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Pankaj Mishra It’s amazing how just this one question can make or break a company. What makes it even more frustrating is that there’s already too much noise and clutter of answers on this question. From founders, investors, to startup mentors, media and so on, almost everyone has their perfect answer to this question.  And still, many founders hire VP sales too early, or too late. A rare few, Goo...

Pankaj Mishra Over 30 million kids use SplashLearn to play games that help them learn math, practice better. Arpit Jain , Umang Jain , Joy Deep Nath , and Mayank Jain , the co-founders of SplashLearn, were batchmates at IIT Kharagpur. The biggest tipping point for SplashLearn was when it decided to shift from $10 as a lifetime fee for using the app, to $10 as a monthly fee. "We were nervous," Arpi...

The first time I heard of Icertis was when it closed its billion dollar valuation funding round last year. I wasn't alone to discover Icertis back then. Many people in the ecosystem, including some of the top investors had the same question, what does Icertis do and why is it valued at over a billion dollars?   In this episode of SaaSBOOMi podcast with its co-founder Monish Darda , we don't just a...

Pankaj Mishra Great ecosystems are built on building blocks that are diverse and bring different communities and ideologies together. Homogenous building blocks create commoditised environments with absolutely short-lived differentiation and a common race to the bottom. India's SaaS ecosystem brings enough diversity in terms of business models and products, even ideologies, to keep storytellers li...

Wingify founders on a decade of bootstrapping, surviving profitably and staying together Pankaj Mishra What makes a company great? What does it take to build companies that outlive "startup valleys of death"? In this episode of SaaSBOOMi podcast, Paras Chopra and Sparsh Gupta share candid lessons on not just survival but building a culture that lasts, profitably.  "We've been lucky to share a subs...

A lot of spotlight continues to be on India SaaS companies such as Zoho and Freshworks, and rightfully so. But that’s not what’s shaping the future of India’s multi-billion SaaS industry alone. It’s the startups such as Atlan, and its young founders like Prukalpa Sankar who are creating the building blocks of a massive industry, learning from the playbooks of their larger peers, and applying their...

Suresh Sambandam, the CEO and founder of Kissflow, is a quintessential entrepreneur. And that's not just because he can hustle his way out of any crisis, but more because of the way he applies all his learnings egolessly in moving his startup forward. Suresh talks about "the HP Way" he discovered while working at Hewlett Packard early in his career, and the way the company puts trust in its people...

 In our maiden episode of the SaaSBOOMi podcast, we bring you a deep conversation with Manav Garg, the founder of Eka.  “What we are facing today is unprecedented. The degree of unexpectedness is massive. Now, it’s no more about a business--it’s about human lives, human existence and the human way of life going forward,” Manav tells me in this podcast.  “I would advise taking care of physical and...