed to raise $125M in three round so far, from the likes of Tencent, Sequoia, Google Capital, Altimeter Capital, Matrix Partners etc.

Below is short video where Shashank shares his 7 year experience of running Practo in a nutshell.

Shashank speaks about the challenges he faced while building a company for the local ecosystem and why rapid growth is essential for every startup.

Shashank also speaks about why an initiative like #PNgrowth is import for an eco-system like India and how it can play a pivotal role in facilitating growth for startups within India.

Watch the 3m43s video below.

#PNgrowth is an iSPIRT initiative in collaboration with Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Duke’s Fuqua School of Business for growth stage entrepreneurs.

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Why WebEngage’s CEO @avlesh wishes #PNgrowth existed a few years ago?

WebEngage is probably the most important product startup from India’s business capital Mumbai – it builds customer engagement tools for SaaS businesses, is very popular and successful, and is used by thousands of businesses worldwide. Avlesh is one of the original hustlers of the Indian ecosystem, and he has built a world class product company in a matter of just four years.

When we talked to Avlesh about #PNgrowth, he was very excited, and stressed the importance of peer to peer learning in an ecosystem like ours which still hasn’t got as much attention as it should have. As he stresses, it would be very helpful for people if they don’t make mistakes in the first place, rather than learn after making a few. #PNgrowth would have helped him and WebEngage if such an initiative exited when they were starting out, he said.

Avlesh says that #PNgrowth can help entrepreneurs share different ideas of growth among them, and in doing so, share stories of how they scaled, the challenges they faced, and how they got to where they are.

#PNgrowth, in collaboration with Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, iSPIRT’s #PNgrowth initiative aims to get the people who want to learn, and the people they need to ask in a room, and give them the perfect space to learn and grow.

You can learn more and apply for the program here.

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Growth is a bitch!

Capillary Technologies is an information technology company headquartered in Bangalore, India. Established in 2008, Capillary is present in about 30 countries with over 200 enterprise customers.

In this short candid chat with Aneesh Reddy, the co-founder and CEO of Capillary Technologies, he bluntly mentions that growth is a bitch! Aneesh shares how his company spent 1.5M to reach 1/6th the current company size versus spending 24M to grow the next 5/6th.

Watch the video below and see why Aneesh thinks growth is tough.

PNgrowth is an iSPIRT initiative in collaboration with Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Duke’s Fuqua School of Business to facilitate entrepreneurs to scale their business.

Please click here, to join a hangout session where members of iSPIRT, Stanford and Duke university share how the issue of scale can be addressed and how PNgrowth can facilitate the same.

Contributed by Rohith Veerajappa, Wow Labs