It’s never easy to see a dream die, but it’s even harder to write a thoughtful blogpost about why it did. PepperTap, hours after announcing that it was shutting down its operations late last night, has come up with a brutally honest post detailing its journey and the reason why they chose to exit the grocery delivery business.
The world is going local. You could be sitting in the remotest parts of the world, while working for a company located on the other side of the globe. The internet and allied technologies have well and truly enabled even the smallest of entrepreneurs and professionals go global. Using global services like AirBnB, Uber and Etsy are possible today and collaboration across continents, countries and cities has never been this smooth.
Pulse candy has done what many businesses can only dream of. It’s achieved what makes for enduring branding case studies and gets mentioned in social media chronicles.
Everyone is a part of contributing to the legend that Bangalore is, as much as the mess it’s come to be. And so the onus of helping this once glorious city restore its rightful title also rests with us. Yes even us urban professionals with a 9 to 5 jobs because the bad news is there are no invisible elves that will fix the city for us. The government isn’t efficient enough to turn this city around overnight. The responsibility of cleaning up after us doesn’t lie with some anonymous good hearted volunteers from NGOs.
The good news is, if all of us did our bits, however little, we should see change. Good news is people are doing it. So, here’s a simple list of things, all of us, can within our capacity help.
Ritesh Agarwal is touted as one of the youngest entrepreneurs in the country. Having started Oyo rooms at 18, he knows a thing or two about starting young. Today, Oyo is worth over $500 million and can truly be said to be a disruptor of the hotel industry in India. So when a user on Quora asked on how to start a startup at 18, the then 19 year old Ritesh Agarwal jumped in and shared these insights.
Atom, Tandem and Mondo: these are the names of new startup digital banks in the UK that could change the face of banking during 2016 and beyond. If they succeed, it would lead to branchless banks, existing only in smartphone apps.
With a new CEO, and 5 of its top execs gone, amidst a snipped valuation and a funding slowdown, and still a sign of profits to come, Flipkart, at least on the face of it, looks to be on the shaky ground.
Chanda Kochhar, MD and CEO, ICICI bank is a woman of substance, with as good a sense of business as of her responsibility as a woman, and a mother. In May 2014, she wrote a touching letter to her daughter purported to inspire her with stories of Kochhar’s own struggle, hard work and values.
She heads one of the world’s biggest consumer product companies and one of the only 20 women heading an S&P top 200 company, but her insights on the issues women still face at work come across as telling of the situation prevalent even today.
Speaking at the Women in the World Summit, Indira Nooyi, the 44 year old Indian-born CEO of Pepsico, has shared a lot of heartfelt thoughts about women at the workplace.