No product, no problem!!
VC's are still funding pre-product companies. ๐
Koo's founder Mayank Bidawatka raises $4M in seed from Blume, General Catalyst and Athera even before beta launch.
This comes after 2 months of Pre-seed and announcement o
Am I the only one seeing the irony here? His previous venture Koo literally just failed for lack of traction, and VCs are throwing money at his next thing before it even exists? Peak 'founder market fit' nonsense.
One who fears failure doesn't want to choose someone who isn't proven.
irony is he already failed to win his fear..
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Jaswanth Jegan
Founder-Hexpertify.c...ย โขย 9m
โ2 million daily active users to Failureโ
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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Bhavya Ranpara
Conservative Investo...ย โขย 8m
Life really comes into perspective when your friend, who works at a major power transmission company says:- it's easier to sell to VCs, not so much to companies.
His boss btw is 65 y/o. Age Anxiety only exists in fast moving industries.
Most respe
Unpopular Opinion: Mega Tech Platform cannot scale with regular Indian VC.
What do you think about VCs and their recent chase for profitability? Especially, for companies like Koo, Sharechat.
I mean, we know and we've seen in the history of start-up
No product, no problem!!
VC's are still funding pre-product companies. ๐
Koo's founder Mayank Bidawatka raises $4M in seed from Blume, General Catalyst and Athera even before beta launch.
This comes after 2 months of Pre-seed and announcement o
Arul Sujanesh was born in madhurai in a 28 member joint family who had many successful businesses but however when he was pursuing his dream of becoming a civil engineer he gets a call from his father which changed everything.
His father told him th
How India's home grown Twitter rival Koo failed even after having 2.1 million (2100000+) daily active users and 10 million+ monthly users!โฌ๏ธ
โก๏ธDeveloped by Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka, Koo was an alternative application to the widely-
PREDICTIONS THAT FAILED - THE LAGGING INDICATORS!
Are you guys using Lagging indicators?
One of the biggest mistake in marketing! Even big firms! Lets say you analyze the market, saw something booming like Metaverse, AI image generation or quick
๐๐ฒ ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐๐ฝ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐.
Then, staring at his empty fridge, he got a ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง-๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ซ ๐ข๐๐๐.
The problem? He missed the ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ deadline and needed funding FAST.
Being a startup founder, its hard to know you competition or is there any failed on the same market before atleast on the web.
I had once a startup idea where the consumer just writes down the problem and you get the list of startups solving that.