Anant Vidur Puri — Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners in Bangalore, investing in internet marketplaces, India SaaS, and AI. Portfolio includes Swiggy, Urban Company, Cashify, and more. Writing, work, and how to get in touch.https://avpindai.com/https://avpindai.com/writing/value-creation-102-non-transactional-businesses/https://avpindai.com/writing/value-creation-102-non-transactional-businesses/This is an extension to Value Creation 101. It’s often difficult to measure value from engagement or adoption led business models. I have been often asked in pitches that how do…Mon, 05 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://avpindai.com/writing/so-you-dont-have-monetization-figured-out/https://avpindai.com/writing/so-you-dont-have-monetization-figured-out/This is an extension to Show me the Money. I realized I hadn’t covered non-transactional businesses or transactional businesses which aren’t yet charging money to either side of…Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://avpindai.com/writing/value-creation-101/https://avpindai.com/writing/value-creation-101/In my post on Show me the Money, I referred to the importance of identifying the ‘value’ that is being created through the business. A couple of people asked me to elaborate on…Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://avpindai.com/writing/show-me-the-money/https://avpindai.com/writing/show-me-the-money/This is the 4th in a series of posts illustrating how to pitch effectively to a Venture Capital Investor. The previous post in the series is here .The first post of the series i…Mon, 28 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://avpindai.com/writing/disruptive-component-analysis-zeroing-in-on-the-problem/https://avpindai.com/writing/disruptive-component-analysis-zeroing-in-on-the-problem/This post illustrates in detail the concept of DCA introduced in “Houston, we have a problem”. I got a lot of queries to detail the concept and hence wrote this. Identifying pot…Mon, 21 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://avpindai.com/writing/actions-speak-louder-than-words-demo-demo-demo/https://avpindai.com/writing/actions-speak-louder-than-words-demo-demo-demo/This is the third of many articles in this series – the previous article is at https://goo.gl/1ZogHC Last week, I was meeting a young startup. Within 10 minutes the entrepreneur…Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://avpindai.com/writing/houston-we-have-a-problem/https://avpindai.com/writing/houston-we-have-a-problem/This is the second of many articles in this series – the previous article is at https://goo.gl/YXJB8t. I once had a food start-up pitch to me. The pain-point, they said, was tha…Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://avpindai.com/writing/being-pitch-perfect/https://avpindai.com/writing/being-pitch-perfect/It’s D-Day! Your deck is ready, the meetings have been set up and you’re all ready to go pitch for your next billion dollar idea. Great! Hey, remember when you were going on the…Sun, 05 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT