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Building Exceptional Teams, with Phanindra Sama of redBus
Notes from a FoundrPwr session by Mela Ventures with Phanindra Sama, co-founder of redBus, on choosing co-founders, hiring sales from day one, keeping early people, and building teams where the A-stars can perform.
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Problem discovery: a practical guide to talking to people about their problems
My working guide for problem discovery: how to get people to talk to you, what to give them in return, the questions to ask different kinds of people, and the signals that tell you a problem is real.
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From Handwritten Notes to a Guest Post on the AgentsNexus Blog
I shared my AgentsNexus India 2026 conference notes, the organisers featured them, and then invited me to write a guest post for their blog.
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Finding Your First 10 Customers, with Pulkit Jain of Vedantu
Notes from a GTM School talk by Pulkit Jain, co-founder of Vedantu, on selling before building, why your first 10 customers are a proximity problem, and why owned distribution matters more than the idea.
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AgentsNexus India 2026 conference notes
My full notes from AgentsNexus India 2026 in Bengaluru: Generated from snaps of slides, my handwritten notes and conference agenda
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