Synopsis Startups today brag more about EBITDA margins than GMV screenshots because profitability has become the new valuation. After 2023, funding tightened, CAC spiked, and teams were forced back to basics: sell, retain, repeat. This story explains how the funding winter killed burn-rate swagger and sparked a new era of lean, revenue-led, profitable-first startups built […]
For the longest time, Indian startups chased one thing like it was oxygen: more customers.More users. More sign-ups. More downloads. More eyeballs. You know the drill. And to be honest, that made sense back then. When capital was flowing, CAC was manageable, and everyone believed scale would magically fix everything later. But somewhere around now […]
(And no, it’s not just about taxes or fancy global addresses.) Let’s start with the obvious question you might already be asking yourself.Why would a startup born in India — built here, funded here, scaled here — even think about moving operations abroad? To be honest, a few years ago, this sounded dramatic. Almost unpatriotic, […]
