A guide for industrial tech startup founders on when & how to scale — Founding a startup and building a product is not the same as scaling it. They both require different skills & capabilities. Many startups that had a great product have failed, only a few successfully scale & build a successful venture. In this blog, I’ve laid out a set of attributes…

A guide for startup founders to do an objective & value based competitor analysis — Almost in all startup pitch decks, you’ll definitely find at least one slide on competitor analysis. While this analysis is critical for all startups, but many of them, even mature ones, make a fundamental mistake while doing it. The Traditional Competitor Analysis Competitor analysis is usually a table with the first column listing all…

Framework for startups to estimate market size for new product categories in the industrial market — It is often difficult to estimate the market size for new product categories. In fact, many of the startup founders find it difficult to estimate market size for their products, and often end up with estimates & methods that are incorrect. …

While startups do — “Innovation”—one of the least spoken words in company meetings, while revenue and profits are often heard. Large companies & industries have a lot of talent, money, infrastructure, and network of partners—it seems logically right to assume that they have all it takes to be innovative. Counterintuitively, they aren’t. While startups…

Why Indian Cities need to leverage Open Innovation to accelerate Urban Development — It is estimated that the Indian urban population will grow to 60 crores by the year 2030, from about 47 crores today, implying that the urban population is constantly increasing. …

Making non-fiction interesting — Reading non-fiction is hard. It is less imaginative, less interesting, and less exciting as fiction is. There are no plot twists, character development, and is less emotional. This is why people find it hard to read non-fiction, especially those who read fiction regularly. But the problem is not with non-fiction…

And when to use them — Learning through analogies is easy, fun, and effortless. They offer the quickest way to understand concepts, theories, and models for the first time through examples and metaphors we are familiar with. But on the other hand, there are downsides in using them too—analogies and metaphors are not a shortcut to…

“I love this place, this is exactly the kind of place I would like to work,” I tell myself as I walk around Forge for the first time. I was quite enthraled by all the gadgets lying around, people glued to screens coding, and the entire buzzing atmosphere. …

On Becoming Emotionally Intelligent — The year is 10,000 B.C., a forager stands face to face with a huge predator in the African savannas. Unarmed, he knows he doesn’t stand a chance against it. His heartbeat rises and begins to sweat—he feels fear. His body prepares for flight. …