It took me a minute to take my eyes off the banyan tree. There it stood, strong and silent. Its roots were everywhere, snaking deep into the ground and cascading from the branches. What was once a dot-sized seed has turned into this spectacular provider of shade today, so grounded and yet so linked. It […]

Over the past few years, the world is going through an interesting time. Business models have been challenged, the way we think about growth is changing and that means the way we build our companies has to evolve as well. Recently, we’ve seen a few interesting community-led companies bloom. Hubspot, Figma, and Duolingo are three […]

It’s time to write a new chapter They say that you can learn a lot about a person by observing their behavior in a group setting. Let’s take the example of a group photo snapped at the end of an event. Some people gravitate right to the center — people who are boisterous, gregarious, and […]

In my dozen-plus years as a journalist, there is nothing I enjoyed more than meeting founders. What is so special about them? Aren’t there so many wonderful people out there whose stories are as fascinating or more? Of course! And I have enjoyed meeting many and telling their stories.  But founders hold a special place […]

My career as an IT consultant began in London in 2000 right at the height of the dot.com bubble, when I was 22 years old and fresh out of university.  For most of us, our first job determines our career trajectory, luckily for me, I ended up in the right place at the right time. […]

So far at SaaSBoomi, almost all our offline events have been following a similar format — we pick a prime tech city in the country — Chennai, Bangalore, or Hyderabad, and host large-scale conferences with 80% focus on content and 20% focus on networking. In fact, all major tech events follow this playbook in general. […]

SaaSBoomi Fellowship is a 12-month program for young professionals who aspire to make a positive impact in the mission of building India as a product nation. Apart from being a great opportunity to work with some of the best SaaS founders, the fellowship program offers a ringside view into all things SaaS — Helping the […]

“How should we build a community?” “I like how you have built this community, what should we do to make our community more active?” I have been getting more such questions recently, from founders and others. It is heartening to see this interest in community building, an area that I stumbled into 18 years ago, […]

In the summer of 2015, a group of SaaS founders came together to network, share, and learn from each other. Today, the group has grown into a massive community of SaaS founders, leading India’s SaaS ecosystem and being closer than ever to realizing their ambition of evolving India into a SaaS nation. Through our evolution […]