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I spoke to a seasoned public markets investor last weekend who asked “What’s the significance of the Zomato IPO?”. Here’s my take on why this IPO means different things to different folks. A common challenge of running a VC firm in…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

As part of our ‘Building Against All Odds’ series, we invited Harsh Jain – CEO and Co-Founder of Dream11 and Dream Sports, to share his journey and key learnings…

To help our startups understand how Covid is impacting their business, and to help them quickly get a grasp on how they can mitigate the risks of Covid (and put in place a plan to counter its effects), we created this BluPrint for Covid Risk Mitigation…

When it comes to India as a country, food is a topic that can seldom be missed. We discuss what to eat for dinner while serving lunch, we have that one friend who vociferously insists his / her mother makes the best paranthas, we pride ourselves on the copious amounts of…

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most unprecedented crisis of our times – It can be likened to a war and in many ways it is. However, it is a war where there are limited policy measures that can control the ripple down effects on businesses and the economy. During these…

Cash is King is the writing on the wall as everybody tries to extend their runway. At Blume, we got Ambarish Raghuvanshi, the seasoned wartime CFO of Infoedge, to…

During these unprecedented times, SaaS founders, CEOs and leadership teams are grappling with rising uncertainties on a daily basis. While it is impossible for any one person to have all the answers on the path ahead, our belief is that, collectively, we might be able to wade…

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…

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…

The following is an excerpt from the Use Case podcast where hosts Ravish Bhatia and Jayadevan PK quiz…

The Founder’s lens Moving beyond the traditional avenues of banker-driven IPOs, today’s leading unicorns are taking an alternative that has now become an upward trend. Reputed venture capitalists such as Benchmark’s Bill Gurley and…