Can get started with a list - Amnic, Turnip, Apps for Bharat

+ 1 to Apps for Bharat. A very unique product.  
  
 But. It sure about Turnip. Loved what they were doing but not sure how business is scaling. I never hear anyone in my circles using it

Business Development Manager

But Is Apps for Bharat scalable? They are in pre-revenue stage right now I guess.

VC Analyst

Investment Associate

Software Engineer

Basis product, founding team, culture and long term outlook. Or even just something that you'd want to build yourself

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

What are Seed to Series B companies you'd join in a heartbeat?

What are Seed to Series B companies you'd join in a heartbeat?- Grapevine

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Seeking a product leadership position in a startup that's at series A+ level, where I can directly work with passionate founders. I'm keen on joining teams that are genuinely adding value and scaling sustainably. Any recommendations for standout startups or exceptional founders to connect with?

Reason for Series A+, I also need a decent pay.

Which Startup is a Must-Join?

Product Manager

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Hey everyone. 

Thought I could do an AMA. A bit about me - have 4 years of work experience and graduated from a non engineering college. Was at a startup before (from Series B to Series D) before becoming a VC

Personally look at consumer and B2B investments here 

Happy to answer any questions around life as a junior VC, startup ecosystem, career growth etc.

AMA: I work at a large VC Fund focusing on early stage investments

This is the biggest problem with VC ecosystem 4 yoe kids taking calls on experienced, hardworking founders. Dude first learn the game then invest , judge people playing the game. VCs know nothing about how to run startups. Unless they have been entrepreneurs themselves. IMO It's a colossal waste of talent to become a VC for young PPL.

I want to find seed stage startups to join as a founding engineer. I want to take some risk while I can and try if I can get a good return.

How should I go about this? 

I have 7 years of experience. Building distributed systems, backend services with Go, Clojure, etc. I have some frontend experience as well with SvelteKit, Tailwind, etc. I also made a SaaS product recently and got around 10 small businesses as customers on subscription. The product itself got acquired for 5 figures USD after I ran it for 2 months

How to find seed stage startups?

Take a free subscription of crunchbase. Find startups funded in the last 2 years by good funds and cancel subscription. The founders are generally easy to cold call

Founder

Who you think that despite the current market, will flourish because of a solid business model, execution or team! 🚀

What are your favourite Seed/Series A startups currently?

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Hello grapevines!
Need your help/opinion here.
I work for a big corp. ~6YOE. 48L.

The work culture here seems a bit off. Constant pressure to compete and snatch the work and prove oneself. Chaos is being glorified. Onsite team is unresponsive and hiding information. Asking for a KT is being judged upon(expectation is apparently to read through the code). Everyone is trying to earn brownie points by impressing the manage because no one seems to know what to work upon. Technical ability is being looked down upon in the name of domain knowledge.

I switched recently to upskill and grow, but seems like it was a wrong choice.

I’m looking for early stage startups to switch to. I know the current market situation is bad, but I’d take the risk as long as I’m getting to expose myself to good problem statements and less bullshit.

Looking to join early stage startups

So currently working on a very small scale start-up as a founding engineer (ik), recently got a contact of a seed investor who is also working as CFO in an unicorn, I wanted to reach out to him for seed investment but I'm pretty much unaware of what I should write to him, I'm more into technical side of the company. Should I talk business numbers and the scale at which we are operating and the sales? Or what exactly should I propose him?

Raising a seed round

Software Developer

I am an ex founder, recently left my company. I don’t seem to have the courage to start again and don’t feel like have any skills . I’ve been consulting some startups on fundraise, should I try building an investment banking company ?

I don’t know if that is what I want to do.

Ex founder looking for career advice

How do you evaluate the risk and the potential of the offer from an early-stage (seed stage done) startup in India?

For example (hypothetical), a seasoned leader / founder is starting a new startup in fintech industry (e.g., next zerodha, etc). They raise 10 million USD at 30 million USD post-money valuation. 

I took fintech as example specifically to ensure it's not only engineers that will be needed from the beginning.

* Now, If I were to join as a founding team member (founding engineer for example), what kind of salary, ESOPs one should expect as minimum?

* If I were to join after 2-3 engineers are already hired (so not founding engg anymore), what is realistic expectation? 

* What are some questions I must ask to evaluate if the offer and equity I am being given is good or not.

(I know there's probably no way to generalise a "good/bad offer" as that likely depends also on very specific situation of the startup - like what problem is it trying to tackle, and what is the potential of it, etc. So feel free to share your experience as well if not advice)

Evaluating risk of joining a seed stage startup

I am going to start working in building a product in a startup as a Backend developer. I was approached by 2 of the founders with their design and vision. I really liked it and thinking on working on the same.

But I was confused how to proceed with it? Shall I ask for money or some position? I don’t have any experience of it. Please suggest.

What do you look for when you join founders and build a product?

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

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 ?

Hey guys, 

We're building in GenAI and currently serving for B2B and B2C with some big clients lined up. 

Currently hiring for engineers (mostly backend, open to frontend)

About us - We the founders are ex-entrepreneurs and IITians, we have successfully exited our previous startup. With an amazing core team we're building on super exciting new stuff in the AI space.

Startup status - We have secured funding from a big VC, public PR to be out soon, want to get in a few engineers before we take off with our first product release.

What we're looking for - 
1. Someone who has built side projects and have product understanding
2. Tech stack no bar
3. Good pay and perks
4. Good culture (No, we won't burn you out)
5. Super smart team

If GenAI excites you please comment below, will share the next steps.

Hiring - Building the core engineering team

Business Analyst

VC with 5+ yrs of exp - AMA

Community Manager

What is the ballpark compensation range for the role of the founder's/ceo's office in seed and series afunded startup?

Founders office role compensation

These would be the companies that has a great team attacking a real large problem with a vision or roadmap to also grow profitably as a business + great culture (and not necessarily chasing the valuation game and dressing up the company for investors or for eventually dumping it to common folks in IPO). Place where problem+product+people+profit have a much higher focus.

What are some startups / companies that are relatively not well known but have great potential

Director Product

Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

I have an interview with Titan Capital - Folks any tips would be highly appreciated!!!

Interview tips - VC

Hey folks,
2023 graduate here; been working in a startup for around 1.5 years now (including 6 months full time internship) 

At the moment, I am currently looking for something challenging to solve and be a part of small early stage startup. 
Is someone here aware of any reputed early stage startup (team with enthusiastic folks and pays well) hiring for SDE full time roles.

Thanks!

Looking out for an early stage startup to join!

Looking to collate a list of a few startups that are expanding their teams. Looking for suitable roles in marketing for mid senior to senior level  .
A lot of these companies don't necessarily post a job requirement everytime, so if they are expanding would be a good indication to reach out and explore.

Looking for Seed to series A startups that are expanding

Brand Marketing Manager

In this economic condition should you join a pre seed startup?
Let's assume founders have good experience in the startup ecosystem have a working product and some paid customers, but still figuring out what the product will be after a year or so
And the product at core uses ai

Can't tell the whole thing as its pretty small company right now and don't want to discuss something about them publicly

Should you join a Pre Seed startup

Consider this scenario:

A well established publicly trading company is giving you $45000 (120 units) worth of RSUs, with vesting schedule of 4 years. The work culture seems stressful (asked from ex employees) and they have a 4 day work from office where they track your badge attendence. 

And a Series B startup is giving you $45000 (9000 units) worth of ESOPs with vesting schedule of 4 years. It has scope to go for Series C and D fundings and even IPO in 4-5 years. The company is flexible in remote/office setting and has some perks like: once a quarter a selected Monday will be holiday, yearly offsite to exotic places.

Which one would you prefer RSUs or ESOPs? and why? Kindly explain why your preferences.

ESOPs or RSUs? Which would you choose?

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I am thinking of switching from a decent sized company which is profitable to a seed startup. What all things should I evaluate while making the decision?

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