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It may seem like hindsight is 20/20, but having a marginal niche or having no specific user in mind, both, may be costly mistakes. I am pleasantly surprised to see people on the top too. Much like most things in life, people make or break things they get involved in 🙂 ***************************Ranjani Mani#nationalstartupday #reviewswithranjani#startups#womeninVC
My sweet mom, who worked and retired at a government job for 35 odd years, once asked, “Ammu, all these unicorns you keep talking about – do they actually make 1Bn rupees of money?’ “It’s valued in USD, amma, not INR”, I replied. “Oh!’, she exclaimed and then started to multiply with 75, as just …
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“Stop comparing your inside view with someone else’ outside” I was listening to Omer Khan’s SaaS podcast featuring ThoughtExchange’s CEO, Dave Macleod. Dave had once stopped reading Tech Crunch. Why? To avoid seeing fabulous stories of IPO’s and Funding rounds when his company was still trying to get a grapple on their customer segment. You …
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Owning the Customer Experience Value Chain – End to End Operators Do you remember contacting people with Yellow Pages? This evolved further where you could find a carpenter online but the process of contacting them remained largely offline. Then came the marketplaces that allows the transactions to occur online. Battery Ventures has this brilliant article …
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What are 4 Big Ideas that Fintech Will Tackle in 2021 The a16z fintech team weighs in – Read more about the top trends and what is driving them #1 Disintermediating the banking system > Banks usually serve as intermediaries between the consumer and the government. > Fintech, the article states, allows governments to remove …
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I was talking to a start-up founder and was pleasantly surprised at how data informed their decisions were. There seems to be largely two kinds of startup founders – One who trusts data driven/data informed product building. And then those who use data and analytics as an after thought. As a founder, you get to …
A cousin in college wanted to understand a cap-table. For some reason, she thought I was a VC. I am not. At least not yet! Here is a 101 thread of how a cap-table (capitalization table) works #1What – A cap-table (capitalization table) is the list of securities (stock, convertible notes, equity…) the company has …
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Driven by Gen Z and Millennials, Fintech start-ups are a fore-runner in startups funding There are 5,010 FinTech startups in India This is a sector I anticipate will further accelerate. Here are extracts from a brilliant article extending this argument around why #1GenZ‘ expectation around Finance has changed from their parents gen …”This generation has …
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Have you heard the story of how Airbnb funded their startup with cereal boxes. So I heard this oh-so-smart story of how AirBnB emerged from the cusp of doom in Guy Raz’ book – ‘How I built this’ Â After their failed attempt at getting people to book through Air Bed and Breakfast (as it …
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It is raining unicorns – What a week its been for the Indian startup ecosystem!  As of 7 Apr, as many as 8 Indian startups joined the coveted $1 billion unicorn club—half of them just this week Cred | Fintech | 2.2B Meesho | Social Media | 2.1B Digital Insurance | Insurtech | 1.9B Five …
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