Category: Early Stage
3 Invaluable Tips for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
Very few successful entrepreneurs will tell aspiring business owners that founding and managing a business is always easy. Still, they will usually insist that it’s what they were born to do and no other kind of life …
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Read More 7 years ago Guest - Jami Schwartz
Hyderabad based FIXU receives $40, 000 investment from Facebook
Recently the famous social media sit Facebook had announced the “FbStart program†where it would invest in the winner startup and would also provide mentoring to the winner. It is no surprise that a city …
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Read More 7 years ago Shalini B
Exclusive Local Deals App, BlueBook, raises $500,000 in a Seed Round syndicated by Indian Angel Network and LetsVenture
Angel investors from IAN and Let’s Venture platform, from India and around the world Help build Blue Books as a high growth venture with increased merchant and user base across 3 cities, leveraging technology for …
Read More 7 years ago Saritha Keshamoni
A Marshmello helmet for the better environment.
Rekarmate is a Hyderabad-based environmental friendly startup. Taking inspiration from the Marshmello’s ( an electronic dance music producer, and DJ) ‘Give it back’ initiative, Rekarmate  gave away  few Marshmello helmets made from recycled waste as …
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Read More 7 years ago Divya Jyothi
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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Read More 7 years ago Ramesh Loganathan
