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Customization in Retail Fashion

Oct

2012

Back in the year 2006, when I was working for eYantra (which is a firm specializing in brand merchandise for corporates and corporate gifting), the buzzword in the merchandising industry was customization. If it was a good looking merchandise, then it’s value rose by nearly 30%-50% if you could customize it to the customers needs. ...

Equity Release: Debt Instrument

Jul

2012

Just when you think, what will these crazy bankers think of next … and boom comes the latest financial instrument ready to stupefy you … with its sheer ingenuity and innovativeness. This latest debt instrument I came to know recently from a friend in UK is the equity release. Lets take a case of a ...

Economics of Gold farming in World of Warcraft 2

Aug

2011

I have been playing World of Warcraft (WoW) for over a year now, and I am thoroughly enjoying the break it provides over the weekends. It’s a great product and has been running for the past six years or so. Blizzard has done a real good job there, especially in capturing the player versus player ...

Clone Wars

Jun

2011

First came Best Buy. People were happy, they got good deals, saved some money. Good … but meh! Perhaps their launch was before time. Avante Garde. Then came Groupon. A multi-billion dollar valuation, e-commerce 2.0 buzz, social media tongues wagging about. It was the next big thing since the Internet. I guess over a period ...

Indian Services: A bleak future

Jun

2011

With the Indian economy shifting from an agrarian focus to a service-based industry, a lot of foreign investors are attracted to the nation. However, the sustainability of this is under question. As service experiences from bad to worse and consumers are crying bloody murder in the courts, how will the Great Indian Dream be achieved? ...

Predicting Business Cycles

Jun

2010

Back in August 2006, I had written a post on Dot Com Bust 2.0 (you can read it at the link provided, sadly rediff BLOGS has a bad way of storing posts (week-wise instead of it being individual posts). Revisiting that post was an interesting exercise, an excerpt - Do we see history repeating itself? ...

A VC who nurtures entrepreneurs

Jan

2010

Just read this on the Wall Street journal, that there is a venture fund by the name of Pacific Lake Partners who actively seek out young entrepreneurs, give them enough money to scout around for the right organization to takeover. Then help them acquire that organization for a healthy return. You can read the rest ...

Why we pay taxes 6

Dec

2009

A discussion with a friend about salary structures resulted in this post - I am damn scared of an IT raid Paying corrupt officials the salary and perks that they dont deserve Paying for infrastructural developments that dont help anyone Reducing the deficits of the nation If I do it, then everyone else could also ...

Boomers and Technology

Dec

2009

Microsoft’s report on Boomers & Technology