Today India will announce its Budget for the next financial year. Budgets are important because the gives an estimate of the tax collection and government expenditures. Everyone has different expectations from the budget. The middle class wants lower taxes. The poor want more welfare and subsidies. …

Let’s say you want to diversify your portfolio and believe startups have a wonderful future in India. I know this sounds implausible in the current times, but try to humour me for a few minutes and go with this fantastic hypothesis. You decide to invest $100K in early-stage startups over…

India’s FDI inflow doubled to $85B in FY22 from $42B in 2018. Despite this encouraging statistic, India’s economic scorecard is dismal. The economy is still less than 1/5th of China, and India remains a difficult place to do business. …

1) Restaurants where seating is visible from outside, seat patrons from front to back. This results in making the restaurant seem fuller and more popular. A social proof that encourages others to join. 2) Menu with detailed descriptions like mentioning the geography can raise sales by 27%. Ethnic labels and…

Over the past few years, we have seen an unprecedented fascination with start-ups. As someone who spends most of her day interacting with start-ups, it is truly heartening to be a part of such a flourishing ecosystem. However, there is still an alarming lack of clarity about the difference between…

Your team will exceed the time to meet the deadline by 1.6X times, and this is mathematically proven. I was diving deep into figuring out how wrong are people about their time estimations for the completion of a task, and study after study, some patterns started emerging. Even with the…

A few of my favourite quotes on India’s republic day. They beautifully describe the political situation in India. 1. “A republic is a great idea, until you see it in practice.” — Mark Twain 2. “A republic, if you can keep it, is a government with a sense of humor.”…

Finding startups can be challenging if you are new to angel investing. Unlike public markets where beginners can invest in index or mutual funds, angels have to invest in individual startups. Sometimes friends ask me about how to find the best startups. Here are a few guidelines from what I’ve…

A lot of students will be entering the job market soon. I want you to remember this graph. The purple bar is the % of people hired during pandemic. The orange bar is the % of people laid-off recently. Were the students graduating in 2020–2021 5x better than the ones…