Ankur Mittal

Investor | Co-Founder Inflection Point Ventures
Backing founders & building access to capital
Tycoon on Bharat ke Super Founders

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

Ghayal hu..isliye Ghatak hu...

Every founder goes through a phase
where nothing works.

That’s not failure.
That’s pressure.

And pressure doesn’t break you, it reveals you.

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[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

The pivot is not surrender. Staying on a broken path just to prove a point is.

The best founders are not attached to one version of the plan. They are attached to solving the problem. Adaptation is not weakness. It is survival.

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

Money solves fewer problems than founders think. Clarity solves more.

Funding cannot fix confusion. It amplifies it. If the product, team, or direction lacks clarity, more capital only increases the burn rate. Clear thinking scales better than aggressive spending.

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

Ideas are free. Execution is expensive. Most people only invest in the first one.

Good ideas get attention. Execution earns trust. Building something real takes patience, consistency, and resilience. That is why execution will always matter more than ideas.

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

Obsession beats passion every time. Passion fades. Obsession stays.

Passion shows up when things are exciting. Obsession shows up when things get difficult. The people who build lasting companies are the ones who keep showing up after the excitement disappears.

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

Struggling is not failing. Stopping is.
Most meaningful things take longer than expected
There are phases where nothing moves, nothing clicks, and nothing validates your effort.
That does not mean the journey is broken
Consistency often looks invisible before it looks successful.

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

Your job is your startup school. Someone else is paying the fees.

A salary is not just income.
It can be training capital.

Learn how teams operate.
Learn how decisions are made.
Learn what bad leadership looks like.
Learn what customers actually value.

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

The market is always right. The question is whether you are listening.

You can ignore feedback.
You cannot ignore outcomes.

If customers are not buying, engaging, or returning, the market is already giving you an answer.

Ego delays adaptation.
Listening speeds up growth.

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

Runway is not just money. It is time. Time to be wrong, to learn from it, to course correct, and to still fix it before the clock runs out. Most founders forget that. Do not be most founders.

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[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

In Amitabh's 70s films
First half: hero gets destroyed. Torture. Loss. Zero hope.
Interval.
Second half: completely different story.
When founders tell me "nothing is going right" I ask them one thing:
Are you at the interval?

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

You can't motivate a team into scale.
You can inspire them for a sprint. But sustainable growth comes from systems, repeatable processes, clear feedback loops, and structures that work without you in the room.
Motivation fades. Systems compound.
Build the system first

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

Anyone can show up when things are going well.
Pressure is the real interview. It strips away the performance and shows you who someone actually is, how they think, communicate, and make decisions when it matters.
Character isn't claimed. It's revealed

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

Zuckerberg didn’t fight Instagram
He bought it

1B then
Massive value now

Lesson
Think like a founder and an investor

#Startups #Investing #Business

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

Nobody builds pattern recognition from wins.
You build it from the deals that went sideways. The founder who looked great on paper. The market that made no sense in hindsight.
Mistakes aren't failures. They're the curriculum.
Pay attention to what went wrong.

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

Was Cameron Green worth ₹25 Cr?
Price ≠ value. Same in startups.
Valuation is timing, not truth.
Comment “Valuation”.

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

Angel investing isn't about writing a cheque and feeling important.
It's about backing someone at their most vulnerable, before the world believes in them.
That's responsibility. Not a flex. Not ego.
If you're investing to feel powerful, you're in the wrong room

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

Everyone talks about opportunity like it's equally distributed.
It isn't. Access to capital, networks, and mentorship is still deeply uneven.
But here's the flip side, where access is thin, competition is too.
That's not a problem. That's the opportunity hiding in plain sight

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

India has no shortage of ideas.
Walk into any college, any chai stall conversation and you'll find 10 of them.
What's missing is execution depth. The ability to go from 0 to 1, then 1 to 10, without losing momentum.
Ideas are free. Execution is everything

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

I saw Chayoos on a train.
That's when it hit me. The Indian government is not just talking about supporting startups. It's actually creating the ground for them to grow.

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

Most founders think VC money is the finish line.
It's not even the starting gun.
Bootstrapped companies build discipline. They stay lean, stay focused, and survive on merit, not runway.
Venture capital is a tool. Not a requirement. Know the difference before you raise.

[Ankur Mittal @IPVxAnkur]

Most startups don't fail because of competition.
They fail because of things entirely within their control.
The market doesn't care how hard you worked.
It only cares if you solved a real problem.
Save this if you're building something right now.