Employee OS SaaS products are only increasing in number in the market. And it is no secret that the success of SaaS products is because of employees inside of companies adopting products to aid their roles and accomplish more activities inside the company. For example, let’s take a typical day…

Over the past few years, product-led growth has become jargon in tech companies. Working in the trenches of this I wanted to collect my learnings and channel my thoughts in a post. Companies typically start to think about growth once they’ve achieved product-market fit. …

Hi, I’m Amol Walvekar, I’m an ODFer and I am largely interested in solving hard problems using technology and working with extremely smart people. The On Deck Fellowship (ODF) is a 10-week program that creates incredible community around a cohort of experienced founders & talented individuals in the formative stages…

Many of you may have read about Facebook’s intent to purchase a stake in Reliance Jio through various news reports. While this has not been confirmed, it looks like Facebook is interested in a 10% stake in Jio. Reliance Jio is truly the reflection of the smartphone internet wave of…

Network effects is a term made popular by several internet companies, one such being Facebook. The growth of Facebook is attributed to network effects. In simple terms network effects is that you see that a product or service becoming more valuable as usage increases. Network effects can be tied to…

A lot of times you never use what you learn in college at your job, but some lessons I derive today are from experiences in college. As a college student, I’d classify myself as an ambitious but directionless soul, which is perfectly okay at that age. I took up several…

The term ‘mentoring’ had a very negative connotation attached in my head until my undergraduate school. Mentoring was done to those kids in school who lacked discipline, were weak in academics or the ones who got into mental depression; it was meant to get these students back on track. …

General Scholarships 1. British Chevening Scholarship for Indians http://www.chevening.org/india/ Brief description: Chevening Scholarships are the UK government’s global scholarship programme, funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and partner organisations. …

Bangalore to Bengaluru It was a normal Saturday afternoon, I put my iPod on shuffle and was just lazing around at home, a song from Script started playing and I started singing along, in the middle I had an epiphany and began writing this piece. The song was “If you…