As a SaaSBoomi Fellow, and on my own parallel journey of building, I’ve been getting a peek into how founders shoulder massive responsibilities, think and execute in their daily life.

Black Swan Bingo If Covid and the financial market reset weren’t enough, the run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week was a sure sign that “Black Swan” events are no longer as unpredictable as one might have imagined a few years back. It almost seems that facing existential threats on a daily basis is […]

The second edition of the much-awaited Bootcamp for Indian Enterprise SaaS Startups is back this year scheduled for 30th August in Bangalore. SaaSBoomi Enterprise is here and we couldn’t be more excited. SaaSBoomi Enterprise (earlier known as SaaSe) is a one-day, invite-only bootcamp for promising enterprise software businesses with $1M ARR, who aspire to reach […]

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. […]

“We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.”  — Bill Clinton Once maybe in a lifetime comes across a company that has build something that impacts mostly everyone in their industry. Think of say Office365, StackOverflow, Gmail, DropBox which becomes a verb due to its sheer relevance & meaning in our […]

One thing we did recently was to nudge everyone to share their respective User Manuals. It’s a great way to build a culture of mutual trust and respect – precisely what you need in a lean high performing team.

A few days ago, I wrote about the need for Indian SaaS companies to get into the mindset of judicious hiring. SaaS startups saw the highest number of job cuts in 2023, which was widely reported.  You sometimes hear of a SaaS metric called ARR/FTE as a metric to track and maintain efficiency in a SaaS business. And […]

We all know the importance of solving customer pain points for product success but doing so in a B2B product is even more crucial. However, the devil lies in the detail.  Anybody can solve high-level problems but it’s those who target the nuances of the problem who succeed. And Saravana Kumar, Founder & CEO, Kovai.co, […]

While these immortal lines from Charles Dickens can apply to many things at any age, they seem particularly apt for India SaaS in 2023. We are now at a liminal moment in time – a period of transformative transition. 2021 and the first half of 2022 were the halcyon days for Indian SaaS startups – […]