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Timeless Lessons for the Future

To celebrate Accel’s 40th anniversary, Anand Daniel sits down with Accel Partners from each of the global offices - Mahendran Balachandra (Bangalore), Sameer Gandhi (Bay Area), Harry Nelis (London) - to break down the trends that have dominated the global startup ecosystem over the past decades.

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Learnings from 40 Years in VC

Over 50 years in venture capital, Jim has been a lead director of more than 50 successful companies. He was instrumental as a founder/mentor of Accel London and in the founding of Meritech Capital.

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Timeless Lessons for the Future
Learnings from 40 Years in VC
Nandan Reddy and Phani Kishan from Swiggy | Founder QnA
Raghunandan G from TaxiForSure | Founder QnA
Lessons from Myntra on how to build a long-lasting marketplace
How TaxiForSure built a successful marketplace by combining data with intuition
Spinny’s Lessons on Winning Customer Trust in a Crowded Market
How BlackBuck drove digitization in the complex world of trucking
How Urban Company created tech-led value in the at-home services space
How Infra.Market offers concrete solutions through its construction marketplace
How Zetwerk disrupted manufacturing by using technology to cut delays
How Captain Fresh reeled in B2B success using clarity, capital, and talent
How Swiggy fell in love with the problem, and not their solutions
Digging deeper into Fundraising with Abhiraj Bhal from Urban Company
Untold Seed Stories: First 500 Days of Freshworks
Experience from early days at Facebook and Dropbox
Learnings on building and scaling Freshworks
How to Pick the Right Idea and Launch Your SaaS Startup?
Thinking Global and Scaling Up
Building SaaS business out of India for the Global Market
Future of Open Source | Abhishek Nayak on Appsmith and Building Open Source Projects
On the Biocon journey and why entrepreneurs need to be risk-takers
Understanding the Value of AI in Healthcare
Scaling your Startup
Healthcare Landscape in India
Future of Digital Health
Key Ingredients for Startup Success
How are Startups dealing with the COVID-19 situation?
Anecdotes from an Entrepreneurial Journey
Future of Insurance: Learnings from Varun Dua, Founder & CEO Acko
Tackling High-Growth Problems Early On
Finding the Perfect Product-Market Fit
Markets Opportunities — Evaluate Wise & Execute Nice
Starting Up in College
The State of the VC Ecosystem amidst the COVID-19 Crisis
Looking beyond Silicon Valley for Global Innovation
Learnings from the Chinese Start-up Ecosystem
Cross-Border Startups
Using OKRs to Build a Resilient and Agile Business
Thinking long-term to build a generational company
Leveraging Physical & Mental Fitness to Achieve Peak Performance
The Scale Playbook: Key Ingredients to Drive Scale & Value Creation
Problems while Scaling a Startup
Monetising Innovation
Future of Mobility - Vivek on Bounce’s Journey and the Inevitable Adoption of EVs
12 Insights for Founders
Demystifying fundraising
Coverfox to Acko: Startup Journey in the Insurance Market
Why the founder-startup fit is vital
Scaling Xiaomi and Disrupting the Indian Electronics Space
Future of Banking - Reflections from Niyo’s Vinay Bagri
Untold Seed Stories: First 500 Days of Urban Company
Untold Seed Stories: First 500 Days of Swiggy
Solving Problems of a New-Age Vernacular Audience
On Building SHEROES
Living the Experience
Importance of Execution in EdTech
Execution and Importance of Uncommon Service
Building OYO — A decacorn in the hotel industry
Creating impact in People’s Lives
Building Infosys to Rolling out Aadhaar
Building India’s first Consumer Internet Success - MakeMyTrip
Building Dream11 - India’s Biggest Fantasy Sports Platform
Market Opportunities - The TaxiForSure Case Study
BookMyShow journey from 1999 to 2018
Beating the Odds to Build a Disruptive Media Powerhouse
Vedantu's Hard Road to Success
The Ups & Downs of Aprameya's Startup Life, from TaxiForSure to Koo
The most resilient Indian startup you haven’t heard of
The hurdles on the way to Spinny’s success
Future of Edtech - Learnings from the Duolingo journey
Future of Cypto - Raghu Yarlagadda on FalconX's flight and what it means
Future of Credit Cards - Innovation and opportunities in Indian Fintech
What's Right About WROGN?
Future of Beauty and Personal Care: Tracking the evolution of the category in India
Scaling Bigbasket and Disrupting the Grocery Industry
Learnings from the WhatsApp journey
Scale lessons from Flipkarts engineering and strategy heads
Turning Failures into Success: The Making of Swiggy (Part 2 of 2)
Learning from a Failure: The Making of Swiggy (Part 1 of 2)
Building a $120M Company in just 4 years
A Behind-the-Scenes look at Scaling Flipkart
Untold Seed Stories: First 500 Days of Ninjacart
Building one of the Largest Online Advertising Businesses Worldwide
Building Moglix as a B2B marketplace for MRO
Building InMobi as a Global Leader in Mobile Advertising
On Building Blackbuck
Building a B2B Marketplace for India
Future of Agritech: The evolution of Agritech in India
Untold Seed Stories: First 500 Days of Bizongo
Exciting Opportunities in B2B
Untold Seed Stories: First 500 Days of Mensa