Category Startups
When it comes to tech, safety is about anti-virus, firewalls, backups, two-factor auth, etc. Manufacturing: It’s about Kanban, over engineering processes, safety equipment, etc. Healthcare: Deep cleaning equipment, measured dosage, tracking previous illnesses, etc. Each industry has its own contours… Continue Reading →
Looking at Twitter over the last year, I’m realising it had great Product-Market-Fit (PMF) but never great Business-Model-Fit (BMF) Millions use Twitter for consumption, and creators use it to increase distribution and followers. But Twitter itself has been unable to… Continue Reading →
Venture capital funds are currently in a robust position, with significant “dry powder” ready for deployment, a trend that has been substantiated by data from the past three years. This availability of capital is a testament to the continued investor… Continue Reading →
Looking back to the mid-90s, knowing Visual Basic and building GUI apps was suddenly insufficient. Developers like me had to quickly learn HTML, CSS, and other technologies. Soon, the proliferation of PHP and JavaScript (Ajax!) necessitated yet another round of… Continue Reading →
In an avg YCombinator cohort FinTech went from 7% to 24% in 11 yrs. I’m intrigued that this growth is exclusive of Blockchain, cleanly sidestepping irrational exuberance My take: While Regulators in India & US are both catching up with… Continue Reading →
I had a few people take a quick glance at today’s ET front page. Then asked them to guess the brand. • 2/3 guessed Kajaria Tiles• 1/3 guessed Tata Capital (& Kajaria as the 2nd choice). What a massive (no additional spend) win… Continue Reading →
I used ChatGPT to explain the impact of AI to 1st year students.
Here’s an excerpt of a talk I gave at CMR Institute Of Technology last month
Google’s 140,000 employees use OKRs.
As do Amazon. Linkedin. Spotify. Slack. Baidu. GoPro. DropBox. Asana.
The list of startups that have implemented OKRs reads like a list of the world’s highest-performance teams.
I was reading Fred Wilson‘s (of Union Square Ventures) most recent blog post about FTX and felt it was valuable enough to share my summary here: •The recent FTX incident has called into question the reliability of many crypto exchanges, and has left people… Continue Reading →
Finding investors for your sustainability startup is easier than you might think.
There are a growing number of angel investors and VCs who are interested in startups in this sector.
Before beginning on your fundraise journey, make sure you have some important thoughts in place.