Commentary (2023)

Jun 2023

Nine predictions about the Apple Headset and the VR industry
Blume investment team member Joseph Sebastian gazes through the crystal ball to present nine predictions about the highly-anticipated Apple headset launch on June 5th evening (EST) and its possible impact on Apple/VR industry. This piece is published before Apple's WWDC…
Sectors
ConsumerTech, DeepTech, Media, Entertainment & Gaming
Authors
Joseph Sebastian

May 2023

How Did You Get Here: Driving Community in Venture Capital
I've been thinking of how best to capture the journeys of our team members at Blume and the unique roles they do, so I interviewed one of them as part of a series on how they got here, and hope to do many more like this to pull back the curtain on what really happens at a VC…
Authors
Ria Shroff Desai
Topics
#Culture
#BlumeTeam
#Community
PMF Convo #2: Sajith Pai speaks to Anshuman Bapna, Terra.do
This is part of the 'PMF Convo' series where Sajith Pai interviews founders, operators and investors on the topic of product-market fit or PMF.
Authors
Sajith Pai
Closing the Loop: Unleashing the Potential of the Circular Economy for Sustainable Transformation
We are currently creating more waste every year, which is likely to bring down the quality of our life in the years to come. And we have less than 10 years to halve greenhouse gas emissions until 2050 to reach net zero. India…
Sectors
ClimateTech
Authors
Venkatesh Modi
Topics
#CircularEconomy
Pricing 201 for B2B SaaS companies: Price-Product Fit
This article is the first in the three-article series on B2B SaaS pricing. What’s that one question that keeps SaaS founders up at night? No, it’s not the ultimate question of…
Sectors
SMB & Vertical SaaS, Horizontal SaaS
Authors
Rohit Kaul
Topics
#Gtm
#SaaS
PMF Convo #1: Sajith Pai speaks to Chaitanya R, Wakefit
This is part of the 'PMF Convo' series where Sajith Pai interviews founders, operators and investors on the topic of product-market fit or PMF.
Authors
Sajith Pai
How should you think of a growth role in a B2B SaaS company
Consider a scenario - B2B SaaS founders see a massive gap in the market, assemble a crack team, raise funds from elite investors, and launch a stellar product. They get early traction, and lots of users sign-up for the freemium plan/free trial, but then the founders hit a…
Authors
Disha Sharma
Topics
#Marketing
#UserAcquisition
#SaaS
#Sales
Launching Lead Tribe 3: Overriding the Status Quo
Some problems are easy to solve, and some others are very hard to solve. Some of the hardest problems to solve are the ones that lie hidden in plain sight and are almost accepted as the status quo. The founder gender gap in the startup ecosystem has been one such hard…
Authors
Swathi Dhamodaran
Why We Invested In Multipl
Throughout history, there have been decades when nothing happened and months when decades happened. Something like that has happened in the past 30 months. The digital economy has altered dramatically, with "India's
Sectors
FinTech
Authors
Ashish Fafadia, Jatin Madhra

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Insights

Nine predictions about the Apple Headset and the VR industry

How Did You Get Here: Driving Community in Venture Capital

PMF Convo #2: Sajith Pai speaks to Anshuman Bapna, Terra.do

Closing the Loop: Unleashing the Potential of the Circular Economy for Sustainable Transformation

Pricing 201 for B2B SaaS companies: Price-Product Fit

PMF Convo #1: Sajith Pai speaks to Chaitanya R, Wakefit

How should you think of a growth role in a B2B SaaS company

Launching Lead Tribe 3: Overriding the Status Quo

Why We Invested In Multipl

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Fantastic Fumes and Where to Find them: Carbon Clean's attempt at a Net Zero Emissions Future

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