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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

  • Davids Vs Covid 3: Managing B2B Sales During COVID-19

    While the globe struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic and its resulting externalities, startups remain one of the several groups to be adversely hit. Ranging from cash flow issues, to supply chain disruptions, to diminishing customer demand – startups are battling various…

  • Davids Vs Covid 2: Managing Ops In The Time Of Covid-19

    This is the second, in a series of articles from the Blume team covering different aspects of business, in the context of Covid-19. While we are tracking the Covid-19 meter of India by the hour and gauging the magnitude of the crisis that is upon us, early stage…

  • Davids Vs COVID: Becoming A Wartime CEO

    Over the next few months, as the world braces to eradicate the virus, startup founders will have to fight a battle for survival before they embark on the next phase of growth. No one knows how much time will it take for us to drive the virus out, but the broad consensus is…
    Authors
    Ashish Fafadia
    Topics
    • #Entrepreneurship

Feb 2020

  • FIT (हैं) TO (तो) HIT (हैं) : Part 1

    BLUME DAY circa 2020 ​“But let’s just imagine, that when we finish, I’m going to let each one of you pick out the car of your choice. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Pick it out, any color, you name it, it will be tied up with a bow, and it’ll be at your house tomorrow.…
    Authors
    Karthik Reddy

Jan 2020

Nov 2019

Oct 2019

  • PART III Epilogue

    A couple exchanging marriage vows are almost always thinking – ​“This is it! It’s for a lifetime!” Alas! It doesn’t work out sometimes. But the vows indicate that it was at least the hope. And many marriages, despite the odds, do last a lifetime. How often can one say that…
    Authors
    Karthik Reddy

  • PART II: Keep Calm And Pick A ‘Listable-Founder’ Mindset

    The (Publicly) Listed Venture-backed Tech Company is Dead! Softbank and similar mega-sized investors are cited too often nowadays as a way to sustain staying private for longer than needed. Long live the Public listing of the Venture-backed Tech Company! I don’t…
    Authors
    Karthik Reddy
    Topics
    • #Innovation
    • #IPO

  • PART I: Keep Calm And Go All The Way To The IPO Bell (At Least In Your Head)

    Every year, for the past 8 years, I have got the same question a few minutes into every LP meeting (LPs or Limited Partners are the financial investors who give funds such as Blume the capital to invest into startups). ​“Where are the exits?” ​“Why aren’t there…
    Authors
    Karthik Reddy
    Topics
    • #Innovation
    • #IPO

Sep 2019

  • (TL;DR) Keep Calm And Take The Road Less Travelled (A Three-Part Essay)

    The Indian VC-supported startup world doesn’t seem to have come to terms with an important eventuality – Venture cycle completions means companies going public and creating monstrously large public companies that are eventually the source of smaller acquisitions and exits.…
    Authors
    Karthik Reddy
    Topics
    • #Innovation

Aug 2019

  • Highlights From Our Recent Chai & Chatter On ‘Future Of Work’

    Why do companies exist? Why is the gig economy growing? What will the firm of the future look like? These were some of the questions with which we kickstarted Blume’s 7th Chai & Chatter on the theme of ​‘Future of Work’. Chai & Chatter, or C&C as it is commonly…

Jul 2019

  • Why We Invested in Procol

    This is Asia’s largest Jeera (cumin seed) market at Unjha, Gujarat. Purchases happen via handshakes, phone calls and records are kept on paper chits. © Gaurav Baheti. The bread that you ordered online from Grofers or Milkbasket, was in turn ordered by them, from…
    Authors
    Sajith Pai
    Topics
    • #SupplyChain
    • #Agricommodity

  • Thoughts On The Future Of Work – Part 1

    Future of Work is a big interest area for Blume. We have bet big on this space with investments in Squad,
    Sectors
    HRTech
    Authors
    Sajith Pai
    Topics
    • #gigeconomy
    • #bluecollar
    • #whitecollar

  • Thoughts On The Future Of Work – Part 2

    This is the second in a three-part series exploring how Blume thinks about the Future of Work. In the first, I shared the key drivers of the transformation of work underway, including the twin trends – emergence of a task or gig-based economy, as well as the decline of…
    Sectors
    HRTech
    Authors
    Sajith Pai
    Topics
    • #gigeconomy
    • #bluecollar
    • #whitecollar

  • Chronicling NewSpace Part 2: Role Of US Space Policy

    In the first post of this series, we discussed the space race and how the NewSpace began. In this part, we discuss the role of US government policy in…
    Authors
    Arpit Agarwal
    Topics
    • #NewSpace

  • #ReversePitch: How Is Blume Thinking About Drones?

    At Blume, we have always been passionate about technology, especially which enables non-linear opportunities (ex: UiPath enables Robotic Process Automation). Businesses that enable multiple use-cases in the coming 10 – 15 years, some of which might even be unconceivable today,…
    Sectors
    DeepTech
    Topics
    • #Investing
    • #Technology

  • Building A ‘Founder-First’ Ecosystem

    After having more than 130+ applications on our ​‘Ex Founders Initiative’ forum, I was vividly reminded of Jay Conrad Levinson’s revolutionary book ​‘Guerrilla Marketing’; Where guerrilla actually means ​‘improvising’ your product from the tools you already possess. It meant to…
    Authors
    Sanam Rawal
    Topics
    • #Founderfirst
    • #Culture
    • #metamorph