Founder Notes

Lessons From Running Three Live Algo Trading Strategies

What three live algorithmic trading strategies taught me about systems, markets, and the gap between backtests and reality.

7 min read • Aug 2026 Read →
Founder Notes

From MFD to Building My Own Automation Stack

How running a mutual fund distribution business pushed me to build internal automation tools, and what that journey taught me about fintech from the inside.

7 min read • Aug 2026 Read →
Founder Notes

Building a Fintech in India Without Outside Funding

What it actually takes to build a fintech company in India without venture capital, from someone who has done it.

7 min read • Aug 2026 Read →
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Industry

Why Small Finance Banks Chase Universal Bank Licenses

Small finance banks are pushing hard for universal bank status. Here is what drives that ambition and what they give up along the way.

7 min read • Aug 2026 Read →
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Fintech

How Fintechs Grow Revenue Without Breaking User Trust

How fintech companies expand into new revenue lines while keeping the user trust that made them worth building in the first place.

7 min read • Aug 2026 Read →
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Fintech

How Cross-Border UPI Is Rewiring Remittance Economics

UPI's cross-border expansion is changing how money moves internationally, cutting costs and shifting power away from legacy remittance players.

7 min read • Jul 2026 Read →
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Fintech

How AI Is Rewriting Fintech's Talent and Cost Architecture

AI deployment at scale is fundamentally changing how fintech companies hire, build, and spend — here's what that shift actually looks like.

7 min read • Jul 2026 Read →
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Fintech

Why Fintech IPOs in India Need a Different Story

Why Indian fintech companies going public must rethink how they explain their business to a new, skeptical audience of public market investors.

7 min read • Jul 2026 Read →
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Fintech

Blockchain's Liability Gaps and the Regulatory Risk Fintech Founders Miss

Blockchain's decentralised design creates liability gaps that expose fintech founders to serious regulatory risk — here's what that actually means.

7 min read • Jun 2026 Read →
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Fintech

How UPI's Cashback Economy Rewired Indian Consumers

How years of UPI cashback offers changed how Indians spend, save, and how fintech companies had to rethink their entire business models.

7 min read • Jun 2026 Read →
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Fintech

The Long Road: How Indian Fintechs Get IPO-Ready

A founder's perspective on what it actually takes for Indian fintech startups to reach IPO readiness — beyond the hype.

7 min read • Jun 2026 Read →
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Fintech

Account Aggregators: India's Quiet Financial Revolution

How India's Account Aggregator framework is reshaping data sharing, credit access, and the future of financial services.

7 min read • Jun 2026 Read →
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Fintech

The Real Economics of Zero-Commission Trading

Zero-commission trading platforms look free, but the business model behind them is more complex than it appears. Here's how the money actually flows.

7 min read • Jun 2026 Read →
Founder Notes

What Founders Learn Building in Regulated Industries

Hard-won lessons from building a fintech: why regulation is a moat, not just a burden, and what it teaches founders about trust, pace, and product.

7 min read • Jun 2026 Read →
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Fintech

How AI Is Reshaping Wealth Management in India

A founder's perspective on how artificial intelligence is transforming the wealth management landscape across India's fast-growing fintech ecosystem.

7 min read • Jun 2026 Read →
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Options Trading

Why IV Mean Reversion is the Most Reliable Edge in F&O

Understanding implied volatility cycles and how algo systems can exploit them systematically for consistent returns.

5 min read • Apr 2026 Read →
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Personal Finance

The 50-30-20 Rule Won't Work for Most Indians. Here's What Will.

A practical framework for budgeting that accounts for Indian family dynamics, goals, and cultural expectations.

7 min read • Mar 2026 Read →
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Technology

Building a Real-Time Trading Scanner: Architecture Decisions

Lessons from building a production algo trading system scanning 200+ stocks on a bootstrap budget.

10 min read • Mar 2026 Read →
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Market Insights

Why Retail Traders Lose Money in F&O: Data & Solutions

SEBI data shows 89% of F&O traders lose money. Here's why, and how disciplined systems can change the odds.

8 min read • Feb 2026 Read →
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Personal Finance

How to Build a 1 Crore Portfolio Starting with 10K/Month

A step-by-step SIP strategy combining equity mutual funds, index funds, and smart asset allocation for long-term wealth.

6 min read • Feb 2026 Read →
Options Trading

NOV Strategy Explained: My Best Performing Algo

A deep dive into the Near OTM Volatility strategy that powers Best Algo Trading's most consistent signals.

12 min read • Jan 2026 Read →

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