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Investor Osborne Saldanha seeks founder feedback to refine early-stage investing, fostering clearer, founder-friendly pitch processes for a stronger ecosystem.

Bal Samriddhi Yojana: A founder-first proposal to democratize savings, leveraging India's digital infrastructure for long-term financial inclusion and economic growth.

Great founders possess an innate "productive delusion" and relentless agency; investors should identify this disposition, not just skills, to back world-changers.

Founders are the true customers for VCs; a great founder experience attracts the best businesses, driving superior LP returns.

Sharing my "labour of love" projects. It's a story of how GenAI coding tools reignited my passion for building, transforming decades of tinkering into real products with faster iteration, clarity, and creative control.

A quick look of the companies and founders I've invested in and partnered with over the years that are redefining India's fintech revolution — from payments infrastructure to AI platforms and beyond.

Venture investing's brutal math and psychological toll demand exceptional founders, deep expertise, and resilience, making it a privilege, not for the faint of heart.

Osborne Saldanha reflects on a decade in VC, sharing practical, founder-first lessons for exceptional early-stage investing and ecosystem progress.

Essential quotes for founders and investors on building resilience, driving execution, and fostering a winning founder-first culture.

Osborne Saldanha shares his journey and founder-first approach to investing, focusing on conviction and practical support for early-stage startups.

Fintech Happy Hour: Insights on building valuable founder-first communities to drive collaboration and early investment opportunities.

Hubble's "stare" reveals how patient, data-driven observation unlocks entirely new markets for founders.

Seeking honest feedback from founders to sharpen my early-stage investment approach and better serve the ecosystem.

Discover inspiration in peak performance and an agile mindset—crucial for founders navigating venture's challenges.

Osborne shares his practical tech stack for early-stage operators, revealing how tool choices impact execution and offer investor insights.

Seeking founder feedback to refine investor interactions, building a more founder-first ecosystem one honest insight at a time.

Osborne Saldanha launches "Fintech Inside," offering founders and investors curated emerging market insights to navigate rapid innovation and adoption.

Impact investing is the future, offering massive opportunities in financial inclusion and sustainable value creation for founders and investors.

Osborne Saldanha outlines a decade-long vision for building a VC firm, sharing practical steps for founders and investors.

Bessemer's released memos reveal the art of calculated risk in early-stage investing, offering lessons for founders and investors alike.

Osborne Saldanha outlines 10-year investment themes in fintech, logistics, and SaaS, offering founders practical insights for the next decade of tech innovation.

Founders, invest upfront in deep research—problem, market, competitors, business models—to build a robust foundation for long-term startup success.

Education's true value lies in learning and application, not institutions; founders can drive this shift for broader opportunity.

Fintech's future is embedded: understanding this shift from consumer-facing to invisible, background services is key for founders and investors.

Exploring the need for a HackerNews-like community in India, highlighting founder-first community building and market potential.

Osborne Saldanha shares a practical framework for evaluating global investment opportunities based on efficiency and convenience.

Unpacking 30 years of US VC data reveals performance hinges on home runs, not just median returns.

Osborne Saldanha shares how building a custom browser start page taught him about controlling user experience and optimizing for efficiency, critical lessons for founders.

Founders: adapt your pitch decks for this market; I share essential Covid-19 impacts, cash flow scenarios, and unit economics insights.

Navigate "black swan" events by identifying overlooked opportunities in tech and fintech, a practical guide for founders and investors.

Osborne Saldanha analyzes COVID-19's market impact on fintech, offering founders pragmatic insights on navigating downturns and investor scrutiny.

Exploring a novel business model where users are paid for data exchange, offering a founder-friendly approach to future revenue and wealth redistribution.

Focus on your mission and execute relentlessly; worrying about external perceptions, like competitor moves, is a distraction nobody cares about.

Seeking founder feedback to refine my early-stage investor approach and build a stronger ecosystem.

Navigating Bangalore as a founder or operator demands practical insights: this starter pack offers founder-first advice for daily execution in India's tech capital.

Osborne Saldanha shares insights on career transitions and embracing uncertainty to foster growth as an early-stage investor.

Navigating market corrections: A founder-first look at Morgan Stanley's Recession Playbook for strategic startup resilience.

Master Excel for dynamic B2B SaaS geographic expansion staff planning, a practical founder-first insight from early-stage investing.

Startup ecosystems have users gaming systems; learn from these real-world examples to build more resilient businesses.

Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 VPN simplifies mobile security, offering a founder-friendly solution that could revolutionize how we interact online.

Focus on mindful, high-impact activities to combat burnout and build sustainable happiness in entrepreneurship.

Banking 2.0 requires founders to rethink customer experience and financial inclusion, not just technology adoption.

A vital founder's guide to combating loneliness, a growing societal issue with profound startup and human implications.

Mastering core tech like Pi-Hole on Raspberry Pi builds foundational operator empathy, crucial for founders navigating complex systems and early-stage execution.

Making investor access easier, I'm opening my calendar for founders to connect and explore partnership opportunities, fostering a more founder-friendly ecosystem.

As an investor, I share my decade-long, founder-first view on India's nascent P2P lending market, outlining why I'm waiting to invest.

Explore the ISS via Google Maps to grasp modular growth, a key lesson for building scalable startups.

Discover Osborne Saldanha's founder-first mental models for evaluating early-stage startups, essential for founders and investors alike.

Democratized AI breakthroughs like neural networks offer founders foundational tools; understanding them is key to building the next wave of disruptive tech.

Osborne Saldanha shares how tough choices shape your path, urging founders and investors to commit and make their decisions count.

Osborne shares lessons on identifying and investing in genuinely valuable early-stage companies, often missing opportunities despite extensive evaluation.

Demystify blockchain's core mechanics visually, offering founders and investors a practical grasp of this foundational fintech concept.

Reflecting on 2017's key people, places, and things offers practical insights for founders and investors building enduring businesses.

Fitness, like successful ventures, hinges on priority, discipline, and hard work—learn how these principles fuel founder productivity.

Aadhaar's ambitious scale and open tech platform offer immense potential, but founders must navigate critical privacy and security challenges for true public benefit.

Defaults are a powerful, low-cost lever for founders to drive user behavior and adoption, as seen in this Afghanistan savings study.

Osborne explores year-long learning projects to solve complex fintech problems, emphasizing practical data and behavioral analysis for better lending.

India's payments landscape: dissecting infrastructure, business models, and opportunities for founder-led disruption in a massive digital shift.

Demystifying complex tech systems early on accelerates founder execution and smarter early-stage investment.

Founder-first founders, the urgency of climate change demands practical solutions, not just talk, shaping future market opportunities.

Osborne Saldanha on Quality vs Quantity: Prioritize building a solid product foundation for sustainable growth and true customer loyalty over rapid scaling.

Choosing the right people to share your early-stage ideas with is as critical as the idea itself for founder success.

Aaron Swartz's dedication to open information offers a powerful lesson in conviction for founders, investors, and the tech ecosystem.

Osborne offers founder-first mentorship after hours, sharing practical, early-stage investing insights to build sustainable businesses.

Demystifying machine learning claims for investors by scrutinizing algorithmic assumptions and stress-testing models, not just accepting buzzwords.

Exploring financial inclusion's core, this post details India's underserved markets, revealing fintech opportunities for founders and investors.

Witnessing Earth's constant stream from ISS reveals the power of persistent, high-resolution data for strategic overview.

AI should automate mundane human tasks, freeing our intelligence for innovation and solving bigger problems.

Unlock foundational AI insights for your startup with this clear, 45-minute neural network crash course.

Entrepreneurs: harness mindful breathing for better posture, focus, and decision-making to navigate early-stage startup challenges.

Feynman's insights on names and knowledge reveal how clear understanding fuels effective early-stage startup execution and investment.

Early execution challenges, like a Raspberry Pi setup, mirror founder grit needed for startup success.

Documenting founder thought processes and early-stage learnings for investing clarity and community growth.

Kickboxing offers entrepreneurs surprising strategic advantages, enhancing clarity, resilience, and competitive insight crucial for early-stage startup success.