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Gagan Biyani

American businessman

Gagan Biyani (born May 30, 1987) is an American of Indian descent[1] serial entrepreneur, marketer, and journalist.[2][3] He was a co-founder of Udemy, an online education company, and was co-founder and CEO of Sprig, a food delivery company.[4]

Life and career

Biyani was born to Indian parents in Fremont, California.[5]

Early career

Biyani attended the University of California, Berkeley, and received a bachelor's degree in Economics. He began his career working at Accenture before transitioning into technology entrepreneurship and journalism. As a journalist, he covered mobile applications and technology at TechCrunch.[6] While there, he wrote a number of investigative journalism pieces, including one about a PR firm that was writing fake reviews on the App Store.[7] He broke the story in TechCrunch. According to The New York Times,[8] the findings led to an FTC investigation and Biyani's findings were quoted by the FTC's official documents

Gagan Biyani

United States Of America • 38 years

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About Gagan Biyani

Gagan Biyani is an Angel Investor from United States of America. Prominent investment areas are Hardware and Technology, Community and Lifestyle, Edu-Tech and has invested in startups like Stoa School.

Gagan Biyani Prominent Investment Areas

Community and Lifestyle Edu-Tech Hardware and Technology

Key Focus Areas of invested Startups by Gagan Biyani

Educational Platfrom Educational products and Services

Gagan Biyani Recent Experience

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Maven , United States of America

Chief Executive Officer

Sprig: Eat Well, United States of America

Gagan Biyani Education (joining year)

UG

(2005)

University of California, Berkeley, United States of America

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The Art of Ideation, Part 1: Be a BUM

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While exploring the idea for my new company, I taught a well-received online course at Oxford, OnDeck and via theHustle. This course is about one of the gnarliest challenges of business: generating and evaluating business ideas. I like to call it “The Art of Ideation.”

Ideation is not a straight-line path. In reality, “ideas can come from anywhere.” You never know when that light bulb moment will happen. I’ve divided the process into 5 concrete sections, but the lines between these sections are blurry and the path through them is nonlinear.

While exploring the idea for my NewCo, I taught a well-received online course at Oxford, OnDeck and via theHustle. The course is about one of the gnarliest challenges of business: generating and evaluating business ideas. I like to call it “The Art of Ideation.” Since I first taught the course, I’ve clarified it some, and now I’m turning it into a 5-part article series.

In this series, I’ll outline an approach to startup “ideation” that I believe hasn’t been availabl

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