Untold Story of Dineout🍔 | ECOSYSTEM FOR RESTAURANTS

How to create a ecosystem? Planning to start a business? Our Guest Ankit Mehrotra founder of @Dineout will tell you everything about business, his mistakes, learnings and many interesting things. Watch the video to know more.
0:00 Introduction
0:41 Ankit's Journey
2:01 How did you get the Idea?
3:16 Initial Investment for the Startup
4:14 How much did you Invest in Starting?
4:43 Customers before First Funding Round
6:58 Onboarding Restaurants challenges
7:52 Initial Team members
8:15 Hiring challenges initially?
9:23 How did you hire in the initial phase?
9:50 First Client
11:16 First Sale
14:45 Marketing
15:30 CAC
17:26 More about the Food Industry
22:54 Why we don't hear so much about Dineout?
26:12 Business model breakdown
27:40 B2B Acquisitions of Dineout
31:43 Lockdown effect on the business
33:43 B2B to B2C Ratio
34:35 Pricing of B2B model
37:21 Variable Pricing in Restaurant Industry
39:44 Explanation of entire product
42:19 Restaurants that shut down in the lockdown
46:15 When did you feel the need of funding?
47:19 How to find investors?
49:16 How to get funding from him?
49:28 How do you calculate valuation?
53:56 Equity Dilution
55:18 How did you retain initial employees?
56:46 How much ESOPs should be diluted in starting?
59:01 How do you manage your personal finance?
1:03:36 RAPID FIRE ROUND
1:08:53 Industries he is bullish on
1:09:51 Advice for a student
1:10:57 Last message for the viewers
Ankit Mehrotra - Dineout
Ankit Mehrotra is the Co-founder and CEO of Dineout. He started Dineout in early 2012 and through multiple acquisitions over the last eight years, has grown Dineout’s portfolio to include both B2C & B2B services and has been successful in positioning it as the Largest Dining Out and Restaurant Tech Platform in India.
Before starting Dineout, he lived in London for 10 years and worked for 7 years with BNP Paribas in London in various divisions including Investment Banking & Wealth Management managing a portfolio of UHNWI while also studying for the CFA charter, which he obtained in 2011.
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