March 27, 2016 So, completed another “un-put-downable” book after a long time last weekend, “The Golden Tap – The Inside story of Hyper-funded Indian Start-ups”. Written by Kashyap Deorah, a self-made serial entrepreneur (there’s a parallel entrepreneur explained also in the book), an IIT Bombay grad, and quite obviously a man of unusual perspective. While … Continue reading “The Golden Tap – Indian Start-ups…” – a quick review

Jan 16, 2016 …are mostly not Indian L. 4 of Top 6 Most respected companies are Indian subsidiaries of global non-Indian companies – Google India being No. 1, Microsoft No. 4, BMW India No. 5, Merc-Benz is No. 6. Only the two Indian IT stalwarts, Infosys and TCS grab the Ranks 2 and 3 respectively. … Continue reading India’s Most Respected Companies

July 29, 2014 Picked up a copy of the Fortune at the airport and here’s a quick summary / analysis of the ranking of the Top 500 companies in the world (by revenues) - 2013. Wal-mart leads the List with a revenue of USD 476bn (almost a quarter of GDP of large countries like India)!! … Continue reading Fortune Global 500 – a changing world order

March 11, 2014 With the new banking licences on the anvil, it may be worthwhile to examine as to what happened the last time new banks came into being, in terms of impact on the business of existing banks. For this, we attempt here a rudimentary analysis of what happened in 2003-05. To refresh our … Continue reading Who’s afraid of the new banks ?

March 9, 2014 There was an article some time back in The Economist, which spoke on the phenomenon of Brands losing their significance world-wide. A Survey across 23 countries showed that majority of respondents would not care if 73% of the brands mentioned would just have disappeared. This number was 92% in the more mature … Continue reading Once there were brands…