Karthik Sridharan

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Oct 7, 2016
Insight
SMB procurement is inherently localized rather than global
“There aren't a lot of small businesses and medium-sized businesses that are dealing with factories and suppliers that are thousands of miles away, so the SMB market tends to be a lot more regionalized, nationalized, and kind of localized.”
Karthik Sridharan Oct 7, 2016 ▶ 14:46 20VC: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek
Oct 7, 2016 negative
Opinion
Alibaba is structurally relegated to acting as a glorified trade directory
“They're mostly focused on an East Asian supplier base, and mainly in mainland China. So most of Alibaba's buyer base is in Europe and America, and they're connecting with suppliers in East Asia. What that ends up meaning is that The currency issues, tariff iss…”
Karthik Sridharan Oct 7, 2016 ▶ 12:56 20VC: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek
Oct 7, 2016
Insight
Growth-stage VCs expect metric fluency two to three layers deep
“Especially as you go into later rounds, investors really expect you to have a solid understanding of your business, two, three layers deep with your metrics, not just what's GMV, but acceleration of GMV in certain product categories.”
Karthik Sridharan Oct 7, 2016 ▶ 17:41 20VC: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek
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