A story of chaos. Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try it again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb. They refuse. They cling to the realm or the gods or love…

Hard work compounds like interest, and the earlier you do it, the more time you have for the benefits to pay off. — Sam Altman. FWD app won Google’s best app of the year award (hidden gems category). …

Of all the startups that launched in the last few months, I believe Clubhouse is the one that’s most disruptive and most irrelevant (now). I have been writing about Clubhouse as I strongly believe that it is one of the most important format innovations of our times. What’s up with Clubhouse? The Google trends…

Ask any VC or a founder and they will tell you the new age wisdom. Traction trumps everything. While largely true, but maybe not if you are in the early stages of building a product-led business and competing in a sales-driven-soulless category. What do I mean by ‘soul’? Having a…

Product Managers define the ‘What and Why’ of the product- in consultation with customers, business leadership, marketing, sales/support, engineering (and other teams). Project Managers define ‘When and How’ in consultation with the management, product, engineering, QA, and support teams. TL;DR: For a project manager, successful delivery is the definition of success. For a product manager, customer success is all that matters.

Did you know that on average, 2.5 quintillion data bytes were generated daily in 2020? Now, that’s a huge number, and given the nature of online content, it’s only going to increase exponentially. A corollary of this data could be that content is a commodity. After all, if you search…

Run ads? Go out and start making noise in all possible traction channels? Not really. Finding early adopters of your product is extremely hard — irrespective of whether you are building a B2B or B2C company and the process itself gives you a good peek into the story that lies…

Did they get you to trade Your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? Did you exchange A walk-on part in the war For a leading role in a cage? A few months back, I was in a Clubhouse room…

Two things: India is burning. We are in immediate need of not just vaccines, but also medicines, oxygen, and importantly, a lot of real-time data on the availability of beds, med supplies, and oxygen cylinders. In the last few months, India has announced more unicorn startups than any other country…