The why and how of startup media
Two years ago, during my stint at The Economic Times (ET), I met the CEO of a consumer internet company who I’d been tracking from his early days. He had just raised a significant round of …
Two years ago, during my stint at The Economic Times (ET), I met the CEO of a consumer internet company who I’d been tracking from his early days. He had just raised a significant round of investment from some of the best …
The rise of automated investment advisors – T&C apply
The quote describes it the best – we work hard to earn money but do not put it to the best use. Most people just put money in their savings account (or probably FDs at best) but hey, how many …
The quote describes it the best – we work hard to earn money but do not put it to the best use. Most people just put money in their savings account (or probably FDs at best) but hey, how many millionaires do …
How to pick the right advisors for your startup
Building a world-class startup is hard! As a founder, you are building so many things together — from a team and a business model, to a product and a marketing strategy– there is never …
Building a world-class startup is hard! As a founder, you are building so many things together — from a team and a business model, to a product and a marketing strategy– there is never enough bandwidth or skills to do everything that …
Re-Inventing User Adoption and Support – Our Investment in Whatfix
One of the holy grails of software is that it should be so easy to use that no one should require help to use it. The dream is fair, but a distant one. Design thinking, focus on UI and improvements …
One of the holy grails of software is that it should be so easy to use that no one should require help to use it. The dream is fair, but a distant one. Design thinking, focus on UI and improvements in UI …
Greatest trick the devil ever pulled
Most startups understand the need to have a product market fit. In this hard journey of building something valuable, it’s that elusive state of nirvana where everything becomes a little bit easier …
Most startups understand the need to have a product market fit. In this hard journey of building something valuable, it’s that elusive state of nirvana where everything becomes a little bit easier – you start getting more inbound requests, customers start ‘getting’ …
Announcing our first investment – Wydr
India trades around $300 billion of retail products every year. While people talk about companies owning distribution chains, more than 70-80% of retail goes via the wholesale route. In addition, we …
India trades around $300 billion of retail products every year. While people talk about companies owning distribution chains, more than 70-80% of retail goes via the wholesale route. In addition, we are home to more than 12 million retailers and 1 million …
Will Global companies eat our lunch?
As an investor, I am often asked this question, and the simple answer is, if I believed this were true, I wouldn’t be in the business. But let me explain. The Indian tech economy is often …
As an investor, I am often asked this question, and the simple answer is, if I believed this were true, I wouldn’t be in the business. But let me explain. The Indian tech economy is often compared with China’s, with similar opportunities …
Will Indian tech companies ever be profitable?
Perhaps the top question venture capitalists have asked Indian tech companies in the last 2 years is about their profitability potential. In view of the discount-driven growth strategy of some …
Perhaps the top question venture capitalists have asked Indian tech companies in the last 2 years is about their profitability potential. In view of the discount-driven growth strategy of some leading internet companies, it is certainly a question worth asking. While we …
Why India is a large tech market
Over the past 24 months I have been asked this question many times – will India ever create large tech companies? And considering we went through a strong run-up in valuations, followed …
Over the past 24 months I have been asked this question many times – will India ever create large tech companies? And considering we went through a strong run-up in valuations, followed immediately by a hard fundraising environment, it’s a fair question …
Hello World!
Hello world! This month, we closed the first round of our maiden $100 million fund, and as we get into action, we are excited to announce the launch of our blog. If you’re on this page, we are glad …
Hello world! This month, we closed the first round of our maiden $100 million fund, and as we get into action, we are excited to announce the launch of our blog. If you’re on this page, we are glad that you found …
- SaaS Talks
- D2C Dialogues
Asian Elephants vs American Rabbits
In conversation with Khadim Bhatti, co-founder & CEO of Whatfix
Remote Sales for Global Markets
In conversation with Krish Subramanian, Founder & CEO of Chargebee
Customer Success
In conversation with Sreedhar Peddineni, ex co-founder of Gainsight
Asia Centric GTM – What does it take?
In conversation with Aneesh Reddy, CEO of Capillary Technologies
Building Product Roadmap
In conversation with Rohit Chennamaneni, co-founder of Darwinbox
Revenue Ops
In conversation with Siva Rajamani, CEO of Everstage & ex-head of revenue ops, Freshworks
Solving the Pricing Puzzle
In conversation with Krishna Depura, co-founder of Mindtickle
Demand Generation
In Conversation with Sandeep Nagpal, VP-Global Marketing, Cvent.
Product Marketing. –
In conversation with Supriya Goswami VP-Product Marketing, Whatfix.
Building US teams… –
In conversation with Umesh Sachdev, Co-Founder and CEO, Uniphore and Vispi Daver, Senior Vice President, Whatfix.
Content Marketing.. –
In Conversation with Asad Khan, Co-ounder and CEO, Lambdatest and Vipul Gupta, Vice President Marketing, Whatfix
Channels and Alliances.. –
In conversation with Arpit Ratan, Co-Founder, Signzy and Kushal Nahata
Co-founder and CEO, FarEye
Outbound Demand Gen –
In conversation with Deepak Anchala, Founder, Slintel and Ankur Saigal
Co-founder, BambooBox.
- D2C Dialogues
D2C Dialogues 1: Featuring Limechat –
D2C Dialogues 1:
Using tech to acquire and serve customers
D2C Dialogues 2:Influencer Marketing featuring Sarva and One Impression
D2C Dialogues 2:
Influencer Marketing featuring Sarva and One Impression
D2C Dialogues 3: Building Global Brands from India
D2C Dialogues 3:
Building Global Brands from India
D2C Dialogues 4: Leveraging social commerce to scale consumer brands featuring Shop101 and SHEROES
D2C Dialogues 4:
Leveraging social commerce to scale consumer brands featuring Shop101 and SHEROES