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FreeWater is the Road to Free Everything
Imagine going to a store and picking up a water bottle for free or going to a mall where everything is free. FreeWater is the road to that.
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Evernote – The Never Unicorn
Evernote almost became a unicorn in 2012 but with time it became the poster child of the failure of the “freemium” model.
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TenderCuts Bled to a Distress Sale
TenderCuts burned roughly INR 400 Cr in 32 months leading to a distress sale to a company with 9 Cr in revenue
Product Management
Service Blueprint with Example
A service blueprint is a visual representation outlining the end-to-end customer experience and the various components involved in delivering a service
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Teams Unbundling Could be a Good Thing
Slack forced Microsoft to start unbundling Teams from its Microsoft 365 and Office 365 productivity suites in EU
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McKinsey Pyramid Principle – Solution First
Start with the solution first – McKinsey Pyramid Principle. Not only in presentations, but also in communications and meetings
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Indian SpaceTech Startup Revolution
Indian spacetech startups had raised approx. $205 Mn in funding from 2014 to the time Chandrayaan landed on the dark side of the moon
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GoMechanic’s Corporate Governance Lesson
GoMechanic has taught investors, founders and employees an important lesson in the value of corporate governance.
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Chiquita’s Banana Republic
That fake tweet from Chiquita (a banana company) is referring to how it Guatemala into a banana republic in 1954
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Funding Winter Thawing Corporate Governance
During funding winter a list of high profile startups have come under scrutiny because of corporate governance and management issues