In late 2014 something clicked in my head. It was a year in which I’d read a few books on starting a startup, and started entertaining thoughts of founding a startup. A year later, I quit my job and jumped full-time into working on a startup. One of the books that influenced me was Smart…
The moments when my two year old nephew is not racing up and down the house on his scooter, he settles down to watch YouTube. He’s a YouTube “early adopter.” He’s been watching YouTube from when he was one. He now has a little inkling of all kinds of things — animals, seaplanes and garbage…
Startups raising seed rounds rarely make the news but this one did, for a reason. In October 2018, a US startup called Quibi raised a massive $1 billion seed round, which is 1000x the average seed round for startups. You might be thinking how and why they got so much funding. To find out I…
Published on April 14, 2017 on LinkedIn A cool thing about Jeff Bezos’ recent letter to Amazon shareholders is the universality of his advice. The advice is relatable to startups as it is to corporate behemoths. Here’s a link to the letter: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312517120198/d373368dex991.htm. A few snippets from the letter that are relevant to startups: “customers are…
Published on March 10, 2017, on LinkedIn Most people I meet think Snapchat is only good for frivolous uses and are dismissive of the app, but as someone who studies social apps I see something quite the contrary. I see Snapchat as a bellwether for the future of communication and it has shown how amazing…
Published on Oct 2nd, 2016 on Medium I’m a WhatsApp power user. I spend about an hour on it every day, most of the time viewing photos and videos that others have shared. But the video experience on WhatsApp leaves a lot to be desired. I’ve noticed the following problems on the Android app. The…