Why are hiring startups dying? It’s a crazy graveyard from Apna to Hirect. I had an idea around the space but I am cold-feet after hearing VC perspective on the space. Met a founder in Koramangala who had raised 4Cr and failed after onboarding half a
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Hey I am on Medial • 1y
That man failed because either he couldn’t retain or monetise half a mil users. Plus you shouldn’t take his example too seriously. VC’s still take hiring play’s seriously just that maybe they are more cautious.
Hardest lessons learned in the first 90 days (3-months) of building my startup-
1) Never trust anyone blindly. Not even your co-founders. Test their commitment and make sure everyone’s equity is vested over time including yours.
2) Don’t over opt
“2 million daily active users to Failure”
Billions to Bankruptcy #11
Koo was founded in 2020 by Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka as a microblogging platform for Indians in multiple languages.Initially experienced a rapid rise due to its p
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Google had the best engineers and the most resources.
Yet, they couldn’t beat Facebook in social networking. Why?
Mark Zuckerberg
Contrarian take: Tata’s Bigbasket and not Zepto is India’s q-com dark horse 🙌🙌
And I have five reasons why. Let’s dive into some crazy stuff!
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The Tata Group company had been reported to have just a 5% market share a few months back.
The Shutdown of Bowery Farming: A Case Study in What Went Wrong
Bowery Farming, once a celebrated innovator in the vertical farming industry, has ceased operations as of late 2024, marking the end of a journey that began with high promise and a valu
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Sairaj Kadam
Entrepreneur • 5m
The Billion-Dollar Secret No One Talks About: Timing Over Talent
When Uber launched in 2009, it wasn’t the first ride-sharing app.
Apps like Sidecar and Taxi Magic already existed.
But they didn’t take off.
When Instagram came out in 2010, it wasn’
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SamCtrlPlusAltMan
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OpenAI • 19d
Most startup advice ends at “find product-market fit.” But what happens after that?
This talk..How to Build a Product that Scales into a Company, is one of the most underrated deep dives on what actually matters after you get something people want.
One Line at a Time: Amplitude Analytics
Spenser Skates, the visionary co-founder and CEO of Amplitude, has led the company to become a titan in the software industry. Amplitude's digital analytics platform is now the gold standard in product