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ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏᴄᴋᴇᴛ ɢᴜɪᴅᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴇꜱꜱᴇɴᴛɪᴀʟ 📍Y COMBINATOR ᴀᴅᴠɪᴄᴇ • Launch now • Build something people want • Do things that don't scale • Find the 90/10 solution • Find 10-100 customers who love your product • All startups are badly broken at some point

People criticize Bhavish Aggarwal a little too much for "copying" Uber. Bhavish Aggarwal is criticized for copying an startup idea which already existed in the US. I don't think it makes sense to do so, Uber started in 2009, Uber was not a big hit

Exploring an Idea: One App to Compare Ola, Uber & Rapido Rides Lately, I’ve noticed how frustrating it is to switch between multiple ride apps just to check fares. Ola says ₹120, Uber says ₹160, Rapido ₹90—but by the time you decide, surge pricing hi

Absolutely agree with Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal Indian startups often focus on solving problems for the wealthy, ignoring the real needs of the common people. There's a serious lack of tech enthusiasm, founders treat tech as a funding tool rathe

The Billion-Dollar Secret No One Talks About: Timing Over Talent When Uber launched in 2009, it wasn’t the first ride-sharing app. Apps like Sidecar and Taxi Magic already existed. But they didn’t take off. When Instagram came out in 2010, it wasn’

Your runway hits 30 days...Your product is amazing but revenue is $0... "But my industry takes time to adopt new solutions!" 🤷‍♂️ #70 Started: What's the REAL reason customers aren't paying you Day 1? BRUTAL WAKE-UP CALL: Every industry has compani

From 3-hour movies to 90-second microdramas… our attention spans didn’t die—they evolved. Enter ReelSaga — a mobile-first entertainment startup that just raised $2.1M led by Picus Capital, with backing from Nazara, 8i Ventures, Bharat Founders Fund

𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟯 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀: 𝗢𝗹𝗮 𝘃𝘀. 𝗨𝗯𝗲𝗿 – 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟯 – 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗚𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁 Uber had already conquered cities like New York,

CodeParrot, that YC-backed Indian AI startup, just shut down. 💔 They started in 2022 with a cool idea turning Figma designs and screenshots into working code using AI. Even had a VS Code plugin that was gaining traction. But after burning through $