{"id":461535,"date":"2026-02-11T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/461535\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:14:08","slug":"mere-paas-metric-hai-the-valuation-story-most-startups-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/461535\/","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 Their dialogue is: \u201cMere paas metric hai.\u201d In the startup ecosystem, \u201cMa\u201d has been replaced by \u201cMetrics\u201d \u2013 often of a kind that would make even the scriptwriters of Captain Vijaykanth\u2019s movies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":461536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,158,98380,3636,215228,50008,109633],"class_list":["post-461535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-metric","tag-startup-ecosystem","tag-startup-valuation","tag-valuation","tag-valuation-metric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}