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What Happens After Product-Market Fit?
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What Happens After Product-Market Fit?

While founders treat product-market fit as the finish line, the data shows it is closer to a starting gun, and...

How Flipkart Beat Amazon’s Playbook in India
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How Flipkart Beat Amazon’s Playbook in India

In 2007, two IIT Delhi graduates quit their jobs at Amazon. Not to start a rival. Not to take on...

How Cursor Became Every Developer’s Favorite AI Tool by Building the Editor, Not Just the Assistant
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How Cursor Became Every Developer’s Favorite AI Tool by Building the Editor, Not Just the Assistant

While everyone else built chatbots for coders, a small team rebuilt the code editor itself around AI. Most AI coding...

How boAt Beat Sony and JBL Without Building Better Products
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How boAt Beat Sony and JBL Without Building Better Products

The story of how two founders turned a charging cable into India's largest audio brand by mastering positioning, community, and...

How Groww Turned Confused Beginners Into India’s Largest Investing Community
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How Groww Turned Confused Beginners Into India’s Largest Investing Community

In 2016, millions of Indians wanted to invest. There was just one problem. Nobody knew where to begin. Mutual funds...

What is Blinkit’s next move after dominating quick commerce?
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What is Blinkit’s next move after dominating quick commerce?

While Amazon committed Rs 2,800 crore to chase Blinkit and Flipkart crossed 800 dark stores in months, Blinkit quietly shifted...

Zoho growth strategy: Rs 12,313 crore in revenue and 100 million users, built without a single rupee of VC funding
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Zoho growth strategy: Rs 12,313 crore in revenue and 100 million users, built without a single rupee of VC funding

While the startup world chased funding rounds and unicorn valuations, Zoho quietly became the largest bootstrapped SaaS company in history....

Apple AI strategy: Why the world’s most valuable company is still struggling to ship a working AI assistant
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Apple AI strategy: Why the world’s most valuable company is still struggling to ship a working AI assistant

While OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft shipped AI features monthly, Apple ran television ads for a product it had not yet...

Mercor founder story: How three 22-year-olds built a $10 billion AI company in two years
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Mercor founder story: How three 22-year-olds built a $10 billion AI company in two years

While the AI industry focused on which company would build the smartest model, Brendan Foody was building the company that...

Peak XV quick commerce bet: Why the $15.3M ZILO Series A signals India’s second wave
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Peak XV quick commerce bet: Why the $15.3M ZILO Series A signals India’s second wave

While Blinkit and Zepto spent five years building India's quick-commerce infrastructure, Peak XV waited. When it finally moved, it did...

Nvidia AI chip strategy: How CUDA built a moat that 20 years of competitors could not crack
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Nvidia AI chip strategy: How CUDA built a moat that 20 years of competitors could not crack

While the AI industry debated which model would win the intelligence race, Jensen Huang quietly built the toll road that...

Quick commerce India: Can the economics work?
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Quick commerce India: Can the economics work?

While Blinkit crossed into positive adjusted EBITDA for the first time, Swiggy Instamart posted a Rs 908 crore quarterly loss...

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