Tag: VentureCapital
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Packaging as a Competitive Advantage: How Graza is Redefining Olive Oil with a Simple Innovation
One of the best examples I’ve recently come across of using packaging as a primary differentiator is an olive oil startup called Graza. Their innovation? A squeezy bottle to dispense olive oil. Think about the last time you tried pouring olive oil from a traditional bottle with a large round opening. Chances are, you either…
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Things I learnt from recently concluded VCIC competition (Part – 2)
This article is a continuation of part 1, I posted a few weeks ago. Here, I’ll try to explain how did we went about coming up with valuation of our choice of startup – Ridevert. There are several key factors that VCs generally look at while valuing a startup. Some of the most prominent ones are: Now,…
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Things I learnt from recently concluded VCIC competition (Part – 1)
Saturday Nov 18, 8:00 AM Passano lobby at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School was filled with hustle-bustle of participants ready to test their mettle at Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) hosted by PEVC club. Each team was given the list of six startups to evaluate a day before the competition. I was part of an incredibly diverse team comprising of Christian…