Tag: Startup Series
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Pricing Perils: A Startup’s Guide – Not Selling Crown Jewels for Peanuts
Pricing is one of the most critical—and often overlooked—elements in a startup’s success. For early-stage businesses, especially those without deep pockets or significant funding, setting the right price can make or break their journey. Many startups, eager to attract customers and grow quickly, fall into the trap of undervaluing their offerings. While this may seem…
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Hidden Costs of Raising Capital: A Tale of Dreams, Schemes & More
“Navigating the funding landscape as a startup founder can feel like stepping into a minefield. Investors may offer the promise of growth and success, but hidden terms, excessive dilution, and misaligned goals can derail your vision. In this comprehensive guide, we uncover the common pitfalls founders face during funding rounds—from angel investments to Series D—and…
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Why Startups Fail to Scale: A Tale of Chaos, Comedy, and Caution.
Scaling a startup is about more than securing funding or increasing market reach. It’s about transforming the organization’s internal operations, culture, and leadership to handle larger, more complex demands. However, many startups fail to scale due to internal dysfunctions like pay scale disparities, toxic culture, or the inability to exit bootstrapping mode. These issues prevent…
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GriffinWorx – TIE – eBay Foundation: Round 2.
The instructions then, for Round Two were to judge the twenty six who made it through the elims out of the two hundred fifty odd who had initially applied. Not only were we to judge but also mentor and that’s a bit of a trick. Only twelve will make the grade this time, and move…
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Startups: #6 – Final, Anatomy of Failure.
Amol and I were with a leading captain of industry, and an authority on the Startup ecosystem, just this past Monday, and the discussion centred around the rather vexatious subject. We discussed Scale challenges, operational challenges, skill challenges. We also discussed specifics about how certain well-known Private Equity, Venture Capital firms were struggling, and were…
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Startups: Part 5 – Down & Dirty of the Money Game.
Startup success sin’t measured purely in terms of funds invested. The Punt or the exit isn’t the measure of success, Profits are.
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Startups: Not for Everyone – Part 4, Last Straw?
That was not to be, and instead, despite my considerable stints with considerable and financially sound national and international corporations, in seniormost roles, both in India and four continents, I would still continue to deal with businesses, with roles and assignments, that all had in some way, shape or form, “startup” as the central pivots…
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Startups: Not for Everyone – Part 3, More Lessons.
60 million? Back in the day, and I’m talking some 17-20 years ago, that was a lot of money, and all I could think of is the fee based income that would follow suit. Would it? How? Well 1.5% as a Syndication Fee was a tidy bit of pocket money.
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Startups: Not for Everyone – Part 2, Failure #1
Having seen failure myself, and having seen others around me fail, its given me a deep perspective on what not to do, how not to do it, and when not to do it.
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Startups: Not for Everyone – Part 1, My First.
Statistically, the failure rate of Startups far exceeds the rate of success. Pity then that not much is really said of startups that fail, why they fail, how they fail. In their failure, complicit are the ones promoting the startups, the ones who fund them, the ones who value them, the ones who deal with…
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