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How will Indian startups fare their maiden slowdown?
The US markets entered Bear market regime last month, for the first time after March 2020. 🥵Investors had flocked to the flaunting...
Abhimanyu Gupta
Jun 22, 20224 min read
Quick Commerce in India- A Deep Dive
Here’s a quirky sunday past time you could try- make a list of all the things that you surprisingly fail to do in under 15 minutes. We’ll...
Ritwik Khator
Jun 21, 20229 min read
Spoils of the Pandemic
History is witness that some of the Greatest Organizations were born at the time of the greatest adversities. As we turn the corner on...
Ritwik Khator
Apr 16, 20224 min read
How much Stake should Founders retain?
As an entrepreneur there’s a lot riding on the outcome of your negotiations with potential investors. The biggest trade off being between...
Kartikeyan Khator
Jan 14, 20222 min read
Did the Unicorns actually add Value?
In FY20, India’s 68 Unicorns spent cash of over ₹138,000 crores, posting a total net loss of over ₹41,000 crores. Now before you write...
Kartikeyan Khator
Jan 14, 20223 min read
A snapshot of the 2021 Unicorn story of the Globe
Here are 6 cards that sum up the 2021 Unicorn story of the Globe: This article is a part of the December'21 edition of our Startup...
Kartikeyan Khator
Jan 14, 20221 min read
What if you had Invested in Indian Unicorns?
At the inception of 2021 we started keeping tap of the valuation of all Unicorns in India, subsequent funds raised and the hike in...
Kartikeyan Khator
Jan 14, 20221 min read
Should ‘Unicorn’ be a Metric of Success?
There’s no doubt that when a Startup achieves the coveted Unicorn tag, it’s a moment of pride for its founders, employees, and investors,...
Kartikeyan Khator
Jan 14, 20224 min read
Where do Unicorns park Idle Funds?
Time and again you must’ve heard in 2021 (108 times to be precise), that a Startup raised funds north of a hundred million dollars. Of...
Kartikeyan Khator
Jan 13, 20221 min read
Is OYO's IPO Hollow?
In this month’s Look another Growing Tech Startup filed for an IPO!, we have Oyo Rooms, the online aggregator of Hotel Rooms, floating...
Ritwik Khator
Nov 5, 20215 min read
PAYTM IPO – 3 WHYs & 3 WHY NOTs
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Kartikeyan Khator
Aug 1, 20213 min read
BharatPe Takes Over PMC Bank
In September’19 Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank’s MD, Joy Thomas unveiled misery (ironically) upon the bank’s depositors...
Ritwik Khator
Jun 30, 20216 min read
Decoding Amazon
Back in 1997 when a reporter asked Jeff Bezos about his motivation for starting Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos famously said, “I came across a...
Ritwik Khator
Jun 30, 20215 min read
Term Sheet negotiation process
Day 1: You start as sole owner of the company and cash every dollar possible. >>>FAST FORWARD>>> Day 365: You still own the production...
Abhimanyu Gupta
May 31, 20214 min read
Do you have an appetite for Zomato's IPO?
Food bearing, discounts lading, Zomato dressed in red-and-white like a Santa Clause has not only been a darling for its customers but...
Ritwik Khator
May 31, 20214 min read
What numbers are considered sane in the Startup World?
Ratio analysis is important. That’s what our school accounts teacher told us and that’s what the financial expert at cnbc tells us. It’s...
Ritwik Khator
May 30, 20214 min read
Paytm’s Financial Health Check up
When the Government of India took huge swathes of cash out of circulation in 2016, India said #PaytmKaro. And the last time we checked,...
Ritwik Khator
Apr 30, 20213 min read
The Golden Era of Edtech has Just Begun
A startup comes into existence for 2 main reasons: It’s either tech capabilities that can help accomplish a task with much added...
Ritwik Khator
Aug 31, 20203 min read
Swiggy vs. Zomato
After having done high-level deep diving into the idle capacity, idle fund, break-even, supply chain, advertisement costs, investments &...
Ritwik Khator
Jul 31, 20202 min read
Can Swiggy & Zomato Break-Even
Swiggy reported a total of ₹1594 Crores of delivery cost in FY19. This boils down to per order delivery cost of ₹36 at 60% activity level...
Ritwik Khator
Jul 31, 20201 min read
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