Maslow’s Subscription Pyramid
The hierarchy of human needs goes through five stages, as depicted by the famous Maslow's Pyramid. In this post, I posit a similar hierarchy for subscriptions. Given below are examples…
Tiling For Normies
Web designers often need to make a panel comprising multiple images. All images need to fit into the same grid, the size of which is specified in the HTML code…
Unpacking “Embedded Finance” From Consumer POV
Whenever a new term enters the hype cycle, it's fashionable for people to bandy it about all the time, sometimes correctly but most of the time loosely. Embedded Finance is…
Copy-Paste Of Western Business Model Works
The founder of India's largest discount brokerage Zerodha recently sparked off a debate on social networks by declaring that copy-pasting business models from USA and other countries does not work…
Musk Twitter Will Take Per Article Sales To The Next Level
In Why Publishers Don't Sell Individual Articles, we saw how readers want à la carte (buy individual articles) but publishers offer only buffet (all-you-can-eat subscriptions). (While this post can be…
Seven Reasons Why Resellers Are Still Around In Today’s Digital Age
It might seem ironical that the IT industry, the torchbearer of digital transformation, uses reseller networks in today's digital world instead of selling to its customers directly. As we saw…
Economic Times Publishes My Take On Play Store v. App Developers Controversy
Google Play Store provides the following services to Android app developers: Listing Discovery Distribution Commerce platform Training Google does not charge any fixed fees for these services. Like most companies…
Why Publishers Don’t Sell Individual Articles
When it comes to per article sales, everybody points to ready demand, takes supply for granted, and focuses on the fulfilment, mainly micropayments. This has been going on for years…
Are Resellers Required In Today’s Digital Age?
You read about a product on Twitter or Product Hunt. You click through and visit the product's website. You watch a 2-minute explainer video. You like what you see. You…
Wet Ink Signature v. Digital Signature
Wet Ink Signature is the conventional way of issuing consent by signing on paper with a pen. Digital Signature is the modern way of consenting digitally with a DSC (digital…