Vijay Anand Profile picture
Founder @ Quanten Media. The Startup Guy™ Founding Partner at Studio V. Curator at C42. Trustee at Chennai Tricolor Initiative.
Apr 16, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Whenever we talk about Innovation, the first reaction is "Yes! startups". Startups are in fact the most expensive way of going about innovation.

To build a sustainable innovation ecosystem the key is to enable large companies to innovate and for the academic R&D machine to boot Case in point: between 2014 and 2021, 5.6bn$ of capital went into the edtech space with 346 startups funded.

Even with that much funding and nearly a decade later the Indian education system is not even remotely close to being better by any meaningful metric.
Mar 21, 2021 39 tweets 13 min read
Over the years I've been jotting down ideas in a #BlackBook, hoping that someday someone would build a startup around that space. As a way of accelerating that serendipity, I'm putting out those ideas - one, every week.

Here is the thread of them. 🧵 #1 : The way we evaluate startups at the moment is quite inefficient. We are only going to be creating more startups as we go forward. And it helps to build a better framework.

blackbook.thestartupcentre.com/better-framewo…
Aug 20, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
I get this question often. So putting this out here. 🧵

You CANNOT raise capital with just a deck.

Exceptions are, a) if people know you and your career and are willing to write you a check.
b) you are a second or third time Entrepreneur who had a remarkable exit before. (1/4) Remarkable - something worth remarking about. That means, no "undisclosed" amount sales or aquihires. (2/4)