Rampant fake invoicing to boost GTV, I hear. Not surprising, since that’s the metric valuation multiples are applied on.

Investor

Isnt corporate governance an issue of all startups

I keep hearing issues about quality revenue/corporate governance of B2B commerce companies such as Zetwerk, Bizongo, Ofbusiness, ApnaKlub, etc. Any view?

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I keep hearing issues about quality revenue/corporate governance of B2B commerce companies such as Zetwerk, Bizongo, Ofbusiness, ApnaKlub, etc.
Any view?

B2B Commerce Issues

B2B Commerce Issues- Grapevine

Has the B2B marketplace bubble burst?

Program Manager

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Does B2B E-commerce have a future in India? No one has been able to crack the business model yet and many big names have scaled back. 
Does anyone know a profitable company in this segment?

How risky it is to join a startup in this space?

Future of B2B E-commerce

Finance Consultant

Do you know of any upcoming startups in B2B Space solving boring but painful problem(s)?

B2B startups other than Zoho and Freshworks

Sales Manager

One of my friend is building in Proptech and we had a huge argument on future of b2b side of proptech.
TIA for insights folks

How is 99acres or Magicbrick B2B business side performing?

Any Idea about whats up with Bizongo?

Growth Manager

VC here. Doing this for fun.
Don't take all views seriously.

Comment a startup's name, I'll share if it's promising or whatever I know

Analyst

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What are the shortcomings of BNPL or bill credits as a business model in your experience?

Which companies have overcome these shortcomings and are making BNPL or bill credit work as a business?

I request you to please share rational points and don't just rant about BNPL in India.

BNPL or bill credit business models: how to make them work?

Software Developer

Can anyone help me how to tackle b2b products especially dashboards ux problem statements because most of the time i cannot find references to understand how other products solved some kind of issue

While in B2C it looks so easy and user research is also easier to find..

How can I be good at b2b what key aspects should i understand to be good at these companies who solve enterprise problems (saas)

B2B vs B2C(mobile apps)

UX/UI Designer

After closure of B2B vertical of Dealshare, will Udaan/Ninjacart/Elasticrun, etc. also close this vertical?
Anyone from these companies who can share some details as to what's going on?

B2B E-Commerce future

I've had some frustrating experiences at a certain B2B eCommerce subsidiary of a international bank, where the work culture and technology are far from ideal. Expecting 3-4x output from employees with outdated manual processes and technology is a tough ask. The sales team's situation is even worse, having to resort to fake orders due to unrealistic targets and a subpar app. It's disheartening to see top management prioritize PR exercises over addressing these critical issues.

Another B2B eCommerce site that is all hype and no business model

Category Manager

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Absolutely sad to see the state of the startups, most of them.
I am a founder myself, and this is a post with equal disappointment with myself as much as it is for anyone else who relates.
Look at all these companies that have raised shit tons of capital, and now make a fraction of money that has been invested in them.
The raised money is spent on outsized, non business sense making acquisition costs, only to keep repeating it till the tap runs dry.
Then when all stakeholders get bored, the service quality plummets, the employees are fired and whole sectors are admonished as being bad.

But, my question is, which sector where large sums of money was invested in early days have come out with flying colours. Fucking nothing !
Edtech, proptech, agritech, ecommerce etc. etc. etc. kuch bhi nahi. 

Is there any sector where a startup which has raised in the 100s of millions in the first 5 years have actually built a sustainable business at any scale ?
Then scaling down, isse acha, scale slowly.
The worst part of this whole drama, is pushing the innovation wheel backward and destroying customer sentiment.

Isse acha, raise less money inititally, build slowly, and only scale when the market is ready. Artifical growth makes no sense, unless you have a treasure chest that shall never run out.
Even in that case, spend the money on assets and not on random acquisition costs, direct or indirect.

As founders, let's do better, nahi ?

Rant or is it ?

Founder

Recently I heard many ppl talk about first principle thinking.. so what does it mean and how it’s useful for your career.

And how to learn or get that approach or mindset in our day to day life and work..

What/Opinion on First Principle thinking ?

Consultant

While I'm proud of these two revolutionising the quick commerce space, I somehow have a bad feeling about this

Profits aren't coming, money is flowing
Don't know what the VCs are seeking?
Why bake a a pie that you can't eat later?

Too much money too soon, where have we seen that?

Medikabazaar - Another B2B fraud found

Business Analyst

Mention some great B2B websites you came across please?

After a series of names like Bharatpe, Trell, GoMechanic, who do you think is next in line?

Which company is likely to come in the news for corporate governance issues?

Hi Grapeviners, creating a thread where you can post the name of a toxic culture company along with which department. 

This thread is created as a one stop place to know about Toxic Culture Companies whether it, Early/Seed/Growth Stage/MNC . 


#community

List of Companies to avoid - short reasons welcome

Putting this again

Most YC funded startups 
Most *.ai 
All “Ed-techs” (aka “SalMa” sales and marketing) 
Uber-for-X 
10min-thingmajings 
Niche funded D2Cs 
BNPLs

Software Engineer

I have see many lists of places to work at. Let’s create a list of companies not to work at. Please post the company name and the experience of working their.

Top 100 places not to work at!

Investors rope in Deloitte at Groyyo to shut down its B2B trading business

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/tiger-global-alpha-wave-rope-in-deloitte-to-evaluate-b2b-startup-groyyos-trading-business/articleshow/104804537.cms

Another Indian B2B company going down according to Economic Times. B2B GMV fraud clean up continues finally!

ONDC seem Big threat for Swiggy/Zomato , Amazon/Flip kart, Dunzo /zepto/ blinkit/ big basket. 

How will these e commerce giants (already operating on huge loss) survive now

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