Education, AI, health: test your business creativity with Edition 241 of our weekly quiz!
This insightful feature from YourStory tests and strengthens your business acumen! Here are 5 questions to kick off this 241st quiz. Ready?
Lateral Sparks, the weekly quiz from YourStory, tests your domain knowledge, business acumen, and lateral thinking skills (see the previous edition here). In this 241st edition of the quiz, we present issues tackled by real-life entrepreneurs in their startup journeys.
What would you do if you were in their shoes? At the end of the quiz, you will find out what the entrepreneurs and innovators themselves actually did. Would you do things differently?
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Q1: Education and relevance
Classroom education in school and college is not enough to be prepared for a rapidly-changing and uncertain world. Where is the entrepreneurial opportunity here in making education more relevant?
Q2: Music and listening
Though music is abundantly available online, many older consumers are uncomfortable with the digital consumption experience. What could be a better ‘analog’ alternative for them?
Q3: Healthy eating
Many people who are diabetic want to eat well but not give up on sweetness or take insulin injections. How can this need be met in an effective manner?
Q4: Obesity
Many countries are facing the rising burden of obesity and related metabolic diseases, which requires continuous and expensive medical care. How can this health crisis be addressed?
Q5: Health tracking
Many consumers want to focus on health tracking and not just responding to health problems. But smart watches as trackers are bulky and uncomfortable to wear at night. What’s a better alternative here?
Answers!
Congratulations on having come this far! But there’s more to come – answers to these five questions (below), as well as links to articles with more details on the entrepreneurs’ solutions. Happy reading, happy learning – and happy creating!
A1: Education and relevance
Co-founded by Ashish Munjal, Elevate Education works with higher education institutions and industry to make education more relevant at scale. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes that combine academic curricula with industry-oriented training.
It improves employability by helping institutions align courses with changing industry requirements while supporting students throughout their academic journey. Read more here about its recent fundraise to strengthen its technology and AI capabilities and expand its network of partner institutions.
A2: Music and listening
Created by Avinash Mudaliar, Saregama Carvaan is a retro-styled digital music player pre-loaded with 5,000 songs. It solves the problem of access without anxiety, and delivers a level of comfort and even nostalgia.
This was a contrarian call to bet on hardware in the age of streaming. Read more here about how this player became a popular item for children to gift to their elders, and reminded people of who they were, who they loved, and how they lived.
A3: Healthy eating
Founded by Manvi Agnihotri and Sheen Hitaishi, The Sweet Change is a clean, natural sweetener brand. It uses monk fruit sweetener in powder and drop variants to give sweetness without sugar, calories or a glucose spike.
“India is the diabetes capital of the world—almost every family has someone who is pre-diabetic or diabetic,” Agnihotori says. Read more here about how the company has clocked Rs 2.6 crore in sales in its first year, with products priced between Rs 450 and Rs 550.
A4: Obesity
Founded by Kunal Kapoor, Varun Sheth, and Zaheer Adenwala, MetaGO is a doctor-led metabolic health platform. It combines specialist consultations, diagnostics, clinically appropriate GLP-1 therapies, and nutrition guidance.
It covers more than 35 biomarkers, and focuses on lifestyle changes and long-term follow-up. Read more here about its personalised treatment plans, nutrition guidance, fitness coaching and ongoing monitoring.
A5: Health tracking
Founded by Arpana Shahi and Gaurav Gupta, Gabit is a wellness tech platform with a smart ring at its core. Priced at Rs 14,500, the rings have less signal noise and are closer to the source of indicator data.
The company's AI-powered platform brings together insights from these sources, identifies correlations across health markers, and provides users with a handful of personalised recommendations. Read more here about its awards and accolades.
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