In the early stage, the founder can't sell(convince) a VC about the market size. Each investor has an opinion (via fund thesis or liking or understanding) about a particular market, you cant change it. So better look for someone who believes in your rationale of market size.

Today I was jamming with a potential founder and an interesting point came out 👇. "Courage is not about getting out of fear completely, fear will exist. It's about overcoming the fear of taking the 1st step"

I love honesty !. Below is the conversion with a founder. I met him a year ago, liked him but not the idea. I reached out again, he honestly conveyed 👇

RT @Codie_Sanchez: Most won’t get it… who cares.

Yesss !!! Time for 🇮🇳 to be Atmanirbhar on #SaaS too. It's Software TAM is not small. We import more than 20bn$ worth of software, let's reverse it 🚀🚀🚀. @IndiaQuotient look for saas from India, for India (not for the world).

At the Seed and Series A stage, the top two factors for fundraising from the investor point of view are - Team and Market. Market:. In the market, there are a few factors: the market itself, the dynamics of the market, TAM, potential unit economics, PMF signal, and current.

If you are an entrepreneur and haven't seen this movie, then watch it right away. The story of Blackberry! .

If you put your heart and soul into anything it's bound to happen. Yes, you can achieve any goal! . Many folks are passionate and put on all their sweat but fail to achieve. The catch is execution and way to excel execution is to use 1st principal thinking. Go the depth why.

RT @aakrit: This is for all my young Indian AI founder friends incorporating in Delaware:. A SaaS company at ~$100M ARR with 40% of revenue….

Non believers will not understand the graph below ! 😂. Crazy numbers potential in Bharat users digital product & services business. Many @IndiaQuotient portfolios are torch bearer 🔥. Anyone building such AI 1st b2c such companies please write to us.

Crazy prediction !!! Many may laugh too. In this AI wave, Though we are behind the LLM race but on the application front, Indian consumer AI startups will be the winners. Already many companies are growing like rocket 🚀🚀🚀 and some of them profitable (across the stages seed.

More and more time I am spending time in the venture industry. My belief in "constraints resulting in innovation", resulting in increasing your odds of success (real success is so rare) is getting stronger. Constraints can be money and time, or both. However, everyone wants.

RT @avlesh: A must attend for all early stage founders in Mumbai - Office Hours by the amazing folks at IQ. @AnandLunia & the @IndiaQuotie….

India's quick com wave is at the next level !!!! . Investing trend now moving from vertical quick com to premium quick com within the same vertical 🙄. Most people don't realise that quick itself is a premium offering. This is right now subsidised by venture capital.

RT @SahilBloom: This is one of my favorite speeches of all time…. It always hits me hard:. “You get up every day—you’re entitled to nothing….

This should be the goal of each one of us who are playing the startup game.

Opportunity for #Mumbai founders👇. Come have a 1:1 chat with our team on 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟰𝘁𝗵. You might just find your first backer here 🙂 . Whether you're actively building, just getting started, or exploring ideas, we'd love to meet you. Real feedback from VCs is hard to come

RT @Rahul_J_Mathur: “Momentum is the moat” is a must understand concept for any founder building in AI right now. The cost of product repl….

Good point !.

Each prof should teach like him !!!.