Category

Macro

Latest Macro Articles

4 June 2015

The unmaking of a making economy

Most people by now will have heard some buzz about the ‘sharing’ or ‘on demand’ economy. Few will realise how...

READ MORE
12 March 2015

We’re getting SKUed !

  The reason I’m so excited about our latest product SuperTasker is not just because it’s a cool product (and looks...

READ MORE
16 December 2014

Freelance and contract hiring are shaping our future workforce!

CIO magazine included one of my predictions today in the top 6 tips for 2015 in an article titled "6...

READ MORE
28 September 2014

The Future of Work: the evolution of labor marketplaces

Operating in the labor / outsourcing space for almost 10 years now (first with an offline business and then online)...

READ MORE
26 July 2014

The future of marketplaces

Marketplaces are some of the hardest businesses to build (as our own testimony at PeoplePerHour shows). They are complex beasts...

READ MORE
21 March 2014

Disaggregation of a Bank

fermivc: There are lots of cool charts thrown around the startup/VC world. One of the best is the “Disaggregation of Craiglist,”...

READ MORE
20 March 2014

What’s Next for the Collaborative Economy?

This article I wrote got published today in Forbes on the monumental shift we are seeing towards a sharing economy.

READ MORE
2 March 2014

Are you thinking long-term enough?

Warren Buffet was once asked by Jeff Bezos a long time friend of his: “you are the second richest man...

READ MORE
31 January 2014

Who stole my fruit?

The last decade or so has been paradise for entrepreneurs mainly because as the world shifted more online and on...

READ MORE
30 January 2014

How the power of the crowd will transform business

One revolution that’s in the making today is that of the crowd.  There’s  lot of literature around it but it...

READ MORE
26 November 2013

There is nothing ’emerging’ about emerging markets

I am still shocked that most people in America and generally Western Europe don’t get that today there is nothing...

READ MORE
24 November 2013

The importance of the knowledge economy in solving long term unemployment

Elaine Pofeldt wrote this great piece Is Your Next Great Gig in Indiain Forbes yesterday after a long discussion we had...

READ MORE