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Suresh: Forcing 80–100% annual growth creates weak startup foundations
“But if you're going to make me grow this 80, a hundred percent year on year, I don't think it's possible. I think it just puts very wrong measures and we all face it, right? Every time we have to go raise capital and it is important. You have these weird like …”
Suresh: High-utility products drive volume in Indian e-commerce over aesthetic designs
“We didn't sell pretty stuff. We sold a lot of utility, and that's what sells in volume in India. We tried selling pretty planters. It sold, but it never hit, like, critical mass”
Suresh: 10club raised $7M equity and $32M debt, deploying $6M for acquisitions
“We raised seven million in equity. We raised thirty two million in debt, and that was our 40 together stitched up round. We got 506 hundred more after the round, and that's how it became 40. Out of the thirty two million, we used six million for pure acquisiti…”
Suresh: 10club trimmed catalog from 8,000 acquired SKUs to 200
“We bought 8000 SKUs day one of operations, no experience doing this. So day one, we had 8000 SKUs with us, no systems, no data, no processes, legacy warehouses. We learned how to run them slowly and optimize it. We picked 200 of them. That's that. That's it, r…”
Suresh: 10club shifted hiring strategy toward seasoned former D2C founders
“We started hiring a lot of seasoned DTC founders, and we said, if you've been through that and I've been through that, I feel the mentality with which you come back to build is very different.”
Suresh: Every ex-founder at 10club will eventually start another company
“I'm a hundred percent sure everybody who's come in, As an ex entrepreneur will do their healing and we'll go back and start again. I'm so confident like a hundred percent.”
Suresh: 70% of 10club child room purchases fall under ₹700
“70% of our buys happen between the 200 to 507 hundred rupee category. Anything above 700 rupee in this segment falls.”