Growth Manager

Business Development Manager

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

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

What are your favourite Seed/Series A startups currently?

Founder

What are your favourite Seed/Series A startups currently?- Grapevine

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

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

Investment Associate

Let's ignore what's wrong with startups, keep this an optimistic thread. Which startups make you excited about their future? 
The ones that have cracked product, GTM, model, or something else.

Name the best Indian startups :)

One for the believers: Which startups in India do you feel are going to make it really big? 🚀

Product Manager

Corporate Strategist

Which startup, currently valued > $100mn, has the best growth potential in next 3 yrs in your opinion? Why? No self promotion please.

Startup with best growth potential?

Director of Engineering

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

Which Indian Startups are doing good in 2024?

Software Developer

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.

Software Engineer

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

Please comment down your favourite Series B to Series E startup and why. I was laid off  2 months ago and now targeting these organisations for my next role. I have 4 years of experience with seed to series a but looking at bigger challenges now.

Your favourite startup

Human Resources

There is so much negativity around startups right now due to the market cycle since 1.5 years and because of a few bad names but I think overall startups have created massive opportunities in terms of wealth creation, up skilling and giving major breaks to people to learn faster. I think this is largely a founder driven issue as they simply want to be cool and startup for the sake of it but I’ve also seen founders that are committed and passionate however is getting difficult to recognize them and find companies actually building a good product that is solving good problem statement AND not get toxic culture. Can people share some examples in the last 5 years of such founders/startups so we can discuss them more and get some positivity on this platform?

Any positive startup stories?

I will go first: 
Supam Maheswari, 3 unicorns, 2 of them are profitable (FirstCry, Xpressbees) (Globalbees)

Kishore Biyani, founder BigBazaar

Who are the people in Indian Startup space you greatly regard to?

Does anyone know any good startup in the seed/pre seed stage, that is building to solve an actual problem. 

Preferably with a viable business model or has gained huge traction already

Upcoming Startups

Founder’s Office

If you worked at Stripe/PayPal/Airbnb early on, it felt like you were building something magical. 

What are some early-stage startups that feel this way?

For me, it's linear, Chronicle, Grapevine, browser company, Humane

What early-stage startup are you excited about?

There are so many startups failing all around.
Many which I thought were doing something great also have been duds. Some epic surprise failures would be dunzo, pharmeasy, etc.
It looks like there will be many more such revelations in coming days 😐😐

Please share list of some stable and good startups (Series B and beyond) which I should be targetting.

Which startup is worth joining?

Criteria:
1. Seed / Series A / B / C
2. Not a pure Tech or Finance play
3. Runway > 12 months

What are some good Mumbai based startup’s to work with?

Business Operations

What is the probability of generating significant wealth (1-5Cr) by working at startups(Both US headquartered and India headquartered) in India? 
Is Generating wealth through ESOPS normal thing in India or very few lucky ones make such money? 
Do you know guys who have made significant money by working at startups? 
If yes, what parameters one should look for while identifying such startups?

Wealth Creation through ESOPS

SAAS is too concentrated now, Do you know any saas startup doing out of box and is yet to be funded or just got funded? Happy to see some good ones.

Do you have any early stage SAAS startup doing so great?

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

Heard from most people that there’s a lot of crunch. Wondering if anyone at their companies feels like their startup is growing despite the slowdown. 

Razorpay, CRED, and are seeing tighter regulations and downrounds. The food delivery companies have all gone through their down rounds and readjustment of expectations. Even SaaS most founders have a poor revenue/employee ratio and the india story is still yet to play out for the newer bets. 

Just yesterday Oslash announced it’s shutting down its app.

Any green shoots ☘️? And if there are maybe it’s a good thread for folks to try and hire.

Any Indian startups doing well currently ?

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.

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