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Mar 2024
Dipika Pallikal Karthik 's Tryst With A Life Full of Sport | Blume Day 2024
The keynote speaker for Blume Day 2024 was none other than Arjuna Awardee Dipika Pallikal Karthik.In conversation with Karthik Reddy, Blume's co-founder and partner, she spoke about growing up in an environment where playing sport was encouraged, the multiple obstacles she…
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Karthik Reddy, Dipika Pallikal Karthik
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Feb 2024
Blume Day 2024 | You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
If you were a venture investor or a startup founder or sitting in any corner of the Indian startup ecosystem, you would have witnessed two giant leaps and cycles over the past 20 years. The first was gradual, took about 2/3rds of that time, kicking off with the…
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Karthik Reddy
Jan 2024
Blume Ventures 2024: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Welcome to 2024’s first Blume Beacon! We do not have our usual collection of top reads and podcasts this time. We, instead, want to give you, our readers, Blume’s take on 2023 and what to expect in 2024 across sectors and stakeholders (the 4Ps-Pipeline, Portfolio, People,…
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Karthik Reddy, Ashish Fafadia, Arpit Agarwal, Sajith Pai, Sanjay Nath, Sarita Raichura, Alok Mehta, Ria Shroff Desai
The Omega Files - The “Why did you do it?!” Question | Part II
Dec 14 2023: Public message that we will be Declassifying The Omega Files Dec 15 2023: Omega Files Ep 1 launched in the public domain The most common question I got in private DMs was “But Why did you do it?” You…
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Karthik Reddy
The Omega Files - The “Why did you do it?!” Question | Part 1
The article, "The Omega Files: The Why? Part I," presents insights from the Blume team on the rationale behind their decision to publicly release the Omega Files. It includes varied perspectives from the leadership and investment team, focusing on the importance of transparency…
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Dec 2023
Venture Capital: A Deep Apprenticeship
When I finally tire of saying something so often, I know it's time to write it and share it with the team and the world. This practice of writing or a podcast episode for me is my rendition of emphasizing a lesson I would like to spread. Blume Day T-shirts are a manifestation of…
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Karthik Reddy
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Oct 2023
Why Blume Ventures invested in Flash.
As an investor, I believe that when investing in a business that involves a business model innovation or a shift in consumer behavior, having a strong investment thesis is crucial. This thesis takes years, sometimes even a decade, to materialize, as it relies on natural tech…
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Karthik Reddy
Aug 2023
Pandemic market fit is over. Edtech will live
Pandemic market fit is over. Edtech will live
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Karthik Reddy, Sajith Pai
Jun 2023
Karthik Reddy on Building Blume Ventures (with Pritish Sanyal of The One Percent Project)
Karthik Reddy recently appeared on The One Percent Project podcast, hosted by Pritish Sanyal. Karthik spoke about his experiences of building Blume Ventures, why resilience must be second nature to an entrepreneur, how effective communication is a superpower, the quest to…
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Feb 2023
Blume Day 2023: Form is Temporary, Class is Permanent
A straight batted drive by Gavaskar, a hook in vintage Kapil style, and an on-drive-by Tendulkar. In the 80s and 90s, cricket commentators would often remark how these occasions are evidence that “form is temporary; class is permanent.” Some naysayers would call…
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Karthik Reddy
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Dec 2022
Blume Fund IV: A pivotal point in Blume’s Journey
As a team that loves to keep learning, Blume has been listening to a lot of great podcasts capturing the history of Venture firms in Silicon Valley. As VCs, our job is to forecast the future, trend-spot and pattern-match. The lessons gleaned from the mistakes and successes…
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Karthik Reddy
Jun 2022
Inconvenience Is Regretted, Convenience Is Not
Dunzo pushing boundaries is not new. It began as 3000+ Whatsapp chats on Kabeer Biswas’ phone in 2015. If this forms a kick-off para in a future dunzo story, the iconic ad that put a semi-colon on the 2022 IPL Final broadcast will be a chapter unto…
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Karthik Reddy
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Nov 2021
The Rise Of The X-Unicorns
Artist: Tanujaa Rane; also in the Blume office collection now Aileen Lee needs to get ample credit for indoctrinating the word…
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Karthik Reddy
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Mar 2021
Blume Day X (2021): We Are The Music Makers
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…
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Karthik Reddy
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Feb 2021
Exotel | The Bootstrap Champ | #10YearsOfBlume
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…
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Karthik Reddy
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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…
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Karthik Reddy
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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…
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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,…
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Karthik Reddy
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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…
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Karthik Reddy
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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…
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Karthik Reddy
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