You’ve got the list. Maybe it’s a spreadsheet, maybe a directory, maybe a LinkedIn group someone set up a few years back. The names are there, the emails are there, and yet when you reach out, nobody answers. It’s easy to read that as a sign alumni just don’t care. Most of the time, that’s … Read more
Somewhere in the last twelve months, you became “the writer friend.” You wrote the caption for your cousin’s boutique launch. You “helped out” with a founder’s LinkedIn post because you were free that weekend. You did a friend-of-a-friend’s website copy for exposure, then their sister’s blog for practice, then a stranger’s newsletter because it seemed … Read more
At some point in the last few weeks, you probably read a Reddit thread that ruined your evening. Someone in your field, or a field close enough to yours, posted about getting laid off “because of AI.” The comments filled up fast. A hundred strangers, none of whom know your company, your manager, your industry, … Read more
You finished it. Or you’re close enough that finishing feels real for the first time. The draft that lived in a notes app for two years, the manuscript you’ve rewritten four times, the idea you finally got brave enough to put on a page. And now there’s a new kind of fear sitting where the … Read more
You’ve typed some version of this question into Google at 11pm. Maybe it was after a bad performance review. Maybe it was after watching someone two years younger than you get promoted ahead of you. Maybe it was just a quiet Tuesday when you realized you have no idea if you’re doing this career thing … Read more
If you passed out of college in the last couple of years and you’re still refreshing Naukri at 1 AM, you’ve probably already picked a villain. AI. It’s the easiest one in the room. LinkedIn is full of “fresher apocalypse” posts. Every second thread on r/developersIndia and Indian Reddit ends with someone typing some version … Read more
On the slow cost of co-founder misalignment, and where to find someone who has actually been there. You started this company together. You stayed up until 2am together. You defended each other in rooms where nobody believed in the idea yet. And now you cannot agree on anything. Not on the product roadmap. Not on … Read more
Guest Post By Janhvi Pradhan Deshmukh, Partner, Legasis Partners, Advocates and Solicitors, BKC, Mumbai India’s creator economy runs on reels and reels, more often than not, run on music. For years, brands, influencers, fitness trainers, dance academies, wedding photographers, beauty consultants, and D2C founders have done the same thing: opened Instagram, tapped the audio icon, … Read more
The conversation every first-time founder dreads is not the one they think it is. There is a specific kind of dread that sets in around month eight of running your first startup. It is not the dread of running out of money, or losing a client, or shipping something broken. You have been preparing for … Read more
A plain-language guide to what the ethanol blending programme means for the vehicles on Indian roads, and what every driver should do about it.