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Singh: Building for VC trends is a mistake due to saturation
“What like in our own journey, we've seen that it's the biggest mistake is to try to build a business around what will be cool for a VC, because there is no way you can be the smartest person in the world, but to predict that, you know, at that time where, you …”
Singh: Enforcing strict personal-work boundaries is impossible for married co-founders
“Like if you try controlling, we tried a lot to say, okay, we will draw this line here, whatever, create those boundaries, like balance and all of that. But we realized, you know, that's really not possible. And just fundamental premise. That like, you know, ha…”
Singh: Subscription business models cannot scale in India
“It's very hard to scale subscription in India. It's not going to work, especially with advance.”
Singh: Founders overestimate Indian TAM by relying on metro consumers
“And you think that you can build like a thousand crore business based on the insight you got from the people you spoke to in Mumbai, Delhi. I think that is the root cause of a lot of underestimation and sorry, overestimation on TAMP. Because what works for tha…”
Singh: India Quotient loaned Sugar Cosmetics capital from management fees
“And then after that, when sugar also ke lihe nobody was ready to give us money, they loaned us. From their management fees.”
Singh: Copy-paste Facebook advertising fails to build enduring brands
“I think that the copy-paste thing happens in Facebook ads, that I think doesn't help in building a brand anyways.”
Vineeta Singh: Customer acquisition can be accelerated, but brand trust cannot
“If you're building a brand business in India, it is, brands are trust, right? Trust takes time to build. You cannot build trust on steroids. You cannot. You can acquire customers on steroids, but you can't build trust.”
Singh: India remains prime investment destination over US, Europe, and China
“So I think abhi even like people are saying access to capital come ho gaya hai, but phir bhi agar koi jage hai invest karne ki te toh, that's probably still India. Because you know, the whole, all the hopes on China are not playing out as well. US, Europe, two…”
Singh: Startups must make decisions with only 60% information
“At the end of the day, like, you know, in startups, you're taking decisions with 60% information. You can't ever wait for a hundred percent. It'll be too late. So at 60% information, if you make a decision, it is, it can go either ways. And in that to, you kno…”
Singh: Social Media Ended Television's Narrative Control Over Indian Beauty Standards
“Brand building is not about television. Well, in television, there was narrative control. So when, if you put like a superstar celebrity who was a certain way looking, people assume this is the definition of perfection, but social media has democratized that r…”
Singh: Sugar's numbers would not be different without Shark Tank
“If Shark Tank hadn't happened, would our numbers be any different? I don't think.”
Singh: Indian female workforce participation will reach 30-40% in 20-30 years
“There is no doubt next two, three decades, the number will go to 30, 40%. When it happens, beauty, fashion are two categories which will heavily be impacted, right?”
Vineeta Singh: Bengal has traditionally been progressive for women
“I think traditionally one of the more forward states for women has been Bengal.”
Singh: Indian e-commerce audience was only 11% to 12% women in 2013
“Like, aap socho, 2013 mein e-commerce jo audience tha, us ka 11, 12% women tha.”
Singh: 65% of Indian women are under age 35
“For us, luckily, ab, 65% demographic itta young and 65% women are under the age of 35. You know, because, you know, like I said, 45% of the online shoppers are now women.”
Singh: FabBag Gathered Monthly Feedback From 200,000 Women to Launch SUGAR
“Fabbag's three years of data. So we had like 200,000 women who were giving us feedback every month. We had their age, which city they live in, what do they shop, what kind of makeup they like. All of that, of course, was our secret cheat code to, you know, lau…”