Category: Inside Out Analysis
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Alexa, move my money to Amazon fund!
Recent billion-dollar acquisition of PillPack by Amazon marks yet another significant move by e-commerce giant into disrupting pharmacy business. Already rumored healthcare venture by behemoths like JP Morgan, Berkshire Hathaway, and Amazon seems to be making significant progress over last couple of months. These series of events made me wonder what’s next for Amazon? Generally speaking, which industry technology…
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What the heck is GDPR? Should you care?
I’m sure everyone of us have recently noticed the bombardment of emails regarding update in privacy policies from companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Venmo, Medium, Spotify, etc. Yet very few of us bother reading those lengthy unpleasant emails. Me neither! (Of course, until writing this post). In the aftermath of Cambridge Analytica scandal, being a…
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Things I learnt from recently concluded VCIC competition (Part – 2)
This article is a continuation of part 1, I posted a few weeks ago. Here, I’ll try to explain how did we went about coming up with valuation of our choice of startup – Ridevert. There are several key factors that VCs generally look at while valuing a startup. Some of the most prominent ones are: Now,…
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Jio – A $30B Master Stroke by Mukesh Ambani
Since the launch of much awaited Reliance Jio, telecom sector in India is up for a stir. Jio has already acquired 100 million users in a short span of 170 days, and is targeting ambitious 400 million users by the end of next fiscal year. Some would say, this could be because of Jio’s generous…