The Dance of Entrepreneurship – In Dhiraj Rajaram’s Words
What it truly means to be an entrepreneur in a highly complex world As the rules of the world change, so do the rules of entrepreneurship. In his keynote address at SaaSBoomi Growth 2022, Dhiraj Rajaram, Founder and CEO of Mu Sigma, addresses the issue of what it truly means to be an entrepreneur in […]
Unlocking True Potential by Harnessing the Power of Intuition
How do you take business decisions? If you are like most founders and business leaders you think logically, look at data, and try to have a structure that can be replicated for future decisions. But decision-making need not always follow this structured approach. In this session titled A dialog on Intuition : Unlocking our True […]
“Shaping India’s SaaS Landscape” – a $1-trillion tryst with destiny for Indian SaaS startups
India could be on the cusp of unlocking a $1 trillion opportunity for SaaS companies, creating nearly half a million new jobs by 2030, according to the “Shaping India’s SaaS Landscape” report released today by SaaSBoomi, Asia’s largest community of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) founders and product builders. In 2015, a small group of startup founders and […]
How to structure your engineering-product org for faster delivery
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 […]
Returning To Our Offices — the New Normal: Opening-Up 1.0
The extended lockdown imposed by governments worldwide has birthed the idea of working remotely or commonly called — the Work From Home (WFH) model. A New Normal has been established and the adaption has been remarkably fast for employees and their employers. Now, with the lockdown being lifted in a staggered manner, depending on the […]
Winning the new normal: Armando Mann
A few weeks after Covid19 was declared a pandemic, as part of the SaaSBoomi initiative, some of India’s top SaaS entrepreneurs got together to discuss strategies for companies to steer through the crisis. A few weeks further in, at the SaaSBoomii growth summit, we got together to discuss how to thrive in the new world, notwithstanding […]
Our lessons from the COVID crisis at Capillary
An abridged version of COVID Reflections — a three-part series by Aneesh Reddy, co-founder of Capillary. The Flipside of Turning Cash Positive FY20 (April 2019 — March 2020) has been a monumental year for us. We went from a ~40% EBITDA loss/ Negative cash flows in Q4FY19 to our first ever EBITDA and Cash Positive Quarter in Q4FY20 (JFM). […]
Why Start-ups will continue to “make the world a better place”
I was recently chatting with one of my new team mates, Sudarsan (@artfuldev) at Rocketlane. We were discussing about how start-ups evolve, and eventually the conversation came to : Why does Atlassian say they “unleash the potential of every team”, or AirBnB say “we help create a world where you can belong anywhere”? It’s not […]