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Building a SaaS enabled marketplace for Indian Manufactures ft Divyaanshu Makkar, Co-Founder, Sourcewiz
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How can an experience being a VC come handy while starting up? To answer this today we’ve with us Divyaanshu Makkar, Co-Founder, Sourcewiz.
Prior to starting Sourcewiz, Divyaanshu had already tasted entrepreneurship with his first venture in EdTech space, Connect2Teach in London. Post that after working with EY-Parthenon for a brief period of time, he joined Bessemer Venture Partners in California, United States.
At Bessemer he focused on EdTech, Consumer Tech for India/SEA and Enterprise/SMB SaaS being built from India/SEA for the world.
In today’s episode, we talk with Divyaanshu understanding his journey from being a Entrepreneur to becoming a VC and then going back for Entrepreneurship, his learnings and networks from his VC-period which came handy while starting Sourcewiz and more.
Notes -
02:24 - Intro
03:53 - Early Career and background in Venture Capital prior to Sourcewiz
07:35 - After VC what made him come back as an entrepreneur?
09:38 - Learnings from Mistakes from his previous venture
13:02 - Mistakes he observed other founders make while being a VC
15:04 - Key criterias for him while selecting a market from a VC’s lens
20:03 - Zoho Sponsored – Prashant Ganti on Where do founders struggle with Payroll and how can they fix it?
21:58 - Quitting at Bessemer Venture Partners to starting up Sourcewiz
31:10 - Connecting with Sajith Pai from Blume Ventures
35:02 - Identifying and Focusing on the problem statement within SaaS
41:08 - Getting their first paying customer
44:45 - Figuring out a scalable GTM for Tier-II customers
47:34 - Acquiring 400+ Paid customers in within first year
49:20 - Building a marketplace and its current traction
53:59 - His path to a $1Mn ARR and then for $10Mn ARR
56:16 - Building mechanism for scale
1:00:34 - Unknowns in the market they are still figuring out
1:02:12 - Closing their second round of Seed funding with Matrix Partners India
1:05:02 - Selection criteria for Angel Investors
1:06:44 - Key pointers of Do’s and Don’ts for new founders
Also, try out a 30-day free trial of Zoho Payroll, and simplify your Payroll journey as an entrepreneur!
https://zoho.to/zoho-payroll
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Manage episode 338689083 series 2592392
How can an experience being a VC come handy while starting up? To answer this today we’ve with us Divyaanshu Makkar, Co-Founder, Sourcewiz.
Prior to starting Sourcewiz, Divyaanshu had already tasted entrepreneurship with his first venture in EdTech space, Connect2Teach in London. Post that after working with EY-Parthenon for a brief period of time, he joined Bessemer Venture Partners in California, United States.
At Bessemer he focused on EdTech, Consumer Tech for India/SEA and Enterprise/SMB SaaS being built from India/SEA for the world.
In today’s episode, we talk with Divyaanshu understanding his journey from being a Entrepreneur to becoming a VC and then going back for Entrepreneurship, his learnings and networks from his VC-period which came handy while starting Sourcewiz and more.
Notes -
02:24 - Intro
03:53 - Early Career and background in Venture Capital prior to Sourcewiz
07:35 - After VC what made him come back as an entrepreneur?
09:38 - Learnings from Mistakes from his previous venture
13:02 - Mistakes he observed other founders make while being a VC
15:04 - Key criterias for him while selecting a market from a VC’s lens
20:03 - Zoho Sponsored – Prashant Ganti on Where do founders struggle with Payroll and how can they fix it?
21:58 - Quitting at Bessemer Venture Partners to starting up Sourcewiz
31:10 - Connecting with Sajith Pai from Blume Ventures
35:02 - Identifying and Focusing on the problem statement within SaaS
41:08 - Getting their first paying customer
44:45 - Figuring out a scalable GTM for Tier-II customers
47:34 - Acquiring 400+ Paid customers in within first year
49:20 - Building a marketplace and its current traction
53:59 - His path to a $1Mn ARR and then for $10Mn ARR
56:16 - Building mechanism for scale
1:00:34 - Unknowns in the market they are still figuring out
1:02:12 - Closing their second round of Seed funding with Matrix Partners India
1:05:02 - Selection criteria for Angel Investors
1:06:44 - Key pointers of Do’s and Don’ts for new founders
Also, try out a 30-day free trial of Zoho Payroll, and simplify your Payroll journey as an entrepreneur!
https://zoho.to/zoho-payroll
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