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Artist: Tanujaa Rane; also in the Blume office collection now Aileen Lee needs to get ample credit for indoctrinating the word…

We partnered with Agara back in 2019 with the promise of making autonomous voice ubiquitous in customer support. During the course of this journey, we have had the opportunity to witness Agara provide…

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 to which there has been volatility in the industry. There have been commercial…

I attended a fascinating talk recently by Sidu Ponnappa, SVP…

We are living through an unprecedented global health crisis, specifically a metabolic health crisis. Over a billion people in the world suffer from a metabolic health syndrome, which includes high blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist and abnormal…

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 usually headquartered in one location. With the forced behavioral changes in our workplace as well as our work style,…

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 IPO means different things to different folks. A common challenge of running a VC firm in…

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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 / Human Resources function. As a bootstrapped team, where everyone is playing multiple roles and things…

A recent ET article talked about the…

We are the music makers,     And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers,     And sitting by desolate streams; — World-losers and…

How should early-stage founders, especially those at the seed / pre-Series A phase think about Human Resources (HR)? It is common at this stage of the startup, to conflate HR or anything people-related with hiring or talent acquisition. However, as

Within a few weeks of each other in 2011, there were 3 different mentions of this Ex-Yahoo engineer who was building a cloud telephony business out of Bangalore. What I was told was this young man was reluctant to talk to VCs as yet. What we used to retort was that we…