The Student Chapters™

TSC Podcast / Episode 01

What Nobody Tells You About Your First Startup

Founder Storieswith Ishaan Verma 38:12 25 Aug 2026

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A candid conversation with a student founder about the unglamorous middle — between the big idea and the first real milestone. Co-founders, first users, first mistakes. [Demo episode.]

Guest — Ishaan Verma, Founder, [Demo Startup] • Final-year student

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[00:00] Host: Welcome to TSC Podcast — conversations that matter. [Demo transcript — full transcript publishes with the real episode.]

[00:42] Guest: The idea was the easy part. Everything after the idea was the education.

[12:10] Guest: Our first hundred users were all classmates. They were also our harshest critics.

[26:55] Host: What would you tell your first-year self?