Author: Jinal
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My Favorite Quotes
From Warren Buffet “Every day, in countless ways, the competitive position of each of our businesses grows either weaker or stronger. If we are delighting customers, eliminating unnecessary costs and improving our products and services, we gain strength. But if we treat customers with indifference or tolerate bloat, our businesses will wither. On a daily […]
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Request for pre-K–12 ed-tech startups that are helping with distance learning — COVID-19 and beyond!
(Originally published on Medium) At Runa Capital, one of the verticals we invest in is education, because of the lifelong impact it has on kids, adults, and the massive market it serves. COVID-19 has created unprecedented challenges for students, parents, and schools. As a father of two kids (a five-year-old and ten-year-old), I have watched […]
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How to grow your SAAS business?
(This is a rough draft) When I started Log(n) and SchoolMint, I had to learn everything about sales and marketing from the very basics. For the first few years of Log(n), most of our business came from word of mouth and thus I never ended up building a formal sales or a marketing team. That […]
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Why Start Your Own Company?
My First Company – Log(n) I started my first company serendipitously. After working for others, it became clear to me that, while I was passionate about technology and extremely customer focused, as well as being a hard worker, my personality wasn’t well suited to doing a job for someone else. Here are a few other things […]
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Lessons Learned From My Entrepreneurial Journey
A lot of aspiring entrepreneurs are trying to figure out how to start a business. Many others are trying to figure out how to grow it, make it sustainable, or to sell it successfully. In this series of blog posts, I will explore several lessons I learned during my entrepreneurial journey starting and running various […]