Jitender Arora

1000 Days Startup Formula—a practical roadmap for building startups that last. Rooted in discipline, customer obsession, and relentless execution, the formula breaks the early journey into clear phases: learning fast, building smart, and scaling with purpose. It’s not about overnight success, but about showing up every day, making better decisions, and compounding progress over 1000 focused days. #MSME #yogiadityanath #aws#gcp #cmoup #core5

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The recent IPOs of startups like Urban Company, Meesho, and Groww show how years of disciplined scaling - supported by talent, capital, and a strong ecosystem- can unlock tremendous economic value. But if we are to become Viksit Bharat in the real sense, we also need to solve our major social development challenges, and we need to solve them at scale. This is where Nonprofit Unicorns come in. We studied 30+ such organisations including Educate Girls, Lend A Hand India, ARAVIND EYE CARE SYSTEM to understand their scale playbooks. And in a recent BW Disrupt piece, Varun and I share steps we believe can create a supporting environment for the next generation of nonprofit unicorns. 1) Celebrate nonprofit unicorns the way we celebrate startup entrepreneurs, and give them their deserved place of pride. This is what attracts talent and capital into the sector. 2) Build supportive government policies and financial instruments, similar to Startup India and the SIDBI FOF, to enable nonprofits to scale effectively. 3) Encourage donors to fund organisation-building, innovation, and technology not just program delivery. And to ask nonprofits about their scale impact strategy and not just short-term metrics. Here is the full article: https://lnkd.in/gPTv_CiD Varun Aggarwal, Shailendra Nath Jha, Raman Uberoi, Arvind Saraf, Gayatri Nair Lobo, Raj Gilda, Luis Miranda, Tanvi Bikhchandani, Geeta Goel Change Engine #NonprofitUnicorns

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🎧 On Execution, Risk & the First Leap Watched an incredible conversation between Dr. Raghavendra Hunasgi (Ph.D) & Sandeep Gandi — one of those rare founder talks that reminds you why we build. A few notes that stayed with me: • Start with revenues, not slides — traction beats storytelling. • Be ruthlessly shameless in sales — ask clearly, move fast. • Pivot to where value actually exists. • Speed compounds, hesitation kills execution. One line from it hit home — every startup has its “first cliff.” That moment when you stop planning and actually jump — when you put your own skin, money, and belief into something unproven. For us at Just Nature Farms, that “first cliff” wasn’t a business plan — It was the day we bought our first Cattle, produced our own milk, and extracted our first batch of ghee. That leap defined everything that came after. Because once you take the first irrational step, every next one feels like continuity, not risk. 🌿 #Founders #Startups #Execution #Leadership #JustNatureFarms #Mindset #Speed

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VC Diaries - 241: ONDC, the open commerce network, has crossed hundreds of millions of cumulative orders, live across hundreds of cities. It is still small next to the incumbents. That is the point. Now here is the interesting bit. Every Indian digital public rail looks trivial in year three and inevitable in year ten. UPI was mocked at exactly this stage, by exactly the same confident voices, for exactly the same reason: it was small, and the incumbents were not. The real question about ONDC is not “is it big yet?” It is “what happens to platform power if it works?” If commerce becomes a rail instead of a walled garden, the commissions compress, the small seller gains distribution, and the platform’s moat evaporates. The founders building on it today are buying the cheapest available option on that future. And the adoption curve is the proof. Every rail that looked trivial in year three and inevitable in year ten followed the same shape: slow, then sudden. The mockery at year three is the buy signal, not the verdict. And the small seller is the beneficiary. The platform’s commission is the tax the rail abolishes. The shop that could not afford the walled garden gets the open road. And the adoption curve is the proof. Every rail that looked trivial in year three and inevitable in year ten followed the same shape: slow, then sudden. The mockery at year three is the buy signal, not the verdict. And the small seller is the beneficiary. The platform’s commission is the tax the rail abolishes. The shop that could not afford the walled garden gets the open road. And the founders building on the rail are buying the cheapest option on the future. The one who builds for the open commerce network today owns the position the crowd will want in year ten. And the slow-then-sudden curve is the rail’s signature. The mockery at year three is the buy signal. The founders building on it today own the position the crowd will want at year ten. And the rail’s victory is the ecosystem’s repricing. The commerce that becomes a rail compresses the commission, frees the small seller and evaporates the platform’s moat. The open network is the redistribution. The pattern has run before, in payments, in identity, in commerce. Bet against the rail in year three if you like. Just know that the last people who did that spent year ten regretting it. PS: We at Dexter Ventures are always on the look for good folks building tough things and solving big problems in India, one small way at a time. If you are on that course, we would love to learn. Do share more with my team and me at deals@dexter.ventures!

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What we are focusing on right now is building a sharp pipeline of D2C companies ready for ₹100 Cr+ M&A. This is not for everyone only founders who are seriously exploring a strategic exit .Clear filter: minimum valuation ₹100 Cr+ and only founders open to selling full. Keeping this curated and execution focused. If this fits, let’s connect.Deepak MaheshwariSunita MaheshwariSubhash AgrawalSuman Majumder, Sena MedalNitin JainAbhishek SharmaShivam PruthiCA Deepanshi AggarwalCA Mohd Shariq

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