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MasterCard Ban in India: Key Implications & Intricacies
Background India has witnessed various financial disruptions around government regulations in recent times. We have witnessed demonetisation, bank-given moratorium, and various other fiscal events due…
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Why We Invested In Ultrahuman
Our thesis We are living through an unprecedented global health crisis, specifically a metabolic health crisis. Over a billion people in the world suffer from…
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Meet Blume’s latest cohort of Investment Analysts
We onboarded our new Analyst team over the last few weeks here at Blume. This is Blume’s fourth Analyst cohort, with our alums currently making…
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Building an engineering brand for hiring
I attended a fascinating talk recently by Sidu Ponnappa, SVP Engineering at Gojek, on how startups can build an employer brand for hiring tech talent. The talk was…
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Changing Trends in Indian Business Travel
Pre-COVID, business travel was seen mostly as a perk for senior staff in corporate India. Startups rarely looked at business travel since entire teams were…
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The significance of the Zomato IPO
I spoke to a seasoned public markets investor last weekend who asked “What’s the significance of the Zomato IPO?”. Here’s my take on why this…
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Why We Invested In ApnaKlub
[ In video below: ApnaKlub Mini-Thesis by Ashish Fafadia and Kartikeya Shekhar ] The Opportunity Traditional wholesale FMCG distribution in Tier 2, 3 India is…
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How to develop a future-proof People & Culture strategy
One of the biggest questions that early-stage startup founders and first-time entrepreneurs struggle with is when to hire someone to lead their People and Culture…
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Reselling > Live-streaming
Ecommerce has traditionally been viewed through one of two lenses – horizontal ecommerce and vertical ecommerce. Horizontal ecommerce companies like Amazon, Alibaba and Flipkart, tend…
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Announcing, the second edition of the Blume-U Velocity Program
In August 2020 we launched the Blume-U Velocity program — a seven week program for our early stage portfolio founders. We have always believed that…
