Entrepreneurs find themselves looking at a very different market when they decide to go from India to the US. The path to PMF is poles apart in the two geographies. As are the market, customers, and sales cycles. Three founders who have gone through the motions talk about key strategies that help. The larger India-US startup corridor that exists is an ecosystem founders can turn to and learn from.

I recently found myself in a room full of SaaS founders discussing the risks that generative AI (GenAI) poses for their companies. I couldn’t help but wonder how, as an industry, we’ve spent so much time talking about how AI is going to replace humans, how GenAI is going to throw people off their jobs […]

Watching 100 million users adopt ChatGPT within a few months of launch has put undue pressure on SaaS founders to reinvent the wheel. We need to ask ourselves if what drives our business is the tech stack or the problem being solved. For most products, users don’t care about what tech stack is being used, […]

A startup is a dream for many – most often that dream is to spot a problem, build a product, find a few customers, raise funds, and have a successful life with media coverage… you get the drift. However, if you have been around the startup ecosystem for a while, you’d know that this dream […]

Would you spend 25% of your first fundraise on one hire?  How about returning your first cheque from your first client just because you know they do not fit your product? And when that cheque is for $100,000?  These are just some of the high-risk but, in hindsight, right bets that Shruti Ghatge placed when […]