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SaaSBoomi Turns Five: Charting India’s $1 Trillion SaaS Aspiration by 2030

As we celebrate our fifth anniversary on November 24, 2023, it is an opportune moment to reminisce about SaaSBoomi’s journey hitherto and look at the future.

Suresh Sambandam
Blog Management

ARR/FTE as *a* metric for India SaaS

This article first appeared as a LinkedIn post. A few days ago, I wrote about the need for Indian SaaS companies to get into the mindset of judicious hiring. SaaS startups saw the highest number of job cuts in 2023, which was widely reported.  You sometimes hear of a metric called ARR/FTE as a metric to track and maintain efficiency […]

Dev Khare
Blog Community

Pay-it-forward: A deep dive into what it looks like in action

As I sat down to write this piece, Chandrayaan-3 successfully made a soft landing close to the south pole of the Moon. It is a first for India, a first for the world. Like all impressive undertakings, it did not happen in a single day, or some months. It took 1,000 engineers and scientists. They […]

Avinash Raghava
Blog Diversity

From investment banking to SaaS: A founder’s journey

“In Her Shoes” is our newest series where we attempt to bring the spotlight onto women who are killing it in the SaaS industry! We talk to these amazing women about their unique perspectives, challenges, and experiences that shape their career, and their leadership journey. Stay tuned for more in this series! 

Ramita Rajaa & Sumithra Gopalakrishnan
Blog Product

This is electricity. There was a before and there’s an after.

After the spurt in cloud-driven SaaS from 2015, the software industry is undergoing another seismic shift with the capabilities of Generative AI (GenAI), fueled by billions of dollars invested in creating Large Language Models (LLMs). While companies like OpenAI building the infrastructure layer made AI the buzz this year, vast opportunities for innovators of all […]

Malavika Velayanikal
Blog Product

AI for India SaaS and what it means

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 […]

Ashwini Asokan
Blog Operations

When should you first think about going global

This article was originally published on Limitless. Indian founders are on global journeys, and that means finding and perfecting product-market fit in different geographies. It is akin to navigating through different roads and cultural structures, physically and metaphorically. But before they begin to think of PMF, a more fundamental question is when to start planning […]

Rohit Choudhary
Blog Chapters - United States

SaaSBoomi: Parallel runway for SaaS entrepreneurs

This article was originally posted on Maneesh’s Substack. I first learnt the widespread spirit of volunteering among American public in 2001-02 when my business partner Robert Levine (ex-MD Deutsche Bank) warned me before joining me at SENA Systems that he will not be able to travel on Tuesdays unless it’s an emergency. He was an […]

Maneesh Bhandari 
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Putting down roots #ScaledFoundersRetreat

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 […]

Avinash Raghava
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