Guest: Shreyaan Daga, Founder & CEO of Online Live Learning (OLL, oll.co)

Host: Zahid Imran, Founder Innovation Valley

Topic: Why building edtech startups is need of the hour

Discussion points/questions:

1. What led you to the education and edtech domain? What's the story behind?

2. What challenges you faced when you initiated and during your entrepreneurial journey and how you came out of those challenges?

3. How are you managing against connectivity-issue thing?

4. What is your bigger vision and mission behind OLL?

5. What did you mean by "competition is collapsing" you said to the shark tank panel during your pitch?

6. Lean marketing strategy of OLL. Zero spend on digital marketing. Focusing on the quality and delivery of the core.

7. What problems from the existing education your platform is solving, or will solve and how?

8. Why people would come to your platform when they have opportunity to learn from the youtube and other free online resources?

9. What is the delivery model of your platform?

10. When you deal school, do they fit in your "live online" model or do you need to arrange on-campuses activities there?

11. Do you engage only your internal resources or do you also train the teachers from your partner schools?

12. Since you are school dropout, do people ask you like you yourself are not educated, then you could you educate others? If so, how do you answer people?

13. How will you ensure access of education to all those around 3.5 crore out school children in india?

14. Do you think existing educational institutes can/will resolve the skills-gap issue?

15. Do you think our region (India + Pakistan) needs more edtech platform like OLL?

16. Since one starts job or business after his her college or university degree then why school children need to learn skills and practical learning during their schooling?

17. Where do you see OLL in next 10 years?

18. How potential entrepreneurs can overcome fear of start?

19. Do you thing finances could be the reason of not initiating something?

20. "My raised funding 1.3 core is still in my bank account. I dit not use that. (The art of Bootstrapping)

21. What would you like to advice to the new startup founders and entrepreneurs?