{"id":171340,"date":"2025-09-23T09:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/44.250.171.167\/?p=171340"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:23:12","slug":"indiamart-a-profitable-new-age-anomaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphastreet.com\/india\/indiamart-a-profitable-new-age-anomaly\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiaMART- A Profitable & New Age Anomaly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let\u2019s start with a simple question.<\/p>\n

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What is a new-age business?<\/strong>
\nWell, It\u2019s a modern, innovative enterprise that thrives on contemporary trends, technology, and business models. They are agile, customer-centric, and scale at a breathtaking pace. Meanwhile, Traditional business are just the opposite.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a quick hack to spot one: Speed to a million users.
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Old-Age Businesses<\/th>\nTime to 1 mn users<\/th>\nNew-Age Businesses<\/th>\nTime to 1 mn users<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Coca Cola<\/td>\n50 years<\/td>\nFacebook<\/td>\n10 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telephone (AT&T)<\/td>\n35 years<\/td>\nSpotify<\/td>\n5 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ford (Model T)<\/td>\n10 years<\/td>\nChatGPT (OpenAI)<\/td>\n5 days<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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The pattern is clear. New-age businesses leverage the internet, have online distribution, are asset light, and are highly scalable.<\/p>\n

But there’s another trait they almost all share: The Cash Burn.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is where IndiaMART<\/a> breaks the mold. It possesses a quintessentially old age value: profitability. It doesn’t burn cash rather it generates it, copiously.<\/p>\n

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To put this in perspective:<\/p>\n