The more one looks at different businesses, countries, people, the quicker one culminates to a single conclusion — that those who beat the competition, grew their quality of life, rose higher, and lasted longer, were simply doing a simple thing. They were building for the future. Let us look at…

Change is the only constant. Even the nature of competition changes over time. How people competed yesterday is different than how they compete now. And it will be different tomorrow. Here is a quick study of the nature of competition — personal, social, or business. The nature of low competition …

According to PWC, the estimated cost for RBI to manage old bank notes over a 5-year period between 2016 till 2021 was around 4.5 lakh crores. As per the World Bank, India is the world’s largest recipient of remittances as it received $87 billion in 2021 with the United States…

Having a self-motivated team that goes the extra mile for the customer is vital to scaling a business. I wanted to know how it’s done as we scaled our custom software development business at itmtb. In search of the answers, I turned to the most unusual places that have a…

Agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for about 58% of India’s population India has the world’s largest cattle herd (buffaloes) India has the largest area planted to wheat, rice, and cotton, and is the largest producer of milk, pulses, and spices in the world India is the second-largest producer…

While your partner makes you wait at the shopping mall, you decide to log onto Facebook. The new Facebook you have heard so much about. You update the app, click open it, and it asks you to validate yourself. Password, your voice, or your retina scan. You’re wondering how did…

As a bootstrapped startup, you are going to sail high through the upcoming recession, if: 1) You are not blinded by the sex and glamour of an idea. You are focussed on solving the right problem. …

Let’s start by a simple primer on ONDC. Say you’re a medicine seller with a physical shop, and losing hair watching Netmeds & Pharmeasy taking away your customers. From the comfort of their homes, your customers visit these portals, find medicines, pay, and get them delivered. Imagine one fine day…

There are Competitive Advantages and there are Sustainable Competitive Advantages. This post forming the 7th edition of The Strategy Project, is about the latter. The first gives you customers and fame for a while and then vanishes like a shadow at night. …