I have (for a very long time) said that angel networks in India are in a deadly spiral. I had not (yet) discovered "why" angel networks are no longer viable for investors or the founders of the angel networks. The issue
6 months ago, I wrote about the real cost of customer acquisition after visiting the offices of a prospective startup that we were evaluating. After writing the blog, I provided the founder with explicit feedback on why I was passing
It has only been a week since I wrote a post on the need to change the investment narrative in India and just 3 days after that, I received a slew of notices from the income tax department asking for
Yesterday, Aditya Ghadge sent me a link to a recording of the panel I had participated on with Siddharth Ladsariya, Abhijeet Pai, Aniket Bharadia and Sandeep Jethwani (he played moderator) on Inside Perspectives from the Next Generation Business Leaders at the AIWMI’s Family Office 2018 Summit. I
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
A marked increase in the number of angel investors joining the ecosystem has led to a problem of plenty for many angel networks. Most of them boast of having hundreds if not thousands of investors spread across the globe. The problem of too
Book summary This book is a collection of lessons from some of the top venture capitalists and angel investors in the United States. Through the chapters, VCs share their experiences on how to build value in a startup by describing important
Angel networks have played an important role in developing a robust investment ecosystem for start-ups in India. While the initial networks were small, they were composed of individuals who had known each other for a while, so there was a
Exactly a year ago, I wrote about a growing malaise in the angel investment ecosystem in the post You are NOT an angel investor. It is serendipity that I am writing about sub 5-lakh ($7500) investments from angel investors that
Today I met with an entrepreneur in the travel space that kept reiterating that they wanted to grow organically and without burning money. The “startup” wanted to take it to an offline business model of booking air tickets, where it