I chose to go to the US very early into the journey into the company White Hat Jr., typically, people in India would like to build a company, spend many years then eventually go to the US but, I was so clear that, that anything we can create from India is going to be good enough for the world and that I took that bunch very early. […]
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Pratilipi is a storytelling platform started and focused on Indian languages for now. So our basic premise is that people should be able to share their stories with each other in a wide variety of different formats, a wide variety of different languages, a wide variety of different devices, geographies, and everything else. It started as an online literature platform, which was essentially called Pratilipi where people can come and publish their stories, novels, books, civilized literature, and other people can come and read them. […]
LISTEN ON ITUNES Listen on Spotify LISTEN ON CASTBOX In this episode, we chat with Malika Datt Sadani & Mohit Sadaani, The Moms Co. which deals with toxic-free products for newborns and mothers. The Mom’s Co’s journey started from a personal experience. Both the couple’s daughters had skin conditions which made them scourge for […]
I never thought of Plan B. When I quit my job with SAP, I had some headhunters, they knew that I have left. And I immediately had an offer from one of the companies right. But I decided not to do it. I had earned my bread and butter. I can survive without earning and take care of my family. I think it was a passion that brought us here, and we would have continued and I don’t see a reason why this would have failed? I mean, when you’re doing something right, and you have the right intent. I think my strong belief is then the whole world conspires to make you successful. […]
Successful founders have been somewhat different from each other, I think Sachin and Binny are very different from Kunal and Rohit. And they are very different from Vijay Shekhar. they’re all three in the same market at the same time. So Venture investing is also about unlearning some of these patterns that you see, but I will tell you the common traits within Sachin and Sahil that I saw. So they were very methodical and thinking they were thinking very big, they were taking the right decisions. They were very focused on customers. So whenever I would meet them, they would take some decisions for customers, which made a lot of sense. But these were brought early signs. Having said that, I think venture in angel investing is all about constantly unlearning these patterns that exist between different founders […]
Read More… from Abhishek Goyal of Tracxn, on Angel Investing in 130 Startups
Kiranas has accounted for 90 plus percent, 90-95% of all food and grocery trade in the country even today. So, some things around, how we design the business have not changed. We said, Kiranas will continue to be the future, let’s build around them. And let’s really solve the problems of Kiranas, both in terms of how they buy and as well as what they sell. […]
Read More… from Inside the mind of Jumbotail Founders, S Karthik Venkateswaran and Ashish Jhina
I remember the point in Cocubes when we had a term sheet of $5 million in 2011 or 12 and at the end moment, it didn’t pan through. We were a team of about 120 people and then we had to let go of 70-80 folks. We had already taken on debt and at this moment everything fell apart and we’ve already been slogging for five years. […]
A founder actually wastes a lot of time in pitching the same story, playing like a record in front of different investors. Here we kind of make sure that founders’ efforts are not wasted. From the time he meets us to the time he actually kind of gets the check from us. There is only a structured amount of time that we take from the founder in terms of understanding the business or doing your due diligence. […]
Read More… from Mitesh Shah from being a CFO at Ola & BookMyShow to start Inflection Point Ventures
Your ability to scale is far higher because it’s again 100% market share channeled and your dependence is reducing on others, which is also helping your de-risk the business. So, that was our focus from a one to 10 journey perspective. And 10 to 50 is when we also started focusing on offline as a segment. […]
Read More… from Inside the mind of Mamaearth Founders, Ghazal & Varun Alagh
Going from one to 10 is a different journey, and going from 10 to 100 is a very, very different journey of scale. Investors should be also careful that they are not a blocker in founders’ growth as well. So, I think just helping them and guiding them in the first part is very, very different from what is required for large-scale companies. […]
Read More… from Dilipkumar Khandelwal on Angel Investing in B2B SaaS Companies
