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Byju’s app pulled from Google Play over payment disruptions. • Insolvency case continues • BCCI wants ₹158 Cr back • Founder calls for a pivot to “Byju’s 3.0” • Edtech once valued at $22B India’s biggest unicorn may be facing its final test.

How CRED Cred-ed ? Short Case study on CRED CRED, founded by Kunal Shah in 2018, shows how a failing loyalty program can morph into a fintech unicorn. 🦄 Here's how: ➪ Gap Filled: CRED made credit card bill payments easy and rewarding. ➪ Initial S

STARTUP TERMS TO KNOW - Day 1 1.PIVOT - A significant change in a startup's business model or strategy. 2.BOOTSTRAPPING - Funding a startup using personal savings or internal revenue without external help. 3.UNICORN - A privately held startup valu

"The origins of Slack- A multi-billion dollar pivot" (Saturday Startup Nugget Story -4): In 2009, Stewart Butterfield and his team were working on a gaming startup called Tiny Speck. As they built an online game called Glitch, they faced communicati

WTF Is Pivot⁉️ Ever tried making a cuisine and ended up with khichdi? Congrats, you've just pivoted! In startup world, a pivot is when your 'next Unicorn' idea flops more crazily than a Bollywood remake, so you change your boat and tries to get int

Found this amazing VC vs Bootstrap Analogy! Give it a read. VCs sell you dreams. But bootstrappers build wealth today. Turning down every investor pitch for 12 years to bootstrap to $5M ARR has proven to be the best bet of my journey. Here's the

🧐🚀journey of InMobi's to becoming India's first unicorn began in 2007 when it was founded by Naveen Tewari, Mohit Saxena, and Amit Gupta in Bengaluru. Initially named mKhoj, the company pivoted to mobile advertising as smartphones gained popularit

VC Tales: Rajan Anandan, the celebrated VC, has a penchant for backing game-changers. -His $3M seed in Ola, India's ride-hailing giant, set the stage. -The $2M Series A in Freshworks, now a $10B SaaS unicorn, displayed his foresight. -Rajan's

Ready to kickstart 2025! 🚀✨ I've created a Diary named "The Diary of a CEO", where I'll document my daily learnings about startups and entrepreneurship. also i have made a separate Diary for Ideation and Execution strategies. To deepen my knowledg

The Unacademy Circus: A $3.5 Billion Clown Show? For one sales employee, Unacademy was a nightmarish corporate musical chairs. Hired for NextLevel, tossed to a language learning app project that got shelved, then shoved into a random SaaS startup Gr