“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 […]

You are just out of your board meeting and ready to chase an ambitious ARR goal for the new year. You plan growth targets for your GTM teams top-down, which get translated into quotas (revenue targets) for sales reps. You hire the planned number of reps and look set. The year starts. Halfway in, things […]

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.

It took me a minute to take my eyes off the banyan tree. There it stood, strong and silent. Its roots were everywhere, snaking deep into the ground and cascading from the branches. What was once a dot-sized seed has turned into this spectacular provider of shade today, so grounded and yet so linked. It […]

As Capillary turns 15, I am reminded of a story from my childhood. This story is over 2,000 years old but it resonates with me every day. When the water in the pond began to diminish, the frogs that lived in it had two choices. Stay in familiar waters and wait for the rain, or […]

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 – […]

In the fast-paced ever-changing world of startups, it is tempting to see corporate governance as a “necessary evil” – an overhead which impedes progress – but the truth of the matter is that good governance can be a powerful lever for value creation.

SaaSBoomi, the world’s largest pay-it-forward SaaS community, today launches a new initiative to specifically address the problem of minority sections of founders feeling isolated and excluded. PULSE (Promoting Unity, Leadership, and a Stronger Ecosystem through diversity, equity, and inclusion) is a structured program to bring underrepresented founders into the fold, involve them in activities, and […]

Dear SaaS Founders, The idea of a community for SaaS founders by SaaS Founders came together in 2018 between Girish, Suresh, Krish, Manav, and Avinash (read the genesis story here) resulting in the not-for-profit foundation “SaaSBOOMi”. Looking back, SaaSBOOMi’s growth has been more than spectacular in the last 5 years and it exceeded the community’s […]