The partnership with the investors in building the venture becomes an important element of creating the scale. Data shows us that that companies which do well are where the investors are actually supporting and working with the company to help them build-out. […]
Read More… from Shanti Mohan, Founder, LetsVenture on the rise of Angel Investing in India
For online brands, the shelf is infinite. The brand value proposition can be done much faster online, because, the consumer is giving you direct feedback, when they’re buying your product, there are ratings, there is repeat, there are a lot of those signals that you can get. […]
Read More… from Rahul Chowdhri, Stellaris Ventures on surge of Direct to Consumer brands in India
Most people never experience excellence. So, through high-quality learning, if we can actually get them to experience excellence, that changes your mindset, it changes your expectations from yourself. And it can have really superlinear impact. And that’s what happens at the top schools. […]
Focus on insights, and focus on what is new, surprising, and different. I think the best kind of guests do that. And the last one I will add is experiential learning, right. So, we don’t need the regurgitation of books and so on. There are other forums to do that. But what is it that you have felt and seen, learned, and observed. […]
Read More… from BTS: Making of Prime Ventures podcast with Partner Amit Somani
Venture debt as a market is still very small compared to what is there in the US and in the US, it’s already like 12 to 15% of the VC market size, in India that will be like almost five to 6% only. So, we have big headway on that set itself in terms of the expansion of the market. And as more players are entering the business, that possibility of the market growth is happening right. […]
Read More… from Ankur Bansal of BlackSoil Capital, on Venture Debt in Startups
Don’t forget to validate with your customers and ask them how much they really want to pay. And I think most founders get passionate about an idea and forget to really do the math of when they’ll get customers, when the customers will want to bet and how much and they don’t, and they’re too shocked because their technical founders, sometimes they’re too shy to ask. […]
Read More… from Shruti Gandhi, Array Ventures on taking SaaS companies from Zero to $10 Million ARR
Sometimes, without being emotional about it, you might want to take care of the organization yourself. And there are scenarios where you need to bring in people on board. So, how do you kind of go through this leadership phase, transforming yourself to be relevant for the company. That’s been a big learning for me personally.
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Read More… from Inside the mind of Baskar Subramanian, Co-Founder, Amagi Corporation
It is necessary to address customer needs, and then fully support the customer through the journey with your product. The sale is just a transaction. The customer relationship and how you work with the customer is a process and the process is perhaps more important than the transaction. […]
Read More… from Naren Gupta on the journey of Nexus Venture Partners
Culturally, the entrepreneurial ecosystem has also evolved significantly from when I started investing in 2007, 2008. There is no stigma attached to failure. People don’t worry about failing. The world is seeing failure very differently from how it saw two decades ago. I think that’s a big shift. […]
Read More… from Vishesh Rajaram, Speciale Invest on investing in seed-stage deep tech startups
By definition, you’re a startup, by definition, you have limited resources, you have limited capacity to do things. So you can only solve a small problem. So take a very narrow problem and solve it extremely well, so well, that nobody else comes even close. […]
Read More… from Ashmeet Sidana of Engineering Capital on Building Fund for Engineers
