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Nimesh Pinnamaneni

Making synthetic DNA...ย โ€ขย 2m

๐Ÿšจ The magic number: โ‚น800 Cr โธป VCs invest in businesses that can be big enough to return their entire fund. To get VCs interested, your startup must at least have the potential to reach โ‚น800 Cr+ in annual revenue or โ‚น8,000 Cr+ in market cap (assuming a 10x multiple). Donโ€™t worry if it will take time to get there. They account for that. โธป ๐Ÿ’ก The Simple Formula: A ร— B ร— C โ‰ฅ โ‚น800 Cr Where: A = How many things you can sell (market size or customer base) B = How much you sell it for (price per unit) C = Your gross margin (profit after direct costs) โธป โœ… Example 1: B2B SaaS for Labs Youโ€™re building software for diagnostic labs: A = 10,000 labs B = โ‚น1,00,000 per year (โ‚น8,300/month) C = 85% gross margin ๐Ÿ‘‰ 10,000 ร— โ‚น1,00,000 ร— 0.85 = โ‚น850 Cr โœ… VC-fundable: Big market, recurring revenue, high margin. โธป โŒ Example 2: Boutique Coffee Chain Youโ€™re opening premium cafes in Indian metros: A = 50 outlets B = โ‚น300 average bill - Customers/day = 1000 - Annual Revenue = โ‚น10.9 Cr per outlet โ†’ โ‚น547.5 Cr total C = 30% margin ๐Ÿ‘‰ โ‚น547.5 Cr ร— 0.3 = โ‚น164.2 Cr โŒ Not VC-fundable: Great business, but not scalable enough for VC. โธป โœ… Example 3: Molecular Diagnostics Youโ€™re building a rapid sequencing diagnostics platform: A = 5,000 clinics B = โ‚น8,300 per test - Tests/year = 1,000 per clinic C = 60% margin ๐Ÿ‘‰ 5,000 ร— 1,000 ร— โ‚น8,300 ร— 0.6 = โ‚น2,490 Cr โœ… Highly VC-fundable: High TAM, strong margins, scalable diagnostics. โธป ๐Ÿง  TL;DR for Founders Before chasing VC money, ask: ๐Ÿ” Can this idea become a โ‚น1,000 Cr+ business? ๐Ÿ“Š Do my unit economics work at scale? โš”๏ธ Am I swinging big enough? If youโ€™re under that bar โ€” just pick the right funding model: ๐Ÿ’ธ Angel, ๐Ÿ’ผ PE, ๐Ÿงช Grants, or ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Bootstrapping. โธป Run the math on your startup idea๐Ÿ‘‡

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