Jikku Abraham

Founder, CEO | Taaraka : Astrology for the Modern Mind

[Karthik Reddy @BKartRed]

On target for Millions of steps

The ultimate pleasure of 2025 (side effect of trying to manage health) has been the forced rediscovery of walking - most of it on marine drive, bylanes of domlur when visiting BLR, airports and wherever the planes take me to overseas.

The 100 day stretch (when I was trying the structured program) between early Feb to mid May (was a 6-7/10 on sleep, diet, supplements but) - a 9-9.5/10 on walking

1,176,883 steps
At my height, about 853 km

[Jikku Abraham @jikkua]

Check out the largest repository of astrology questions & their answers! It's interesting to see what people are asking and how astrology can help. https://t.co/PJzSJ9HV5n

[Michael McGuiness @mikemcg0]

Q: Should startups always raise as much money as possible?

In the clip below, Marc Andreessen shares a framework that Benchmark co-founder Andy Rachleff taught him called "The Onion Theory of Risk".

You can think of a day 1 startup as having every conceivable kind of risk: founding team risk, product risk, technical risk, market acceptance risk, revenue risk, cost of sales risk, viral growth risk, etc.

A startup is basically just a long list of risks, and as Marc explains:

"The way I think about running a startup is the way I think about raising money. It's a process of peeling away layers of risk as you go."

You raise seed money to peel away the first two or three risks (e.g. founding team risk, product risk, initial launch risk).

You raise the Series A round to peel away the next layer of risks (e.g. recruiting risk, customer risk, revenue risk, cost of sales risk)

And so on.

Basically, you're peeling away risk as you're achieving milestones. And as you achieve milestones, you're both: making progress on your business and justifying raising more capital.

So in terms of fundraising, you should be calibrating the amount money you're raising to the risks you need to pull out of your business for you to raise your next round.

For example, if you're raising your Series A round, the best way to do that is to say to investors: "I raised a seed round then achieved ____ milestones and eliminated ____ risks. Now I'm going to raise $X for the Series A to achieve ____ milestones and eliminate ____ risks. This will get the company to ____ state for the Series B round. "

This seems fairly obvious, but as Marc points out, it's a much more systematic way of going about things versus just raising as much money as possible, renting fancy offices, and hiring as many people as you can to grow as fast as you can.

The more money you raise, the more you dilute your ownership stake in your business so it pays to be thoughtful.

Raise the capital you will need to achieve the milestones and eliminate the risks required for your next financing round. It also probably makes sense to give yourself some margin as safety because things never go exactly as planned in startup land.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

One software product from every year since 1977, in chronological order.

1977: VisiCalc, the “killer app” for Apple II

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[Blume Ventures @BlumeVentures]

Two years ago, we at @BlumeVentures launched LeadTribe - a tribe for rockstar women founders to build amazing institutions at the back of a super-charged network. We’re thrilled to be launching Cohort III this year!

[agadmator @agadmator]

DING LIREN IS WORLD CHESS CHAMPION!!! 👑

[Jikku Abraham @jikkua]

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[Jikku Abraham @jikkua]

Wall Street Forecaster was one of the top forecasters. Many clients asked for their copies to be delivered in brown paper to avoid mockery. Read more - https://t.co/mtZlAhTEI5 via @smallcaseHQ

[Radhika Agarwal @radhika_agar]

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@BlumeVentures @arpiit @BKartRed

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[Taaraka - Astrology for the Modern Mind @TaarakaApp]

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[Hassan W. Bhatti @hwbhatti]

18 startup mental models that helped me sell my startup to a $50B company:

[Jikku Abraham @jikkua]

Age 42 is maturity for the north node and age 48 is maturity towards the south node of the moon in Vedic astrology!

#vedicastrology #vedicscience #spirituality #wellness

[Jikku Abraham @jikkua]

A "midlife crisis" is a transition of identity and self-confidence that can occur in middle-aged individuals, typically 45 to 65 years old.

The phenomenon is described as a psychological crisis brought about by events that highlight a person's growing age, inevitable mortality,

[Jikku Abraham @jikkua]

Usually, a guru or mentor or life coach is able to see this faster than you can and they will give you the focus area and perspective, rather than figuring it out yourself. Age 36 is when Saturn matures, Jupiter and north-south nodes of the moon complete 3 and 2 complete cycles