While everyone is talking about the lower price points on online stores, people in the business understand that a lot of that price competitiveness is coming due to venture capital (VC) money, which is being used to offer further discounts on the purchase price of the e-tailers. The question to ask is – whether e-tailing, which is based on a marketplace model, can be truly price competitive vis-a...
September 17, 2015
Can e-commerce be price competitive…always?
17September
September 16, 2015
InMobi's Miip May Be More Important to India than Pichai
16September
The emergence of an IP and technology-based leader from India will have a bigger long-term impact than a few Indians heading major global corporations Isn’t it strange that we were obsessed with happenings at Google while the really momentous news of the coming of age of a serious desi challenger got lost in the noise? Sundar Pichai and Google News of Sundar Pichai’s ascension to the Google...
September 15, 2015
UXINDIA announces the UX Clinic 2015
15September
It’s an e-world now. Your website is the first point of contact for the consumer. The brand’s image/identity and positioning are completely dependent on the UI and UX on your website. To get that bit right may not just be necessary, but critical. UXINDIA, a pioneer of UX in India for over a decade, extends an invitation for the ‘UX Clinic 2015’. The UX Clinic is a platform that helps you get the...
September 14, 2015
Making the Future
14September
What we see in theMaker addiction, is that a relatively small amount of people can have a big impact. You don’t necessarily need the world’s largest company behind you. – Dale Dougherty- Founder, Make Magazine 4 years ago, I walked out of the elevator onto the 4th floor of NYU’s TISCH building, home to the Interactive Telecommunications program that brought together some of the most diverse bunch...
September 11, 2015
Founders don’t scale
11September
As founders, many of us had to learn skills that don’t come naturally. Some responsibilities are better handled by your co-founders and other team members. You may be an amazing engineer, but a weak product manager. You may be a great product manager, but terrible at sales. And then there’s the universal challenge that every founder has to deal with – hiring. Founders have an internal compass of...
September 10, 2015
Getting The Funding Piece Right
10September
Creative inventors with creative ideas need creative capital “As a first-gen entrepreneur and professional by training, I have become contemptuous of the local investor community—it uses a cookie cutter approach with very limited imagination. They would rather blow their cash on an app (without proof of concept) than on a good service model that has growth potential. We pretend in India to be...
September 9, 2015
Is the Hyperlocal Model Fundamentally Flawed?
09September
There are about 50+ startups in India, which are offering hyperlocal services (or what is being called Offline to Online O2O) – connecting online shoppers to brick and mortar retailers. They vary in the segments that they are addressing, with grocery and daily needs being the most popular ones. One thing which is common across all these hyperlocal startups is the process followed – they put your...
September 8, 2015
Open Source leaders discuss innovation, entrepreneurship and software patents.
08September
Rohini Lakshané attended “Open Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Our Digital Culture” in Bangalore on August 13, 2015. Major takeaways from the event are documented in this post. Prof. Eben Moglen on FOSS and entrepreneurship The culture of business in the 21st century needs open source software or free software because there is one Internet governed by one set of rules, protocols and APIs that...
September 7, 2015
Why You Should Attend the ERPNext Conference
07September
In year 2000, Apple was lagging far behind Microsoft’s Windows Operating System and it seemed there would be no way it could catch up. In a brilliant and desperate move, Apple decided to build its next generation operating system using the best open source technology available at the time. Steve Jobs hired Jordan Hubbard, the co-creator of FreeBSD, a popular Unix distribution and a well...
September 4, 2015
Show Me The Money
04September
Who doesn’t remember the famous four words of the 1996 film Jerry Maguire? The relevance of these words encompasses all generations. We look at the rich and mighty with a hint of jealousy, sometimes incredulously , some other times in awe, yet other times perturbed. On the other hand, the poor and downtrodden are subjugated to our pity, dissidence, even repulsion. Now that makes one thing very...
