Sandhya Hegde

Sandhya Hegde is a General Partner at Khosla Impact Fund, an emerging market investor who backs transformative tech companies with social relevance across India, Africa and US. She is based in Silicon Valley.

3rd Mar 2015

Who's the best seed money in India?

Stories

30th Aug 2013

CEOs: are you using the right metric to run your business?

Startup Advice

19th Aug 2013

As a female entrepreneur how do you pitch a room full of male VCs effectively?

Expert Opinion

7th Dec 2011

Somebody please ask my customer to behave - with Eric Ries, The Lean Startup

Eric Ries, Author, The Lean Startup - #2 on the New York Times Bestseller. Eric addressing Stanford's entrepreneurs questions at Palo Alto.

Business Ideas/Plan

30th Nov 2011

Dialysis: Opportunity In Indian Healthcare Sector? And Kent Thiry

Entrepreneurs in the Indian healthcare sector often lament the lack of paying power amongst those who need health services the most. Kent pointed out that market forces determine healthcare in India.

Social & Green News

23rd Nov 2011

iOS or Android? And Accessible Systems

iOS or Android? Most aspiring application developers I meet have one question on top of their Q&A lists - iOS or Android? Steve Marks, a Stanford graduate who built the simple, elegant Shotgun app, claims that the key question is who are you selling to?

Mobile

27th Oct 2011

How do I prepare to meet VCs?

Many of my entrepreneur friends put off meeting VCs or potential sources of money because they are not sure how prepared they are. They are guarded (and rightly so), but to win the game, you have to first play. So you had an idea and you got your friends to start working on it with you. You incorporated a company and now you have customers. Paying customers. Congratulations! There are many questions you need to answer – right from how much money do you need, when to raise it and whom to raise it from. But this article addresses a smaller problem. What do you need to know to set up your first meeting?

Resources

3rd Oct 2011

Sharing too much of your Business Plan?

Are you revealing too much or too less information as part of your business plan. How much is good enough? Do you have a non-disclosure agreement?

Resources

20th Sep 2011

Do you know your market size?

This is not a trick question. Good data is scarce and difficult to come by if it even exists in India. Add to that the need to make sweeping assumptions in new use cases and it’s possible that a start up has little idea what their addressable market size really could be.

Resources

11th Sep 2011

How to Pitch a Business Idea

A simple idea captures the imagination. It’s clear, compelling and memorable. Google == Search. Naukri == Jobsite

Resources