Ramesh Loganathan
Hyderabad enthusiast, Shiva/Shivaji fan, adjunct faculty.. observing Hyderabad grow into a beautiful, creative, innovation minded tech startup city.
Making the best out of mentor meeting time
In evolving startup ecosystems, access to mentors that can add value to a startups journey is extremely limited. Even more so in the early stages of a startup. When a startup does get access to …
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Read More 6 years ago Ramesh Loganathan
Research can trigger deeptech startups?
Great to see the steadily increasing startups traction in the city. More startups. Well experienced/enabled founders. Better curated ideas. Good market connect. Clear revenue focus.  This year we will see many of these hit …
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Read More 7 years ago Ramesh Loganathan
Flexing and Stretching ideas, before starting up
The very first step of starting up is zeroing in on the idea. Very important that the idea should connect with the founder, Resonate strongly, Inspire, and Excite. But we all know that clear observation …
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Read More 7 years ago Ramesh Loganathan
Minimum? Viable? Product?
We all know what is a product. But what is viable. And what is minimum-viable? The primary purpose of a product in a startup is to help the target userbase. Bring to bear the value …
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Read More 7 years ago Ramesh Loganathan
How investment-ready are you?
While clearly an important caveat if and when a startup needs money, assuming there is a compelling case for investment, when is a startup “ready†for an investment. What are the parameters that investors look …
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Read More 7 years ago Ramesh LoganathanIs technology the best way to a quick startup success/exit?ÂÂÂ
Great news this week about a 3-year old startup from Hyderabad, Tuplejump, being acquired by Apple. They were in the big data space building a product that allowed use of nosql databases. Deep tech mumbo …
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Read More 7 years ago Ramesh LoganathanStartup events – a boon or a bane?
Startups are always looking for that little bit of support, feedback, advise, guidance, customer reference or investor connect all the time. And this is never easy to come by. Very elusive. And probably not always …
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Read More 7 years ago Ramesh LoganathanSurmounting the ‘Chasms’ in Start-up lifecycle
Have been hearing about crossing the chasm forever. In a strategy discussion this week, this came up again. Now to look at assessing mature products. Not just startups. Thinking further, clearly there are chasms at …
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Read More 7 years ago Ramesh LoganathanIdentifying target customer segment key
One of the important questions that many people ask is – When you have a compelling idea that is sufficiently curated, should you opt going full-time into the ‘startup mode’? Answering this question is never …
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Read More 7 years ago Ramesh LoganathanMentoring, how best to use the time
One common refrain I hear form early stage founders is that a mentor they were seeking out didn’t respond or didn’t respond favorably.  Need to understand some reasons why, and preemptively address this when reaching out. …
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