As infographics — I completed the Ship 30 for 30 Cohort-Based Course, organized by Dickie Bush and Nicolas Cole, back in April-May 2022. This article comprises everything that I learned during the course, as infographics. After the initial kick-off call, the course started with a session on adopting the mindset of a digital…

How can you use product principles to start a YouTube channel? A lot has been said and written about how one should go about building a product. There are numerous frameworks, strategies, and whatnot. But most of them boil down to the following five steps: Identifying the Target Audience Competitor Research Building an MVP Go-to-Market Understanding Metrics After you have executed…

A unique way to understand user experience — If you are remotely interested in startups, you must have heard of Airbnb, aka Air Bed and Breakfast. Founded in 2008 by Brian Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk, and Joe Gebbia, the company is an all-time favorite case study of startup gurus. One of the most popular success stories of the accelerator…

with India in Pixels — India in Pixels is an initiative to present information about India in the right context. When western outlets present data visualizations about India, they often fail to understand the local yet diverse demography and hence, misrepresent it. Ashris Choudhury, the person behind this idea, wanted to change that. …

and send requests using Postman — The Twitter API allows one to find and retrieve different forms of data from it’s social media platform. The basic version is free to use, and returns data sufficient for carrying out analyses and building side-projects. …

As the first full-time employee — I had lately been thinking a lot about my job. If you do not already know, I work at an early-stage startup called Wyzr. And as the subtitle may have told you, I am its first full-time employee. Startups are risky. You often wonder whether the uncertainty and the emotional…

A walk-through an analytics software — I finally delved into the world of Cohort Based Courses, aka CBCs, in November 2021. The course was named Product Analytics 101, organized by The Product Folks. As a part of the sessions, there was a hands-on workshop on Amplitude, a software to study user behavior on a website. …

A “documentation” of the Twitter Space by Ankita Tripathi and Nimish Bongale — Ankita Tripathi, an experienced technical writer, hosted a Twitter Space some time back on the subject “Google Season of Docs’22: Hows and Whys”. She was joined by Nimish Bongale, Software Engineer at JP Morgan, as a co-host. …

How Tortoise uses counter-positioning as a business strategy — What is Tortoise? Tortoise is a startup that “helps you save for your dream purchases and rewards you meaningfully for achieving them.” It is a fintech product that aims to implement the idea of saving first, buying later, opposite to the current market trends of buying first and paying later. What is counter positioning? In his world-famous…