Moving to Substack From this week, the newsletter will look slightly different. That’s because it’ll come to you from a different email service – Substack, and not ConvertKit as it usually is. The purpose: I’m testing out open rates. Since GMail built in the “promotions” tab, newsletter delivery has become more complicated. Testing out what …
Week 7: We’re solving human motivation! Time to read: 3 mins This has been a super exciting week! As most of you already know, I’ve applied for two startup accelerators that help you match with a co-founder, fundraise, build, scale and a lot more. Last week I’d had an interview with the India Head of …
Get better returns than FDs (Fixed Deposits) – RBI Retail Direct Nope, this isn’t a sponsored post or crypto scam I’m shilling. For the first time in 7 years I’m not adding to savings, I’m instead drawing on them. When you have a job, you get money every month! When you’re building a startup – …
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Choosing tools and deciding on an MVP – Bubble V/S FlutterFlow The MVP What’s a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)? It’s something built quickly and cheaply to test out if any people exist who want what you’re trying to sell. You then want to get feedback from these early users on how to develop your product …
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14 Free tools to design beautiful things with low skills! A guide to the free or almost free tools that allows you to design absolutely beautiful looking presentations, graphics, app mockups, videos and more! | Time to read: 5 Mins | In this post I will be listing some of the amazing design tools – …
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Week 3: The secret to success is learning to fail Time to read: 8 Mins | Not much on tech this week. The Brilliance of the US I’ve often wondered what it is about the US, and especially Silicon Valley, that so many of the world’s largest startups emerge out of just that tiny region. …
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Week 2: Concept Notes, Pitch Decks, Finding Investors and Starting the Build Time to read: 8 Mins | Tech, tools and stuff will always be in the last section. Feel free to skip it. The Concept Note: On 9 June 2004, Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon sent out an email to his senior team …
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Week 1: Finding a Startup Idea, Testing It, Co-Founders and Building BehindTheBuild Time to read: 10 Mins | Tech, tools will always be in the last section. Feel free to skip it. It’s Scary Building in public means all the inevitable failures will be showcased to the world. Most stories we hear of a founder’s …
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I’ve spent about three weeks evaluating ideas on what I want to build. More details on what it is over the coming weeks! For now though, the first order of business is explaining how I got to the point of building this website. The backstory: As many of you already know, I’ve worked in political …
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The homepage explains why I’m building this website. There is a dearth of real-time stories of people building startups in emerging markets and most of the examples we read about of startups getting built are from the USA. I wanted a platform where I could share how much things cost when building something in India, …
