Best Nova Semita Podcasts (2025)

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Talking Mental Health & Memes w/ Mitanshu 22:35

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5y ago22:35

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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 a…

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Quick Bites #1 - Tracking Corona w/ Shrey, Niket & Salil 12:54

5y ago12:54

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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 garne…

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Communities & Mental Health w/ Dikshita Desai 26:59

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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

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Hacking Hackathons & Hustling College w/ Salil Naik 27:29

5+ y ago27:29

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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 bette…

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Building Chat-bots @ Huloq w/ Kenan Collaco 19:08

5+ y ago19:08

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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 th…

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Being a CTO while in College w' Adarsh S 22:29

5+ y ago22:29

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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

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Building communities & Tips for college w/ Joel V Zachariah 20:40

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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://me…

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Taking Initiative & Leveraging Twitter w/ Shrey Keny 26:23

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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

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Launching Products & Dropping College with Shawn Pereira 21:40

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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…

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From Electronics to Android Development with Dave Paiva 16:06

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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 …

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Beginning a career in Design with Niket Satoskar 14:31

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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 “Twitt…