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Blume Podcast Season 4

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Oct 2020

  • The Playbook (Episode 4) – Patrick Mouratoglou: A Coach’s Rules For Life.

    Reminiscing his father play classical music on the piano, Patrick Mouratoglou remarks: One piece of classical music, it’s like sentences. It’s like you’re reading — It’s like a poem … And when you want to repeat it, to make it perfect, you take one…
    Authors
    Karthik Reddy
    Topics
    • #Entrepreneurship

  • The Playbook (Episode 3) – José Mourinho: A Coach’s Rules For Life.

    Football! – the most accessible global sport. You can kick a stone down the road, a ball on a beach, all towards the same end – just to keep getting closer to the goal. It’s also the richest of all sports. José Mourinho’s journey exemplifies this journey; from…
    Authors
    Karthik Reddy

  • The Playbook (Episode 5) – Dawn Staley: A Coach’s Rules For Life.

    Jigsaw puzzles are a good metaphor for so many things in life. As Dawn Staley articulates from her growing up with such puzzles (since that’s all her family could afford as gifts); Building from the ground up. It’s, uh, frustrating and gratifying, ​‘cause puzzles…
    Authors
    Karthik Reddy
    Topics
    • #Entrepreneurship

Sep 2020

  • The Playbook (Episode 2) – Jill Ellis: A Coach’s Rules For Life.

    More importantly, they’re a team built with strong and vocal women, both on and off the field, some of them becoming icons in their own right for their political choices and statements. Be it Brandi Chastain’s run post-goal or the pink and blue streaks of Megan Rapinoe – they…
    Authors
    Karthik Reddy
    Topics
    • #Entrepreneurship

  • The Playbook (Episode 1) – Doc Rivers: A Coach’s Rules For Life

    In Netflix’s new documentary series, The Playbook, elite sports coaches share their playbook for success, in sports and in life. Episode 1 features Doc Rivers, an NBA veteran. Karthik Reddy, a big fan of all things sports, provides his take on Episode 1, the first of a…
    Authors
    Karthik Reddy
    Topics
    • #Entrepreneurship

  • Unacademy | The First Of The Unicorns From The Blume Stable

    Unacademy just closed a $150m Series F round led by SoftBank. September 2020 thus marks the graduation of our first portfolio company into a Unicorn. (We’ve been on other Unicorn cap tables, but as a result of our portcos being acquired by them – TaxiforSure by Ola, Runnr…
    Sectors
    EdTech
    Authors
    Karthik Reddy

Aug 2020

Jun 2020

May 2020

  • Our BluPrint For Covid Risk Mitigation

    To help our startups understand how Covid is impacting their business, and to help them quickly get a grasp on how they can mitigate the risks of Covid (and put in place a plan to counter its effects), we created this BluPrint for Covid Risk Mitigation…
    Topics
    • #Entrepreneurship

Apr 2020

  • Davids Vs Covid 7: Managing Product Teams During Covid-19

    VP of Product Management at Zomato, an avid tweeter, and an alumnus of BITS Pilani, Rahul Ganjoo has over 15 years of experience in the tech world from leading products at…
    Topics
    • #ProductManagement

  • Building Against All Odds: Part 7

    When it comes to India as a country, food is a topic that can seldom be missed. We discuss what to eat for dinner while serving lunch, we have that one friend who vociferously insists his / her mother makes the best paranthas, we pride ourselves on the copious amounts of…
    Topics
    • #Entrepreneurship

  • Building Against All Odds: Part 5

    The COVID-19 pandemic is the most unprecedented crisis of our times – It can be likened to a war and in many ways it is. However, it is a war where there are limited policy measures that can control the ripple down effects on businesses and the economy. During these trying…
    Topics
    • #Entrepreneurship

  • Davids Vs Covid 6: Managing Cashflows And Finances During Covid-19

    Cash is King is the writing on the wall as everybody tries to extend their runway. At Blume, we got Ambarish Raghuvanshi, the seasoned wartime CFO of Infoedge, to…
    Topics
    • #Entrepreneurship
    • #Finance

  • Davids Vs Covid 5: Managing SaaS Businesses During Covid-19

    During these unprecedented times, SaaS founders, CEOs and leadership teams are grappling with rising uncertainties on a daily basis. While it is impossible for any one person to have all the answers on the path ahead, our belief is that, collectively, we might be able to wade…
    Topics
    • #Entrepreneurship

  • Building Against All Odds: Part 4

    Srinath Sridharan has donned the role of Transformation enabler / Corporate Leader / Board member / CXO coach in a career that spans over two decades with leading corporates…
    Authors
    Kartikeya Shekhar

  • Building Against All Odds: Part 3

    Come mid-March, COVID had struck human lives and businesses hard. We initially launched a series of webinars to help our founders tide through issues such as burn management, communicating tough decisions, etc. as part of our Davids vs Covid series. With founders everywhere…

  • Building Against All Odds: Part 2

    As the impact of COVID-19 intensifies and spreads globally, business leaders, investors, and employees are all fearing what seems like inevitable economic doom. Across board rooms and town halls, the same questions are being asked – Will we lose our jobs? Will we get (or…

  • Building Against All Odds: Part 1

    This is the first in a series of articles from the Blume team covering different aspects of business resilience and survival — where some of India’s strongest business leaders share their insights / tips on how to adapt and respond to business disruptions, safeguard people…

Mar 2020

  • Davids V Covid 4: Managing Manufacturing During COVID-19

    While 2019 was a year of reckoning for global manufacturing supply chains caused by the trade war between US and China, COVID-19 pandemic has again brought companies to a standstill in the last quarter. As the global economy grapples with the economic shocks and…
    Topics
    • #Entrepreneurship