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[YS Learn] Top tips for startup founders while building an MVP The minimum viable product (MVP) plays a vital role in understanding customer needs, and gives founders a sense of what a product can achieve with scale. Here are some key factors that founders and Chief Product Officers believe startups need to keep in mind while building their MVP. 0 claps Share on Once a startup idea is in place, the next step for any founding team is to build the minimum viable product (MVP), and see if it has...

A Harvard Business Review (HBR) report pointed out promotions at the workplace are more about relationships than skills. The report mentioned five key steps that people can take to rise in their careers.

YourStory (YS): What were your learnings from the pandemic? Ronnie Screwvala (RS): The pandemic has been a general awakening and has created different conversations across different aspects.  On a narrow level, Swadesh Foundation, which has been working on reverse migration for five years, had over 95,000 migrants to work with. It was a problem of massive and plenty that wasn’t triggered for the right reasons. It meant we needed to work around different levels to ensure they have a life in t...

[YS Learn] How True Balance built a robust MVP to enable gradual portfolio expansion The minimum viable product (MVP) plays a vital role in understanding customer needs and gives investors a sense of what the product can achieve with scale. But it is important to build the MVP frugally. Heres how fintech startup True Balance did it. 0 claps Share on In July 2014, Charlie Lee started True Balance in India as a mobile balance check app. Under the radar for the next three years, True Balance had...

Share on In 2011, noted serial entrepreneur of Silicon Valley, Eric Riles, first launched the book The Lean Startup. The book is now a bible of sorts for global entrepreneurs looking to startup. Ten years on, authors Chiara Spina, Arnaldo Camuffo, and Alfonso Gambardella believe this method can be made better.  Writing for the Harvard Business Review, the authors explain that the lean method calls for startups to learn about customers’ problems and needs, get their feedback, and build an MVP...

Share on For many high-growth tech companies, raising funds is an important part of the journey. While all have a list or playbook of dos and don’ts, VCs follow a science-based approach. A Harvard Business Review report said that over the past 30 years, venture capital has become the essential driver of economic value. It said companies like Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google, Intel, Microsoft, and Whole Foods have created great value and their early success can be attributed to venture capita...

Share on With COVID-19 accelerating the consumer shift to online retail and the rise of direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, more viable and unique-to-India business models are likely to emerge, Sanjot Malhi, Director and Lead of Consumer Investments at Matrix Partners India, says in an interview with YourStory.  Malhi, whose current investments include brands such as &ME, Country Delight, The Whole Truth, Mosaic Wellness, OZiva, Open Secret, loan app YeLo and gaming startup Zupee, also talks abo...

Super productive people are a source of both pride and envy. But what makes them tick? What sets them apart and what makes them better efficient than the others? We have put together a few points based on research by the Harvard Business Review.

In The Psychology of Money, author Morgan Housel provides a different take on money by exploring the relationship that people have with it in depth.

[YS Learn] Business tips from the ‘startup mafia’ of Flipkart and Paytm Founders can learn a lot from the experiences of the ‘startup mafia’ — those who launch their own ventures after serving as executives at top startups. 0 claps Share on The “startup mafia” now forms a sizeable section of the Indian startup ecosystem, as former executives from the likes of unicorns Flipkart, Ola, and Paytmhave gone on to launch their own ventures. Startups founded by such fo...