Macroeconomic shocks have roiled the business environment for SaaS over the past couple of years. Uncertainties altered customer demands and priorities, while fears of recession impacted the investment outlook. SaaS companies all over the world got caught up in this pincer movement. Amidst this turbulence, the Indian SaaS ecosystem has proved even more resilient than […]

In the fast-paced ever-changing world of startups, it is tempting to see corporate governance as a “necessary evil” – an overhead which impedes progress – but the truth of the matter is that good governance can be a powerful lever for value creation.

Black Swan Bingo If Covid and the financial market reset weren’t enough, the run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week was a sure sign that “Black Swan” events are no longer as unpredictable as one might have imagined a few years back. It almost seems that facing existential threats on a daily basis is […]

As the founder of Veris, a SaaS platform in the enterprise space, I have had the privilege of being a part of SaaSBoomi – a dynamic and rapidly growing community of SaaS entrepreneurs, managed by volunteers from across India, many of whom are founders themselves. A Gathering of Industry Experts Each year, the SaaSBoomi Annual […]

It’s when the fuel dries up that you realize you’ve hired the wrong people or scaled too big in a market that has a ceiling you can’t grow beyond, or that you should not have built a VC-funded company in the first place and could have been bootstrapped.  SaaS folks have a lot to reflect […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]