Lightspeed India

At India Internet Day, I interviewed Umang Bedi, formerly Head of Facebook South Asia and currently President of Dailyhunt on local…

I had posted a tweetstream at India Internet Day #iday on online media. Thought I would take it and put it up here as I think some of the…

First Published: Mon, Jun 25 2018. 11 28 PM IST on Mint…

As part of our Lightspeed Knowledge Series, we hosted Jack Gu, Co-Founder and Simon Ho, CFO of PPDai (a Lightspeed portfolio company), and…

Understanding the economic value of India’s vernacular internet users

I recently met an entrepreneur, who after shutting his startup, was considering joining a gaming company to “learn product management”… I…

In the latest edition of the Lightspeed Knowledge Series, we hosted Bipul Sinha, CEO and co-founder of Rubrik, who chatted with Akshay…

Sahil Kini and I put together a user panel for India Internet Day to hear from the next wave of Internet users coming online because of…

We regularly host events for founders and other members of the ecosystem such as Lightspeed Knowledge Series, Office Hours, founder dinners…

Takeaways from a fireside chat with Byju at Lightspeed’s Annual Entrepreneur Evening

I came across a lot of questions recently about how ESOPs and salaries should be managed at an early stage. In this post, I’m putting…

There are way too many startup events these days. And they’re mostly focused on the business of technology such as online retail, online…

I bet that anyone who has ever worked at startups has worked with at least one founder who basically didn’t seem to care about anything but…

Takeaways from Lightspeed’s SaaS Evening

Consider some of the recent activity in the Indian ecosystem — PayTM expanding into travel and wealth management, Google launching and…

I first met Jayant Deo, then CEO of IEX, on January 12, 2010. What was meant to be an introductory meeting went on for several hours as I…

This August and September we experimented with an idea that we had been mulling for a while — Office Hours for founders of early-stage…

Today is an exciting day for the Lightspeed India team, as we embark on a new phase of the firm’s growth by opening an office in…

Last month I attended Build on India Stack, a pitch competition organised by iSPIRT and Dalberg for startups leveraging the India Stack…

Over the past few months I began to realize that something wasn’t right about the way I was working — I was getting more tired than usual…

[This article first appeared on Factor Daily on June 20th, 2017. Accessible at: https://goo.gl/2Lp3cR]

I have worked in startups in senior operating roles for a few years in the past. Some experiences were great and some not so much. In my…

Market landscape, opportunities and monetization

We stare at our phones constantly — watching, reading, typing and swiping all day long. It’s an addiction. And so we end up overusing our…