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24/2/26. The Hidden Environmental Costs of Artificial Turf: What Brands Don’t Tell You greenwashingindex.com/hidden-environ…

MY HOUSE FELT CLUTTERED FOR MONTHS. So I showed Claude photos of every room. 48 hours later neat space, calm mind. No new furniture. No decorator. Just 7 prompts that completely transformed my space:

Genova, i have no words what just happened. I saw people dancing from all ages. Everyone smiling and dancing to the beat. Honestly, the whole thing is making me a bit emotional. These are very powerful moments. I’m beyond honored to have been able to play for you today ❤️

➡️ @NITIAayog released reports on “Ease of Doing Research & Development in India” and the “Survey Report on Ease of Doing R&D in India” ➡️ The reports are the outcome of an extensive exercise conducted over a period of approximately nine months, involving outreach to 400+ institutional leaders and insights from 850+ distinguished scientists and researchers across the country ➡️ The reports provide a comprehensive assessment of India’s R&D ecosystem and outline a set of actionable recommendations focused on improving funding mechanisms, institutional governance, regulatory frameworks, and research translation Read here: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…

A Bangalore founder walked into a Series A meeting last month. Killer product. VC loved it. "Send us your monthly P&L, revenue breakdown, and cap table. We'll get back to you next week." He didn't have any of it. Not "it was messy." He didn't have a monthly P&L. Revenue was tracked in a Google Sheet with missing months. The cap table was a WhatsApp group and an old email thread from 2022. The VC didn't say no. They said "let's revisit in a few months." He thought they lost interest in the product. They didn't. They never even got to evaluate the product properly. They couldn't get past the numbers. I've seen this happen to at least a dozen founders now. And every single one made the same mistake. Not a compliance mistake. A mental model mistake. They thought fundraising is one event. Walk in, pitch, get money. It's not. It's three stages. And most Indian founders die at the wrong one while preparing for the other two. Stage 1 — Getting the term sheet. This is the part nobody talks about because it's unsexy. The VC has heard your pitch. They're interested. Now they want to see if the business is real. What they ask for is shockingly simple: Monthly P&L. Not audited. Just organized. Revenue, costs, margins, month by month. Unit economics. What does it cost you to acquire a customer? What do they pay you over time? What's your payback period? Burn rate and runway. How fast are you spending? How long can you survive? Cap table. Who owns what. Option pool. Any convertible notes or SAFEs. Previous round terms. Your top 5-10 customer contracts. That's it. No auditor's report. No ROC filing. No FEMA paperwork. Just proof that you understand your own business well enough to have tracked it. And this is where 80% of first-time Indian founders silently lose the deal. Because when the VC asks for monthly P&L, the founder goes quiet. Calls his CA. The CA says "give me 3-4 weeks." Three weeks later the VC has moved on to the next deal. Stage 2 — Closing the round (after term sheet, before money hits your account). This is what founders actually panic about. The investor's lawyers send you a 47-item due diligence checklist and you feel like you're being audited by the government. They'll want: Full legal due diligence — contracts, IP assignments, employee agreements. ROC filings verified — PAS-3, MGT-14, AOC-4, annual returns. GST and TDS compliance check. Bank statements cross-checked against your claimed revenue. If foreign investor: FEMA compliance, RBI valuation, FC-GPR readiness. Board resolutions, shareholder approvals, AoA amendments. This stage is brutal. But here's what nobody tells you — it's fixable. You can hire a good law firm and a specialist CA, spend 3-5 lakhs, and clean most of this up in 4-6 weeks. It's stressful but it's not a deal killer. VCs expect some mess here. Their lawyers will tell you what to fix and give you time to fix it. Stage 3 — Post-closing (after money is in your account). These are things that literally can only be done after the round closes, or that both sides agree can wait: Filing PAS-3 with ROC within 30 days of share allotment. Filing FC-GPR with RBI within 30 days of receiving foreign investment. ESOP pool formalization — board approval, scheme documentation, grant letters. Updating share registers, issuing share certificates. D&O insurance. Setting up proper board governance. Nobody's deal dies at Stage 3. This is just paperwork with deadlines. So here's the pattern I keep seeing. A founder spends 6 lakhs hiring a CA firm and a CS to "get compliance ready" before fundraising. They clean up ROC filings, GST returns, annual filings. Takes 3-4 months. Then they walk into the VC meeting. VC says "show me your monthly revenue trend for the last 18 months and your unit economics." Blank stare. Because that was never on the CA's checklist. The CA fixed compliance. Nobody built the financial MIS. The founder prepared for Stage 2 and 3. But the deal died at Stage 1. And here's the brutal part. Stage 2 and 3 can be fixed in weeks with the right team after you have a term sheet. The investor expects you to fix things during due diligence. That's literally what due diligence is for. But Stage 1? You can't manufacture 18 months of monthly P&L and unit economics in 3 weeks. You either tracked your revenue and costs month by month, or you didn't. There's no shortcut. No CA can reconstruct what you never recorded. The founders who raise fast don't have better products. They don't have better CAs. They don't have cleaner ROC filings. They just started keeping a monthly P&L from day one. When nobody was asking for it. When it felt like a waste of time. When the business was too small for it to "matter." It always matters. You just don't know it until the VC asks. If you're a founder reading this and you don't have a monthly P&L going back to when you started — stop whatever you're doing and build one today. Not for compliance. Not for your CA. For the meeting you don't know is coming.

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This new open-source bitcoin wallet called ‘Cryobrick’, invented by a team of developers in India, can be hidden on old cellphones and disguised as any app.

Macsen Laboratories is a 73-year-old family-run pharmaceutical and specialty chemicals company in Udaipur. They make APIs, dyes, fine chemicals. Completely unglamorous. In 2023 they were working on Prussian Blue, the chemical - as a drug to treat radioactive poisoning (if someone gets exposed to cesium, Prussian Blue binds it and flushes it out of the body). While doing this, the CEO Achal Agrawal team noticed that a related compound called Prussian White looked eerily similar to what battery researchers were publishing as the hottest new sodium-ion cathode material. Out of scientific curiosity, they synthesised some, hand-built a pouch cell with zero battery equipment, and it lit an LED. That was 2023. Today - They have a proprietary synthesis process for high-crystallinity, air-stable Prussian White Energy density - 150 mAh/g, matching LFP, Patent filed, Pilot cell line targeted for early 2026 (i.e. right now) They’re developing their own hard carbon anode in-house too. More insight will come in today Idealist

*लिनन कपड़े का रहस्य: LEA नंबर से जानें क्या है आपके लिए सही। क्या आप जानते हैं कि लिनन कपड़े पर लिखे LEA नंबर से आप उसकी गुणवत्ता और उपयोग को समझ सकते हैं? आइए, जानते हैं कैसे: 60 LEA= थोड़ा मोटा और मजबूत, डेली यूज़ और रफ यूज़ के लिए सही। 80 LEA= कम्फर्टेबल और बैलेंस, डेली वियर और कैजुअल यूज़ के लिए अच्छा। 100 LEA= प्रीमियम कैटेगरी, लाइटवेट और ब्रेथेबल, ऑफिस वियर के लिए बेस्ट। 120 LEA= फाइन क्वालिटी लिनन, सॉफ्ट फील और लग्जरी फिनिश। 150 LEA= टॉप-एंड लिनन, बहुत स्मूथ और एयरि, स्पेशल ओकेशन्स के लिए परफेक्ट। अब दुकानदार कुछ भी बोले, आप LEA नंबर देखकर समझ सकते हैं कौन सा कपड़ा कब पहनना है और कितना सही है! 😊 #लिनन #LEA #कपड़ा #क्वालिटी #fashion #टिप्स

The Government has a scheme that gives your business a loan up to ₹10 Crore WITHOUT any collateral. Most small business owners in India have no idea it even exists. It is called CGTMSE. A thread 🧵

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IF YOU INSERT A CHARGER OR CABLE INTO YOUR PHONE, YOUR PHONE RECORDS IT. Each time a phone is connected to or disconnected from a charging cable, the system records it. These logs are crucial for investigators because they provide precise timestamps of physical device interaction, helping reconstruct user activity, verify alibis, correlate movements, and establish timelines, making them reliable indicators of handling and behavior during digital forensic investigations. Another key fact: Charging logs can reveal interruptions or unusual patterns for example, frequent disconnects may indicate movement, tampering, or active device use, helping investigators detect inconsistencies in a suspect’s timeline or behavior.

Images from a plane carrying Iran’s delegation to US-Iran talks in Islamabad show seats filled with photos and belongings of victims of the Minab school strike. The aircraft, “Minab 168,” honours the 168 killed, mostly children.

They can never cancel Ye. The comeback is eternal

Your Android phone’s storage is full. You delete photos, videos, apps. It’s still full. Because it’s not the visible files that are eating up your storage. Most of it is the HIDDEN junk that Android never tells you about. I cleaned mine yesterday and got 23GB back without deleting a single photo. Here’s how:

Your Chrome is eating 8GB of RAM right now. If your laptop fan sounds like a jet engine and Chrome freezes every 5 minutes, this is for you. 10 settings that reclaimed 6GB of RAM on my machine. Steal them 👇

“oh i get it, he just masked the video to fit each screen.” *lifts up iPad to show it’s not masked* 👀👀👀

UNLOCKING TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED NANOMATERIALS FOR FUTURE ELECTRONICS The study, recently published in ACS Applied Nano Materials by the American Chemical Society, highlights how understanding nanoscale molecular behavior can influence the design of next-generation functional materials. By showcasing a simple yet effective method to control molecular assembly, the work opens new avenues for designing advanced materials for sensors, electronics, and smart technologies Read here: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa… @IndiaDST

🚨 BREAKING: The FBI has successfully extracted deleted Signal messages from a suspect's iPhone via notification storage, the place where all your notifications are stored for up to one month. Notification storage stores data from all messaging apps, it's a big flaw in iOS. But there's a way to turn it off...

I haven't seen a marketing campaign as good as this in a long time.