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When The Indus Entrepreneur (TIE) offered mentoring-in-motion for its delegates, I signed up to be a mentee. Here’s how it went.

I am a fan of @Kunal Shah. His clarity of thought and conceptual understanding of first principles is refreshing.

Co-working spaces are all the rage these days. Everyone and their uncles are starting co-working spaces for entrepreneurs and...

A recent article in Economic Times points to the problems faced by online players in delivering their goods and services on...

Flipkart recently ‘relaunched’ its mobile site and received immediate vindictive commentary. As you’d recall, after Myntra went app-only...

I get exposed to a lot of startup ideas due to the nature of my work. It is exhilarating to meet so many young and smart entrepreneurs...

I am in love with redBus. There. I said it. I love redBus not only because they’ve built a fantastic product solving uniquely Indian...

Call it occupational hazard, but I can no longer be a consumer of a service without thinking about the design language of the business...

It is no secret that same set of investors invest in similar type of companies.  They invest in startups and hedge their investments by...

Almost all the things – from books to smartphones, and from clothes to home decor – that I’ve bought in the last 3 years, be it in India...

In the last 5 months, I have attended multiple conferences and talks/sessions held by The National Association of Software and Services...

Facebook has 1.35 billion users (without China) and did 3 billion in quarterly revenue. Annualized, it’s about $10 per user of...

The beautiful thing about making predictions is that even you don’t take yourself too seriously. You are allowed to either be lucky and...

Another day. Another conference. Another set of brilliant ideas. Another set of interesting people. He was feeling as much intrigued as...

He was meeting his friends for brunch on a sultry Sunday morning. He had reached on time, although his friends will argue that he reached...

He was frequently asked why he wrote his blogs in the third person. Some found it amusing, others deemed it a sign of narcissism; some...

He seemed politically aware to others. How could he not; he was ghostwriting for a couple of politicians. However, he didn’t quite...

Second day of fellowship.  One-hour bus ride from training institute to field-work location.  He was sitting next to a really charming...

It was an MBA class on Leadership, discussing how cultural context shapes decisions. It would turn out to be the class that had the most...

He attended an elective on Ethnography during his MBA.  It was quite an unusual course for an MBA program.  But he loved it.  The insight...