Peak Potential Podcast

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A weekly podcast by Nova Semita where we engage with interesting college folk, builders and young entrepreneurs to gain insights into their achievements, learnings, and growth. If you're looking for ways to begin your side hustle or an edge to start your tech career, this is the podcast for you. To know more about what we do check out: nova.best If you have any feedback, suggestions or maybe you want to just have a chat, write to us at hello@novasemita.com

Episodes

  1. 03/19/2020

    Talking Mental Health & Memes w/ Mitanshu

    This week I hosted Mitanshu, nothing special about him, just a regular third-year engineering chap who's managed to capture the attention of over 46k people using memes on his page called Maiche Kazar (Goan peeps know what this means), their small beginnings, how he and the other admins are using the page to raise awareness & monetize as well. He also shares his experience dealing with his mental health and how he wants to bring people together to deal with mental health in a better way.  DM Mitanshu over on Instagram if you'd like to join his community around mental health @mitanscrewed For memes: @maiche_kazar psst.. and for really advanced memes: @maichekazar.apk (Tell Mitanshu you listened to this podcast and he'll give you access)

    23 min

  2. 03/12/2020

    Quick Bites #1 - Tracking Corona w/ Shrey, Niket & Salil

    In our first segment of Quick Bites, I sat with 3 of the boys, Shrey, Niket & Salil, that built coronatracker.in,  a mobile-friendly site that lets visitors view information from a birds-eye view on the COVID-19 pandemic. We had a chat around what their methodology on how they wanted to present information, the national attention their work as garnered and what they're going to be improving upon the application.  You can keep up with what the boys are up to on Twitter:  Shrey Keny: @ShreyKeny Salil Nail: @__salil_naik__ Niket Kamat Satoskar: @NiketKamat

    13 min

  3. 03/05/2020

    Communities & Mental Health w/ Dikshita Desai

    Dikshita joined Erin and me this week in our not-so-cozy cabin over at the office to share with us her deep involvement with communities, life in college, quick tips on networking and some insights into mental health for college kids. You can connect with her over Twitter: @desaidikshita

    27 min

  4. 02/27/2020

    Hacking Hackathons & Hustling College w/ Salil Naik

    This evening Salil joined me to talk about his learning platform called LetzCode, participating in HackHavard, a 36-hour hackathon hosted on Harvard University's historic campus & winning the Mobile Excellence Award by Awwards at the age on 19.  He shares his insights into finding the right mentors, what students can do to expose themselves to better opportunities & how he's finally decided to attend class in recent weeks. Twitter: __salil_naik__ Link to Salil's Podcast:  The Hustle Radio

    27 min

  5. 02/20/2020

    Building Chat-bots @ Huloq w/ Kenan Collaco

    Kenan and I had a detailed chat about the product he's building called Huloq, how he met the founders. How can a college student balance working for a product company and still not compromise on their academia? Is it just effective time management or something more? Click play to find out.  Disturb Kenan's DMs on Twitter @CollacoKenan & check out the product he's building @ HULOQ

    19 min

  6. 02/13/2020

    Being a CTO while in College w' Adarsh S

    I had the pleasure this week hosting  Adarsh on the Podcast, he shares his story about how he met his Co-Founder on Reddit, more about alrt.ai, balancing college & work and some insights into his journey so far.  You can connect with him over Twitter @guyandtheworld & his site Adarsh S

    22 min

  7. 02/06/2020

    Building communities & Tips for college w/ Joel V Zachariah

    This week I was joined by Joel V Zachariah from Model College of Engineering, Kochi. We had a chat around building college communities and he shared some great tips for college juniors & seniors in making your college experience more enjoyable.  For more on Joel follow him on Twitter: V Zachariah: @joelvzach & check out his medium profile https://medium.com/@joelvzach An article you should definitely read if you're studying computer science: https://medium.com/fossmec/the-6-kinds-of-people-in-computer-science-and-engineering-4e6dae122ecd

    21 min

  8. 01/30/2020

    Taking Initiative & Leveraging Twitter w/ Shrey Keny

    Shrey dropped by at our office last week and we had a conversation about his learnings from college, how he got exposure in the tech scene in Goa & what his plans are for the near future.  Connect with Shrey on twitter @ShreyKeny & his cool site: shreykeny.me

    26 min

  9. 01/23/2020

    Launching Products & Dropping College with Shawn Pereira

    Shawn joins us this week to tell us about his learnings from launching two products as a student in an engineering college to his thoughts around dropping out of college and shares some insights on how you can pick up your twitter game to get noticed.  Twitter: @Incept_shawn; Products: Whatsappr , Own The 2020s

    22 min

  10. 01/16/2020

    From Electronics to Android Development with Dave Paiva

    Dave Paiva is currently an Andriod Dev @ SportsVot, an alumnus from Nova Semita & PCCE. Dave tells us about his journey in tech from wanting to get into Data Science to getting competent with Web Development and being flexible with your stack when building products. He also shares some tips for college students who want to break into startups from his experience.  Companies Dave has worked in referred to in the podcast: Sportsvot Locale.ai If you have any topics you'd like us to cover or feedback, drop us a line on twitter @novasemitaHQ

    16 min

  11. 01/09/2020

    Beginning a career in Design with Niket Satoskar

    Niket tells us about his journey from studying electronics in college to pivoting into design. How his review of Zomato's Sushi design got him in direct conversation with their product team and some learnings he'd like to share for college students looking to begin their careers in design. Is Zomato’s Sushi Design any good? by Niket Satoskar “Twitter accounts every designer must follow” by Muzli Books 1. Design of everyday things by Don Norman 2. The art of innovation by Tom Kelly Podcasts 1. Google Design   2.Compilation by Adobe   3.Hacking UI

    15 min
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A weekly podcast by Nova Semita where we engage with interesting college folk, builders and young entrepreneurs to gain insights into their achievements, learnings, and growth. If you're looking for ways to begin your side hustle or an edge to start your tech career, this is the podcast for you. To know more about what we do check out: nova.best If you have any feedback, suggestions or maybe you want to just have a chat, write to us at hello@novasemita.com

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