Improving Mental Health has become one of the most talked about needs over the last 5 years, making therapy, self-help apps, group support, alt therapy big opportunity areas.

This #MentalHealthDay, @BlumeVentures looked at what opportunities this market holds for startups👇 1/ Why is the demand growing?

1⃣COVID➡️spurt in anxiety, grief, loneliness, stress
2⃣Higher awareness, lower stigma💪
3⃣Later age pregnancies leading to more common developmental delays in kids
4⃣More nuclear families leading to breakdown of age old family support systems👩‍👦

As a part of our Velocity program at @BlumeVentures, we invited @ponnappa at @gojektech for a session on 'Building a Tech Org'

Thread below on our learnings on hiring, internal processes, & recommended reads👇

#BlumeVelocity

@DeepikaDakuda @RaoMaterial @sajithpai

0/n 1) Pre-PMF rule: Always be < 2 weeks away from a ground up rewrite.

Pre-PMF, most of what you build won't work & once you hit PMF you can't pause the work —> so, you carry over junk from earlier.

Don't accumulate debt in your project management!

1/n

Edtech Thread👇

In Part 2 of @BlumeVentures' Edtech series, we deep dive into the ‘Continuous Learning’ sector. This includes any learning activity after formal education (school, college, & testprep) is complete.

Article by @sajithpai & me here: blume.vc/edtech-series-…

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https://twitter.com/radhika_agar/status/1273879997019648000

2/ Why cont. learning?

- 2nd largest edtech segment after K12; big opportunity!

- Several biz models & users- B2B vs B2C; white collar vs grey collar; upskilling vs fun classes

- Learners range from 25yr olds to 60+yr olds - diff willingness to pay, motivations, world views

EdTech Thread👇

On @Blumeventures' EdTech Thesis & Market sizing report that @sajithpai & I put together

How we view the space, market size, opportunity areas & seed stage startups to watch

Report → bit.ly/blume-edtech

How we devd the framework → linkedin.com/posts/radhikaa… 2/ Why we put this together?

- Edtech is rapidly evolving & is more imp now than ever post COVID

- The sector impacts not just individuals but also overall economic outlook

- As @singh_sequoia & @gauravmunjal say 'edtech is for India is what eCommerce was for China/the West'

As Twitter last week became the 1st co to announce permanent remote work, several 1st/2nd order effects were assessed (SF real estate $, 🚗traffic, rental $ in Tier2 cities, etc). Now as Square, Facebook, Shopify follow suit, it would be interesting to see other effects👇
1/10 1a/ Temp workers outnumber full time workers in several tech cos inc the likes of Google. Several temp workers are blue collar workers (cooks, janitors, guards) at massive silicon valley campuses. As WFH becomes permanent, demand for such blue collar workers will decrease
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