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Musings on Product Strategy

Product strategy acts as a connecting bridge between your product vision & the coherent execution by the product teams.

Platform Scalability : Local Networks

It was a bright day during the winters of 2008. My co-passenger, a Kazakh boy of my age, and I connected over Bollywood 1 and Shahrukh Khan while travelling from Berlin to Munich in a shared car. Like me, he was also backpacking in Europe,

Platform-spotting: How to identify platform in your product?

Many of the successful platform companies started with linear products-based business and moved towards platform-business ones later. Most of the Big Techs (except Facebook) began their journey with digital or physical products. Other successful platforms like Tencent started with a PC-based messaging product, OICQ (now QQ), in 1998 and

2020’s Top Platform Companies

In spite of a devastating pandemic and a moribund economy, many platform businesses have not only survived, but also thrived, scaled and prospered in 2020. The year also saw many historic IPOs. Here, I have ranked the platforms companies and marketplaces based on the percentage

Tech Debt: The Frankenstein of Product

The best explanation, I’ve heard till date, for the Technical Debt is the financial analogy – called ‘The Debt Metaphor’ coined by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. Ward used the metaphor â€˜Technical Debt’ to justify the code refactoring of a finance software to his

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