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Why Most Businesses Fail in Nepal (And How to Survive) | EP 280

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Episode 327

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The Doers Nepal – Nepal’s Longest Running Business Podcast

Since childhood, we have been taught that Nepal is a diverse country. Diversity creates an opportunity for its citizens to innovate.

In this conversation, Rupesh Krishna Shrestha breaks down:

If you have a business idea then what should you do?

-How Nepal’s institutional “voids” create barriers but also chances for bold entrepreneurs

-The myth of “no money” in Nepal and why capital exists if you know where to look

-The power of lived experience in spotting business opportunities

-Brain drain vs. brain gain: why migration is natural but return investment matters

-Nepal’s missed niches: spirituality, cuisine, and standardization for global markets

-Kathmandu Valley as a potential global innovation hub

The hard truth about complaining vs. creating value in Nepal

Whether you are a student, founder, or dreamer, this episode is your playbook for turning frustration into execution, and building from Nepal for the world.

👥 Guest

 Rupesh Krishna Shrestha, Professor | Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Researcher | Innovator

 Chief Investment Officer, XUNO Co.

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/rupeshkshrestha/

🧭 Timestamps

0:00 Highlight

0:56 Breaking the ice

1:26 I got a business idea. What now?

6:18 Innovation comes from Youth

8:56 Ecosystem for Innovation

12:36 How to encourage our young entrepreneurs?

16:49 Why industry leader must invest in Research

17:14 Spirituality is our Niche

18:50 How to make it a product?

20:35 How can youth start a business? (Way of Research)

23:06 Find out whether quitting or moving ahead

24:31 How to find gap and problems

26:53 Solve Nepal’s Problem. Why?

27:36 Solve the problem which you have faced. How?

31:01 How to create Network (Types and Secrets)

36:01 Is it easy to do business in Nepal?

39:56 Enabling environment for Nepal

44:21 Clear doubts about Return with partners

47:17 Why XUNO came into existence

49:49 Mentoring in Ideastudio

50:26 Skilling up process

53:06 Process for product standardization

58:31 Relation between ecosystem and innovation

01:00:51 Create opportunities and promote diversity

01:01:06 Asia is going to be the most powerful

01:05:46 What value can we give to the world?

01:07:46 Why is standardization needed?

01:09:11 What actually happens in the innovation center?

01:11:06 What are the tangible steps to innovate?

01:11:36 Difference between innovation and incubation centre

01:14:26 Need of bright minds in Nepal

01:17:31 Lifecycle of incubation centre (Where we are?)

01:18:56 Youth going abroad is not a problem

01:20:34 Trends in GenZ

01:23:26 Right time to leverage technology

01:24:22 Why are good entrepreneurs needed for every country?

01:26:21 Pull factor and Push Factor

01:27:27 Come back home safe

01:28:36 We Co-exist as a society

01:30:56 Mentorship opportunity

01:33:26 Why collaboration is important

01:34:47 Future and Goal of XUNO and Problem solved by XUNO

01:38:10 Facilitating business/freelancers to go Global

01:48:06 Why Nepali Tech Talent is amazing

01:50:36 What is special about us?

01:52:36 What needs to be solved?

01:54:01 How to tap in opportunities by Nepalese?

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