Opportunity isn’t in running with the herd, it’s always in running against the herd. Arun has invested in 25+ companies including Posist, ZoomCar, ZestMoney etc. And he has also got successful exits from Innov8 CoWorking (acquired by OYO Rooms), Yourbus (acquired by Naspers/Ibibo Group), Endless Robotics (acquired by Mojay) etc. […]
In 2015, Nishith along with his former AWS-colleague Geet Garg, built RideSafe, a real-time route deviation detection, for passenger safety in cabs. However, they eventually realised the potential of this concept in the logistics & supply chain, which led to pivoting to Locus.
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Read More… from Inside the mind of Nishith Rastogi, Co-Founder & CEO, Locus
Given where India is, the size, scale, the broken supply chains, the fact that there is still a lack of transparency in a whole lot of sectors, this whole area of digitization of business processes is going to be massive. And that is the theme that basically runs across both our first fund and second fund. […]
Read More… from Bhaskar Majumdar of Unicorn India Ventures on Investing Risks
As an entrepreneur, you have to sit in the shoes of the master to say, okay, vision is good, I want to do this for good of the human being, but at the end of the day, even the finances have to make sense, right? You need to have all the stories and all the homework ready for you like in terms of market size, what are the business models you have? What product-market fit, you see. So, in the first meeting, you will not have everything, once you get the questions, you go back home, try to learn and build the story. […]
Read More… from Dr Geetha Manjunath on Building Niramai, Breast Cancer Detector
One big mistake that brands usually make is they make it a very brand-led idea and pitch. Whereas if you’re working with influencers, it has to be influencer led and the brand has to be integrated within that content piece. And that’s a gap we’re trying to bridge. […]
Read More… from Influencer Marketing with Viraj Sheth, Founder of Monk Entertainment
You just have to listen to the customer. And you just have to listen to where the market is moving. And if you can do that, then you can ultimately iterate or pivot or improve yourself to the point where you find product-market fit. And so I always like to remind people that this is just a natural part of the early stage process. And I think some people maybe become impatient or they lose faith in themselves or even their teams or their technologies. But I think I think we should all remind ourselves that it’s just a natural part of the process. And but if you can continuously improve, you eventually will find something that fits. […]
You can’t be on Twitter all the time and also run a business. But it’s like grindstone when you are sharpening your knife. So when you are on Twitter, you constantly are thinking about the idea. So, good thing is that I’m in the business of doing that anyway. So, I constantly churn my brain on Twitter, it takes a very less amount time to come up with a solution. […]
Read More… from Abhishek Asthana, @GabbbarSingh, on Creativity and Entrepreneurship
our greatest powers will come from our greatest wounds. One must also remember that not fearing being wrong, or failing is equally important. As it’s very easy to lose your drive. So, irrespective of whether you’re successful or not, I think people judge you anyway, so why bother what they think, you know, we can’t be everything to everyone and yet be true to ourselves. […]
Read More… from Inside the mind of Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder, Snapdeal & Titan Capital
We live in a country where it’s estimated that some 200 million people have been pushed into debts only because of the medical bills. So we really want to change that. And, over the next couple of years, we really are going into tier two, tier three, India, and also sort of expanding our presence across the world.
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Read More… from Kunal Kapoor on building Ketto, the largest Crowdsourcing platform in India
If the farmer doesn’t have access to financing, nothing’s going to change. If he has surplus money, he can do the experiment, if he has the money, he can use your advice and put some input into his farm. But let’s say if you give him the best advice, and he doesn’t have money to buy those chemical fertilizers or whatever growth enhancers, he will not able to do that. […]
