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Rachita Kumar PE, Madison India Capital Sharing her valuable insights on: Why should startups remain focused, especially during the early stages? 2 contrast case studies, 1 which has drifted away from its core focus, another which has remained focused and benefitted immensely? Finally, how should startups really expand, while keeping their core focus intact? 

Daniel Lewis CEO/Founder, Convoy Sharing his valuable insights/learnings on building a unicorn startup, Convoy! Source: Full Podcast .

Immad Akhund CEO & Founder, Mercury (Bank) Sharing his valuable insights on: How to Build a Compelling Story or Narrative for Your Startup ? Source: This twitter thread !

Alexandre Covello VC Partner, Defrocked VC Sharing his valuable insights on: Key reasons behind the failure of over 70% funded startups? Journey from Seed to Series A. How should founders effectively scale up from Seed to Series A Round? When scaling up (from Seed to Series A), what are the pitfalls to watch for, and how to avoid them? What should the founders do, when not fundraising? Finally, ab...

This podcast is inspired from a post by Paul Graham , the co-founder of Y Combinator on his website , dated back in February 2009. These 13 wisdom points are so relevant for the Founders, even today.

Chad Fox Managing Partner, Fox Ventures Sharing his valuable insights on: What is a Micro VC, and how are they different from a traditional VC fund? What are the nitty gritties involved in starting a Micro VC Fund? Why should early-stage startups opt for Micro VCs vis-a-vis a traditional VC? In comparison to angel groups/syndicates, when does it makes sense for the founders to instead opt for a Mi...

Shital Kakkar Mehra Executive Presence Coach for CEOs TEDx Speaker, Best-selling Author Sharing her valuable insights on: Why is communication so important, especially for entrepreneurs? Key signs to indicate if one lacks in communication skills. How to improve one's communication skills? What does it mean to engage with empathy? How to empathetically engage with all key stakeholders (i.e. employe...

Alex Garcia , CEO & Founder at The Hustle helps companies generate sales & leads using digital platforms. In a thread on his Twitter account, Alex shared valuable insights on, how should you build a lead funnel and effectively generate sales. He used a similar approach to help his friends achieve over $25K of eBook sales with barely any ad spend.

Sweta Rau Angel Investor, White Ventures Member at XA Network Sharing her valuable insights on: Why Angel Investors make more sense at the pre-seed/seed stage? Strategy to target the prospective investors, and get a lead investor. Her assessment criteria for investing in early-stage startups? Her advice for bootstrapped founders, facing a high burn rate. An elevator pitch that wowed her? A brief o...

Janine Sickmeyer founded and built legal startup NextChapter, which she bootstrapped for over 6 long years. As a first-time founder, Janine steadily grew to 20 employees, and was instrumental in achieving 6K customers as well as 14% MoM consistent growth for 3 long years. Eventually her startup was acquired in September 2019 by Fastcase! This podcast is taken from her thread on Twitter, where she...

Shubham G Dungarwal Founder & CEO, GFresh Agrotech Sharing his valuable insights on: Challenges of the Onion Farmers Role of GFresh in Solving these Challenges His Journey Experience Using Blockchain in the Future His Growth Plans for GFresh

Elizabeth Yin , the co-founder of Hustle Fund VC on her Twitter account, shared a series of tweets on " How to Set the Prices for Your Product or Service ?" This podcast is the extract of that thread.

Prashant Narang Co-Founder, Agility Venture Partners Sharing his valuable insights on: Why is cash flow so important for startups or small businesses? How can the entrepreneurs systematically manage their finance? What strategy would you recommend for getting payments/accounts receivables on time? How can founders create their simple 3-5 year financial projections without hiring an analyst? Share...

Karthik Sridharan Co-founder & CEO at Flexiple & Remote. Tools Sharing his valuable insights on: You spent $5K each on your 1st and 2nd products but eventually both failed, what really went wrong? Then as a masterstroke, you instead used GoogleSheets as a product and went on to generate $100K in revenues, how did that go? So, what's the learning here for the founders who're building their...

Bhavik Vasa Founder at GetVantage, India's first Revenue-Based Financing platform Sharing his valuable insights on: What is Revenue-based Financing (RBF), and Who is it for? The major considerations, when opting for RBF? What flat fee does GetVantage charge? What are the qualifying criteria, and the repayment options involved in RBF? How does GetVantage really work? 2 success stories of startups t...

James Church Author, Investable Entrepreneur Co-founder & COO, Robot Mascot Sharing his valuable insights on: Why is it so difficult to raise funding in the early-stages? Most common mistakes that entrepreneurs do, while pitching to the investors? How does one create a great pitching story for their business? How can entrepreneurs make their ventures, truly fundable/investable? What all metric...

Vinod Khosla , the founder of Sun Microsystems and Khosla Ventures, during his Talk at Stanford Graduate School of Business, in May-15 really emphasised on two key skills for all founders i.e. perseverance and conviction. Here are some excerpts of that interview, which is highly relevant even today.

David B Horne Award-winning Author of "Add then Multiply" TEDx Speaker Sharing his valuable insights on : Why is the organic growth method quite slow, and limited for any venture? What are the perils of scaling-up/growing too fast? His advice to the founders of early-stage startups! How can entrepreneurs use his "FACE Methodology" to exponentially grow their venture? 2 case studies where David app...

Hernan Fernandez Lamadrid Cofounder & Partner, Angel Ventures, Mexico 17 Investments for a total of $14 Mn Sharing his valuable insights on: Brief on Latin America's Startup Ecosystem. Challenges and the future of Latin America's Startup Ecosystem. His advise to those entrepreneurs, who are at the ideation stage? How is Angel Ventures, Mexico enabling the startups across Latin America? 2 succe...

John D. Hanson Director, Accelerated Revenue CX & Winning Consultant Sharing his valuable insights on: What is Customer Experience (CX), and Why is it so Important? Role of Customer Love/Obsession in Investors' Funding, and How can CX help? How can CX help SaaS Startups Retain their Customers? How Customer Experience be a Strongest Moat for the Startups? Case Study of Zappos.com, how they engr...

Yamika Mehra Venture Partner, Favcy Co-Founder, Refittings.com Sharing her insights on: Why Should Professionals Opt for Angel Investing? Risks and Potential Returns Involved in Angel Investments? How to do an Initial Due Diligence, before Investing? About Favcy Venture Builder, and Investing through them?

Jonathan Siddharth (Founder & CEO, Turing) shares his valuable insights on " Parallel Approach to Fundraising ," a breakthrough approach using which he raised $14 Mn seed round for his venture, Turing! 

Mark Nadal Founder & CEO, Era Inc Sharing his valuable insights on: His Fundraising Journey Experience. Mistakes He Made during Fundraising and the Learnings from Them. Do Strong VCs Connections or Introduction to VCs from Other Founders' Help? Differentiating Factors between the Investors, Who Commit and Those Who Just Drag? His Tips for the Founders, Who are in Fundraising Mode!

Raj A. Kapoor Founder & CEO, India Blockchain Alliance. Recognised Expert, Writer & Speaker on Blockchain. Sharing his insights on: Difference between Blockchain and Bitcoins. How can Startups and SMEs leverage Blockchain to enhance their processes or other areas? How can HealthTech and EdTech sectors benefit from Blockchain? How can the Agriculture sector leverage from Blockchain? A Brief...

The hybrid legal software and law firm startup Atrium despite raising $75 million in venture capital, had to shut down in March 2020 after it failed to figure out how to deliver better efficiency than a traditional law firm.  Months later in January 2021, the serial entrepreneur Justin Kan who was the CEO of erstwhile Atrium shared in his several tweets, some of his biggest lessons learned fr...