Alok’s Posts

Why does Japan’s Panasonic import tomatoes?

I chuckled when I recently found out that Japan’s Panasonic has one far flung business division that actually imports canned tomatoes from Italy. Or t...Read More

Why the Chinese buy Internet Media on a ‘time’ basis

During my experience in China during 2001-2003, I never paid much attention to why the leading websites in the country sold their media on a ‘time’ ba...Read More

Ad networks go and going bust :-(

I was shocked when my colleague told me that Adsmart or Adrevenue – a UK based ad network that Games2win had signed up has gone bust…taking along with...Read More

“Wolf – Wolf” – the new e-commerce strategy??

I assume you know this story: There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the village sheep. To amuse himself he to...Read More

Entrepreneurship as a career…

My column in the January edition of Entrepreneur magazine: Entrepreneurship as a Career In the mid 60’s, Marwari men who had migrated to Mumbai and ot...Read More

The 13 things India Inc must do in 2013!

  This weekend has been a special one for me – I got my second back to back article (and that too a double pager) in the Economic Times! Check o...Read More

Why Denial is Bad Business

I wrote this with the 23 year old girl in mind.  This is dedicated to her, to her cause, to the women of India and to the right to BE who they are, as...Read More

What E-Commerce needs is brains, not price wars & discounts

Check out this amazing campaign that surfaced in the Wall Street iPad app that I was browsing over the weekend: When I tapped the bottle, this happene...Read More

A Happy Birthday Song for me!!

What can I say?? Check this out: Alok.mp3 Forwarded message From: pratik patel <pratik.patel@go4advisory.com>Date: Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 3:00 PMS...Read More

Can we create a Silicon Valley in India?

  I had the privilege of being invited to a round table discussion organised by Forbes India to discuss if Silicon Valley and its culture could i...Read More

Good Old Fashioned Waste…

A few years ago, when Cadbury launched ‘Bournville’, they had some really expensive ads all over town. I remember that Cadbury even rented...Read More

Mr. and Mrs. Co-Founder – How do you do?

As featured in the December issue of Entrepreneur Magazine: Mr. and Mrs. Co-Founder – How do you do? I have been married for the past 21 years (I am 4...Read More

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