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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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Inside IIT Madras: India's AI Research Powerhouse
Building AI Infrastructure from India for the World: Insights from Simplismart
Lessons on Product, Pricing, and Trust: Insights from ServiceNow
The Role of Bharat Startups in Building India's Future
Unveiling Fintech Opportunities in Bharat
Building Agentic AI for the Enterprise
Building Bharat-First Brands
Closing the Learning Divide in Bharat with EdTech
Building Apps and Platforms for an Inclusive Bharat
What's The Bharat Opportunity?
Meesho: The deck is a tool to build trust with potential investors



Zetwerk: Simplicity in storytelling makes for an effective pitch deck
Acko: The deck should have deep insight on the founder's right to win
Mamaearth: The deck should include your roadmap for execution
Spinny: Put the customer at the center of the deck
Freshworks: The deck has to tell a story
Building LLM Applications Using Langchain
The State of Generative AI with AWS
The State of Image and Video Generation Using Generative Models
LLMaIndex - From Basics to Production
Building AI-Powered Search Engines
Rags to Riches: Where do Vector DBs fit in? & Checklist for LLMs in Production
AI Chatbot Revolution
Everything AI - The Accel AI Community
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