Book Excerpt: ‘Everything Started As Nothing’ By Bhaskar Majumdar
Excerpts from a book Everything Started As Nothing by Bhaskar Majumdar that traces the journey of start-ups and entrepreneurs of India Outlook Web Bureau 2021-03-15T16:14:58+05:30 Book Excerpt: ‘Everything Started As Nothing’ By Bhaskar Majumdar outlookindia.com 2021-03-15T16:22:51+05:30
Excerpts from a book “Everything Started As Nothing” by Bhaskar Majumdar that traces the journey of start-ups and entrepreneurs of India
It was in mid-2019 that I finally managed to get to speak to Abhishek Negi, who recently founded Eggoz. In his previous avatar, he was co-founder of cab aggregator Roder, which Unicorn India Ventures, an early-stage technology-focused venture fund co-founded by Anil Joshi and me, had invested in. I had been trying to get in touch with Abhishek for over a year but had been unable to do so. When I asked him about his sudden disappearance, his respons
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Starting a fund is similar to launching your own startup, says Bhaskar Majumdar of Unicorn India Ventures
In this episode of 100X Entrepreneur Podcast, Bhaskar Majumdar talks about his journey, launching Unicorn India Ventures, and making unconventional bets.
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Bhaskar Majumdar, Founder and Managing Partner of
Unicorn India Ventures, believes that launching a fund is exactly the same as launching a startup venture. However, according to him, one of the biggest challenges is to find a co-founder.
According to Bhaskar, the complementarity of co-founders is logical and important. Talking about starting Unicorn India Ventures with his co-founder Anil Joshi, he says that while his background is mostly entrepreneurial, Anil is more of an investor in the business.
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Indian startup founders are wary of Chinese investors, prioritise follow-up funding over term sheet conditions
Business Insider India 23-02-2021 Sanchita Dash
A recent report by Innoven Capital, where f
ounders at different stages of starting up were surveyed, showed that an investor’s ability to follow-up with more funding, was the top priority for founders.
Having witnessed the COVID-19 pandemic, founders want investors on board who can support them during such times by willing to cash them out.
Meanwhile, the preference for Chinese investors has gone down significantly from 29% in 2020 to 3% in 2021.The COVID-19 pandemic came as a wake up call for Indian startups. Now, the founders have their own checklist to vet their potential investors. One of their top requirements is that the investor should not be from China. But that’s not all.