Dhiraj Kacker

General

27 February, 2013

GoogleMaps, here's how you can help India's GDP

Anyone who has lived in India knows that we waste a ton of time in giving and taking directions. I ......

General

27 August, 2012

Grokking India: High fixed cost per transaction

This blog post is really worthy only of a tweet since the core lesson is simple and either you grok ......

General

23 July, 2012

Apple vs Google: vertical integration vs crowd-sourcing

I am a big fan of both Apple and Google and from the distance see two very different DNAs that ......

General

21 May, 2012

Why a telecom company can revolutionise payments in India

Airtel Money is the first time in 5 years that I have truly become excited about a payment solution for ......

General

13 April, 2012

Why I Don't Believe In COD

Payments systems (or lack of them) are a very big problem for India e-commerce and as much as COD is ......

General

07 February, 2012

Distribution Is King. Much More So In India

The easiest way to tell if a PE/VC investor has earned their chops in India or in the west is ......

General

19 August, 2011

Accounting For Cost Of Collections In LTV

In an earlier post I had talked about a key difference between developed and developing economies being that startups ......

General

06 July, 2011

Building a Brand by Building Trust

One of the biggest challenges faced by any startup in any part of the world is earning customer trust ......

General

16 June, 2011

What Is The Closest Landmark?

As India's GDP grows, per capita GDP, and by extension per capita output, will also grow. At 1/15th the ......

General

25 May, 2011

Start-ups In India Must Tackle Hidden Costs

It has now been more than three years since Canvera has taken off and we have evolved into a 500-strong ......