Update: Jan 2023 — I am adding a new table based on FY22 numbers

This blog has been authored by indiagold cofounder Nitin Misra, it was originally published at Times of India: An Uber for asset backed loans - Is the future of secured lending branchless? In today's technologically advanced world, lending has reduced the intricacies of a time-consuming process from days to…timesofindia.indiatimes.com It’s late at night, you finally got time to binge your favourite show on Netflix and need something to munch. But there’s nothing in the fridge. Consider this parallel universe where there…

Life time value (LTV) of customers is one of the key metric measured by startups to offset a heavy one time customer acquisition cost. In simpler terms, it is the approximate value (in money terms) a customer could deliver through their lifetime on your product. This helps startups (consumer or…

India is world’s no.1 in app downloads on Android with 23bn downloads in 2021, almost 2.5x of USA. This make Google Play Store one of the most powerful platforms in the country as they control almost 15bn downloads if we exclude side loads and alternate app stores. Last year Google…

In Budget 202 0, taxation on exercise of employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) was removed under Section 191 of the Income Tax Act, 1961. While this was a welcome move in recognising the significance of ESOPs among startups, the devil lied in the detail. This was applicable only for: one…

I get asked about various tools we use for driving growth & product management at indiagold so I decided to share all the tools we are currently using. Considering we are at seed stage, we decided to go with tools which either come free or at extremely low cost. …

Last week I did some analysis on MAU of some of the top Apps in India. You can check it here — https://growthbug.com/face-off-india-top-android-apps-by-mau-dec-2020-bd0a64213b49 I was asked to plot the valuation of each startup over MAU by a friend. I started collecting last publicly announced valuation of each startup and tried…

This is just going to be a quick visual blog comparing top 2 android apps in each category. I could not find any true competition for other tops apps like Youtube(406mn), Whatsapp(404mn), Facebook(295mn), Trucaller(257mn), Hotstar(106mn), Twitter(65mn), Sharechat(60mn), Dailyhunt(64mn) to name a few hence they are not included below:

Growth is the fuel that energizes startups to defy heavy odds. It sustains and drives startups in their quest to create value and to build successful businesses. But how should one navigate the growth journey? What are the levers that startups can use to drive and sustain both the quantity…