180+ founders and operators came together for a full day of fierce competition and a ton of fun! Here are some details of what went down at the Badminton League 2023!

180+ founders and operators came together for a full day of fierce competition and a ton of fun! Here are some details of what went down at the Badminton League 2023!

180+ founders and operators came together for a full day of fierce competition and a ton of fun! Here are some details of what went down at the Badminton League 2023!

The rising tide lifts all boats. SaaSBoomi founders exemplify that spirit by helping one another scale up. Likewise, our ecosystem partners share the community’s pay-it-forward ethos and fuel our mission to cross $1 trillion market cap from India SaaS. They contribute invaluable resources in knowledge and networks, apart from dollars to accelerate the flywheel.  By […]

1500+ founders, 100+ VCs, plus top enterprise CXOs: SaaSBoomi Annual gets bigger and better each year. SaaSBoomi Annual 2024 comes at the cusp of a technological revolution which will be as transformative as electricity. The hyper-accelerated growth and adoption of GenAI over the past year is hurtling us into a new age where AI permeates […]

Welcome to another episode of Deep Dive! Suresh, our host, and Aditya Tulsian, our guest, delve into the critical role of ICPs and how organizations deal with acquisition journeys. Aditya is a seasoned entrepreneur who founded Numberz, which was acquired by Chargebee, prior to which he held a very important role at Intuit. After an […]

Writing this book has been a truly fulfilling and rewarding experience. But I could never have done this alone. I would like to first thank all the founders who are featured in this book. They embody the spirit of Pay It Forward and have generously given their time and shared their valuable experiences and lessons. […]

The journey of a startup is fraught with hardships and difficulties. But the COVID-19 pandemic especially made us realize the pitfalls of a national lockdown on the whole economy. To be sure, the SaaS ecosystem like every other sector took a massive beating over 2020. We asked entrepreneurs what they did to cope with this […]

MONISH DARDA As long as you recognize that change is inevitable and things will change from day to day and year to year, you are much better prepared for that change. In the last few months, I have been thinking about Taleb’s kind of antifragility [Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder, Random […]

We would surely run out of fingers if we counted the number of times the word resilience comes up in startup conversations! The SaaS ecosystem is replete with examples of entrepreneurs who had their backs against the wall time and again and devised strategies to pull themselves out from crises. Which is to say, they […]

SURESH SAMBANDAM I made one mistake which created a ripple effect. My co-founder left in the middle of 2013; we knew each other for 13 years. We had a good relationship— out of the 13 years, I would say that the first 12 years were absolutely phenomenal. During our last year together, he probably started […]

ELAD GIL Reid Hoffman has this good saying that, to some extent, an external board member is like a cofounder that you can hire or an executive that you can hire in. Then you can give them a board seat and get them on your team. So, you kind of wants that calibre of a […]

One of the essential building blocks for a company that lasts, and creates value, is having the right board. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most underrated and often ignored aspects of building a startup, especially during the early stages. A good board, with the right mix of the founder(s), investors, founding team members, and […]

PALLAV NADHANI One, keep everything short and crisp and clear, reply to what is asked, and no more, they [the buyers] are not interested in the past or the future or the emotion involved, all that doesn’t concern them. Second, any private equity firm which acquires you will do a quality of earnings analysis. Quality […]

PALLAV NADHANI If you know that you will be acquired, right from day one, whatever is happening in the company should be in one central data store. Every board meeting, every MOM—minute of meeting—every tax return, every single document that goes from the government and comes from the government, everything will be in that store. […]

PALLAV NADHANIThere are two or three lessons we learned. First, our narrative was not right. We were dealing [with the acquisition] factually and with full transparency. M&As don’t work factually and transparently. You want to tell what the buyer wants to hear. We were engineers, and we went and spoke in the engineering language. The […]

PALLAV NADHANI Earlier, when the iPhone was launched, people were fine with the fact that charts didn’t work on it, but when the iPad was launched in 2010, and it too did not support Flash, our customers started complaining that your charts are not working. So, in 2010 we went to a competitor and said […]

PALLAV NADHANI Always get an investment banker involved in such deals. For a first-time entrepreneur especially, one doesn’t know what the structure will exactly be or what options are available. There are so many nuances that you would always want to get an investment banker involved. They take their fair share, and I feel it’s […]

Unlike successive funding rounds, M&A discussions in the startup ecosystem are mostly secretive, and founders are grappling with the playbooks to follow. For its part, SaaSBOOMi has been organizing focused M&A roundtables for the community. But there’s a lot more to learn. Also, given the nascent ecosystem, exits are few and far between. Acquisitions aren’t […]

Lessons from Bharat in building Tally Solutions over the past few decades, insights on creating products, culture, and a company that lasts. Bharat Goenka is the vice-chairperson of Tally Solutions and is popularly known as “the father of the Indian software products industry”. Bharat’s journey with Tally offers invaluable lessons in a world teeming with […]