{"id":419351,"date":"2026-02-11T05:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419351\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:32:08","slug":"mere-paas-metric-hai-the-valuation-story-most-startups-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419351\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMere paas metric hai\u201d: The valuation story most startups sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the iconic dialog from the 1975 classic Deewar? \u201cMere paas Ma hai\u201d: Ravi, played by Shashi Kapoor, famously told his brother Vijay, played by Amitabh Bachchan. Now, turn to the Indian venture capital-funded startup ecosystem of 2010s and 2020s. Their dialogue is: \u201cMere paas metric hai.\u201d In the startup ecosystem, \u201cMa\u201d has been replaced by \u201cMetrics\u201d \u2013 often of a kind that would make even the scriptwriters of Captain Vijaykanth\u2019s movies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remember the iconic dialog from the 1975 classic Deewar? \u201cMere paas Ma hai\u201d: Ravi, played by Shashi Kapoor,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[84,4203,74570,53937,154743,56,54,55,11878,74573],"class_list":{"0":"post-419351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship","10":"tag-metric","11":"tag-startup-ecosystem","12":"tag-startup-valuation","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-valuation","17":"tag-valuation-metric"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}