TL;DRÂ Â – This is the too lazy to blog section. Just my $ 0.02.
On Early Stage Investing:
Met that girl from my school whom I ignored when I was a kid. She is now a model! Lesson Learnt: Never Ignore Early Stage Startups!
— Pravin (@beingpractical) May 8, 2013
On Founders Trying to Raise Venture Capital:
If you meet a VC, set him free. If he comes back, he’s yours. If he doesn’t, he was just preparing for Monday Partner Meetings.
— PJ (@BeingPractical) December 13, 2013
On Business Models & Startups:
Insisting on a Business Model from a early stage startup is like asking a school kid… “Beta, tum Engineer banoge ya Doctor?” 😛 — Pravin (@BeingPractical) July 17, 2013
On Building Products:
“What is your marketing strategy?””Product””Not product. Your marketing strategy?””Yes, its Product””I don’t get this.””Yes, I know.”
— Pravin (@beingpractical) April 26, 2013
Any product can work ‘at scale’. What really matters is how you make it work for the early users who join your product.
— PJ (@BeingPractical) December 18, 2013
If you can’t explain your product in one line, what you have built is complicated. #Startups
— PJ (@BeingPractical) March 7, 2014
Usually it is the ‘smallest changes’ in the Product that make the ‘biggest impact’.
— PJ (@BeingPractical) March 19, 2014
The more you simplify the product, the more people will use it.
— PJ (@BeingPractical) February 28, 2014
On Growth Hacking:
A Good Product is the best Growth Hack.
— PJ (@BeingPractical) January 20, 2014
Most Growth Hacking Gyan is based on false assumption that – "If it has worked for someone else it will work for your product as well."
— PJ (@BeingPractical) March 23, 2014
On Networking:
The most important thing in life is not knowing everything, it’s having the phone number of somebody who does!
— Pravin (@BeingPractical) July 17, 2013
On Startup Founders:
Is it only me or doing a startup generally makes all founders feel like they are philosophers? 😛
— Pravin (@beingpractical) May 7, 2013
On Focus:
Stop reading all posts on – How to Pitch.How to tell a Story.How to raise a Round.Just build your product., Everything falls in place!
— Pravin (@beingpractical) April 29, 2013
On VCs telling Entrepreneurs to Solve India Problems:
Dear VCs telling entrepreneurs – ‘Solve India Problems’, please list down 100 problems to be solved in India + cheque size available.
— Pravin (@BeingPractical) August 30, 2013
Indian Investors in conferences say – ‘Solve Local Indian Problems’. And then tell founders – ‘Think Global. India is small market’.
— Pravin (@BeingPractical) October 24, 2013
On Importance of Market Research:
Nothing awesome was ever created based on Gartner Reports.
— PJ (@BeingPractical) February 28, 2014
On Tech Innovation in India:
__ is Amazon of India
__ is Ebay of India
__ is Twitter of India
__ is PayPal of India
__ is Uber of India
& then we talk about innovation.
— PJ (@BeingPractical) February 27, 2014
On Tech Blogging:
Food bloggers get Free Food.
Fashion bloggers get Free Clothes.
Car bloggers get Free Car Rides.
Tech bloggers get emails – Give Feedback.
— PJ (@BeingPractical) March 21, 2014