Recently, a Chennai-based founder was in the news for gifting 5 high-end BMW sedans to his colleagues — early employees who supported him for ten years through thick and thin. But there were two things that didn’t get covered in the media around this generous act. Firstly, the startup in…

SaaSBOOMi expands to emerging cities in the country… — I’m writing this piece from a beautiful cafe in Bhopal, amidst lush greenery, butterflies, and chirping sounds of birds. This cafe is very special as all the stuff here is organic, with the farm right next to it. It’s always a pleasure to receive hospitality in an emerging city. …

Let’s call it a series. We didn’t really intend on making it one. But the way things are turning out, it is shaping up to be one. A few weeks ago, a friend of ours set us on the path of what founders could do if they were planning to…

Srikanth Velamakanni and Pranay Agrawal of Fractal wanted to become heroes. Somewhere down the entrepreneurship track, there was an option — let’s call it a low-hanging fruit — to settle as spot boys. Find out what happened next… Okay. So you want to be an entrepreneur. Right? Srikanth Velamakanni too…

I haven’t spoken about a woman protagonist for quite sometime now, in my #JeenaIsiKaNaamHain column. Today I am going to talk about one such individual, a lady who I hold in very high esteem, an entrepreneur who has helped showcase thousands of other entrepreneurs through her media platform. Her biggest…

It was love at first sight, and everybody felt both were made for each other. The stars, though, didn’t align and the lovebirds — Exotel’s Shivku and Ameyo’s Bhatia — got separated in 2018. Call it divine providence, three years later, the love story culminated into a happy marriage. Find…

The what and the why behind SaaSBOOMi Growth 2022 — In the last few years, the Indian SaaS ecosystem has come farther and faster than our anticipations in our quest to become a ‘product nation’. In this time, we’ve seen a plethora of world-class product offerings solving complex business problems for customers across the globe. To put things in perspective…

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. …

Building a startup isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. While you do get to launch a unicorn and even go public eventually, starting up includes struggles that, if not faced with a calm mind and tact, can lead to irreversible mistakes. Beyond the “higher the risk, higher the reward” attitude, being…