Aug 6, 20202 minMentoring-in-MotionWhen The Indus Entrepreneur (TIE) offered mentoring-in-motion for its delegates, I signed up to be a mentee. Here’s how it went.
Sep 24, 20192 minDoes your company create “d4?” (for Linkedin)I am a fan of @Kunal Shah. His clarity of thought and conceptual understanding of first principles is refreshing.
Feb 8, 20162 minChoose carefully whom you co-work with! (published for Linkedin)Co-working spaces are all the rage these days. Everyone and their uncles are starting co-working spaces for entrepreneurs and...
Feb 8, 20162 min‘Cash on Delivery’ isn’t broken! Stop fixing it! (published for Linkedin)A recent article in Economic Times points to the problems faced by online players in delivering their goods and services on...
Feb 8, 20162 minFlipkart pioneers ‘app-as-a-service’ (published for Linkedin)Flipkart recently ‘relaunched’ its mobile site and received immediate vindictive commentary. As you’d recall, after Myntra went app-only...
Feb 8, 20162 minHow I know that you don’t have a billion-dollar idea? (published for Linkedin)I get exposed to a lot of startup ideas due to the nature of my work. It is exhilarating to meet so many young and smart entrepreneurs...
Feb 8, 20162 minWhat redBus gets right that your startup doesn’t? (published for Linkedin)I am in love with redBus. There. I said it. I love redBus not only because they’ve built a fantastic product solving uniquely Indian...
Feb 8, 20162 minWhy Ola crushes Uber in India? (published for Linkedin)Call it occupational hazard, but I can no longer be a consumer of a service without thinking about the design language of the business...
Jul 29, 20152 minInvestors don’t bet on you…they hedge on you! (published for Linkedin)It is no secret that same set of investors invest in similar type of companies. They invest in startups and hedge their investments by...
Dec 22, 20142 minBigIdea2015: Amazon for services (published for Linkedin)Almost all the things – from books to smartphones, and from clothes to home decor – that I’ve bought in the last 3 years, be it in India...
Dec 20, 20142 minGoldilocks period for Indian start-ups (published for Linkedin)In the last 5 months, I have attended multiple conferences and talks/sessions held by The National Association of Software and Services...
Dec 18, 20141 minShort Facebook (published for Linkedin)Facebook has 1.35 billion users (without China) and did 3 billion in quarterly revenue. Annualized, it’s about $10 per user of...
Dec 17, 20143 minUn-MOOCs (published for Linkedin)The beautiful thing about making predictions is that even you don’t take yourself too seriously. You are allowed to either be lucky and...
Dec 15, 20141 minInadequateAnother day. Another conference. Another set of brilliant ideas. Another set of interesting people. He was feeling as much intrigued as...
Aug 4, 20141 minThe BookstoreHe was meeting his friends for brunch on a sultry Sunday morning. He had reached on time, although his friends will argue that he reached...
Aug 2, 20141 minWriting in Third PersonHe was frequently asked why he wrote his blogs in the third person. Some found it amusing, others deemed it a sign of narcissism; some...
Jul 22, 20141 minApoliticalHe seemed politically aware to others. How could he not; he was ghostwriting for a couple of politicians. However, he didn’t quite...
Jul 20, 20141 minNGO WomenSecond day of fellowship. One-hour bus ride from training institute to field-work location. He was sitting next to a really charming...
Apr 25, 20142 minDecision BiasesIt was an MBA class on Leadership, discussing how cultural context shapes decisions. It would turn out to be the class that had the most...
Apr 16, 20142 minLean-in?He attended an elective on Ethnography during his MBA. It was quite an unusual course for an MBA program. But he loved it. The insight...