New year, new podcast!
Hello Builders!! The much awaited Startup Digest for the week is here!
In one shot, we take you through all the updates in the club, interesting happenings around the startup ecosystem and so much more.
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This week, TBC has sat down with Udit Goenka, Co-founder of Pitchground to understand the business of SaaS and how he bootstrapped his business to $20 Mn valuation.
This podcast is full of lessons for early stage entrepreneurs which can guide them on how to go about getting revenue and focus on the right metrics while building your startup.
Amid the whole session, we talked about Pitchground, Making Revenues from it, Personal Branding, Current SaaS industry trends and Pros and Cons of having an investor.
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Curated reads of the Week📑
Here are timeless classics and high quality content articles/videos which will not just make you think, but also compel you to act.
The top story of this week involves Erik Torenberg's piece of work on-
“How to Build Curation Businesses ".
Curation businesses create socially acceptable context to build close relationships.
In his work, Torenberg posits some reasons why you should invest your time and energy in Curation businesses rather than tech businesses with several instances.
Moreover, he discusses, “how do these curation businesses work?” And how you can build one with a planned
business strategy.
To learn how you can build your “Curation business”, read the complete article given below!
Next, we have a comparative blog concerning India and China's commercial tactics, named-
"Social Commerce Has Taken China By Storm: Why not India"
Social Commerce is the fastest growing segment with the relatively mature e-commerce segment in China. Pinduoduo does almost $145B in annual GMV on top of sales by Alibaba and JD.
Comparatively, the entire Indian e-commerce GMV of Flipkart and Amazon combined is projected to reach $41B in 2021 indicating the massive headroom in the Indian market.
Furthermore, this blog include the working pattern and strategies of some Chinese brands such as PDD, QQ, WeChat, Yunji: the online Chinese Costco and Shihuituan.
Most importantly, this blog make you understand about the implications of these Chinese brands on India and Indian market.
Read the complete blog here!
Last but not the least, we have an idea-generating article by James Somers on-
“The Friendship that made Google Huge”
This narrative traces Google's birth history back in 1996 when Google was still called BackRub and two friends, Jeff and Sanjay, who together wrote code to compensate for the offending machines.
In this blog, Somers tries to depict that if one has opportunity to work on his/her programmes with someone, one should grab that opportunity.
For that matter, Somers quotes Jeff's statement and says, “You need to find someone that you're gonna pair-program with who's compatible with your way of thinking, so that the two of you together are a complementary force.”
To know more check out the article now!
With this, the startup digest comes to an end. We hope you had fun reading it as much as we did curating it for you. See you next week!
Signing off,
Team TBC 🚀