A case for boosting ecommerce in India
India’s ecommerce sales are only about 2.5% of China’s. There are many compelling reasons for ensuring that ecommerce diffuses fast and widely. A policy push can hasten the pace
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Embrace chaos and ambiguity to build world class software products
Products often mean you are embarking on a choppy, risky, longish journey. You are thinking about a customer problem from first principles, with no sight of when you will get anywhere close to a business model, revenues, customers and profits
Paving the road for world-beating software products from India
India’s new software products policy marks a watershed moment in its economic history. Can the nation make it count?
India’s Model T moment
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‘Exclusion does not come from Aadhaar, but from its uses’
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The ground beneath India’s feet
From a distance, India looks pretty. But the ground it stands on is shaky. Policies framed in Lutyens’ Delhi are distanced from Indian realities. Entrepreneurship is the victim
Solving India’s problem of jobless growth
Jobless growth is a multi-cause, systemic problem. Tackling each cause individually will backfire. A more effective solution is to develop a synergistic policy-matrix
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