
Santosh Panda
@santoshpanda
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CoFounder @FoundershipHQ Venture Studio+Accelerator+Global Startup InnovationExchange | Founder @explara Build Community-First Business | Founding @aivalleyclub
Joined March 2008
ACME is investing nearly $3.3 billion in this project at Gopalpur. #MakeInOdisha #MakeInIndia
ACME Group to invest nearly $3.3 bn in green hydrogen project in #Odisha. It will be the largest single-location green hydrogen-and-its-derivatives manufacturing facility in the country. https://t.co/DkolBNz4Mr
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The four great inventions that originated in China and helped set the stage for the Renaissance and ushered in the Age of Sail after they were relayed to Europe were papermaking, printing, gunpowder and the compass. Francis Bacon, a British philosopher, described that ‘whence
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Turn old photos into fun videos and see your memories come to life. Try Grok Imagine.
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Kolkata Visiting since childhood days After a long time, I visited temples ; Maa Kalighat Temple & Dakshineswar Kali Temple My guru ji Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa & Maa Sarada Devi
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In an AI Builder community, I shared this👇 Take money wherever you get. Imp is to build and make it big (impact, value). Don't get constrained by local money/ outside money. Indian Founders are hardly 1st generation of tech entrepreneurs.
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The mortality from Pre-seed to Series A/B is just too high today for pre-seed to continue to work unless you have something super unique. There are more pre-seed and seed funded companies than ever before so the conversion rate to Series A is far worse than even 5 years ago.
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model companies have some financial parallels to biopharma. you put billions into the ground to create research assets that may become quite useless later in the pipeline. most bets are incremental, some generational
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An investor friend: how is it going with accelerator? Me: It’s like dating—when you’re with someone, suddenly 5 more are interested. When you’re not, no one pays attention.
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Founder Office Hours at Zo A curated space for founders building serious products to gain clarity, direction & high-signal mentorship. This edition features @santoshpanda, Co-Founder of @FoundershipHQ 🗓️ 14th Sep, 6 PM - 8 PM RSVP - https://t.co/cNg1cCExjB
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My Github profile ..since 2011 ...hardly any projects 2025 ...3 projects already With AI, experimenting more ...playing
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"FPIs Pour $3.3 Billion into Indian Debt as Trade Wars Reshape Investment Flows" Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have surprisingly turned net positive buyers of Indian debt in the July-Sep 2025 period, marking a dramatic reversal from the substantial outflows witnessed in the
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Give your gathering a name (like Round Tables, ProductNation, SaaSx, SaaSBoomi). Names create traditions. 👉 Have you ever joined or hosted a minimum viable gathering that grew into something bigger? #CommunityGrowth101 - I'm starting a series on community building and growth,
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💡 Here’s the hack to start your own MVG, to kickstart a community. -Invite 5–8 people who share a common interest -Keep the format simple (one theme, open conversation) -Repeat consistently (weekly, bi-weekly, whatever works) -Ask each person to bring a new friend next time ✨
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👉 That MVG round tables to several more iterations, various other initiatives and then came SaaSBoomi — a community that has since shaped India’s SaaS ecosystem worldwide. @avinashraghava, @mrgirish, Krish Subramanian, @sureshsambandam, Manav Garg, and Aneesh Reddy are the
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Each roundtable had 12–15 curated founders. Closed door. Honest conversations. Pure playbook exchange. No fancy buildings, no fancy presentations. That’s MVG → Minimum Viable Gathering. It was about showing up, sharing challenges, co-creating solutions, and building momentum
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I have some ideas, but how do I kickstart a community? Me: Big communities don’t start big. They start with a coffee. ☕ Host a “Minimum Viable Gathering” (MVG). New fellow builders: WTF is MVG? 😅 Me: Let me share an example 👇 Today, India has SaaSBoomi — India’s
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Insightful👇
NEW ODD LOTS: @wolfejosh on the fraying Silicon Valley social contract. @tracyalloway and I talk to the Lux Capital founder about booming AI valuations, talent acqui-hires, his contrarian stance on $NVDA and $GOOGL, founder alignment/liquidity + more.
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