“Whether you’re talking to other founders or looking up books and blogs, they teach you the wrong thing when it comes to vertical SaaS. They made me commit a lot of mistakes. Even investors are not able to give you the proper advice because they’re usually working on horizontal SaaS… We are now a billion-dollar-plus-valued […]

Starting from scratch, the tech exec-turned-VC shares a tactical guide on how to think about founding, product, and funding There are more questions than answers in the run-up to and during the early stages of founding a company. Founders have many ideas they could pursue and several different approaches they take. The only way to […]

All businesses are people businesses. With the right team, founders can cruise towards North Stars and tide over cash crunches. At CloudCherry before, and now at Uniphore, I have seen that encouraging teams to play together helps the company stay together. I have always been a big believer in small stories. That is how I […]

We’re heading into choppy waters. The BVP Nasdaq emerging cloud index, Emcloud, is down 56% in the last year, compared to 30% for Nasdaq overall. The median revenue growth rate for the companies in the index has dipped below 30%. The Accel 2022 Euroscape report paints an equally gloomy outlook. Revenue multiples for public SaaS […]

Some of us think that Outbound marketing is dead and have given up on it. Many of us still do outbound marketing but are not sure how to make it feel natural and not look like a spammy outreach. Even for me, as an inbound marketer at heart, I believe content is the King. But […]

When Vantage Circle started out 12 years ago, it got corporate clients for its employee engagement SaaS platform mostly by personal contact and word of mouth. Co-founder and CEO Partha Neog leveraged his 13-year prior corporate career, which included a stint as Product Management VP at a Naukri group company. The first big client he […]

When Guru Hariharan left Amazon, where he applied machine learning to build an automated vendor management system, his vision was that the future of ecommerce was going to be algorithmic. As an entrepreneur, he knew the value of AI/ML to other retailers as well as retail brands for whom ecommerce marketplaces accounted for 90% of […]

An old friend worked hard for years and launched his SaaS product. It was a high-quality product, so he got the initial few sign-ups. But, the business barely moved after that. It was almost as if his product was invisible. And to an extent, it was.  The product description on his website reads like this: […]

We launched Bugasura.io in Product Hunt last month. We became the #1 Product of the day on November 23. This was magical. I have felt ‘wow’ about those who got there and thought we were not there yet. This is a feeling many entrepreneurs have. I kept pitching and pitching Bugasura everywhere and people would […]

I still remember the day when we got our 1st customer in my last startup. It was a lovely rainy day in November 2013 and it came with a terrific feeling – it felt absolutely amazing; almost akin to the 1st kiss. And after 2 years of honeymoon – they churned. I felt crushed, hollowed, […]

We at SuperOps.ai did something recently. We went to our largest competitor’s biggest conference in Washington DC and organized a flash mob. It was a success—more prospects now know about us, we created noise, we got interview requests and media attention, and we generated reactions, mostly good. But, this post is not about our success. […]