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@techinasia

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Aug 1, 2022

Today I join

- Asia's largest community of SaaS founders. I have enjoyed covering the rise of SaaS in India as a journalist, now it fills me with great joy to be working with many old friends and making many more new ones saasboomi.com/my-new-engagem

Aparna Verma | preorder The Phoenix King now!

What a story!

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@Spirited_Gal

Feb 3

It’s crazy to me that very little people know about this iconic queer Indian heiress who subverted the Nazis and helped Jewish families escape using her wealth & influence. Her name is Princess Catharine Hilda Duleep Singh, and this is her story

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Brij Singh

@brijbhasin

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Looking for an Associate/VP to join our fund. Following are welcome - - Failed Entrepreneur - Tier 2 college degree - Non engineering/ MBA

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How Egyptian police hunt LGBT people on dating apps

Suresh Sambandam

@sureshsambandam

Feb 5

Good opportunity for Tier 2 and Tier 3 tamil youth to add color to the Indian Cricket. Lets use this opportunity folks. Pls reshare to reach everybody. Schedule in 1st comment

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There are people in India and most places using the same tactics as the Egyptian police to find LGBT people. They then attack and humiliate them, and extort them by threatening to post the videos online, etc. How do we as a society be more queer-friendly?

bbc.co.uk

The BBC has seen evidence of how officers pose as dates online to seek out and arrest their targets.

What India’s vertical SaaS unicorn CommerceIQ had to unlearn from horizontal SaaS playbook

Jan 31

Guru Hariharan, founder of

@commerceIQ1

, which became a unicorn last year, shares his hard-earned playbook for vertical SaaS to kick off a new Founder’s Playbook series in the SaaSBOOMi blog:

saasboomi.com

Not understanding the true PMF (product-market fit) can lead a vertical SaaS founder down the garden path after getting to $1 million revenue, often spurred on by investors to ramp up marketing, hire...

“Please don’t hold me accountable for revenue in the first year,” he told his board and investors. Instead of ARR, he focused maniacally on getting to C20 (first 20 enterprise customers).

Suresh Sambandam

@sureshsambandam

Jan 31

Pls RT.... For #SaaS Founders Only. Please rush. It is Rs. 4000/- until 31st Jan after that it is Rs. 10,000/- Register here: lnkd.in/gZJChqCf

ashwini asokan

@LadyAshBorg

Jan 26

Hey India SaaS twtr, help me out with this one 1/ No community succeeds when it becomes a clique. The

team is actively reaching out to founders across the country to make sure everyone has access to the insane wealth of this community at this year's annual.

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Jan 25

Let's get you signed-up of SaaSBooMi annual 2023. Join us at the one place where all SaaS Groupies get together & meet each other in person. Grab super early bird tickets as low as Rs. 4000. Visit link- events.saasboomi.com/registration_s

SaaSBOOMi BTS Podcast E11: Acing ABM, Customer Dev & Partnerships in...

Dec 8, 2022

Who'd have imagined alumni relations to be an impending gap in the education system? Well, someone did! 👇 Stream our latest BTS #Podcast feat.

@kalyanvarmak

(Co-founder & CEO,

@almabaseapp

) at bit.ly/btse11-tw and plunge into the #startup's unconventional journey. #SaaS

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Kalyan Verma is the CEO and Founder of Almabase. Before solving the alumni fundraising problem, Kalyan worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, just as he move...

How to not run out of money and other insights from my founding journey

Dec 5, 2022

Perhaps the gravest mistake a founder can make is failing to recognize that a company is the sum of its people saasboomi.com/how-to-not-run Insightful piece by

@vinod_cc

saasboomi.com

All businesses are people businesses. With the right team, founders can cruise towards north stars and tide over cash crunches. At CloudCherry before, and now at Uniphore, I have seen that encourag...

Nov 24, 2022

Stoked to be be part of this gang ♥️

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Nov 24, 2022

As #SaaSBOOMiTurns4, we're proud to have become one of the most progressive founder communities in the world.

Here's to our journey interpreted through an artist's eye.

saasboomi.com/our-story/ #4YearsOfSaaSBOOMi #SaaS

Nov 11, 2022

🚩 THE TRUTH: We’re heading into choppy waters. Revenue multiples for public #SaaS companies are down from 17x last year to below 6x.

@rajeshjain

(Founder & Managing Director,

@netcore_cloud

) points us to the light at the end of the tunnel 👉 saasboomi.com/rajesh-jain-ne ✍️

Navigate the choppy waters ahead with Rajesh Jain of Netcore

saasboomi.com

Asia’s largest community of founders and product builders shaping the SaaS ecosystem with a pay it forward philosophy at heart.

Rahul Gonsalves (https://mstdn.social/@gonsalves)

Nov 10, 2022

Sounds intriguing:) Reach out to Rahul, folks! This could be your chance to work with some of the best.

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@gonsalves_r

Nov 10, 2022

We're going to formally be opening up some non design/engg roles soon - do you know folks who are outside these fields but excited about knowing more about them?

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Nov 9, 2022

Good point. What works usually gets taken for granted.

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Nithin Kamath

@Nithin0dha

Nov 9, 2022

Our capital market infrastructure & regulations don't get enough credit for being among the best in the world. It is crazy & scary what is happening today in the Crypto world. Crypto Brokers & exchanges can act as banks in most markets, exposing customers to unlimited risk. 1/3

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Nov 8, 2022

Thinking the unthinkable with

@atulsian

. ✨ Here are 5 truth bombs that nobody dared to drop! 👇 🧵

It’s like watching AB de Villiers in his prime putting away bad balls -

@GautamGambhir

in commentary does the same to put away the BS and minces no words while at it:)

Oct 26, 2022

If I let my neck droop a bit to the sides, I am done for :/

How can a creature sleep this way and wake up bursting with energy! #sleep goals

Thanks to that series, I am dying to meet the creators of these scams. They must lead quite adventurous lives!

Jamtara!

Dare Obasanjo

@Carnage4Life

Oct 16, 2022

This guy did more due diligence on a free bottle of water than anybody at Softbank or Tiger Global did for any investment in the past 5 years.

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Martin Jacques

@martjacques

Sep 13, 2022

The US wants to stop China's rise by preventing it produce the latest semiconductors. It will fail. The US will never prevent a dynamic tech force like China from innovating. And the US's attempt to create a 'Chip 4' alliance of US, SK, Japan, Taiwan excl China is in big trouble.

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Oct 14, 2022

"Entrepreneurs can’t switch off; it’s not 9-5. It’s like parenting in the early years, which is to give roots and wings to our children." -

at the

AMA yesterday

Cub reporter

Oct 12, 2022

All #SaaS entrepreneurs and growth marketers in Surat, come in! 📻 We invite you to join us for a session on GTM strategy by

@Ruchin_Kulkarni

(Co-founder,

@Toplynehq

) on 17th Oct, 2022. RSVP: qr.visitorz.io/%F0%9D%90%86%F Let's unlearn and win! 🙌 cc:

@Vishalvirani91

Avinash Raghava

@avinashraghava

Oct 12, 2022

Happiness generally isn't about making more money, but rather freedom. The freedom to say no to things you don't want to do. The freedom to say no to people you don't like. The freedom to not feel like you are obligated to say "yes." Freedom is saying yes when you want to.

Seriously?

If you have a writer friend, please don’t ask her to write stuff for you. Writing is work for her. Writing a line is likely juicing a rock for her. Spare her the agony.

Oct 4, 2022

Plan for Dussehra tomorrow: Slay the dopamine demon that's been making me gobble half a watermelon and handful of peanuts at night.

Sep 27, 2022

SaaSBOOMi exists to help every #SaaS founder feel seen, connected + supported, irrespective of their background, identity, business success metrics, & most importantly, gender. 💯 We’ve been talking to some incredible women founders in our tribe & here’s what they've told us. 👇

Sep 27, 2022

“Multiple factors contribute to the lack of female representation - notional bias, lack of talent pool, historic constraint, and unfavorable optics. As leaders, our prime responsibility is to drive meaningful growth.” -

(Co-founder & CMO,

) 🧵

(Disclosure: I'm not with Mint any more. I'm not even a journalist any more. )

Deadly silence. The boss left the call. In a blink, so did the others. And I was all alone; disappointed. And back to anxiously waiting for the doctor.

I sit up, muster whatever strength and fake anger I can, and reply: "Hey, (in my total no-nonsense deep tone) I don’t really know what’s happening, you got the wrong Malvika. I am not who you think I am (ah, mysterious). Maybe, I shall write about this on Mint - or somewhere.”

"Oh, so you've finally decided to join us, MALVIKA!" the boss said in full blast mode. And I stay mum. She goes: "Are you there? ARE YOU THERE, MALVIKA?" I am speechless. “I see you are here, MALVIKA? MALVIKA? ARE YOU THERE?"

Bad, bad Malvika. You've been very bad. What unspeakable things have you been upto! In my excitement, a chuckle escaped me. And I got caught :(

Who was I to refuse when the universe was hellbent on giving me a peak into what goes on inside an otherwise smooth-tallking, all-smiling, suave PR team. The boss didn’t disappoint. She continued the tirade, which I realised was directed at the missing “Malvika” and her friends.

"I just DON"T HAVE TIME FOR THIS @#%& DRAMA EARLY IN THE MORNING!” I hear a boss yelling, That did it! I stretched out my legs, smiled, got ready to be entertained.

2 minutes later, my phone's ringing. The same group call again. I cut it, they call again. And again. The cycle repeated 20 times. (Yes, I counted) By now, my nails are chewed (in that almost perfect halfmoons I imagine) and so, when the phone rang again - 21st call - I pick up.