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Mayur Mundada
Founder, AmbitionBox. Life goal — Work on ideas that shift paradigms, enjoy the journey, invest in health & relationships. Think 10X not 10%. Never get complacent.
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50 Lessons from “Saying No to Jugaad: The Making of Bigbasket” — Book Summary
50 Lessons from “Saying No to Jugaad: The Making of Bigbasket” — Book Summary
PS — Some of these insights you might not understand because the book has a lot more context given before and after. You may ignore those.
Mayur Mundada
Nov 11, 2019
Notes From Nir Eyal's Book On Habit-Forming Products
Notes From Nir Eyal's Book On Habit-Forming Products
Nir Eyal’s bestselling book — “Hooked” gives a framework to think and implement on how to make your products addictive.
Mayur Mundada
Jun 23, 2020
How did TikTok, Quora, Medium, Reddit and the other largest UGC apps get initial users to…
How did TikTok, Quora, Medium, Reddit and the other largest UGC apps get initial users to…
99.9% of all UGC apps fail because they find it excruciatingly hard to build a community. Especially the supply side.
Mayur Mundada
Jun 25, 2020
Should you take funding or build a company organically?
Should you take funding or build a company organically?
If you are building a company you HAVE to figure out which way you want to build/grow. There are two models beautifully explained in this…
Mayur Mundada
Feb 9, 2019
Here’s Someone You Forgot to Take Mentorship From!
Here’s Someone You Forgot to Take Mentorship From!
I don’t know if this has happened with you, but I have seen this happening with me multiple times.
Mayur Mundada
Nov 16, 2019
How We Sold Our Startup In 1.5 Yrs With Just 2 Founders And Zero Funding — The Story Of AmbitionBox
How We Sold Our Startup In 1.5 Yrs With Just 2 Founders And Zero Funding — The Story Of AmbitionBox
Here’s the story of how I and my cofounder built AmbitionBox from 0 to 150K users/month and sold the company to India’s largest Job Board.
Mayur Mundada
Jun 6, 2020
A Story of Passion, Persistence and Drive.
A Story of Passion, Persistence and Drive.
Drew Houston the founder of Dropbox turned down an acquisition offer rumoured around ~250M$ from Apple in 2009. (just 2yrs after they…
Mayur Mundada
Jul 5, 2020
Thinking 10X Not 10%
Thinking 10X Not 10%
There are a number of stories which clearly show how thinking 10X has helped companies big or small achieve huge success. I saw this video…
Mayur Mundada
Oct 5, 2018
Wearing The Same T-Shirt EveryDay Experiment 👕 👖
Wearing The Same T-Shirt EveryDay Experiment 👕 👖
The What — Wear the same Shirt and Jeans everyday by having multiple “exactly” same Shirt and Jeans.
Mayur Mundada
Oct 21, 2019
21 Famous Failure Stories To Inspire You To Achieve More
21 Famous Failure Stories To Inspire You To Achieve More
I started an Instagram Page some time back by the name Numspire, to experiment with a new way of expressing stories, specifically failure…
Mayur Mundada
Nov 10, 2019
Must Have Skills For A Founder/CEO Of A Tech Startup
Must Have Skills For A Founder/CEO Of A Tech Startup
While I was working at Deloitte as a Consultant or JP Morgan as an Equity Research Analyst I remember very clearly knowing the exact skills…
Mayur Mundada
Jun 10, 2018
Educational Background of Top Bollywood Singers
Educational Background of Top Bollywood Singers
Have you wondered what kind of education (post 12th) 🏛 have our top singers in the country 🇮🇳taken? Well, I was just curious and thought…
Mayur Mundada
Apr 30, 2018
Learnings from ‘The Creative Indians’ Netflix Show
Learnings from ‘The Creative Indians’ Netflix Show
Watched The Creative Indians series on Netflix this weekend. Below are my key takeaways:
Mayur Mundada
Sep 2, 2018
Incredible Lessons from India’s Most Successful Digital Entrepreneurs
Incredible Lessons from India’s Most Successful Digital Entrepreneurs
These are my unedited highlights from a recent book I read — How I Almost Blew It by Sidharth Rao.
Mayur Mundada
Feb 6, 2020
Finding purpose in life, answering the WHY, doing my own life audit.
Finding purpose in life, answering the WHY, doing my own life audit.
The below article is my detailed take on this subject, and as I write I am pushing myself to think beyond the obvious. Hopefully this…
Mayur Mundada
Apr 22, 2019
Inspiring Words of Wisdom from SRK
Inspiring Words of Wisdom from SRK
In his own words directly — “Whatever happened to me happened because I have been always terrified of failure. I don’t want as much to…
Mayur Mundada
Dec 16, 2017
Lessons from Kunal Shah on Money Matters
Lessons from Kunal Shah on Money Matters
Saw this video from Kunal Shah yesterday and was mindblown with the kind of quality insights he gives for every question. Thought of…
Mayur Mundada
Apr 23, 2020
Aaron Swartz — A child prodigy, an Internet pioneer and an activist who refused to back down.
Aaron Swartz — A child prodigy, an Internet pioneer and an activist who refused to back down.
This weekend I learned about Aaron Swartz.
Mayur Mundada
Sep 6, 2020
Notes from Just Aspire — by AJAI. CHOWDHRY
Coming from a privileged background is a privilege that very few people leverage. If you can, you can pretty much become unstoppable and…
Mayur Mundada
Aug 14, 2023
The power of compounding in business and in life!
The power of compounding in business and in life!
We forget how small things with compounding consistently lead to huge success! I read this beautiful article and thought should summarise…
Mayur Mundada
Apr 21, 2018
What’s the new AI tool #GPT3? Here’s the simplest way to understand this.
What’s the new AI tool #GPT3? Here’s the simplest way to understand this.
First, what is Artificial Intelligence?
Mayur Mundada
Jul 22, 2020
An In-depth Study Of Market sizes In India
An In-depth Study Of Market sizes In India
While I was building my startup it often made me curious to someday research all the sectors in India, study their market sizes, know the…
Mayur Mundada
Mar 31, 2018
From a Young Father to a o̶l̶d̶ Senior Father — “Happy Birthday Dad! 60 Years of Pure Awesomeness.”
From a Young Father to a o̶l̶d̶ Senior Father — “Happy Birthday Dad! 60 Years of Pure Awesomeness.”
Hi Dad, here’s what I want to tell you on your 60th Birthday.
Mayur Mundada
Aug 27, 2020
How to be more resilient? (Notes to Self)
How to be more resilient? (Notes to Self)
These are notes of a Lynda course I just did — Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on Option B: Building Resilience.
Mayur Mundada
Jun 5, 2019
Inspirational Notes From Reading About Elon Musk
Inspirational Notes From Reading About Elon Musk
The more I read about Musk there’s just more to learn, admire and get inspired from. Here are some of my favourite quotes & musings:
Mayur Mundada
Nov 27, 2017
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