The Lunch Editor

Swathi Dharshna Naidu

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2013 Pacific Crest SaaS Survey

2013 Pacific Crest SaaS Survey

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Slack - Be less busy.

It's real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams is awesome.  

Slack is nextgen enterprise messaging platform. You will love it.

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Customer Satisfaction Rankings of High-Volume Investors w/ Higher Investment Thresholds (>$30M Total Raised, >$5M Raised in Last 2 Years)

For a full explanation of the methodology, go here.

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Smart specifically studied how such people made their most difficult decision in judging whether to give money to an entrepreneur or not. You would think that this would be whether the entrepreneur’s idea is actually a good one. But finding an idea is apparently not all that hard. Finding an entrepreneur who can execute a good idea is a different matter entirely. One needs a person who can take an idea from proposal to reality, work the long hours, build a team, handle the pressures and setbacks, manage technical and people problems alike, and stick with the effort for years on end without getting distracted or going insane. Such people are rare and extremely hard to spot.

Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto (via jacks)

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via: Paulzii.tumblr.com

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Surprised to see that, I have 30 apps from the list.. 

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Gartner Says India's Mobile Services Market To Reach Rs.1.2 Trillion In 2013gtnr.it/12BekR7

— Gartner (@Gartner_inc) April 22, 2013

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Michael Porter’s Competitive Advantage.

 It is a great “business basics” book. It stuns me when business people lack the simple mentality of a merchant: make something people want to buy for a lower price than you can sell it for. Know what the customer wants and deliver it. Sometimes people make things too complicated. The bottom line is: If you want to sell a product, it either has to be better or cheaper, and if you want to build something sustainable and grand, it has to be special and much, much better!

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In the press and on home pages across the web you see metrics like 100,000 expert freelancers or over a million sellers or “adding 3,000 new users per day.” Those all sound great, but they are irrelevant to the health of a marketplace company. The press and other VCs still eat them up though, and...

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“When you think about how to sell to enterprise it’s about engaging the grass roots AND the IT team and CIO.”

 Andy McLoughlin, co founder of Huddle, speaking at London Web Summit.

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What world needs

The world does not need more accelerators & "late stage" VC funds who call a $500k investment "growth capital." We need more mid/large funds

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ONE YEAR AS STARTUP ENTREPRENEURS: 10 BIG LESSONS from 500startups

Just Do It.  

You Have a Dream. Tell People about It.  

Build Relationships.                            

Break the Rules.              

Don’t Ever Think You’ve Made It.   

Question Yourself.    

Learn to Say No.    

Set Short-Term Goals.          

Build a Team.    

Have Fun.      

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Investor Kevin Rose this time, his @foundation podcast series with Path entrepreneur Dave Morin. Find the last episode

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India flips the switch on world’s largest solar power plant

“The Indian state of Gujarat has built the world’s largest solar photovoltaic power plant, a field of solar panels the size of Lower Manhattan. After only 14 months of preparation, they’ve just switched it on, adding 600 MW of power to the grid. That’s enough to power a medium-sized city’s worth of homes.”

These solar panel laid on the vast stretches of agricultural channels in Gujarat generates 1 MW of electricity per KM & prevents evaporation of 1 crore litres of water every year.

Resources: Grist 

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U.S. venture capital firms raised $20.6 billion from 182 funds during full year 2012.

According to NVCA