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1. Zepto

  • we started delviery for our mumbai aunties as delivery through ehatsapp group Build a clunky mvp whatsapp group here the thing is make a basic mvp dont wait to make aperfect tool because you will devaiate start with deploying a clunky then listen to customers then befree to pivot your idea

  • why 10 minutes deluvery

  • 1st start with go to a world without physics and mmakr a customer experience the best then bottome down to whats possbile and try to get as close to the utpic vision .

  • Being naive is good in business We could break first principles and have a fresh perspectives

Mvp

and we should have Clear no barrier bw customer and founders like talk to them the poewer users

razorpay

had a phone no to direcatly call the founders Took all calls and calls customersfor feedback⁰

they where the first to be the payment gateway On upithe first upi gateway

dont hesitate to bet on cutting edge tech be radical Be fast

emergent

  • think global from day 1 bc it ssmae effort to deploy st for india and for the world
  • pick a not good and fancy but hard very hard problem to solve
  • trustful bonds with customer
  • think very big. from day one

groww

Indian users cate about price transparency seemless

  • reduce question marks about startup the les s the better startup try to deuce them÷

  • obsses over ui ux (this what we do for grow indian users)

  • be the power user of your product (use atlest 2 hours of your product )

  • customers if they say dont care in a feature lauch that extremaley bad bad but i hate it or i love it is what we are looking for

  • on the question how all 4 of you cofounders got along? note everything thoughout starytup joyuney 2 things you hsould wrote down 1. Value system what we stand for etc what we ae what ware we solving etc. write this with pen and dodnt chaneg 2. Strtaegies this is wirten down in pencil

on final 2 advicefor everyone

  • dont listen to old fellas
  • if your startup dont feel like work just enjoy building growls

yc partners

  • live in tech curting edge is the way to win ai boom
  • mindset required after indian education system classes ? saty away from tradional people traditional advice like be a doctor is not practcal because now ai will change everything stay away form their advice on founders ecomung younger and younger
  • jon xu nowfays its not how fast to build sth but how fast to leran determines
    as you have seen in the entrance " live in the future and build whats missing"
  • younger kfellas tinker into future and make it.
  • and for now that means p and ush the use of ai and find waht current llms cant do find bottlenecks and then fix those gaps or expand ai.
  • waht we need is tinkering , peoduct clarity and vision skilled person for buildding quality
  • also a not quite a good advice but a proven advicea syou can see that all succesful companeis are not the first in thier fields they are a copycat but then did a find sth is working and beat em for a better product
  • whoever is succesful in a field is not the first in that gers successful the one succesful maybe tehe 41st one .
  • startup vision clarity is important
  • in yc as you have heard the stories they all pivoted from the idea they applied to yc we are not investing in idea but you the founder (pivot)
  • from ankit gupta about building priducts in one line - intentional , insights from customers and encapsulate everything into a product. project is some people make sth that is not asigned to them but enjoy working on it. as we said earlier we take people not ideas and what we do is find them using the same fundamental truth about fouders obsesed wuth tinkering customers those truths dont change from never changes from the age of edison also read the paul graham essays on "Relentlessly Resourceful" and "Do Things That Don't Scale" advantages of coming hear Hiring 6 companies from this audience Connections , Credits to help to start building email
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