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Services companies♥️. A healthy lot. Exactly those places where you don't have cringe chutiyapa roles like Product Management.

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I am noticing a lot of fancy "tech" startups going to IPOs with a gigantic valuation but with minimal profits getting a lot of attention in mainstream media.  What are those companies pulling in hu...

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I am noticing a lot of fancy "tech" startups going to IPOs with a gigantic valuation but with minimal profits getting a lot of attention in mainstream media.

What are those companies pulling in huge bucks and are not that famous?

What are some real businesses making actual profits?

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What are some real businesses making actual profits?- Grapevine

Top 20 companies make 80% of the entire country's profit.
The most profitable HDFC takes 9%. It doubles itself every 3.5yrs and has made 70x in last 20yrs.
Asian paint has made 10x in 10 yrs yet people won't know the CEO.
Need to talk about the right ones and not who is in the news.
The ones who are making profit are laser focused, not visible. They might be living in the same society but you won't know.

the real businesses

Software Developer

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

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Startups which were loosing hundreds of millions last year are now annocuing PAT and planning for IPOs. What has changed really or were they uselessly burning money

Sudden profits in all startups

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Which Indian VC investor is a no-go and why? 
Share in person’s name - fund - reason(s) format if possible

Which VCs to avoid

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Name the startups makes 1000 Cr profit per year?

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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 ?

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Don't like the VC influenced unsustainable growth and hustle culture. Want to consider moving to a place with a respectful environment, no mindless, focus on growth, and a profitable business. Do share names.

Drop some names of profitable, bootstrapped startups

VC funding based on revenue multiples and profit (😂😂😂) multiples is soon going to be obsolete. 

Common sense says company's valuation should be summation of yearly profits it can generate till the company exists... 

So if reliance has profit of 8 billion $ , market estimates that it's valuation should be around 25x multiple of its profit that is to say that if reliance keeps on generating same amount of profit for year on year, it will not exist after 25 years.

Now tell me, what shelf live does these VC funded startup have?

I honestly don't see all these tom dick and Harry mobile based and web based startups existing by end of this decade thanks to AI revolution.

People are still oblivion to what AI will do to white collar jobs 



Just out of curiosity, is there any single VC funded Indian startup in last 10-15 years which is immensely profitable ? 

Or for that matter any global giants like Amazon, Uber, Airbnb etc. which has turned profitable in Indian territory?

Future of VC funded mobile and web based startups

Software Engineer

1 year back all startups were losing money like crazy while all of a sudden everyone from Swiggy to Meesho to Unacademy are profitable or EBITDA positive.
Other companies which were profitable earlier have not shown a spike in profit.

Were these companies uselessly burning money earlier if they can just suddenly become profitable in 6-8 months

Profitable startups

Only startup that's making meaningful impact with less or no PR

600 Crore Profit not Revenue | What!

Came across this post on X recently, the point sounds valid in my opinion but wanted to know from the community cuz I recently took a decision between a unicorn b2c start-u which is super popular vs a b2b SaaS startup which is known among the tech community.

Post link: https://twitter.com/amuldotexe/status/1738243872231428484?t=V2-6pMSYCvl7L-w_f8IggQ&s=19

A big name in tech Vs 0-1 high growth place

I have been following the Indian startup scene for a while now, and I have to say that I am not impressed. It seems like most of the startups here are nothing more than people chasing quick bucks and the entire scene is a circlejerk of people doing everything, attending these stupid conferences and gatherings than actually building something game-changing.

Every founder is chasing nothing more than a valuation just so they can exit and there’s nothing wrong with it but don’t sit on a moral high ground talking about building business etc. There’s a reason we don’t see startups here penetrating west because most of the founders in the Indian ecosystem reek of ego and it’s all because we don’t judge business on merit but based on the degree the founders have. We all can count stupid startups draining money all because they are from some IIT or IIM or now some fancy degree from Ivy and yes it takes effort and hard work to reach there. Still, it automatically doesn’t translate to you naturally being better than a guy working his ass off to make up that difference.

Also, just because you used your dad’s money to start a 'Venture Firm or be an angel investor after college doesn’t mean you’re an expert at everything. You’re just adding to the noise and the hype that is already too much in this space. You’re not helping anyone but yourself and your ego.

So a friendly reminder can we all actually focus on building things based on hard work and merit instead of glorifying this circlejerk. Can we stop being obsessed with funding rounds and valuations and start being obsessed with solving real problems and creating value for customers and society? Can we stop being influenced by the media and the hype and start being influenced by the data and the feedback? Can we stop being part of the problem and start being part of the solution?

Startup scene being a complete circlejerk.

It’s common knowledge that many millionaires were minted by IPOs ( likes of abnb, meta, coinbase ).

Are there examples of similar gains in the Indian startup ecosystem, for mere software engineers? Especially the companies that ipo’d on Indian markets.

Tech IPO millionaries of india

Which are the hot companies and which is the hot sector?

Which early stage companies are getting funded right now?

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What are the companies that you know , who pays near by or even more than FANG ? 
I'm sure there must be some companies that beat FANG in salaries and yet are not so much popular among developers.

What are the companies that pays huge and are not FANG

I know this might be a one off, but even if they are close to profitable/break even quarters, this can become a strong business

Big if true, given Meesho’s scale

I dont trust a single words come out of the CXO’s mouth in case of startups. All bullshiting and hyping

Engineering Manager

hello viners,

Want to know about startups which are doing AI based solutions in the manufacturing / process industry.

which are the current big names and how does the future look like?

startups doing AI based solutions in manufacturing / process industry

Whats your thought about tech boom is over? I personally think tech promised a lot much things and it failed. I may be wrong but people who are calling chat gpt is the future was the ones who supported web3 and crypto mania. So what will keep moving the tech industry? One of which is I think is digital automation, rest please enlighten us, so that we can research, read and learn about it.

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