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 […]
Best Practices for Setting Customer Success in your SaaS start-up
Not just the burgeoning opportunity, Indian SaaS stands apart from other industries in another aspect: a close-knit founders community with successful founders proactively trying to help the upcoming founders by guiding them, sharing their playbooks etc. Samit (Co-founder of SalesPanda) posted in the SaaSBoomi Founders Tribe Whatsapp group on best practices to set-up customer success […]
Hit the Reset Button and Activate Survival Mode
When the bottom got unhinged during the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 (GFC), a new framework saw the light of day, and the acronym VUCA rapidly gained currency to punctuate business conversations. And now, “we have a VUCA Playbook”, as Girish Mathrubootham, the Founder & CEO of Freshworks says during his tete-a- tete (read Outliers Podcast) with […]
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). […]
A Mind Map & Key Learnings From SaaSBoomi Build
It’s important to follow your dreams and heart. Do something that excites you — Sundar Pichai — CEO Alphabet True to Sundar Pichai’s words Saturday the 25th of July 2020 was a day of doers. It was a day for those who followed their passion and gave their blood and sweat to realise their dreams. […]
How to build a super cool startup – A five-pronged playbook to get the hype machine started
I was hosting a session on branding for the startup accelerator Uppekha when I had the conversation that made me write this essay. “How many of you are using Notion mainly for writing and sharing documents?” I’d asked. Quite a few founders said they were. “And how many of you use Dropbox to store things?” […]
Tryst With Destiny: An Entrepreneurial Pledge
We will, on August 15th 2020, be celebrating our 73rd Independence anniversary. Like every year, pious statements of intent will be made on eradicating poverty, emotional recallings of the lives and sacrifices of the many who brought us to the present and inspirational speeches will be made on our (continued) potential to become a world […]
ESOPs 101 : Know your stocks
The biggest challenge for a startup founder is hiring because your company is only as good as the people building it. Since the size of the teams at startups is relatively small, any addition to your talent pool can potentially drive growth in the company or simply disrupt it. But that isn’t entirely the challenge […]
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