Marketplaces from 1st principlesA marketplace is a platform where trade happens between a seller selling a good or service and a buyer paying the value of that good or…Dec 16, 2020Dec 16, 2020
Published inVentureBasecampThe Incubation Cheat Sheet: Finding & Engaging MentorsIf you are an incubator or accelerator operating in an emerging startup ecosystem, you know how hard it is to run a mentor-driven…Apr 10, 2019Apr 10, 2019
Published inVentureBasecampSustaining the Gig Economy, Part II: Diagnosing and Solving the HyperlocalIn the last part of this article, we discussed the advent of Indian hyperlocal startups that are executing customer tasks on-demand…Apr 5, 2019Apr 5, 2019
Published inVentureBasecampSustaining the Gig Economy, Part I: The Problem with HyperlocalLong gone are days when the word gig was only relatable to musicians because the gig economy has arrived. A Google search for the gig…Apr 5, 2019Apr 5, 2019
Published inVentureBasecampSnapdeal 2.0: The VentureBasecamp PerspectiveOn October 8, 2018, Kunal Bahl, one of the co-founders of Snapdeal wrote an article on LinkedIn to give a long-awaited update on…Apr 5, 2019Apr 5, 2019
Are you selling a product or a service?Recently, someone asked a question in a Slack community of Product Managers:Mar 22, 2018Mar 22, 2018
Solving unemployability in IndiaTL;DR: India has an alarming unemployability problem with less than 10% of graduating students able to make it to the jobs they studied…Nov 29, 20171Nov 29, 20171
5 eye-opening lessons from teaching Design Thinking to Grade 5+ studentsRecently, I conducted a 3-day Design Thinking workshop for a group of school students from grades 5–8 at Global City International School…Aug 20, 2017Aug 20, 2017
Just ONE WORD can define how technical a Product Manager should beI have been getting this question lately from new Product Managers about how much technical knowledge should a PM have. Frankly, I had this…Jul 11, 2017Jul 11, 2017
Hey PM, still doing ad-hoc trade-offs to release on time? STOP RIGHT THERE!Making hard decisions is the part and parcel of being a Product Manager. We imagine great product designs and dream of it to be the next…Apr 5, 2017Apr 5, 2017