Tech Layoffs
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SaaS
Visa Denied, Vision Grows: Building India-First for the Globe Hook: An Unplanned Detour Sets the Stage Ankur Mehta adjusted his backpack in the queue outside the US Embassy, heart racing with equal parts excitement and apprehension. For months, he'd prepared to pitch his SaaS idea—workflow automation tailored
Shoreline Tours
Riding Waves: How "Shoreline Tours" Endured—and Evolved—Through Global Upheaval On a chilly March morning in 2020, Sara Levin found herself staring at a sea of cancellation emails. Her inbox, once bustling with booking confirmations and partnerships, now buzzed with uncertainty. Sara was the founder of "
Startup Success
From College Rejection to Startup Traction – Riya’s B2B Story The Unexpected Beginning Riya never imagined her professional journey would skip the lecture theatres. As the decision email from her top-choice university landed in her inbox, she sat in her parents’ small living room in Pune, feeling the sharp sting
Entrepreneurship
Unlikely Co-founders: A Banker and a Street Food Vendor A Fortunate Collision on a Rainy Afternoon Sometimes, the best partnerships don’t emerge from meticulously crafted founder-matching events. Sometimes, they’re born on a crowded city sidewalk in the thick of monsoon season. On a Monday that began like any
Bootstrapping
Bootstrapped in Bharat: How Manoj Outpaced Funded Rivals The Unlikely Challenger When Manoj Singh launched Taskboard from a flat in Jaipur, few believed he could make a dent in India's rapidly saturating SaaS market. Scripted by the playbooks of well-funded competitors, the prevailing wisdom was “raise first, then
Networking
Networking Nirvana: How Akash Landed His First Angel Stepping into the Unknown Akash didn’t have an uncle in venture capital or a cofounder with a Stanford degree. He had an idea, an overclocked laptop, and a relentless curiosity about how new tools could shape education. What he didn’t
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Weaving Heritage into Pixels: The Story Behind SareeLoop It started with a photograph in an old family album. Meera, a software engineer turned founder, saw her grandmother wearing a vibrant saree that looked nothing like what she saw in modern retail stores. That memory nudged her onto a path she
Raising Crores Abroad: A Small Town SaaS Leap Hook: One Chance, Two Worlds Four years ago, in a modest home outside Nashik, Anil Kulkarni’s internet connection struggled to keep pace with his ambition. Driven by the frustration of endless excel sheets and clunky processes from his parents’ distribution business,
Hook: When the Farm Became the Test Lab Karthik had been building things—paper boats, code snippets, business plans—since he was a child growing up in a small town just outside Bengaluru. But nothing tested him quite like his first real company. The year was 2021, and India’s