Pure paid acquisition is a recipe for limited success. Let’s put it that way. When the product works, you can market it better, and then it scales better but without the product working, you can’t really force fate. So, just do pure organic reach out and product first tactics only because that gives you is the truest understanding of your product working or not. […]
Conviction on a specific market, on a specific founder, on a specific product play a huge role. And that, in my opinion, is the biggest driver of success in the venture capital business. So, Tiger is considered to be one of the most successful venture VCs in India. They invested and poured money into e-commerce when people were still skeptical about it, but there was no data but those gut conviction and belief. Once you have that gut, conviction and belief and you hold on to it for a significant period of time, it pays off. […]
Read More… from Rutvik Doshi, Managing Director, Inventus Capital Partners
Any startup which is trying to do something super bold and something very new comes off as not very understandable because they are very new. Meesho sounded like a marketing gimmick, a fad that exists this year and will go away tomorrow. But I realised that a lot of people in India take time to understand a new model because there are not many new models here. Many large companies have been inspired by the West, with a lot of fundraising happening because of matching patterns.
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Acknowledging the things that go wrong is also equally an important trait of a good founder, while anybody can glorify the good things in the company. So, it all comes down to the imagination of the founder and his or her ability to sell an idea, which a VC can quantitatively analyse and look at turning into an opportunity,
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Read More… from Rahul Chandra, Managing Director, Unitary Helion Fund
Apart from investing in OYO, we also invested in B2B commerce startup Udaan, which is the Alibaba-equivalent in India. Then there is YC-backed OkCredit, where we helped them in seed funding, and probably are their earliest investor. So broadly, there are four categories based on the past patterns SME, fintech, education, and, of course, the B2C space.
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Read More… from Hemant Mohapatra, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Today, Ola beats Uber hands-down when it comes to user experience, so much that Uber is copying its features and integrations. The same with Amazon – Flipkart-owned Myntra has a better UX than Amazon and even Flipkart while Amazon is still playing catch-up to conclusively get to the number one spot in Indian ecommerce since 2013.
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It was not easy to show evidence of the things that were happening on the ground. That took us a while. In fact, we could not show any confidence until we wrote the first three cheques. That was when word started to spread that AI was actually working out.
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Listen on iTunes Listen on Spotify Listen on Soundcloud Sameer’s journey in India’s venture capital ecosystem began back in 2007 when he joined Reliance Ventures, where he focused on early-stage investments in the Technology, Media / Entertainment & Telecommunications domain. After being with Reliance for 4 years he joined Nexus Venture Partners […]
Listen on iTunes Listen on Spotify Listen on Soundcloud Sanjay started his career in Silicon Valley in 1992 & spent over 7 years at his first company, working in different roles across – Sales, Customer Support, Engineering & Marketing. He then worked with Xerox & Portal Software in US before coming back […]
Listen on iTunes Listen on Spotify Listen on Soundcloud In 2001, Sid founded Evolv, a vocational training company funded by Singapore Technologies. Over the next 6 years, he built it into a business that trained 20,000+ people annually across 200 cities in South Asia and the Middle East. He later sold it […]
