Shortselling For Normies
(This is a commentary on how shortselling works and not a guide to carry out shortselling.) I recently posted the following update on social media: @s_ketharaman: Startup Idea: Hindenburg Research…
Revisiting Recurring Payments On The First Anniversary Of RBI Emandate
According to RBI Emandate: Every credit card and debit card based mandate for recurring payment and auto debit (“Standing Instruction”) will need to be re-initiated by the merchant in accordance…
Twelve Gotchas In Matheran
Over the years, I've visited many hill stations near and far including Genting, Gulmarg, Kodaikanal, Lonavla, Mahabaleshwar, Mount Titlis, Ooty, Pahalgam, Soanmarg, and so on. However, it was only recently…
Why Are Bills And Statements So Frigging Hard To Decipher?
People regularly complain that it's very hard to decipher bills and statements from banks. Rant from Quora: Why are the description info on Bank Account Statements so confusing? We cannot…
Three Ways To Screw Up A Sales Incentive Policy
(This post is a slightly edited version of my answer to the above Quora question.) Legalese is the least of your problems when it comes to sales incentive policy. The…
Core Engineering Degrees v. Noncore Engineering Jobs
Many people complain that graduates from mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and other "core engineering" branches take up jobs in IT, banks, consulting firms, and other "noncore engineering" sectors. This is…
Test Drive: SafetyNet – Overdraft Avoidance Open Banking Fintech
SafetyNet is a UK Open Banking fintech that provides Overdraft Avoidance. While the uninitiated can Google “overdraft protection” for a prosaic definition of the term, Stanley Bing offers the following tongue-in-cheek description…
AWS Snowmobile: Because Data Is Still Transported Physically
AWS Snowmobile is an 18-wheel truck that physically transports Exabyte-scale data from customers' premises to AWS Regions in a 45 feet container. For the uninitiated: 1 Exabyte = 1000 Petabyte…
Season’s Greetings
Season’s Greetings & Best Wishes for a Happy New Year! Welcome back to GTM360 Blog. We published 47 posts last year. The Top 10 posts in 2022 were: #10. Teardown Of Web3…
Economic Times Publishes My Playbook On How To Promote Manufacturing
Dear Editor of Economic Times: This has reference to the op-ed entitled Make Making A Big Deal by Tushar Gore in today's Economic Times. Every time I see the metro being…