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Rohit Kaul leads all things Marketing and Content and has taken up the heavy mantle of helping Blume retain our pole position when it comes to being a content-first, content-led VC fund.

Today's installment in my series chronicling the stories of different roles at Blume Ventures is a special one because my colleague Rohit Kaul put me in the hot seat and gave me the chance to talk about my journey, my career decisions, defining moments and what I'm working on at…

“Should I go slow for some time in the short-term to allow myself to go faster in the long-term?” “Why is my company slowing down even though I have more people?” “How to create an organizational…

There are two main stakeholders for a Venture Capital Fund. Most of the time, founders are in the limelight. However, many people don’t realise the importance of Limited Partners - LPs, or Investors - in the success and long-term sustainability of a VC fund, and may…

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…

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,…

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…

One of the biggest questions that early-stage startup founders and first-time entrepreneurs struggle with is when to hire someone to lead their People and Culture / Human Resources function. As a bootstrapped team, where everyone is playing multiple roles and things…

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…

When Blume Ventures kicked off Chai and Chatter in late 2018, we had a simple goal. We wanted to have the conversations the startup ecosystem usually doesn’t. In a space hallmarked by an oversized emphasis on efficiency and a near-chronic paucity of time, we wanted to…