Apple makes it sound like they are doing the small app developers, startups & creators a favour. Let’s be clear, this isn’t money “Apple has paid” to developers. It is the money that consumers, the customers of the developers/startups/creators, have… Continue Reading →
Zomato doing a Vaccination drive for their delivery partners. Hope more companies do this. The Frontline teams are the audience that needs this asap.
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!