'Learning from the wizards'
sharing their experience and industry trends at Upekkha Annual 2023.
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Kalyan Varma
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Co-founder & CEO at | On a mission to make education affordable to everyone by helping universities turn unengaged alumni into supporters for life
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Cheat codes in sales
Active Listening
Giving mindset
Understanding people
Building relationships
Acting as a guide
Responding <1hr
Embracing rejection
Authenticity
Asking good questions
No jargon
Simple writing
Persistence
Humility
Focus on process
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Its time.
SGx 4 is here, and if you are a SaaS founder, don't forget to apply for this pro bono initiative that helps build your growth flywheel in a personalized manner.
- 16 weeks of intense mentoring with 2 seasoned SaaS founders
- No equity. No cos…
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5 Ways University Fundraisers Can Benefit From ChatGPT hubs.li/Q01wW2TY0
Written by @kalyanvarmak of @almabaseapp
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India's best keep SaaS secret are it's marketers .. and are among the best .. I was thrilled to speak about our marketing journey at and all the things we learned along the way 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=VqzylJ
#SaaSBOOMi #podcast #BTSpodcast
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We founders sometimes follow passion without thinking about the target market as much as we should. Something that , founder of , rightly talks about in his answer to the question of what advice he would give his past self and to newly minted founders.
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Anyone up for a social media or PR role in ?
notion.so/upekkha/Social
notion.so/upekkha/Career
Folks pls help RT this, tks
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This G20 event at Bangalore in December has caused the venue for my December wedding to be closed down and the road towards it is blocked.
Not just ours but several weddings in that area are affected as a result. can you fix this?
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A pleasant weekend surprise .. thank you and team 🙌 it’s been a pleasure learning from and helping fellow SaaS founders 💯❤️
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I saw this on the and I was shocked!
Nearly half of the tech companies that IPOed since 2020 have a enterprise value of 20% of the total money they burned so far 🤯
And only 10% of these IPO companies have generated cash over lifetime so far !
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If you only have Bitcoin on your crypto portfolio -- DIVERSIFY .. Otherwise check out descrypt.com 😉
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Wow! Just Wow! 🤩
This is so cool 💯
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I’m thrilled to introduce my next endeavor — Backyard, the little house designed for your next chapter in life. samara.com
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#TIL - Punit Renjen, now CEO of Deloitte, had to drop out of a school because his parents couldn't afford the school fees.
Graduated from a local college in Rohtak because it was cheap.
Went to Delhi to find jobs based upon an advert for Usha that he saw in a newspaper.
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BITS Pilani has allowed students to take a year off from college to build their startups. 
History is in making. 
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SaaStr tried to cancel us out for calling out Vanity SaaS.
#saastr #saastr2022 #saastrannual2022
upekkha.io/blog/saastr-th
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This is epic 🙌
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Couldn't resist, we had to gate crash #Dattocon22 in a thoughtful way of course. twitter.com/Superops_ai/st…
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Pls help out ..
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Anyone know folks at Netherlands Embassy in New Delhi? Need some help ASAP.
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This advice is so on point 👌💯
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What are the characteristics of a really great sales person?
cloud.substack.com/p/dear-saastr-
Saudi Aramco's last quarter PROFIT was $48.4 billion😱😱
That sounds unreal!
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Someone has to do rental cars better in India
Whatever little of this exists right now is crappy, expensive and unreliable. Ripe for innovation.
Agree ?
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It's awesome that folks in the startup world are generally very helpful 🕺
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TIL that the invention of the integrated circuit reduced the cost of electronic functions by a factor of a million to one .. that is just CRAZY 😱
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Can we just stop the Virat Kohli positivity and negativity and just let him be ?🏏
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From radical new ways of customer discovery to going global to championing Value SaaS, CEO shares the extraordinary journey of how his company went on to become a global category leader in alumni relations space.
upekkha.io/blog/the-almab
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Counterintuitive learning as a founder .. Narrowing down and focusing is such a hard thing to do 🤔
The ability to think outcome-in ↙️instead of task-out ↗️ is a superpower for managers.
I’m seeing that most managers take time to learn to think this way.
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Most organisations only harness a fraction of their community's value.
If you have the right strategy - one which utilises the community's data and gains broad stakeholder support - you can harvest far more of the value your community creates.
#CMGR
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The Knowledge Project podcast episode with Kunal Shah was a lot of fun to listen to .. even though barely spoke for about 8 mins in 2.5 hours 🤣
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If your core motivation to start a startup is to be your own boss, you'll be in for a rude shock
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The ability to research people on LinkedIn is a highly underrated sales skill at startups 🕵️
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Tampa airport is amazing. One of the best in the US 💯 💯
Super organized and very efficient 🙌
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Anyone who says college alum networks don’t work, really hasn’t experienced the power of what alumni does.
You’re way more likely to get people go out of the way for you just because you went to the same college, irrespective of the age gap.
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Loved the chat Mike!
I’ll definitely make it to Dallas PA some time now :-)
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During my time:
- Met some outstanding individuals working in the social media world (especially those with a team of one in their departments).
- Finally got to meet a member of the @almabaseapp family, @kalyanvarmak after seeing each other on Zoom for almost three years.
- Finally got to meet a member of the @almabaseapp family, @kalyanvarmak after seeing each other on Zoom for almost three years.Show this thread
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