ThreadSol founders on what it means to not be “an Uber of anything”

“It’s a game of belief,” Manasij Ganguli tells me about getting customers, investors and employees around you. We are sitting in his living room at Noida home, east of capital New Delhi, with his wife Mausmi Ambastha. This becomes “a game of thrones” if the startup idea you’re pitching doesn’t have a global equivalent. For […]

Lessons Amit Ranjan learnt in building products for the government

On Wednesday, we published the first part of Outliers Podcast with SlideShare co-founder Amit Ranjan in which he shared entrepreneurial lessons in building a consumer internet product. In the second part, Ranjan talks about his ongoing assignment with India’s government where he’s helping build next generation digital products.

Lessons Amit Ranjan learnt building SlideShare

Consumer Internet products are tough to build, and even tougher for them to survive on their own. If the product is good, it’s more likely to be gobbled up by a large software dinosaur. And if it’s not adding millions of loyal users at speed, a slow, painful death is the only way forward. In […]