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Unpopular Opinion: If you have zero traction, don’t pitch VCs yet. You know what I see too often? Founders sending decks before they’ve even tested the idea. Here’s the blunt truth: 💡 VCs don’t fund ideas. They fund signals. And “signal” doesn’t

🚀 Startup Founders! If you're building an *AI tool or SaaS product* and struggling to raise capital, here’s the hard truth: You’re probably pitching to the wrong people. Early-stage VCs often require traction, product-market fit, and market comps.

Startup Hiring Surges by 32% in India, Unlocking New Opportunities🚀 India's startup ecosystem is witnessing remarkable growth, with hiring rising by 32% year-on-year, reflecting a shift toward sustainable, innovation-driven scaling. Notably, Tier-I

How Rapido Dominated the Bike Taxi Genre? So Rapido was founded in 2015 by IIT alumni Aravind Sanka and Pavan Guntupalli. Aravind, once stuck in traffic, realized that bikes could navigate traffic easily and thought of starting a bike taxi company

Founded in 2016 by three friends, Rapido wasn’t even supposed to be a bike taxi service. It started as a logistics company called “The karrier,” but they soon had the realisation: India has 75% of its vehicles as two-wheelers, and no one’s using them

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗮𝗦 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗩𝗖 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆—𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗮 ₹𝟰𝟬𝗖𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 While others ran to pitch decks, this founder ran to customers. No funding rounds. No viral campaigns. Just ruthless exec

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗮𝗦 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗩𝗖 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆—𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗮 ₹𝟰𝟬𝗖𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 While others ran to pitch decks, this founder ran to customers. No funding rounds. No viral campaigns. Just ruthless execu

Venture capital, in its utter importance in recent days, is on the threshold of change—namely, tech private equity. This turning point in venture capital is a giant one because the great names in Silicon Valley-Lightspeed, a16z, Sequoia, and Thrive-

𝗨𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗶𝘀 𝗞𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗼 Below are the key excerpts from Travis’s blog post Startup Seed Raising Skillzzz: 𝟭. 𝗦𝘁�