Ibhaveda

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Ibhaveda

Ibhaveda

@ibhaveda

What if building your startup felt like a video game?

เข้าร่วม Nisan 2026
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Ibhaveda
Ibhaveda@ibhaveda·
We’re not building another productivity tool. We’re building the place where the next generation of Indian founders figures out they’re founders. Early access coming soon. If you’re building something, this is for you.
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Ibhaveda@ibhaveda·
@ColinGardiner @ColinGardiner Do you think this changes once the company reaches a certain scale, or should fundraising always remain founder-led regardless of stage?
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Colin Gardiner
Colin Gardiner@ColinGardiner·
As an early-stage investor, I don’t want to talk to your CFO co-founder about the raise. I want to hear from the CEO. If you’re an early-stage CEO, don’t outsource your fundraise.
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Ibhaveda
Ibhaveda@ibhaveda·
@harjtaggar @harjtaggar Do you think the long-term value of engineers shifts from writing code to managing ambiguity and orchestrating systems effectively?
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Harj Taggar
Harj Taggar@harjtaggar·
This is what building today feels like on the shop floor and is why programmers aren’t going anywhere.
Ishan Ramrakhiani@fioraapp

@TheDevSaha @harjtaggar @ycombinator Yeah, but they all typically run into the same issues with managing context, compaction, tool calls, tool search, etc. They sometimes one-shot these issues, but it usually takes a lot of refinement. So parallel agents just means more work.

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Ibhaveda
Ibhaveda@ibhaveda·
@dara_venture Pre-revenue fundraising is often less about proving certainty and more about proving non-obvious insight. Investors are underwriting perception before traction exists.
Dara@dara_venture

If I had to raise pre revenue here's what I would do...... Lead with a sharp, almost contrarian insight. Your unique point of view about the market is your most valuable asset pre revenue. Investors fund "this person has seen something the market hasn't yet." If your thesis could come out of any investor's own mouth, you have absolutely nothing. "everyone believes X, but X is wrong, and here's why now is the moment." At minimum, you need a landing page that converts cold traffic, a REAL waitlist with quality signups, signed LOIs or paid pilots, design partners who've committed engineering time, and best of all.......usage and retention from a live product. Retention curves that flatten (people come back week after week) are the single most persuasive non revenue signal that exists. Investors at this stage are betting on your rate of improvement and not necessarily your current state. Show them where you were 8 weeks ago versus now. Shipping speed, learning speed, how fast can you turn a customer conversation into a product change. Two founders with identical products but different slopes get wildly different outcomes. FACT Run a tight, compressed process to create competition. Don't drip out meetings over three months. Cluster them. Scarcity and FOMO are real fundraising mechanics......investors move quickest when they believe someone else is about to move before them.......aim to have multiple parties looking in the same two week window. (this must be genuine) Show you do a lot with a little. Capital efficiency is itself a signal of judgment. "We built this and got these signals on $40k and two people" A couple of these fork hard by sector...... deep tech / biotech raises almost entirely on team and technical de-risking. Consumer raises on growth and retention curves, B2B SaaS on pipeline and design partners. Being pre revenue is difficult......but there are effective ways to approach it.

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Ibhaveda
Ibhaveda@ibhaveda·
@t_blom @t_blom Early-stage founders often try to remove friction before fully understanding why users need handholding in the first place. At what stage do you think self-serve actually becomes necessary?
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Tom Blomfield
Tom Blomfield@t_blom·
Biggest red flag I hear from early stage founders? “We’re working on self-serve onboarding” Your product currently requires you to talk to every new customer? That’s a good thing.
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Ibhaveda
Ibhaveda@ibhaveda·
@ryancarson @ryancarson It feels like the real divide is between people using AI for answers vs people using it for execution. Do you think that becomes the next major productivity gap?
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Ryan Carson
Ryan Carson@ryancarson·
I'm becoming convinced there is going to be an explosion of jobs for people who are great at using agents. There's a clear line I'm seeing between people: 1. Use Claude Code / Codex / Devin / etc 2. Use ChatGPT / Gemini / Perplexity Distinction is simple: If your agent writes persistent code, you're in group 1 and the future is v v bright.
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Ibhaveda@ibhaveda·
@JasonrShuman @JasonrShuman If AI starts handling onboarding and user interviews at scale, do you think products become more personalized or more homogenized over time?
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Jason Shuman
Jason Shuman@JasonrShuman·
Turns out AI is pretty good at interviewing users to gather context And if it knows what you are working on can interject to capture more context… Expect this approach to dominate the next 12-24 months Helps reduce onboarding costs, improve the user experience and retention and build a moat
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Ibhaveda@ibhaveda·
Open System vs Closed System: which is better? A closed system as a business is always going to generate cash as long as you can show value inside it. An open system generates value only by size, but gets you influence if you can pull it off. #startup #founder
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Jason Cohen
Jason Cohen@asmartbear·
At first your job is to say “no” to nearly everything so you can say “yes” deeply to the few things that matter. Later, it’s to show others why it’s a “no” without them feeling bad, or unheard.
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Alexa Web3 (e/acc)
Alexa Web3 (e/acc)@alexabelonix·
Sell the problem you solve. Not the product you have. People do not care that you built something. They care that something painful gets better. Start there. Name the pain clearly. Show the cost of staying stuck. Then position the product as the path out.
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Santosh
Santosh@santoshstack·
You don’t build a strong brand by being the loudest voice. You build it by being the most accurate reflection of your audience’s thoughts.
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Harj Taggar
Harj Taggar@harjtaggar·
I don’t think local models will ever be the default but every device will need one as an emergency generator to stop people freaking out when they lose connectivity and have to make a decision.
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Kevin Szabo
Kevin Szabo@KevinSzabo14·
If you believe it will work, you will see opportunities. If you believe it won't work, you will see obstacles.
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Harry
Harry@harry_ngala10·
Success isn’t about what you achieve. It’s about who you become.
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Navi
Navi@NaivaidyaY66600·
Building a product used to be the hard part. Now the hard part is: - getting attention - keeping attention - converting attention Most people are still optimizing for the old game.
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Gini
Gini@sherifgjini·
What is harder for you to write? - a good hook - a clear offer - a useful DM - a landing page headline
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