To treat or not to treat different customers differently is the question
This is a classic dilemma that many entrepreneurs(especially the offline one’s) are likely to run into. Customers as we all know come in all shapes and sizes(and mindsets). While there will be some...
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Practical tips for handling a Facebook Fan Page Crisis
A couple days back the food giant Nestle(after being targeted by Greenpeace) stepped on the wrong side of Social Media by posting rude and insensitive status updates and comments on their Facebook...
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I’ve been a regular follower of Seth Godin’s blog and like almost all his posts. However there are some posts of Seth that I like way more than others. A couple posts that really caught my attention a...
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Will the real Indian e-commerce start-up please stand up?
First off let me acknowledge that the title of this post is a bit exaggerated and not really apt but I wanted to use it anyways. Onto the topic now. I’ve been kinda following(not very regularly...
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Bookselling in the Time of VC $$
I’ve been wanting to write this post for quite a while now, glad this long weekend gave me enough time to finally sit on it. A lot has changed since I started working on Dial-a-Book some 2 years or so...
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The Perseverance Myth !!
I try to read a business/management book every month and happened to pick The Lean Startup‘ by Eric Ries as an impulse buy based on a recommendation on Twitter. Its an interesting book and quite...
View ArticleThe Best of Web: 1/1/2012
Here are some of the links that I found worth sharing Mark Suster on should startups focus on profitability or not Joel Spolksy’s Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon Jason Zimba on...
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Amazon’s Junglee.com joins the Indian E-commerce Party
A couple days back I read this article on Medianama which shared that Amazon will soon go live in India as a marketplace with Junglee.com, but a tweet today morning announcing that Junglee.com is...
View ArticleGet Big Fast or Get Better Slow?
Get Big Fast, a phrase most commonly attributed to Amazon Phenomenon of acquiring significant market share in your category in very little time but growing extremely fast. The numbers in cases such as...
View ArticleDon Valentine, Sequoia Capital: “Target Big Markets”
Don Valentine’s Talk at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business
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The Rise of the Indian Online Marketplace
If you are part of/related to the Indian e-commerce scene in any manner or read desi start-up blogs, chances are you might be familiar with the concept of Marketplace. A “Marketplace” connects buyers...
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Thoughts on Start-up Hiring
Hiring is undoubtedly one of the hardest part of doing a start-up. Getting the right set of people to work for you is easier said than done and almost every start-up founder is in ‘always hiring’...
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Notes from “Zero To One” or Peter Thiel For Beginners
Two years after purchasing I finally decided to give “Zero to One” a read & totally loved it. About four years back I came across Blakemaster’s notes from Theil’s Stanford class and was totally...
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You don’t have a marketing/growth problem(YET)
Originally published on Medium I often come across folks who are getting started with their startups. Many of them are looking for advice and their is one question that almost everyone of them asks...
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‘Commute Vehicle’ as a Platform
For a while, I’ve been thinking about a lens or a mental model to look at the opportunities possible while once a user is in a ride-sharing vehicle. Given that millions are using ride-sharing services...
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Indian FMCG Startups Are Coming
Over the past 5 years or so, consumer product startups have been slowly but steadily picking pace in India. While their scale might be significantly low in comparison with e-commerce, ride-sharing or...
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Content, Community, Commerce and all that Jazz
Over the course of years, lots of startups have tried to leverage their content/community to sell stuff to users but have seen limited success. So much so that one has to try really hard to find some...
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