Think about the last time you stepped out of the airport and hailed a local taxi – the typical yellow taxis that have been running across cities helping people reach the local market, a friend’s place or even their office. Can’t remember, right? In the early 80s, tourist taxis came into existence with the introduction

WeWork has been in the news for the last few months, mostly for all the wrong reasons. While I will touch on some of the controversies that have plagued this disruptor and unicorn later, I am more keen to try and understand their target area and the business model that they were trying to make

Amul India – Formed in 1956, is a cooperative brand managed by a cooperative body, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF), which today is jointly owned by 3.6 million milk producers in Gujarat has today and has grown into a 42,000-crore company spread across various segments. The Indian Biscuit industry is worth about Rs

We all know of Instagram as a photo and video sharing platform, which has grown to 1 billion users presently since its launch in 2010…So how, is e commerce becoming a part of this platform… Let’s consider these facts 80% of Instagram users follow a business account 35% of the most viewed stories on Instagram

I find people consuming content at all places and times…Whether it’s on a flight or in the local train or by my daughters or the elders in my family…Whether I am in Mumbai, Nagpur, Cochin or in Puvathussery (My wife’s native village in Kerala) the consumption pattern remains the same…It’s the same whether it’s the

We have all got used to the convenience of buying things online particularly for things where size and shapes doesn’t’ matter… I for example order all my weekly household requirements from big basket … obtain the books I want to read from Amazon or Flipkart depending on who offers a better price and a couple

We are all used to using digital payments for a good part of our day to day transactions…When everything goes through smoothly it makes our life so much more simpler and smoother..…But let’s say something goes wrong with say a credit card payment you made at a merchant shop like duplicate billing …or let’s say

Have been a big fan of video games since my childhood…Remember the small battery powered game that my aunt gifted me when she came in from the Middle East and I remember playing my heart out on the same till the screen gave away…Also remember when computers came about and me being an ardent player

The idea of this article came from a few conversations that I was part of in the last ten days… The first as a passive participant with a colleague who was trying to implement a project with a known client and my colleague kept referring to the difficulty in securing the right funding… The second

As a child growing up in India, there were only two or three entertainment companies by which I used to get to see English content, of which Disney cartoons was one and so the moment I ran into this Disney Business Model of 1958 a few weeks back it struck a chord with me.. My objective