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India from Net Neutrality to Net Equality !

Telecom has been the victim of many issues since it was intercepted. Scams, cartels, price wars, additional offers, tough regulators, quantified use of telecom funds and businesses that were built on telecom services OTT and e-commerce. Billions of funds get poured in telecom sector every year. Last years auction itself raised more than Rs 150,000 lakh crore from bidders to provide services to retail consumers across different bandwidths. telecom companies in order to run business have to invest a lot on different activities like auction, deployment, technology, sales and marketing, branding, fixed costs of maintaining services levels, maintenance of the optical fibres, support systems and what not only to create a handful of revenue streams generated through voice calls, internet services, subscription services, VAS - Value Added Services etc. Telecom as an industry has seen less than 25 companies competing in the country for a billion population with heavy capital and low marg

What do you learn from computer games? Find out

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I am not sure how much computer games you play. Do you? I am a gamer and I love strategy games which involve planning. My favorite game is Red Alert. I have been playing Red Alert 3 for a very long time and its a war game. I realized, I have learned a lot of business lessons by playing Red Alert. And here are the top 3. 1. Don't Attack Too Soon In Red Alert, we have limited time and resources. I have to build an army with those resources and then attack my enemy. If I did not build a large enough army, I will lose the battle and also my troops. Once I lose my troops, I have to rebuild it from scratch. If I build a large enough troop after looking at my enemy, and attack with everything I have, I have a chance of winning. In business, it is similar. If you build a product and if it is not as good as your competitors, you will fail. Once you take it to the market and fail, there is no coming back. So have some patience and build a good product. When you re

Healing After a Breakup !

Did you know that your brain codes emotional pain in the same way that it codes physical pain? When an intimate relationship ends, it hurts because it hurts. We make a bad situation worse for ourselves when we tell ourselves that we shouldn’t feel the way we feel. If you’re moving through the world with an achy heart, please keep in mind the following: Pain is to be held, not healed. Relationships do not leave us where they find us. There is no going back to the person you were before the breakup. Your work is to integrate the pain of the ending into the larger narrative of what it is to be you. Integration happens when we hold our pain—get to know it, stay on the lookout for its lessons and gifts. Pain can make us panic a bit. We say to ourselves, “I am not OK.” Notice what happens when you shift your language to this instead: “I am feeling deeply.” Time + Intention = Recovery. The adage is that time heals all wounds. I think a more apt expression is that time plus inten

Uber going Public but never made a profit !

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Uber Inc., the world's most valuable startup valued at more than $78 billion is heading towards at IOP in May this year.  Started out of a problem experienced by the founders Travis Kalanick and Garret Camp who didn't get a cab one night while heading towards their hotel. This led them to start Uber and disrupt the transportation industry with a simple idea of bringing onboard demand and supply on an app.  Present in more than 600 cities across the globe under the leadership of is founder Travis Kalanick who had to leave Uber in 2016 forced by its board and investors due to series of scandals that himself and the company had faced in various countries.  It took 9 months for Uber to find their leader in Dara Khosrowshahi who built Expedia into a global travel powerhouse. Until then Uber had sold their business in China, SEA, Russia to DiDi, Grab and Yandex due to the stiff competition, sold and became an investor in their business in respective countries.  Under Dara, U

The secret to start learning for FREE.

Ever since the telecom war started, it gave inception to new industries and a much-needed boost to the internet ecosystem by terming "Data is the new Oil." Industries, people and businesses have been flooded with opportunities to make services and goods both affordable and accessible. There's no industry left which didn't get affected with the internet. People are moving rapidly presently more than 560 million users, which is set to go north at more than 627 million users in 2019. Better technology, cheap data rates, affordable smartphones, accessibility of services, specialized content. Education and learning too had a deeper impact at scale. Numerous resources are available to become skilled, become resourceful, to become relevant, to dig deeper into your interest areas and get command over your interest. Learning online has not only become accessible but costly too. There are businesses which provide courses for a particular sum and grant access which is

Come, I'll tell you Secret to a better life!

Having a better life is always an aim for any individual since the time he/she had started taking control of lives. Humans are typical beings, who are often confused between choices and left with nothing in hand, some even stick to it so badly that lately it is realized that world has moved much forward than their pace. In fact, already confused people, in turn, confuse others and impact their surroundings too. We copy each other up to an extent living each other's identity rather living oneself. A better life has a different opinion for every other human being in this world. And it's weighted average continue to differ from person to person. But, when you grow and think deeply to separate facts from illusions the story is completely different here. It's not the money, or power or eating full, or even to fulfill your dreams. It's the life that starts after that, beyond the scope of money, power, greed, dreams and many other things too. When we question our i

Checklist before you start your business !

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Starting Up is never soon and never late, it's just your timing of how you're confident of about your conscience. Often people end up getting found in a stressed situation due to the excitement, the newness, and joy of becoming independent with the responsibility of adding value to the society. We get to hear more success stories tan failure stories in the journey of entrepreneurship and startu-ups. But Rome was not built in a day. These companies founders have them every other alternate way or an idea before we get them to know who they are. Instagram founders Kevin Systorm and Mike Kregier founded a couple of startups earlier to Instagram which either got acquired or got closed too. Similar are the cases of startups and businesses. Failure or closing down companies and isn't just related to people and its founders, many at times, the viability of the idea, purpose of the product, need of the product, vision and many other things come into the picture. Example,