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Day 2: “Papa, you always look tired,” Meera said, dropping her school bag with a thud. Ravi smiled faintly, rubbing his eyes. “Running a shop isn’t easy, beta.” Meera flipped open her laptop. “Our teacher showed us how even small stores use apps n

Building Kacheri Diaries Entrepreneurship is often glorified—the vision, the hustle, the success. But what they don’t always tell you is the chaos, the uncertainty, and the countless moments of doubt that come with building something from scratch.

The $100 Million Mistake No Entrepreneur Wants to Hear: Why Even Genius Ideas Fail Ever had a brilliant idea that just didn’t take off? What if you poured everything into it and still, no one showed up? That’s the brutal reality of business every s

It starts with a flicker. Not a thunderclap. Not some grand, cinematic “aha.” Just a weird little whisper that shows up while you're half-scrolling, half-thinking, half-distracted. A nudge. A sentence. A sketch. A bug fix that feels... poetic someho

How to get into Y Combinator (even if you're broke, unqualified, and barely have a product) Some of the wildest YC entries ever: 1. Faked a launch The AirGarage founders didn’t even have a working product. They made a landing page, got a few peop

Elon Musk: The Guy Who Didn’t Just Chase the Future — He Built It He wasn’t born a genius billionaire. He was a skinny, awkward kid in South Africa, buried in books, bullied half to death, and living more in his imagination than the world around him

User acquisition cheat codes every Indian startup founder should know: If you’re building in India, especially for the consumer market, your user acquisition strategy needs to be built around distribution hacks, low CAC, and local behaviour. Paid

Co-Build a VC Fund in Public: Day 6 (Building strong founding teams) I am kicking off this year with a very special news! Meet the third member of our super hero squad at Ortella Global Capital - OG Capital: Gaurav Verma — fondly known as GV. He is

It starts with a tweet. OpenAI launches something shiny—maybe an AI-native editor, maybe a study mode. It looks polished. And then come the messages: “Isn’t this what you were building?” “Bro… OpenAI just dropped your startup.” You smile. Half. B

Top News of the Week: 1. Funding: - During the week, 26 Indian startups raised around $421.29 million in funding. These deals count 4 growth-stage deals and 16 early-stage deals while 6 startups kept their transaction details undisclosed. - On a w