Should startups invest in high quality or faster development?
Sitting in the “Entrepreneur talk” session held at the Sauder Business School, I hear from the CEO and co-founder of Shoeme.ca, one of the Vancouver’s fastest growing e-commerce website, – “large chunk of your investment should be spent on marketing. Technology and product quality can always be concentrated later on.” This statement leaves me astray as it disrupts the fundamental ideology I had developed over the years as a software developer. As an engineer, my focus has been optimizing product quality. What my bachelors education and work experience taught…read more
Optimizing Bench resource utilization
IT sector in India contributes about 40% to the Nation’s GDP, employing 25% of Indian workforce. Amongst various advantages that is infused by this sector, it is also known to employ a huge number of employees to constitute its “Bench Force”. So what exactly is Bench Force? Why does a company need one? Bench force is needed by company to portray its ability to accommodate new projects. Thus, more the number of the employees in Bench Force, faster is the company’s ability to start new projects without actually having…read more
Analytics is everywhere!
One of major concerns of stake holder of any online venture is the ability of gauge the market penetration of the online venture. Collection and analysis of these metrics expedite the process of devising an alternate strategy to gain the advantage. Personally, I am a hands-on professional. I believe in experiential learning to a very profound and lasting method of learning. At this stage of my careers, where Sauder Business School is making no less effort in bombarding me with assignments, my search for application of few of this skills…read more
Industry Interest Statement
September 28, 2018:” … Today was a rather interesting day. We got to look into the market research data of our product we will be launching next month. I am pretty confident that our customers are going to love what they are going to get from this product. It has been an exhausting and exciting six months since the start of this project and I cannot wait for our product to enter the market….” This is what I want to write in my daily journal a few years from now….read more