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🚨 Elite Tag in Indian VC Ecosystem: A Double-Edged Sword? 🇮🇳💸 In India’s startup scene, one trend stands out: VCs’ obsession with elite tags🏷️—IITs, IIMs, and pedigrees over potential. Investors often rush to fund even half-baked ideas💡 from “

Hey, Untill now You guys would be aware about the @askperplexity and @grok on X, where you just need to tag them and they fact check and answer your questions. So since that's a cool feature, i would like to do that on Medial!! That is, just tag m

Your degree doesn’t define your startup’s success. Your mindset does. I come from a humble middle-class family. No IIT, no IIM, no MBA tag. Just a relentless fire to build something meaningful. In India, we often glorify degrees more than ideas. But

Let's talk about one of my favourite Person and also An Entrepreneur. None other than one of the Kamath brother's, Sir.Nikhil Kamath. Brothers who bought stock market on smartphones. I love listening to Sir.Nikhil Kamath, the way his thinking, the

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗩𝗖𝘀. Now? They chase accelerators first. In 2024, 𝟐𝟒% 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐕𝐂 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 came from 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 like YC. That's nearly 𝟏 𝐢𝐧 𝟒 𝐕𝐂 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬

How Scrappy Moves Create Startup Legends 🔥 (And why you're missing out if you’re playing too safe) When we think about startups today, we imagine massive funding rounds, glossy ads, and global blitz campaigns. But most iconic startups didn’t star

Day 4 of The Startup Mafia Series: The Hidden Power of Networks – Why Who You Know Matters More Than What You Know The world tells you that success comes from hard work and intelligence. But if that were true, why do the same people from the same n

The Story of Zerodha: A Startup That Changed India's Stock Market In 2010, two brothers from Bangalore, Nithin and Nikhil Kamath, saw a major problem in India's stock trading industry. Brokerage firms were charging high fees, making stock trading ex