CMF: Astravue - The Side of Entrepreneurship We Don’t Talk About w/ Ramesh Kumar | Friday Collective #33

​Astravue: The Side of Entrepreneurship We Don’t Talk About

​Startup conversations often focus on the beginning, the idea, the excitement, the first customers and the growth.

​But there’s another side we don’t talk about enough.

​What happens when things don’t go according to plan? When do you keep pushing, and when does pausing become the right decision? And what happens when a founder steps away from the startup journey and moves back into employment?

​For Friday Collective #33, Ramesh Kumar joins us for a candid conversation about building Astravue, the journey behind it, the decision to pause, and what came next.

​We’ll explore:

• ​The story behind building Astravue

• ​What worked and what didn’t

• ​The realities and trade-offs of the founder journey

• ​Knowing when to keep going and when to pause

• ​Moving from founder back into employment

• ​Lessons from the journey and what he would approach differently today

​This isn’t a success story or a failure story.

​It’s a conversation about entrepreneurship as it actually happens.

​About Friday Collective

​Friday Collective is a weekly gathering by Chennai Marketers & Founders (CMF) where founders, marketers, operators and builders come together to learn from real experiences, exchange perspectives and have conversations that go beyond the usual playbooks.

​Friday Collective by Chennai Marketers & Founders

​🗓️ Friday
⏰ 5 PM IST
💻 Online — Google Meet

​Come with questions. Leave with a different way of looking at brands.