Tag: Amazon

  • Learning by Proxy | Energy

    This is one planet and so many things on this planet are shared by all of us. Our environment, the internet and so much more. Should nations take charge of these things individually or should some of them get regulated through a single authority? Splinternet After the Second World War, the American government was worried…

  • The evolution of IoT

    There has been a lot of work that has gone into IoT devices and I often find startups which pitch consumer facing IoT solutions to me. Apart from the fact that there is zero differentiation and high reproducibility, my questions often hang around whether people feel the pain or not? Do you ever WANT to…

  • Certainty

    In life the things that you do depend on the degree of certainty. A few days back Salma mailed this image and asked me which company seems to have the best revenue split. The instinctive answer was to say – Microsoft. They seem to the most diversified. They are not dependent on any one stream…

  • Trolling – Who Benefits?

    There is a lot of discussion currently about the BigBillionDay campaign which Flipkart had run. Flipkart decided to make a splash about certain sale/discount/offers being available on their website on the day in order to generate shopper interest and therefore sales. Given the numbers that the company has ben publishing, we can only conclude that…

  • Online Retail – The Revolution?

    In a commerce class in school, I was taught that the point of a business is to earn a profit. Online retail startups have certainly caused me to question this notion.   Money, money everywhere; not a cent to be earned!   VS  I find it quite amazing that there is immense investor confidence in…