Lessons from India
This was originally written as part of series of articles celebrating insights from MDIF’s 25 years of operations.
Koreel Lahiri
Ed-tech Needs A Life-Cycle Stack
Ed-tech will do well to build moats around a stack that serves customers’ life-cycle.
The Next Billion
There is tremendous value in vernacular audiences and also at the bottom of the pyramid. Dailyhunt’s latest fund raise and elevation to unicorn status is an affirmation of this. This segment of India has rising aspirations, is connected, and is hellbent on not being sidelined any more. The trick is to understand this audience and develop unique products for them; and importantly, not patronize them.
2021: Will Things Change Because The Year Has?
The year 2021 has been a year waited for like no other in recent history, except perhaps, the year 2000 when everyone expected the computers to go bonkers. As we draw near the end of a terrible year that 2020 was, the media is awash with experts projecting what trends will rule. However, I think that we are already living through many of the changes – in other words, the last few months have brought on many of the changes, and 2021 will be a continuation of many of them.
150 Questions That You Should Ask
If you've found your way into entrepreneurship, it doesn't matter if you come from a sales, product, creative or content background — you still need to figure out how to run the business efficiently.