Bitcoin As Cryptocurrency – Product or Marketable Item?
SEC's approval for Bitcoin ETF makes it official that Bitcoin is an asset - because ETFs are created only out of assets (or asset classes, apart from indexes). Ergo you…
Monopoly Shonopoly
People throw around the M word too freely. Whenever a company increases its price, behaves arrogantly, sucks at customer service, or acts in any other manner against the consumer's proximate…
Why Do We Need So Many Programming Languages?
Forty years ago, people used to ask, we have FORTRAN for scientific applications and COBOL for business applications, why do we need PASCAL, C++, and dBaseIII+? Twenty five years ago,…
Why Are Cash Deposit ATMs Rare?
(This post is a slightly edited version of my answer to the above Quora question.) Equating the cash handling capabilty of a vending machine with that of an ATM is…
12 Things About B2B Branding That You Probably Didn’t Know
Branding is often conflated with marketing and other elements of marketing. Before we clear some of the misconceptions about branding and amplify some of its other attributes, let me copy-paste…
Pune Metro Third Impressions
I described ticketing problems with Pune Metro in my previous posts titled Pune Metro First Impressions and Pune Metro Second Impressions. I experienced another ticketing snafu on my third trip.…
My Two Cents On PayTM Kerfuffle
PayTM is the first digital payment product I've used at scale in India. When RBI enforced the two factor authentication mandate for online payments, bill payments became a major PITA.…
Power Of Branding In B2B
According to the popular narrative, branding is needed only in B2C. That's not true. Branding plays an equally important role for B2B products and services. For the purpose of this…
10 Differences Between Capital Markets In USA & India
The Indian capital markets recently moved from T+2 to T+1 settlement. For the uninitiated, under T+2 regime, you got two days to deliver stock that you sold and the buyer…
How To Resolve Pricing Paradoxes
In Five Pricing Paradoxes, we covered many pricing paradoxes and speculated on why they happen. In this post, we will examine if and how they need to be fixed. Is There…