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 for, and that startups should prepare for? The most significant readiness factor is if the
Being a startup founder is hard as is. Building a sustainable product, hire, manage & motivate a team, retain customers, raise capital, manage social media & PR; the list is endless. Should you take time to find an awesome mentor and share your startup journey with them? Is it really
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 jumbo. But, think about it. When starting up, how does one pick the idea to
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 very effective! In recent months and years, there is a deluge of events. In varying
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 all times. If not congnizant, the startup or product may quite not “cross” the chasm.
One of the perks of a writing gig, in my opinion, is the interviewing part. The part where you get to meet people. And when the people you meet turn out to be like Venkat, then swell! A tete-a-tete with him took my motivation levels back up a few notches.