No product, no problem!!
VC's are still funding pre-product companies. 👇
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.
“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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Bhavya Ranpara
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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. 👇
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!⬇️
➡️Developed 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
𝗛𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝟮𝟬 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝟳𝟯𝟬 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀.
Then, staring at his empty fridge, he got a 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚.
The problem? He missed the 𝐘 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 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.
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