{"id":1019542,"date":"2026-07-08T09:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019542"},"modified":"2026-07-08T09:29:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:59:03","slug":"i-never-imagined-a-single-linkedin-post-could-change-lives-startup-founder-reveals-how-social-media-helped-them-raise-rs-1-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/08\/i-never-imagined-a-single-linkedin-post-could-change-lives-startup-founder-reveals-how-social-media-helped-them-raise-rs-1-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I never imagined a single LinkedIn post could change lives,\u2019 Startup founder reveals how social media helped them raise Rs 1 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many founders, social media is a place to build a personal brand or promote products. However, for Priyanshu Gupta, founder of Beyond The Sugar, it became much more than that. A single LinkedIn post helped him connect with investors, close a Rs 1 crore bridge funding round, and even led to a conversation with investor Anupam Mittal that changed the company\u2019s future plans. Gupta wrote on LinkedIn, \u201cI never imagined a single LinkedIn post would help us raise Rs 1 crore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many founders, social media is a place to build a personal brand or promote products. However, for Priyanshu Gupta, founder of Beyond The Sugar, it became much more than that. A single LinkedIn post helped him connect with investors, close a Rs 1 crore bridge funding round, and even led to a conversation with investor Anupam Mittal that changed the company\u2019s future plans. Gupta wrote on LinkedIn, \u201cI never imagined a single LinkedIn post would help us raise Rs 1 crore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019545,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019542\/revisions\/1019545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}