Tag: Business

  • Panama Canal

    The Panama Canal is drying up making it harder for heavier ships to navigate it. The climate is coming after business!

  • Taxing Carbon Selectively

    The EU wants to tax carbon but not in ways that would hurt its economy.

  • Tughlaq Returns

    The whims of rulers are always bad for the populace

  • Learning by Proxy | Business of Politics and Politics of Business

    Every Saturday, I publish this series called “Learning by Proxy”. It is a capsule of some of the stuff that I found interesting over the week along with some context to it. I hope you enjoy it. Follow Up It turns out the Indian and Chinese forces have been brawling at the border since September…

  • Positive Externality and CoronaVirus

    Positive Externality is a concept of economics which describes an unintended positive outcome of an action. For example, the Singapore government wanted to reduce pollution and started charging a fee to drive in the CBD. This resulted in the CBD becoming safer for older people wishing to walk there, which was a positive externality. I…

  • Travel Business – will it ever be the same again?

    I have always enjoyed travel and have visited quite a few nations and cities in my life. Not only that, but I have also myself been involved in the travel business and so it is close to my heart.  A vast majority of my travels have been for work and this is possibly reflective of…

  • Anatomy of an Investment

    Investors determine their investments in various companies based on a variety of criteria. Ultimately, the investor wants to see the startups scale and grow to be a large enterprise. In order to be able to do this, the company must have certain fundamentals right. Having sat through several hundred pitch sessions, these are some of…

  • Turning a Startup into an Organisation

    I have been working with startups for a fairly long time now. The fun part of working with startups is that there is absolutely no way to anticipate what would come next. You have to be fast and nimble, constantly adjusting to the changes that are happening around you. This is precisely what makes building…

  • Entropy

    Physics provides the best models to understand the physical world. But sometimes, it also provides the best models to understand the metaphysical. Entropy refers to the rate of change that can be seen in a system. As the entropy in a system increases it becomes increasingly difficult to predict the next few moments. The more…

  • Belief is the most valuable currency for a startup

    If the owner of a pharmaceutical company that produces Vitamin tablets; says that he believes that Vitamin tablets are a very important source of nutrients for the body and he eats the tablets everyday. Do you think, he really believes it? He may or he may not, you can’t tell. His beliefs are within him. But do YOU…