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Image: source Over the decades, we have been seeing Apple grow at a blistering pace. Built on thinking different while staying hungry and foolish, it certainly created new sectors while killing redundant ones. With unwavering customer-focus, Apple maintained child-like curiosity, unbelievable…
Startup Service Aggregators Image: source Startups with business models revolving around aggregating services might have their days numbered. Unless they offer a significant additional benefit (than the underlying services they aggregate) to end consumers. Because…
Think A-Team: For the Design & Strategy needs of Young Businesses Image: link Hi, all you enterprising entrepreneurs, I am pleased to give to you, 'Think A-Team', a growth partnering service for all your business…
The Up Side of Consulting Here's a post I had drafted for submitting as a resource to MosaicHub, in response to their call to members for 'the Top 5 things businesses need to know about your area…
The Tata Nano, cheapest car in the world today, is arguably one of the biggest milestones in the auto industry in recent times, the world over. A close friend of mine, Sheshank Reddy shared an article which talked…
Sell Blankets to Eskimos This post requires you to think a bit. Might be difficult on a Friday night, but do give it a thought over the weekend. We all know how challenging the life of a salesperson…
Just Like That I have always disliked the idea of businesses buying, and friends forcing 'Likes' on Facebook. The number of likes really skews the picture. It makes it difficult to differentiate between a business that has…
We all remember the notorious financial meltdown of 2007-08 that washed away a lot of dreams. We all know why it happened. Some wise (read greedy) people built a huge structure on an extremely very…
Here's a first. A product review. Several weeks ago I was at a Raymond's store picking up a suit I had given for altering. On one of the display sections, a number of beer bottles…
Sure the Tatas have had their share of tough n' rough times with the Nano, and they buggered up with the advertising as well. That means there was extremely insufficient advertising, and never at the…
"Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it." - Peter Drucker We recently bought a cordless telephone from Croma…
If you got to start your business, you can't always wait for real estate prices to be right. Sometimes, you just start..Wherever.! (Saw this on some random inner road on the outskirts of Pune) For…
The Seat Next To The Lady Recently, the latest player in the online travel business, Travelyaari.com brought in the option of "block your seat next to a lady" on your next bus journey. Yeah, I…
The entire buzz in the recent past about Starbucks coming to India reminded me of this question that popped up in my head when I was at a Starbucks at a mall in New Jersey…
Ever realized how much time we spend each day either building a thick layer of ‘unnecessary’, and/ or scraping a thick layer of it. Rather than build quality products and services, we tend to build…