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Context is everything.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Unlike other venture-funded sectors that were outright failures, SaaS has been able to create a few sustainable businesses. The sector, though, needs a fresh story.
Note: This is the seventh story in a series where The Morning Context is doing deep dives into sectors where the Indian venture capital hypothesis has failed to live up to the hype.
Over the past two decades, VC firms of all varieties have sold the India story to a whole host of institutional investors across the world. Several sectors have been packaged together, from e-commerce and education to real-money gaming, classifieds and short video, to create this powerful idea that a market of a billion Indians is ripe for consumption, technology disruption and wealth creation. Where pouring VC funds …
The Zoho co-founder’s attempt to build a WhatsApp competitor has captured the imagination of the nationalist Indian. Emotions aside, the most likely outcome is that Zoho’s other products will start selling more.
Adani and Zoho pausing their plans is a sign that a lot needs to be done before semiconductor fabrication is a viable business.
Sridhar Vembu steps down as CEO of the software company and makes some other key changes at the top.
