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Reading as a habit is not about reading emails or news blogs, it is about reading a continuous stretch of 300 pages on a specific topic that is curated and published. The habit of reading is about reading published books. It can be a hardcover, paperback or an e-book. It can be fiction or nonfiction. But it has to be active, conscious and continuous. This post is about making a list of arguments on why…

It is easy to know the value of a product or service which is used often and is accepted as something worthy to pay for. Everyone agrees gold coins are valuable even if they don’t know the current gold rate in their currency. Everyone agrees Amazon Prime is a valuable service even though they might… Read More »How to Evaluate New Ideas For Value? | The Startup Project

Spotify is a music app, Adobe provides apps for creatives to draw and design, Fortnite is a game. These 3 products are completely different when it comes to what service they provide. But they all have same revenue model, Subscription Model. To be precise, Freemium Subscription Model. In a subscription model, the consumer uses a… Read More »Psychological Reason Behind The Success Of Freemium Model | The Startup Project

Facebook has been the Uber of 2018. They had a negative breaking headline every other week, centered around issues of privacy, social engineering, and national security. The reason for this is the decade long dissemination of content without any regulation under the legal construct for a platform. By not acknowledging itself as a media company… Read More »The Obvious Flaw in Recommendation Systems | The Startup Project

Snapchat success came in the era, where any successful social media company would be acquired by Facebook. It not only avoided the acquisition but thrived on its own terms, garnered a significant audience and has become a major participant in the cultural machine. They try to stand by as an innovating company with new ideas,… Read More »Should Snapchat Copy Instagram’s Timeline? | The Startup Project

In an earning’s call, Elon Musk while replying to a question said Tesla would open the charging network for other company EVs and mentioned that he doesn’t believe in moats. To quote him he said, “moats are lame.” He went on to say that it’s not the moat, but the pace of innovation which is… Read More »The $1 Trillion Moat