“How should we build a community?” “I like how you have built this community, what should we do to make our community more active?” I have been getting more such questions recently, from founders and others. It is heartening to see this interest in community building, an area that I stumbled into 18 years ago, […]

This is the first of a series of interviews we are doing for SaaSBoomi.  The premise is simple: We ask some of our most successful entrepreneurs the three mistakes they made when starting up—the ones they would like to revisit and perhaps change. The intent is to learn from the mistakes our successful entrepreneurs have […]

Sparsh Gupta is the co-founder at Wingify, a SaaS-based A/B testing company. Its flagship product is the VWO (Visual Website Optimizer), used by 4K+ clients spread across 90 countries. Together with Paras Chopra, Sparsh founded Wingify in 2009 and has bootstrapped it to $23 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). With Wingify, Sparsh and Paras […]

A stoic, calm, logical, level-headed character, seldom shaken by emotions… working with a charismatic, headstrong, passionate, emotional character wildly popular among his folk… It doesn’t require genius to guess that I’m describing the iconic duo Spock and Captain Kirk. For the uninitiated, these two are protagonists of Star Trek, one of the most culturally-influential media […]

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 […]

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 […]