Behind every successful fundraise is a strong narrative. That is the honest answer to a question that investors repeatedly ask when they get bewildered by sky-high valuation and moonshot venture ideas. However, the founder’s ability to weave a strong narrative about their venture elevates its valuation from being based on its fundamental value to being based
I believe that founders are super-humans. Founders take an incredible financial, emotional, mental, and (unfortunately) health risk to create the change that they want to see in the world. They must display a great belief in the incredible while consistently staring at the inevitable. They must wear so many faces that they may not even remember
There is an old saying in sales, “The worst salespeople are the best interviewers”. However, this saying is even more applicable for sales managers, especially those with 2-3 decades of selling experience, for different organizations. They can be detrimental to your start-ups’ sales efforts. The best sales managers are too valuable for an
Every Monday, I review the funding activity of the previous week and pick three favorites. This week, I picked Tech plays as my favorites.
Propstack Sales Guy (PSG): Hello, is this Anirudh Damani? Me: Yes, who is this? PSG: I am xx calling from Propstack. You had asked us to reach out to you about getting transactional data on real estate transactions. Me: Yes, I did. I am looking
Yesterday, I had an odd conversation with a founding team. They were addressing an important, critical, and an absolutely need-to-solve problem with a lifestyle intervention solution. Lifestyle intervention is an area where I have had a high degree of investment interest. However, the founders' pricing strategy was a significant source of concern for me. They wanted to address the mass market and, therefore, priced their solution at
I have looked closely at the EV space for the better part of the last decade. While I have not made any investments in the space directly or through any of Artha’s entities – I am confident that the EV is
Every Monday, I review the funding activity of the previous week and pick three favorites. This week, I picked SaaS and Tech plays as my favorites.
Every Monday, I review the funding activity of the previous week and pick three favorites. This week, I picked Tech plays as my favorites.
I learned about the need for reform in India's Public Distribution Scheme (PDS) scheme a year after Narendra Modi got sworn in for the first time in 2014. In the chapter on Revamping Agriculture And The Public Distribution System in Getting India Back on Track, Ashok Gulati reveals just how