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Common problems startups face - A Design thinking outlook I have been directly associated with startups since 2006. That's when I started my career as a member of a venture capital investment team. All the…
Choosing Business Opportunity to Avoid Change As an individual, if you have a habit your core doesn't fully approve of, you'd find a disconnect that you might, either align with, or from time to time…
Whose viewpoint? Consider times when you address people. Be it as entrepreneurs pitching to a banker or equity investor. Or as managers, giving top bosses a review. Or teaching students an odd topic. Or even…
Killer Design What comes to mind when you think of possible consequences of bad design? Of a badly designed product or service? You might think the product generates less revenues. Or a rise in the…
The Mortal Risk of Riding Shotgun in an Autonomous Vehicle Source: link We live in strange times. And in interesting and amusing times. A recent article I read, spoke about how most automotive manufacturers are…
Venture Realty Capital Back when I worked in the venture capital space, startups always came seeking a lot of investment. Often far more than they needed. We would sit with ventures we thought had some…
Theranos - Drew First Blood A friend recently posted a question on a NODD community group about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes. He wondered if the investor community would be more cautious about the healthtech, and…
What qualifies as true innovation? The word 'innovation' does get passed around a lot nowadays. From large businesses to startups and perhaps even consultants like myself. If you take a moment to think about it,…
Source: https://sobify.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/orange-anti-crime-balls.jpg Anti-crime colour balls Imagine you are a store manager, and a masked thief has you at gun or knife-point, asking you to empty the cash into his or her bag. How would you…
Changing User Behaviour I am currently reading the book Hooked, and happened to read something very important. I shared the excerpt with a design thinking group I am administrator of. The snippet read: John Gourville,…
Source: link Buffer Browser Google has become increasingly intrusive over the years. Keep all your location-related settings off, and she still knows where you are. And if that's enough, she'll shamelessly ask you to write…
SHe Last evening, dad shared links to two tweets with me. Tweets from the UN Women and UNDP Asia-Pacific's accounts. Both tweets were about challenging patriarchal stereotypes this womens' day. One of the tweets wondered…
Who Does Recruiting Best? An acquaintance on LinkedIn recently tagged me and some others including a friend, on a post. It was about how design thinking and good practices are applied to several areas of…
In the years after starting my strategy consulting practice, during one meeting with one of my mentors, he asked me how work was. I said it was good, but had a lot of ups and downs.…
I recently came across an article about an initiative to create awareness about marine pollution. Some folks living close to a beach (can't seem to find the beach's location), created a giant, transparent fish. Made…
