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Re: From 0 to $1 Million ARR in 3 years with Indian Customers

#31
Congrats on growing a company in Indian market, let alone a bootstrapped one.

I worked for a MNC for past 5 years, i quit this April and started dabbling with new technologies and platforms, with the intent to create a SaaS. As a person who is interested in startup, this article gives me a lot of hope.

Re: From 0 to $1 Million ARR in 3 years with Indian Customers

#32

Congrats on growing a company in Indian market, let alone a bootstrapped one. I worked for a MNC for past 5 years, i quit this April and started dabbling with new technologies and platforms, with the intent to create a SaaS. As a person who is interested in startup, this article gives me a lot of hope.

Glad to be of some inspiration :)

Re: From 0 to $1 Million ARR in 3 years with Indian Customers

#33
Kudos! Always good to read product people getting success in Indian market. As you said, the market is not wrong or small, if the value provided by product is good. It's just the way customers in India define value is slightly different than other countries, which is the case everywhere.

Great work and courage, to follow the path to profitability without external funding. Cheers!!! and best of all lucks going forward.

Re: From 0 to $1 Million ARR in 3 years with Indian Customers

#34
Congrats! And thanks for posting this. Definitely an inspiration for people looking to start a company in India. One of the things you mentioned is that Hyderabad is a growing place for startups. What are other pieces of advice you would give to people starting a company in India? Do you have blogs/forums that I can follow to catch up on the startup news happening in India? Thanks in advance.

And also wish you best of luck for the next year!

Re: From 0 to $1 Million ARR in 3 years with Indian Customers

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Congrats! And thanks for posting this. Definitely an inspiration for people looking to start a company in India. One of the things you mentioned is that Hyderabad is a growing place for startups. What are other pieces of advice you would give to people starting a company in India? Do you have blogs/forums that I can follow to catch up on the startup news happening in India? Thanks in advance. And also wish you best o…

If you are starting up in India, then it is best to network with like minded people at events like Startup Saturday.

For blogs, you can checkout nextbigwhat,Medianama, your story and techcircle.

Re: From 0 to $1 Million ARR in 3 years with Indian Customers

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Congrats! And thanks for posting this. Definitely an inspiration for people looking to start a company in India. One of the things you mentioned is that Hyderabad is a growing place for startups. What are other pieces of advice you would give to people starting a company in India? Do you have blogs/forums that I can follow to catch up on the startup news happening in India? Thanks in advance. And also wish you best o…

If you are starting up in India, then it is best to network with like minded people at events like Startup Saturday. For blogs, you can checkout nextbigwhat,Medianama, your story and techcircle.

Thanks! That was very useful.

Re: From 0 to $1 Million ARR in 3 years with Indian Customers

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Thanks, As some one working a lot in my spare time and weekends in hopes of doing good side projects, and may be transform it to a business someday. Gives me great hope to see such things happening especially in the Bangalore scene. I can understand the obvious limitations and regulations the government may likely to place on space industry. Very licenses and permissions may require paying up heavy commissions/bribes…

Yea, I don't want to get into any shady dealings, and my worry is that especially in a government-dominated sector like the space industry in India, it's very difficult to make headway unless you do. I'm willing to wait it out to some extent, but I guess I have a very short fuse when it comes to idiocy. That's eventually why I decided to wait with the idea. The other area that I'm really interested in is the MOOC spa…

Are there any MOOC startups you know of, in India, that one can get involved in?

Re: From 0 to $1 Million ARR in 3 years with Indian Customers

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Yea, I don't want to get into any shady dealings, and my worry is that especially in a government-dominated sector like the space industry in India, it's very difficult to make headway unless you do. I'm willing to wait it out to some extent, but I guess I have a very short fuse when it comes to idiocy. That's eventually why I decided to wait with the idea. The other area that I'm really interested in is the MOOC spa…

Are there any MOOC startups you know of, in India, that one can get involved in?

Actually I don't but I have some ideas of my own that I'd like to test out at some point and see if they fit my model of what the education space in India needs.

There are some interesting articles online and a fair bit off buzz around Indian MOOCs, like [1].

[1] http://www.edukwest.com/first-indian-mooc-will-launch-in-oct...

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