Slintel: Learnings from Building a Data as a Service (DaaS) Business
Our portfolio company Slintel recently closed its Series A round; the round was led by GGV Ventures, …
Why digital first consumer brands need to transform themselves into data first consumer brands
Historically, It has been hard to disrupt a consumer brand. Many of the leading consumer brands (either individual or a group) …
Building Data as a Service (DaaS) Companies: Early Learnings from Our Partnership with Slintel
Sometime in 2017, we had the opportunity to speak with Deepak Anchala, co-founder and CEO of Slintel. Deepak was building a SaaS company in the sales intelligence …
Testing hypotheses and understanding customer behavior using cohort analysis
In 2015, I was running my first startup. It was a laundry services business. …
Navigating your start-up in uncertain times
I lived through two major downturns. The first one led to personal bankruptcy, and I narrowly survived the second one. In 2001, …
Keeping Indian Startups Indian
Technologists and tech investors are fond of saying “data is the new oil”. Often, they mean that data is the fuel that powers the new …