Author Archives: Alok Kejriwal

Letsbuy and Flipkart – A marriage of INCONVENIENCE!!

My question is, how many other marriages with suicidal women will flipkart.com, or for that matter, any other healthy business Start Up manage to consummate??? Read More »

This is why Amazon’s Junglee is gonna SMASH the B**ls of Indian e-Commerce players

Ever since Amazon’s Junglee is live, we are hearing of different kind of feedback from consumers. Some think Amazon has gotten deep into ‘niche players’ and has done a much better job of product discovery/comparison and for others, they are busy finding minor faults in the service. Read More »

 

7 Reasons why you MUST know SALES! [Sales Teaches you Business Models of the World]

When I was 17 years old, a real estate agent – M.M Goyal of Jaico Real Estates in Mumbai told me a Hindi dialog. He said ‘Vyaapari woh, Jo Bechta bhala’. Translated, it means ‘The businessman who knows how to … Read More »

Metrics That Matter–What’s Your Company Currency?

The business and the team get ‘synced’ with one number and one metric, which in turn keeps your team active in observing, thinking and measuring the metric that is most relevant to your business.

It’s even better if that number can be publicly displayed. I know Companies where large screens display the few critical numbers across all its work areas to keep the teams focused. Read More »

Demystifying Share Holders Agreements For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs could always try and negotiate the maximum number of shares % ‘outside’ the purview of the lock in. The standard was 25% (so 75% got locked in), but negotiating 33% was not difficult. The unlocked % depended on the life cycle of progress at which time the start up was getting funded (the later the time to funding, the higher the unlocked shares %) Read More »