I’ve been using the new Macbook Pro with Touch Bar for a month now and despite the criticism Apple has faced, I find the Touch Bar pretty useful. But it’s far from perfect. Over the past month, I’ve compiled a list of things Apple should take into account in its next version of the Touch… Continue reading What Apple should do for Touch Bar v2.0
Category: Product Vision
Talk on Google’s Material Design
Google’s material design is a visual language that synthesizes classic principles of good design and unifies experience across platforms and device sizes. I recently gave a talk on an overview of material design. Here is the slide deck.
Bitcoin Reading List
Wondered where to start reading about Bitcoins? This reading list just assumes you’ve heard about the concept, want to learn about it in-depth, and are willing to invest the required amount of time at a fair pace.
The Design Thinking Process
Today’s workshop was an unusual one — of course, it involved design! How should startups face the design challenge? How can the startups better identify and better engage with their customers? We had Ketna Hirji from The Innovation Tool Box to mentor our startups on how to go about the design process. Rather than just… Continue reading The Design Thinking Process
Acquiring Customers and Marketing Your Startup
What is the foremost reason for a startup failure? No, it’s not being unable to understand the market right. It is having high costs of customer acquisition. So how to acquire customers in a cost-effective way and what digital marketing strategies to use? This is the question that is asked by all the startups all… Continue reading Acquiring Customers and Marketing Your Startup
Monetizing Your Product & Pricing Strategies
How can you monetize your product? What pricing options should you offer? Today’s talk addressed this aspect of an entrepreneur’s problems. We had Suresh V., EVP and Head of Sales of Naukri and Siddharth Puri, co-founder and business head of Tyroo to mentor the startups. If your product is first in the niche, either start… Continue reading Monetizing Your Product & Pricing Strategies
How to Pitch your Product?
How to pitch your product to the investors — this was the question answered by the leading personalities in the field — Alok Mittal from Canaan Partners and Mayank Khanduja from SAIF Partners in today’s session in Delhi. Before preparing a pitch, you need to ask yourself — what’s the traction that your product has got… Continue reading How to Pitch your Product?
Selecting the Right Technology and Building Scalable Apps
How can you select the technological frameworks you should use for something that you’re building? How can you scale something that you’re building? Today’s GSF Accelerator mentorship session focused on this issue. The contributing speakers were Ram Singla (Zomato), Gajinder Singh (PayU India) and Amit Sharma (Khojguru) and discussed on how a development cycle should look like. Research First… Continue reading Selecting the Right Technology and Building Scalable Apps