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After raising $2.3 Mn since its inception in 2020, women-only community startup leap.club is halting its operations due to high customer acquisition costs and retention challenges. The startup announced the decision operations on Instagram and Link

Chamath Palihapitiya on How Facebook Grew by Ignoring Virality Most startups fail because they focus on the wrong thing—going viral. Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook’s former growth lead, banned his team from even mentioning virality. Instead, he ma

Why India's Real Unicorns Don’t Chase Fame, They Build Fixes Everyone's chasing valuations. But India's smartest startups? They chase problems. Let me explain: In 2025, we’re seeing a quiet trend. Startups aren’t selling “cool”. They’re selling

First-time founders chase headcount. Seasoned founders chase output. Many of the best startups weren’t built by bloated org charts. They were built by lean teams: YouTube: 65 employees → Acquired for $𝟏.𝟔𝟓𝐁 Instagram: 13 employees → Acquired

I once had a mentor tell me, “Success is just a series of tiny, unsexy actions, repeated over time.” He wasn't wrong. Too often, we chase the big, flashy wins. We scroll through LinkedIn, searching for instant fame, partnerships, and milestones.

Last year when I was in Bangalore, I met pretty famous, well-accomplished, and highly insightful founders, one of the questions that I kept asking everyone is How do you validate an idea or how do you know if something will work or not? The reason

"Customer Retention" isn't just a strategy. It's an attitude. If you don't value your customers because they matter... If you don't respond to their queries because you care... If you don't genuinely want to see them satisfied... Your business mode

Ever wonder why founders read all the right books but still make the same mistakes ? Here’s the thing: they don’t follow the basics!!! Let's break down the top 10 things every startup book covers, but most founders ignore (and later regret) on Medi

Keith Rabois explains that the key to LinkedIn’s success was investing 80% of resources in virality When LinkedIn started, it took 2 years to reach 1 million users, and they had almost no revenue in the first 2-3 years. Keith, who joined as employ

It has never been easier to make your product go viral. So many TikTok playbooks, Instagram influencer hacks, Reddit, X and other ways exist to blow up installs/users. A lot of these didn't exist before, and virality, mostly occurred through the pro