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Deepika Yerragunta

Deepika Yerragunta

Why cold emails never work for fundraising and what you can do instead?

I get a few hundred emails every year from startup founders looking to raise funds for their startups. If you had asked me 10 years ago…

3 min readJul 28, 2020

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Deepika Yerragunta

On becoming customer obsessed — why this is important for great product building

Customer obsession is the only reason I became a product manager and I continue to think that building most great products begins with the…

2 min readFeb 12, 2020

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Deepika Yerragunta

The secrets behind creating useful product roadmaps

As 2020 begins, and everyone is thinking of resolutions and plans for this year, I think road-mapping is a useful tool that you can use…

3 min readJan 9, 2020

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Deepika Yerragunta

Why more women should invest in startups and three ways you can get started

As I think more about the investment climate we are in — a total of 35000 startups are being created, a total of number of dollars newly…

3 min readDec 16, 2019

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Deepika Yerragunta

I am a startup founder, when do I hire my first product person?

The answer to this question lies in the question itself. I am not trying to be zen like here. After advising really early startup founders…

4 min readSep 16, 2019

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Deepika Yerragunta

Using the six page memo for your startup — a helpful tool for venture capitalists and founders

Introduction

5 min readJul 30, 2019

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Deepika Yerragunta

Retail apocalypse — The aftermath

The democratization of the internet access through mobile phones has led to the disintermediation of retail chains, in the last 10 years…

4 min readJun 24, 2019

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Deepika Yerragunta

10 tips to finding (and hiring) great tech talent

Thanks to the good folks at SignalFire — David Carpe and @Ashlee kim for inviting @Osman Ahmed (ex-Quora, @Monarchmoney) and me to speak…

3 min readJun 10, 2019

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Deepika Yerragunta

On building Go to Market Driven Product Roadmaps

I have worked with multiple companies of different sizes through my career. My most recent role being leading product for Amazon on the…

4 min readMay 8, 2019

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Deepika Yerragunta

Three things men can do to support women in a workforce

I have a ton of well-meaning friends, sometimes colleagues (male) constantly ask me how they can help with gender parity issues. I decided…

2 min readJun 13, 2018

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Deepika Yerragunta

Deepika Yerragunta

“Innovation happens at the edges and at the intersections”. I live at the intersection where tech meets the world. Product gal with an eye for disruption.

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