Build vs Buy: Should Your Startup Train Its Own Model?
In 2026, training a frontier AI model from scratch costs between $50 million and $500 million,…
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The First 90 Days After Incorporation: A No-Fluff Checklist
By 30 November 2024, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs had registered 1,12,962 new companies in FY2024-25…
How to Find a Co-Founder (and the Questions to Ask First)
When CB Insights sifted through more than a hundred startup failure post-mortems, the product and the…
Validate Your Idea for Rs 0
In 2008, Drew Houston had a problem: he wanted to build Dropbox, but the product needed…
Your First 100 Customers: Where They Actually Come From
In July 2013, Paul Graham published an essay with advice that sounded wrong to every MBA:…
The 2026 IPO Wave: boAt, Acko, Amagi and More
Two years ago, “IPO” was a word Indian founders said carefully, the way you say a…
DRHP Decoded: Read an IPO Filing in 20 Minutes
Every company that wants to list in India has to file a DRHP, a Draft Red…
Profit Before IPO: How Public Markets Changed Startup Math
For a decade, Indian startup math was simple: raise big, burn fast, grow faster, and let…
ESOPs After Listing: What Employees Actually Make in an IPO
When Swiggy listed in November 2024, around 500 of its employees became crorepatis, and about 5,000…
Quick Commerce vs Kirana: Who Wins the 10-Minute Economy?
In one corner: quick commerce, the 10-minute delivery machine built by Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy’s Instamart,…