Product Management & Growth
I have been spending a lot of time understanding ONDC framework, possible opportunities looking at different platform and here are some (WIP) notes, especially for the founders exploring/evaluating building marketplaces using ONDC network. Duplicate. Don’t create. It’s best to look at existing offline/online marketplaces and bring
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The startup media ecosystem is buzzing with the news that Groww has beaten Zerodha in terms of total active userbase. Fair enough. Let’s revisit the numbers with some context. GrowwZerodhaUserbase: 66 lakh65 lakhRevenue: 1,294 cr 7,000 croreProfit: 73 crores3000 crores Unlike Zerodha, Groww doesn’t charge for
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Dunzo which raised $457 million dollar across 19 rounds is struggling to pay salaries to its employees. This isn’t a case of a company not solving a real world problem – local courier, running errands, deliveries – they all are a super important problem to solve. But Dunzo is a case
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PhonePe has announced the launch of its upcoming app store (Indus), which is the result of its earlier acquisition of IndusOS. While this is an important milestone in Indian startup ecosystem journey – i.e. a company challenging the likes of Apple and Google, here are a few questions that I
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A successful AI startup need not have: * a super strong defensible long-term moat (sorry VCs) * sexy UX, tech, proprietary LLM as a moat * a .AI domain (and branding) / won’t be shouting ‘we are an AI startup’ from the top of their lungs. Instead, a successful AI startup will be:
Product Management & Growth
What was Chandrayaan-3’s budget? Well, a mere ₹ 615 crores. What does 615 crores mean in today’s tech economy? Let’s look at some comparables. Here is a quick data point from the well-funded consumer startups Here is some more data point: ISRO’s engineering thinking Always-learning is how
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Pandemic brought a lot of opportunities for startup ecosystem, especially given the fact that the Fed literally printed free money and most of it went to the tech ecosystem. Here are a few trends that I believe were 💯 fake and need to be called out. I am not saying that
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Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. This isn’t about X or whether Twitter is dying because of Elon Musk’s random decisions. But the fact that an entrepreneur is willing to stake it all for his/her vision, irrespective of what the
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Remember Google+? The Facebook killer product by Google that …died without anyone missing it? What really happened with Google+ is best explained via this chart Within 4 years of launch, Google+ had 2.2 billion users (!!!) – of which only 4-6 million were active and importantly, ONLY 9% published any (public)
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The Web3 app from India, Chingari is now pivoting into an adult app, more on the lines of OnlyFans. That is, Chingari app now lets you have 1:1 ‘adult’ conversation with female creators, where you can pay via tokens/coins. Of course, a huge departure from its earlier avatar
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* You start watching a movie, stop midway and when you restart the app, there is no syncing from the last location! Yes, Jio Cinema’s iPad app starts the movie from the start every time you launch the app! (Resume has no meaning). * On the iPad, the app by default
Product Management & Growth
Ask any VC or a founder and they will tell you the startup wisdom. Traction trumps everything. While largely true, but maybe not if you are in the early stages of building a product-led business and competing in a sales-driven-soulless category. What do I mean by ‘soul’? Having a radically