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Finance is full of hair splitting as I warned in Hair Splitting In Finance. Payments is no exception. In Retail Payments Primer, I highlighted that credit card, debit card, wallet, UPI and other retail methods of payments (MOPs) are not equal. Now National Payments Corporation of India would like us to appreciate that there are … Read more
In Bills And Statements Are Hard To Decipher, we noted that it was very hard to read bills and statements from banks, ecommerce companies, retailers and other industries. We took two examples and did a deep dive to understand the full extent of the indecipherability problem: Ecommerce Bill Bank Statement In this post, we will … Read more
People regularly complain that it’s very hard to decipher bills and statements from banks. Rant from Quora: Why are the description info on Bank Account Statements so confusing? We cannot find what is the debit for and from whom the payment / transfer has come in. End of the month when you see the statement … Read more
In 10 Best Answers For Peter Thiel Interview Question – Part 1, I gave five answers to the following Peter Thiel interview question: What is the one thing that’s true but nobody believes it when you tell them? In this second part, I’ll give five more. Here goes. #6. Fixed deposit beats inflation Matt Levine … Read more
Peter Thiel interview question: What is the one thing that’s true but nobody believes it when you tell them? I have not attended an interview with Peter Thiel nor do I have any intention of doing so. But I do know 10 things that are true but nobody believes me when I tell them. I’ll … Read more
“A basic premise of Web3 is that every product is simultaneously an investment opportunity” – Matt Levine The previous post entitled How Tokenonmics Has Revolutionized Web3 Software was about the revolutionary impact of tokenomics on Web3 software. In this post, we will do a deep dive into the following characteristics of Tokenomics. The genuine Tokenomics … Read more
In the traditional Onprem software paradigm, a Customer pays the full License Fee of the software upfront and gets the rights to use the software in perpetuity. If he wants maintenance and updates, he additionally pays AMC every year, which is typically 18-22% of the LF. Upgrades are charged separately, as and when they’re released. … Read more
Amul and Parle have stopped supplies to Udaan. According to ET Prime, Alleging that B2B ecommerce platform Udaan was monopolising distribution to retailers, some of India’s largest FMCG makers such as Amul and Parle have stopped supplying stocks to the startup. Amul and Parle are multibillion dollar FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) companies headquartered in … Read more
It has become a favorite pastime for a lot of people to predict the disruption of B2B sales. (Ditto banks, telcos, et al.) Take the author of this LinkedIn post entitled Enterprise Sales Has Been Disrupted – Why Sales Pros Should Care for instance. Like disruption talk in many other areas, this is a sureshot … Read more
Both FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) and DTC (Direct to Consumer) companies manufacture their own products. (NOTE: In some markets, FMCG is called CPG or Consumer Packaged Goods. Source: McKinsey.) Both of them sell online and via brick-and-mortar stores. Their products are used by a Consumer i.e. private individual in his or her personal capacity … Read more