Jan 28Banks — Their conflicting roles and regulatory evolutionBanks have a large role to play in society, to drive growth and be the fuel that drives the economy. Some of a banks’ key business priorities could seem conflicting when viewed at a distance. On one hand, they are expected to take risks: lend money to entrepreneurs/SMEs, contribute to…Banking4 min read
Mar 26, 2021The Developer Experience (DX) centric Organization structureHow are we defining it today? New ways of working such as globally distributed developer networks will require a better understanding of developers’ feelings, perceptions, motivations, and identification with their tasks in their respective project environments. User experience is a concept that captures how persons feel about products, systems, and…Developer5 min read
Aug 27, 2020F.R.I.E.N.D.S: Sales Framework & Story TellingHere’s the simple framework for #selling your product. Memorize it for yourself. 1. #Gather info: The basic is to ask questions & drive over the assumptions. Find out if your customer has previously used a similar kind of product before, and how they used it. ? Research on it. Ask…Sales3 min read
Published in The Startup·Sep 19, 2019Theory of Innovation — Geography matters !“There are so many deep-tech innovations in Silicon Valley. Why haven’t we seen such innovations yet from China, India and other countries?” This is a common question among many members of startup community worldwide. I propose my “Layers of Innovation” theory to answer this. When you look at the innovation…Startup4 min read
Published in The Startup·Sep 19, 2019Searching for the Gold — Entrepreneurs do it differentlyDisclaimer: I’ve borrowed the book title of Ben Horowitz for the story below as the title & the summary of the book fits apt to this narrative. — — — — “GOLD! GOLD! I FOUND GOLD!” shouted Francisco Lopez, a native Californian in early 1842. Francisco couldn’t believe his luck…Startup4 min read
Published in The Startup·Jun 12, 2019Advertising & the art of story tellingThere’s an old story about David Ogilvy, ‘the Father of Advertising’. One sunny morning on his way to work, Ogilvy saw a beggar with a sign around his neck: I AM BLIND. As evidenced by his nearly empty cup, the man was not doing very well. Ogilvy explained what he…Advertising8 min read
Feb 8, 2019Black Mirror — Digital Consulting is hereFrom a time when strategy was thought of as a general’s prerogative to a phase where corporates in growing America brought almost every strategic problem to the consultants who hired MBAs out of top-tier institutions like Harvard to gather & analyze datasets and come up with solutions, we have reached…Innovation7 min read
Jan 31, 2019Can startups beat Google?In 2004, Google was already a goliath when it comes to data. It had money, servers, network infrastructure, leadership, brand power and everything else. However, over the next decade and more they desperately watched the upstarts Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and others compete happily among themselves not even noticing Google’s presence. …Startup6 min read
Nov 24, 2018Present like a ‘Consultant’ — Tips from Big4How to make a slide like a consultant When people see slides from McKinsey and BCG, they see something that is compelling and unique, but don’t really understand all the work that goes into those slides. The companies have a healthy obsession with how things look, how things are structured and how they are presented. They also don’t…Presentations4 min read
Published in Predict·Aug 22, 20185 Most Interesting use cases of Chatbots for 2020By 2020 These 5 Chatbot Use Cases Will be Part of Everyday Life. Before mobile apps made their way into the palm of your hand, and your everyday life, there was healthy skepticism that apps would ever be mainstream solutions to aid people in everything from business to gaming…Bots5 min read
