Why are Indian founders not excited about B2B startups. Everyone is either into AI or chatbots in B2B or else building apps and brands. Specially so much investment flowing into D2C brands that it makes me laugh. Boring B2B business generate so much
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Prathik Karthikeyan
Co-Founder of Astrix • 3m
I genuinely think a lot of founders focus on B2B businesses but the fact of the matter is that there is an exceedingly diminishing space for B2B oriented businesses.
Bit of Comeback Post 🔥
Ist time founders focus on Product.
2nd time founders focus on Distribution.
3rd time founders should focus on Retention.
This is a learning from my last startup. If your business by nature can not have repeat users, it wil
YC’s focus on B2A (Business-to-AI-Agents) startups in Spring 2025 marks a shift.
The future isn’t B2B or B2C—it’s businesses selling directly to AI.
Are we building for humans or just training our replacements?
Thoughts? 👇
From Garage Startup to B2B Powerhouse
The Genesis:
→ 1996: Founded by Dinesh Agarwal
→ Started in a Delhi garage with just $20
Key Milestones:
1. Early Struggle (1996-2000)
• Convincing SMEs to go online
• Surviving the dot-com bubble burst
A cross border b2b ecommerce platform which helps importers to import goods from around the world while businesses can focus on their main core work.
we do all the quality checks, logistics, customs and clearances for them while they order goods just
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Aarihant Aaryan
Prev- Founder & CEO ... • 10m
Indians hate startups, especially companies that burn money and raise money but the truth is that 99% of Indian businesses don't make money
See in India there are only 13M small businesses,88% of them are sole proprietors
Out of 13M businesses, 5M
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ALAN JAMES
"Driven MBA Student ... • 1m
How do small businesses connect with the big food delivery giants?
In the ever-evolving food tech industry, platforms like Swiggy, Zomato, dominate the space. But for small-scale businesses, cloud kitchens, and startups looking to collaborate or int
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Keshav Rathore
Technology Lawyer, L... • 10m
A lot of us may be considering here the worst case scenarios of building a startup.
Questions like "What if this doesn't work out, am I going to end up homeless?"
In fact a lot of us, given that we start, have a high probability of failing.
Y Co
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Akshit Sharma
Wanna be Entrepreneu... • 10m
I want to make a perfect AI assistant for businesses as well as individuals . We will do some research (already have done some) and build features for this. Like managing daily tasks, ideas, workflow, management contacts and all that
So we need a pe
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Arcane
Quest for Insight an... • 8m
ONE INTERESTING OBSERVATION SERIES
DAY #8
In 2013, over 70% of funded founders had more than 10 years of experience. Fast forward to 2022 and 2023, and the landscape has shifted. Experienced founders (>10 years) now make up just under 40% of seed d
The D2C Brand space in India is exciting as well as equally thriving but difficult too.
Lot of brands fall in the graveyard or need a lot of inventor money to survive sustain and become profitable.
I want to start a healthy business and not a big