Shekhar leveraged his many decades of nurturing startups experience and generously shared insights on a broad set of ideas. This blog tries to capture the key messages that resonate with startups.

Recently, I was in Dubai, a city that embodies ambition and innovation. My mission was twofold: meeting with Veris customers and advocating for SaaSBoomi’s initiative, Qafila. This initiative is designed to help Indian founders establish a base in the GCC. The trip was a whirlwind of insights and reflections.

The article was first published on TechCrunch Software as a service is one of the most important sectors in tech today. While its transformative potential was quite clear before the pandemic, the sudden pivot to distributed workforces caused interest in SaaS products to skyrocket as medium and large enterprises embraced digital and remote sales processes, […]

The story of Hotelogix is about best-in-class Indian talent clinching one of the biggest deals (upwards of 5 million dollars) in Qatar and earning TRUST at the highest level. 

This wasn’t your average conference; it was an intense, three-day immersion into topics ranging from AI-native go-to-market strategies to tactics for building something truly groundbreaking.

SaaS companies are growing faster than ever, spurred by the COVID-19-induced digital adoption globally. Amidst rapid growth, founders often find it hard to track growth correctly. The major bottleneck here is deciding on the right metrics to measure and devising the appropriate framework. Dave Kellogg, ex CEO Host Analytics, ex-SVP/GM of Salesforce Service Cloud, ex-CEO MarkLogic, […]

After the spurt in cloud-driven SaaS from 2015, the software industry is undergoing another seismic shift with the capabilities of Generative AI (GenAI), fueled by billions of dollars invested in creating Large Language Models (LLMs). While companies like OpenAI building the infrastructure layer made AI the buzz this year, vast opportunities for innovators of all […]

Lockdown, webinars, virtual meetings, and boredom by metrics. That’s what the last 56 days have been for me. Amid all this, I have also been enjoying solving jigsaw puzzles and getting acquainted with Peppa Pig and her family with my daughter, and not to forget adding the disinfectant to the water while mopping the floor! […]

Indian founders are on global journeys, and that means finding and perfecting product-market fit in different geographies. It is akin to navigating through different roads and cultural structures, physically and metaphorically. But before they begin to think of PMF, a more fundamental question is when to start planning for a new journey. Should it be […]