Startups that you thought will rock, crash.Startups that you thought will crash, rock.
In the epilogue of his book The Anarchy, William Dalrymple writes: The East India Company has, thankfully, no exact modern equivalent. Walmart, which is the world’s largest corporation in revenue terms, does not number among its assets a fleet of… Continue Reading →
Preface: I’ve a lot of respect for the Tata Group & Tata Consultancy Services‘ successes.Hard Truths: This headline is both funny and sad. Why?1) SuperApps have been tech’s bane for years.2) Top-down planning rarely succeeds.3) SuperApps are never Super at launch. They won… Continue Reading →
Did you spend “too long” coming up with your startup name/domain/logo? I know I did. I even ran a poll to pick between our top choices, and spent more hours on logo design I get it: An interesting name/logo matters,… Continue Reading →
What are some things that can help you improve your investor pitch calls?I’ve got some simple tips in my newest video. Hat-tip to Greylock‘s Reid Hoffman for his Aircraft & Cliff imagery.
A Hindi music company from the 80’s just beat PewDiePie in YouTube subscriber count! Many Indians use YouTube as a radio station. They ignore the video and instead just listen to the audio stream. Mostly songs and news. Audio is… Continue Reading →
With over a billion people armed with decent mobiles and internet speeds enabling live-streaming, mobile gaming is finally fulfilling the promise of games for all. Console/PC gaming (mostly US/Korea/Japan) never scaled up. It needed expensive hardware (Xbox/Playstation/PC), a large screen… Continue Reading →
There will always be space for new age social networks. Not because of technology, but because you are getting older!
We recently had to go through a partial round of layoffs and some people in our team were let go. I have written about my thoughts and, more importantly, on what you can do for your people in such a… Continue Reading →
Sitting down to breakfast today, I had an uncontrollable attack of positivity! 2016 could have been better, sure. 2017 is going to be great, I feel. Things are lining up nicely on the home and work front. Yes, there are… Continue Reading →