Founders, a VC receives 100 pitch decks every month. How to differentiate yourself from the crowd? Here are a few helpful tips:- 1. Understand the Fund thesis and investment strategy. Listen to fund members speak at various events, podcasts, or even research them on Linkedin and Twitter. 2. The Funds’…

By 2025, Indian e-commerce market is expected to be $220B with social commerce posed to be $100B market. There are 400M+ monthly active users (MAUs) on WhatsApp, while e-commerce sites like Amazon/ Flipkart are restricted to catering to their ~100M MAUs. Various social commerce models being social reselling, group buying…

List of Early stage Metaverse startups that have recently closed funding in India. 1. IKonz Founded 2021 Website: www.ikonz.club Founder Abinav Kalidindi, Prasad Vanga, Rana Duggubati Description: Developer of a wealth-building platform intended to bring culture’s biggest icons & iconic IP into the Metaverse through NFTs. The company specializes in navigating the…

What is it and why it matters? Web 1- Open protocols (HTTP, IP) this was when ecosystem of the internet was build. Web 2- Closed protocols on top of internet open protocols, period of centralisation where facebook, google, Amazon were built. These are called centralised platforms. Problem with Web 2…

Fueled at least in part by exceptionally strong IPO and M&A markets, hedge funds, venture capitalists, private equity firms and corporate investors are committing more time and money into privately held medical devices companies, according to a new “Healthcare Investments and Exits” report issued by Silicon Valley Bank. The report…

The state of the medtech sector While medtech encompasses an increasingly large share of the global healthcare market, it is far from a monolithic block. Broadly speaking, the sector can be divide into five core segments. These are: Medical equipment (e.g. MRI and ultrasound machines) Medical devices (e.g. artificial joints and stents) Medical consumables (single-use products…

The Key metrics to measure startup success. 1. Customer Churn If driving customers is your ultimate goal, then maintaining your existing ones is equally important. Customer churn rate measures how much business you’ve lost within a certain time period. It is one of the most important metrics in tracking the day-to-day vitality of…

The struggle is real as we try to adjust to the new normal way of working. This is one trend which is here to stay even when things go back to being normal. Also, this is the number one skill for future. …

And people stayed at home by Kathleen O’Meara And people stayed home and read books and listened and rested and exercised and made art and played and learned new ways of being and stopped and listened deeper someone meditated someone prayed someone danced someone met their shadow and people began to think differently and people healed and in the absence of people who lived in ignorant ways, dangerous, meaningless and heartless, even the earth began to heal and when the danger ended and people found each other grieved for the dead people and they made new choices and dreamed of new visions and created new ways of life and healed the earth completely just as they were healed themselves.