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Mar 2017
Key takeaways from Blume Day 2017
February saw us hosting our sixth Blume Day, an annual event where our portfolio founders, mentors and advisors, fund investors, peer VCs, and the ecosystem-at-large came together to interact, network and share some wonderful ideas. This year, the event got bigger and…- Authors
- Namrata More
Feb 2017
Blume and Draper Venture Network - Going global, Network effects (and Founders, The World's your Oyster!)
(this blogpost builds on the original article announcing the Blume Ventures-DVN strategic…Finding Exit Velocity: Flashback! [Part I]
For the last 3 years, at every mid-Dec Blume offsite, we have tried to understand the State of the Blume portfolio. And as a forward looking corollary, what should we expect for the portfolio in the year ahead given the larger VC trends in the country. The investing, the…- Authors
- Karthik Reddy
EXIT VELOCITY (Fluchtgeschwindigkeit!)
Fluchtgeschwindigkeit! “What the Flucht is that?” asks my colleague! “It’s German for ‘Escape Velocity’” I replied, “and Flucht is ‘Flight’” — more inspiration, or perhaps goal setting, for this year’s #BlumeDay. Why German?…- Authors
- Karthik Reddy
Start ups liquidity management post funding - Fixed Deposit (FD versus LF)
Largely due to demonetisation, banks are flushed with liquidity. Natural outcome of this — falling interest rates. This means that fixed deposit rates that banks offer shall be lowered. Implications for start ups Startups typically raise chunky…- Authors
- Ashish Fafadia
Jan 2017
Prepathon: the (now, seemingly) inevitable evolutionary outcome of Pagalguy
Chapter 7, The Portfolio Chronicles Sometimes organisms grow slowly year after year and wait patiently for a dramatic change in environmental conditions to morph into a more powerful and stronger creature. One doesn’t expect this phenomenon to occur at a…- Authors
- Karthik Reddy
Servify: one destination!...for any gadget, anywhere in lifecycle
Chapter 6, The Portfolio Chronicles Once in a while, you come across this second-time entrepreneur, even more wired than his first stint as a founder, even though she or he has a very good (sometimes, great) story already chronicled. When you chat with- Authors
- Karthik Reddy
Dec 2016
A year's Musings, Learnings, and a Call to Arms for 2017
Wow, and another year has flown by ! We’re all hopefully a bit wiser and grayer after the ebbs and flows of 2016, and further hardened after witnessing the year’s notable events globally and at home. So, some musings and personal learnings as we close out…
Oct 2016
Trust 2.O - Demystifying the Blockchain
Banks, remittance giants, almost all financial institutions seem to be intrigued by the growing…
Sep 2016
Money without boundaries
The concept of money is central to our civilization. Barring a few people who can live far from the attachments of physical world, everyone else interacts with money on an everyday basis, usually several times in a day. It drives a large part of human behaviour – our…- Authors
- Arpit Agarwal
The Sprint and the Marathon
It’s only been one and a half years into Fund II, but the stark realities between the exuberance of 2015 to the rationalization of 2016 inspired me to pen down some thoughts on my Fund II learnings. Disclaimer: It’s a 7 min read.. “A traveller came…
Aug 2016
How to save 3M lives per year?
Dr Charit is a curious cardiologist. While most others would be happy with the fact that there are too…- Authors
- Arpit Agarwal
- Topics
- #Technology
- #Entrepreneurship
Angels in our midst
I write this piece as an angel-turned-institutional VC . After our respective careers in industry and working with startups, both Karthik and I got our first taste as early Mumbai Angels members. This post is aimed at founders looking for seed capital from the…Olympians and Entrepreneurs - Bruise, Bounce back, Bolt
#Random tweet ” The Olympics are a great excuse to be glued to the TV and watch athlete after athlete battle their sport out, working harder in those 14 days than most of us will likely in our *entire* lives ” As the 2016 Rio Olympics draw to…[Olympic DayDreams] Don’t write off the Startup Anthony Ervins!
Somewhere in an old khakhi bag in my parents’ Chennai home, there is a notebook that has a log of every (yeah, every!) event in the 1984 Olympics and the medalists. That’s how stats obsessed and sports obsessed I was to be between the ages of 10 and 17, possibly like some…- Authors
- Karthik Reddy
- Topics
- #portfolio
Innovating for India, Going Native
Let me begin by congratulating Girish and his team @Freshdesk, which won the ET Award for Top Startup of the Year, announced just today. Freshdesk is unarguably one of the best known high-growth, built-for-global-markets enterprise B2B stories to have emerged from…
Jul 2016
How we started Blume Talent Unit: Part 2 – The Present and the Future
[This is a second and concluding part of our series on our experiments with hiring. The first part was published- Authors
- Arpit Agarwal
Jun 2016
How we started Blume Talent Unit: Part 1 - Experiments and Learning
The leading thought in Venture Capital industry globally is that ‘Venture Capital is a services buinsess’. Blume is one of the few venture capital firms in the country that take pride to have built a platform of services (called ’- Authors
- Arpit Agarwal
May 2016
dunzo! - "all things local"
Chapter 5b, The Portfolio Chronicles In this recent Economist article, much has been foretold about AI being the…- Authors
- Karthik Reddy
Apr 2016
The Entrepreneur-VC
There is ample coverage around Entrepreneurs-turned-VCs. For good reason – indeed, entrepreneurial and operations skills are desirable ingredients for a VC’s skill set. Examples abound, especially in the valley – Reid Hoffman (founder of Linkedin, now a partner @…- Authors
- Sanjay Nath
- Topics
- #Fundraising