10 More Indian Unicorns

We previously analyzed 10 Indian Unicorns. Many are unjustifiably overvalued, some are not. However, if the founders can keep their heads straight and execute, thereby back-filling the valuations, invaluable infrastructure could get built in sector after sector. Here are 10 more: Chargebee Helps Businesses Manage their Subscription Billing BrowserStack Addresses a $45B Market Opportunity Mindtickle

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dr. Aniruddha Malpani, Founder of Malpani Ventures (Part 1)

Dr. Aniruddha Malpani, Founder of Malpani Ventures, is an active angel investor in Indian startups for the past decade. Wonderful conversation. Sramana Mitra: Let’s catch up a bit on what has been going on in our collective universe and how you see the world based on all these years of observing the ecosystem. How do

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Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapping with a Paycheck to over $15M Revenue: SoPost CEO Jonny Grubin (Part 1)

Jonny started as a solo entrepreneur, bootstrapped with a paycheck, and has built a $15M+ revenue global business with a small amount of funding. Excellent story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Solo Entrepreneur Building a Venture Scale EdTech Company from India: Cuemath Founder Manan Khurma (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: How does the teacher handle so many grades? Manan Khurma: The teacher handles the students either in a one-to-one class or she does a small group of students. Typically, our teachers will opt for a certain grade segment. Even in a group class, the teacher is essentially teaching one-on-one. Let’s say a teacher

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Solo Entrepreneur Building a Venture Scale EdTech Company from India: Cuemath Founder Manan Khurma (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You had to develop a new methodology of online learning that would capture some of the nuances of your physical learning and translate that into a methodology that would work online. Manan Khurma: Not some nuances, but all nuances. Lots of custom development work had to be done. It took us two years

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Building a Global HR Tech Business from India: Adit Jain, CEO of Leena AI (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: At the end of 2020, the product was still that full workflow HR solution? Adit Jain: We have added two more products in 2020. When Covid hit, a lot of organizations came to us and said, “Leena is doing HR service delivery, but can Leena proactively go to employees and do pulse checks?”

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February 3 – 562nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 562nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, February 3, 2022, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others

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Roundtable Recap: January 27 – Non-Unicorn Chasing Investment Philosophy

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Christopher Mirabile, Senior Managing Director at Launchpad Venture Group. We had an awesome conversation about a non-Unicorn chasing investment philosophy. If the topic interests you, please check out my Udemy course Alternatives to Unicorn Chasing VCs with Sramana Mitra. Das Infomedia 1Mby1M Premium member Dhaval Patel

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