Is digital, young, mobile, and ruled by scaled-up marketplaces — The future of the audio industry will be digital — this digital migration trend had started a while back and is now, somewhat complete. The audiences who are consuming streamed audio content are young, digitally native, willing to spend money on great listening experiences, and have shunned away traditional broadcast…

In early 2017, a team of 2 co-founders, failed in scaling a specialized social network where users would share their homemade cooking recipes via written and video content. …

This is the story of how Rocket Internet entered a developing market and succeeded because of its diversified portfolio of startups and investments — In 2015, Rocket Internet reached out to me with a clear mandate — they wanted to launch their Lamudi business in a developing market, but they also wanted to fail and pivot as quickly as possible to reduce the pain if there was no market fit to be found.

Every product needs an initial insight to get started with, and when that insight is found, it needs to go through a series of hypothesis-driven customer discovery experiments. This is the story of how we built a product that brought neighbors and local stakeholders together and helped them build social capital using technology. — Initial insights and market validation In September 2018, our payments startup had scaled from 15 full-time employees to 65, and with an office in one of the city’s most crowded and densely populated locations, very quickly, parking spaces close to the office and in a reasonably safe and legally viable location were short in supply.

This is the story of what has worked for Spotify in its journey of delivering the perfect listening experience and more… — In 2006, Daniel Ek saw the gap in the market and took advantage of the changed music consumption habits, and launched Spotify. Since then, Spotify has taken advantage of Apple’s innovations, ridden the megatrends of mobile, and used AI to deliver the “perfect listening experience”.

The pandemic has accelerated the trends we had seen during the last decade and leading up to the retail apocalypse of 2017. …

Part 1: What is a disruption? How digital is disrupting? What is the role of the entrepreneur? How quickly is digital disruption happening? How is collaboration shaping in this era? — Every few years we hear that the launch of a new digital product is going to change the world and/or disrupt an industry. But disruption is way more than just a new product or the market frenzy over a new feature. Disruption can indeed be irritating at times, but we’ll…

Business development, fuels growth, whether at startups or corporate settings. ‘Biz-Dev’ requires correct hiring, goal and KPI setting, sufficient resource allocation, management involvement, and focused specialization to succeed. — A sales department is responsible for selling specific offerings to customers and marketing determines which specific customer segments to target with specific products and features. But when the opportunity isn’t clear but potential is huge, that’s when business development steps in. Business development aims to identify and flush out new…