The media business is solely dependent on advertising dollars – and is precisely the most hit in the times of recession. Here is a recap of what’s happening with media businesses: Outlook group, as reported in Businessworld is up for sale. The INX network has huge distressed assets while NDTV is planning to raise more funds from...
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Continuing with our series on Recession, Downturn and Startup Survival, here is an interview with Hrush Bhatt, co-founder of ClearTrip. How are you adapting your business model to the current circumstances. How are you now thinking about revenue and monetization of business? At Cleartrip, we’re putting much more emphasis on the things we can control as...
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Continuing with our series of articles on Economic Recession & Perspectives (from Startups/VCs & Industry Leaders), here is an interview with Dhruv Agarwala & Kartik Varma, founders of iTrust, a personal finance advisory firm (our review here). How are you adapting your business model to the current circumstances. How are you now thinking about revenue...
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Continuing with our series on Economic Downturn and Startup Survival, here is a quick QnA with Lalit, Co-Founder of Mobisy. What are you doing now that you were not doing previously – has anything in your execution changed? Lalit: Not really – at Mobisy we believe that when going gets tough we really
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Continuing with our series on Economic Downturn and Startup Survival, here is a quick QnA with Suvir Sujan of Nexus India Capital (earlier co-founded Baazee which was acquired by eBay) Early and start-up stage funding is getting difficult to raise – what would you suggest as sources of capital for someone who has not been...
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The best shield in recession times is to have a product/service that users will pay for. But what are those services? Asks Rajesh (@startup forum) Now that the market is down and even India is slowly heading towards recession, I would like to understand from pluggd.in readers – what is it that is a viable idea? something...
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After all the recession talks, comes a breather: An interesting take on Sequoia’s presentation
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The Wall Street as we know it doesn’t exist. This could be the onset of worst financial crisis in the last fifty years. The alarms are being sounded. It’s going to be gloomy ahead. ‘Brace yourself for the...
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Continuing with our series on economic recession and startups – here is an interview with Ashish Gupta of Helion Ventures. Early and start-up stage funding is getting difficult to raise – what would you suggest as sources of capital for someone who has not been able to so far raise funding Angels are typically a...
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Interview with Sanjay Anandaram on economic downturn and perspective from the VC world. We will publish interviews from entrepreneurs, VCs as well as Industry leaders in the coming days. VC investing goes through the fear and greed cycle and VCs often follow the herd. What are you doing in the current fear cycle – are...
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“No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.” There are tons of Indian startups who are still in closed beta – this post is specifically meant for them. Here is a humble request asking you to come out of closed/private beta (alpha/gamma ..what’er). Given the current economic crisis, the battle is not about your competition...
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Sequoia has sent out a presentation to it’s portfolio companies and have few candid things to say: View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. As we mentioned earlier, we will start publishing the interviews from VCs, startups and Industry leaders starting next week (category: Economy Downturn Startup Survival) – so stay pluGGd.in. ppt via VB
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Slowdown is in and as an employee, you only have few options – i.e.stick to your current job (as if it’s the only thing that matters in this world) or find a newer one (better salary/more stable..)? What’er be the reason, one company that’s benefiting the most out of slowdown fears is..?
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Economic downturn and startups – first post (a warm-up) published under the series. Rajesh Jain shares his take on the said topic. C2 R2 In difficult times, what is needed is a combination of C2 and R2 (Cut Costs and Ramp-up Revenue). They may seem as conflicting objectives but that’s what the need of the hour is....
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Couple of days back, we talked about a series of interviews on the red hot topic that’s on top of everybody’s mind – i.e. economic downturn and it’s impact on startups/VC funding. Starting today, we will publish interviews from VCs, Entrepreneurs and Industry leaders (who survived the last dotcom bubble burst) We have asked some candid...
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Contrary to popular opinion in Bollywood, I think that Cash is King. Singh is just bling. This post looks at ways in which start-ups in India can conserve their cash and find ways to save money – highly relevant in today’s context where funding is slow and growth expectations might not be playing out as...
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