Commentary

Jun 2023

PMF Convo #3 – Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures
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
Sheel Mohnot
Shashank Bijapur, Co-founder and CEO, Spotdraft on not being lazy, the importance of outbound sales, real challenges after closing deals, and building guardrails as you scale
Shashank: “You can't take back any features that you've already given. For example, if I said support is free, unlimited support tickets because my UI is bad, my product is still in development, but I can offer unlimited support to a customer with real people…
Sectors
Infrastructure SaaS & Dev Tools, SMB & Vertical SaaS, Horizontal SaaS
Authors
Rohit Kaul
Pricing 201 for B2B SaaS companies: Price-Persona Fit
This is the 2nd article in a series of B2B SaaS pricing articles. The first article in the series introduced a new lens for pricing decisions where price moves to the center of decision-making. It then covered Price-Product fit a la how your price should lead to your product…
Sectors
Infrastructure SaaS & Dev Tools, SMB & Vertical SaaS, Horizontal SaaS
Authors
Rohit Kaul
Topics
#GTM
#SaaS
#Sales
Around the world in a Pixxel daze: how Pixxel’s satellites are keeping an eye on the future
If you think about butterflies, the first image that comes to mind is how colourful they are. What makes them really distinct from other living beings is that not only are they colourful, but they can also see the widest range of colours than anyone else on the…
Sectors
SpaceTech
Authors
Editorial Team, Disha Sharma
Topics
#BigData
#B2B
#NewSpace
#SaaS
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…
Authors
Karthik Reddy
Topics
#Investing
#Culture
#podcast
#Entrepreneurship
#BlumeTeam
Recommitting to take the lead in helping our planet fight climate change
We are committed to doing our best to mitigate anthropogenic climate change. Whether that is by taking bold bets on deep-tech ventures like Carbon Clean much ahead of the market, by supporting circular economy companies like Cashify and Spinny, or by learning and building…
Sectors
ClimateTech, EV & Mobility
Authors
Arpit Agarwal
Topics
#ElectricVehicles
#CircularEconomy
EV adoption in India is happening at a faster pace than you think
When Arpit and I first released our first-ever EV Primer in April 2022, it was driven by the need to summarise our learnings from being long-term investors in companies such as Yulu, Euler, BatterySmart, ElectricPe and Vecmocon. It allowed us to engage with the EV (and auto)…
Sectors
EV & Mobility
Authors
Arpit Agarwal, Venkatesh Modi
Topics
#ElectricVehicles
#TwoWheelers
#B2B
Growing Up: How the Marketing Function Changes in B2C Companies After Zero to One
Since we are at the peak of summer, we will take the example of a company that makes Chiller the juicer. Now the founder thought the most obvious route to growth is to populate search using SEO and run specific campaigns with different variations of the “keep…
Sectors
ConsumerTech
Authors
Disha Sharma
Topics
#Marketing
#useracquisition
Building Market Networks in Venture Capital with Gautham Sivaramakrishnan | How Did You Get Here
In my next installment of How Did You Get Here, I spoke with Gautham Sivaramakrishnan who leads Market Networks at Blume Ventures. Gautham focuses on adding value to our companies by leveraging strategic partnerships, revenue channels,…
Authors
Ria Shroff Desai, Gautham Sivaramakrishnan
Topics
#Culture
#GTM
#BlumeTeam
#Community
The Next Big Thing Isn’t Near, It’s Here
The biggest prize in technology is reserved for those who are able to build the future. Every few years a new platform is born and the company that either builds it first or scales it most, manages to accrue the most amount of value. That company then has the…
Authors
Joseph Sebastian
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

Apr 2023

Do Androids Dream of an Electric Second Life? How Cashify is building a market for second-hand gadgets
What does an average phone’s life look like? In most Indian households, the most tech-savvy person or the highest earning person in the family buys the most high-end phone. When an upgrade comes along, they pass it on to a member who uses the phone “only for…
Sectors
ConsumerTech, ClimateTech
Authors
Disha Sharma

Insights

PMF Convo #3 – Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures

Shashank Bijapur, Co-founder and CEO, Spotdraft on not being lazy, the importance of outbound sales, real challenges after closing deals, and building guardrails as you scale

Pricing 201 for B2B SaaS companies: Price-Persona Fit

Around the world in a Pixxel daze: how Pixxel’s satellites are keeping an eye on the future

Karthik Reddy on Building Blume Ventures (with Pritish Sanyal of The One Percent Project)

Recommitting to take the lead in helping our planet fight climate change

EV adoption in India is happening at a faster pace than you think

Growing Up: How the Marketing Function Changes in B2C Companies After Zero to One

Building Market Networks in Venture Capital with Gautham Sivaramakrishnan | How Did You Get Here

The Next Big Thing Isn’t Near, It’s Here

Nine predictions about the Apple Headset and the VR industry

Driving Community in Venture Capital with Deepika Jain | How Did You Get Here

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

Do Androids Dream of an Electric Second Life? How Cashify is building a market for second-hand gadgets

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PMF Convo #3 – Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures

Shashank Bijapur, Co-founder and CEO, Spotdraft on not being lazy, the importance of outbound sales, real challenges after closing deals, and building guardrails as you scale

Pricing 201 for B2B SaaS companies: Price-Persona Fit

Around the world in a Pixxel daze: how Pixxel’s satellites are keeping an eye on the future

Karthik Reddy on Building Blume Ventures (with Pritish Sanyal of The One Percent Project)

Recommitting to take the lead in helping our planet fight climate change

EV adoption in India is happening at a faster pace than you think

Growing Up: How the Marketing Function Changes in B2C Companies After Zero to One

Building Market Networks in Venture Capital with Gautham Sivaramakrishnan | How Did You Get Here

The Next Big Thing Isn’t Near, It’s Here

Nine predictions about the Apple Headset and the VR industry

Driving Community in Venture Capital with Deepika Jain | How Did You Get Here

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

Do Androids Dream of an Electric Second Life? How Cashify is building a market for second-hand gadgets