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Here you will find the things that inspire me in my daily life as a venture capitalist. Whether it is something I read, someone I meet or somewhere I go, if it makes an impression I would like to share it with you so that maybe you can be inspired too!

Keep the Fundraising PPT, Simple

  • Category: Entrepreneurship, Fundraising
  • Posted: 2 weeks ago

I sat through a pitch call today that went on for 35 mins (it seemed much longer). The founder kept going through slide after slide of information which harped on the same point (the business model). To move things along I valiantly attempted to summarize the business model for the founder and indicate that I

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Video of the Week: The Undisputed King of Bollywood

  • Category: aDisms, Business, Entrepreneurship, Learning, Movies, Plaudits, Thoughts, Videos
  • Posted: 2 weeks ago

I must be honest that I was not a big fan of Akshay Kumar through most of my teens. His movies centred around his martial arts abilities and he had typecast himself into a brand of cinema which I did not identify with. Then something happened 10 years ago that altered the actor’s career and

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I am looking for a Recruitment Specialist

  • Category: Artha, Entrepreneurship
  • Posted: 3 weeks ago

With a growing portfolio and 5 internal companies, someone or the other is always looking for new hires. So far we have been managing this position ourselves, in an ad-hoc manner or handing it over to the existing HR manager. The list of people we need to hire is getting unmanageable and I need professional

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The Investment Banker Pandemic

  • Category: aDisms, Business, Entrepreneurship, Fundraising, Learning, Thoughts
  • Posted: 3 weeks ago

Time and again, I have warned early-stage founders to steer clear of using the services of a banker to help raise money but unfortunately, that pandemic has overrun our ecosystem. Many bankers have made a comfortable lifestyle out of fleecing unsuspecting founders. The false dream that these 1-star bankers promise founders makes my skin crawl,

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High Valuations are a Thorny Issue!

  • Category: aDisms, Entrepreneurship, Fundraising, Investments
  • Posted: 3 weeks ago

Yesterday at a luncheon, a fellow angel investor and I were discussing deal flow when the senior editor of a respectable news house introduced herself to us. As many journalists do, she brought up the “high” valuations that are accorded to Indian start-ups and inquired as to whether they are “sustainable”. My fellow angel investor immediately

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When is the Right Time to be Acquired?

  • Category: Business, Entrepreneurship, Exits, opinion, Thoughts
  • Posted: 4 weeks ago

Yesterday I met a startup that I have been mentoring for the past 18 months. The founders have developed a deep tech product that has a niche in the B2B space. While their sales have not managed to light up the startup world, I can ascertain that they have developed a robust product that services

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Choose Your Termsheet Battles Carefully

  • Category: Business, Entrepreneurship, Fundraising, Learning
  • Posted: 4 weeks ago

Since there is a limit to the amount of negotiation that will take place on any deal, founders that intend on fighting to win every point of the battle will rarely ever win the war. Founders should enter negotiations for investment with a clear understanding that things are bound to change and that it is

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Learn from Elon Musk: be Careful of What you Promise Publicly!

  • Category: aDisms, Entrepreneurship, Sarcasm
  • Posted: 4 weeks ago

The fiasco around taking Tesla private has dwindled Elon Musk's credibility, making it hard to believe anything that comes out of his mouth. This brilliant piece of journalism aptly titled “Private' mess: Elon Musk's credibility goes from bad to worse” explains why this badly handled episode in Musk’s history can be considered a harbinger of worse things

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Are Capsule Hotels the Future of Indian Hospitality?

  • Category: Entrepreneurship, Investment Ideas, Venture Ideas
  • Posted: 1 month ago

The horrendous experience travelling to Hyderabad was definitely salvaged by the quality of interactions I had at the Campden Regional Family Summit. The summit was followed by a coinvestment workshop where startups pitched their ideas to a group of family offices for investment. While most of the ventures were the kind that would appeal to

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Who Will Save India from Bad Customer Service

  • Category: Business, Entrepreneurship, Investment Ideas, Investments, Venture Ideas
  • Posted: 1 month ago

It took a lot of painstaking effort and careful planning to ensure that I would be in my hotel bed in Hyderabad between 11:30 pm and 12 midnight so that I would be fresh for the conference I was attending today. Bad weather coupled with lousy pilot scheduling resulted in a 4-hour delay, most of

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