Is coronavirus fintech’s watershed moment?
How does fintech evolve from the coronavirus economic crisis?
Tag: Business Strategy
GM Chronicles Part 2: Does a product background give you an edge?
So you are a product person turned GM. What advantages do you bring to the table? What’s your edge in this role? Some of my thoughts below Structured and systems-level thinking Great product folks have a structured thinking approach to solving problems. Thinking in systems is a critical skill. This mode of thinking is immensely […]
Lessons learned in SMB fintech
In the last post, I highlighted that SMB’s are mostly a long tail business with a majority of the market at the smaller end of the spectrum. An insight that I did not appreciate going into this market is the amount of sensitivity to price. The statement that “There are three things that are most […]
Compete or Die – LiveNation Part Deux
Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more Successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing ? Andrew S. Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive So who should LiveNation be paranoid about? Who are its competitors? As we saw […]
Mo Concerts Mo Money – A look at Live Nation (NYSE: LYV)
In the last post, I talked about getting into the habit of reading 10k’s. Time to dogfood my own advice :), for this post, I wanted to look at a completely new industry than the usual fodder. LiveNation is my first pick (NYSE:LYV). Latest 10K for 2018. What are the goals of this exercise? Understand […]
FinTech businesses, platforms or not?
I’ve been deeply interested in understanding what actually makes a platform business a platform¹ business ?— are there any patterns? How do platform businesses actually win? Is there something unique about them or is it all just branding? This is a particularly insightful question to ponder on as, if you talk to any company today , you […]