The Mistakes of AT&T and Solutions
AT&T in their residential strategy has made one mistake after another, & this is surely the biggest & most foolhardy of them. First, AT&T embraced an FTTC strategy that relied on copper pairs to deliver…
Category: Finance & Planning
The Bull’s Eye Research Methodology
Research Methodologies play important role while opting for the solution of each product/service. The wrong selections of methodology can create a fiasco for the researched product/services. It is extremely imperative to distinguish the research problem…
Importance of Small Product SKUs
FMCG companies coming up with full fledge products (with all SKUs) is not always the correct marketing strategy for infiltrating into the marketplace. It is, therefore very important to distinguish what is going on nowadays…
Observations on Facebook’s WhatsApp Business Model
16 billion is more than the sum Microsoft paid for Nokia, and Google paid for Motorola, combined. Those companies actually have tangible goods that did more than text message. 16 billion is almost three times…
Telecom Performance in High Potential Markets
Market Development Mobile phones: Positive performance for Mobile phones on December 2013 vs. December 2012 both in Volume (+14.4%) and in Value (+31.2%) Smartphones: Positive performance and further growth for Smartphones on December 2013 vs….
Trends Indicate Preference for Dual SIM in Emerging Markets
This article is the follow up of the November publication which showed the increasing trends of dual SIM in Mobile Handsets but this time the trend of Dual SIM in Smartphones is explained. On a…
What Serious Investors Look For
It’s been an interesting start in 2014. So far I’ve invested into a failing eCommerce business with a strategy contingent and mediated on the outright sale of a product. This past Monday I spent the…
Why MBA’s Need Technical Training
New MBA graduates are superb with spreadsheets, markov chains, data mining and a hoard of other high-end analysis techniques. But they have yet to learn the value of employee loyalty and experience. I used to work…
Breaking Down Snapchat’s Valuation
While theories run amok on the validity of the USD 3 billion valuation for Snapchat, an obscure clause in their Terms & Conditions reveals the storage of meta data is prevalent. The algorithm in play…
The Western Invasion of Islamic Banking
Islamic banks claim that they do not charge or give interest in adherence with Koranic teachings. But there is simply no banking without interest. Islamic banks charge interest on loans and then give interest on…