The Indian Startup Show

Futurepreneur Grand Challenge Winner! Radhika Timbadia founder of Champaca Cafe. On building a unique cafe venture around books, food, curation and building a strong community.

Episode Summary

Futurepreneur Grand Challenge winner Radhika Timbadia Owner of Champaca , Campaca is a unique cafe venture around books, food, curation and a strong community. She talks about how it got started. Talks about spotting the gap in the market . Thoughts on building a community. Talks about not being taken seriously by vendors and also challenges of retaining employees. She talks about dealing with Covid19. Advice for first time entrepreneurs. Great book recommendations, why she loves books, Bangalore traffic! Spotting snow leopards and online pub quizzes.

Episode Notes

Futurepreneur Grand Challenge winner Radhika Timbadia Owner of Champaca , Campaca is a unique cafe venture around books, food, curation and a strong community. She talks about how it got started. Talks about spotting the gap in the market . Thoughts on building a community. Talks about not being taken seriously by vendors and also challenges of retaining employees. She talks about dealing with Covid19. Advice for first time entrepreneurs. Great book recommendations, why she loves books, Bangalore traffic! Spotting snow leopards and online pub quizzes.

In this conversation we also talk about:

• Creating online voucher system during the shutdown.
• Getting help from fellow cafe owners
• 360 degree personality change
• Was it a difficult concept to sell in the early days
• What will the cafe shop look after Covid19?
• Book recommendations Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities 
  by Harini Nagendra, Seema Mundoli and Exhalation - Ted Chang
• Making tough decisions
• Exploring different niches.
• Bangalore weather.
• Motivating herself in the lockdown.

and much more!

Links

https://www.champaca.in

Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) and Facebook India launched the FUTUREPRENEURS GRAND CHALLENGE for women mass entrepreneurs in the Food and Beverage Sector (F&B) in Bangalore to catalyse women entrepreneurs and recognize and reward the best among them. GAME is a non-profit platform for mission-aligned partners to learn, innovate and collaboratively build a self-sustaining mass entrepreneurship ecosystem. By identifying and scaling breakthroughs with partners, we want to build a movement for creating and sustaining 10 million job-creating ‘mass entrepreneurs’, half of whom will be women. For more information:

https://massentrepreneurship.org/

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music by Punch Deck. https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kdduxAVaFnbHJyNxl7FWV