Product Management

Product Management articles/posts on Curiouslog. Product Management function is high on complexity and potential impact. Articles here are my views on finer nuances of Product Management from experiences across B2C and B2B businesses.

The Present Future of Audio: Talk, Music, Video, Interactivity – a16z Podcast

The Present Future of Audio: Talk, Music, Video, Interactivity – a16z Podcast

a16z podcast has had two very interesting episodes on the past, present and future of audio. This episode goes deeper…
Masters of Search in the streaming era

Masters of Search in the streaming era

Search Experience on Netflix, Amazon Prime and You Tube Across both audio and video formats, the online media consumption in…
Understanding the power of gamification

Understanding the power of gamification

For the last 2 weeks, I have been learning Spanish on Duolingo. It’s amazing. The Duolingo app is just phenomenally…
Problem Framing and choice of adjectives – story of ventilators and sanitizers

Problem Framing and choice of adjectives – story of ventilators and sanitizers

Problem Framing is considered a crucial step in the development of a new solution/product or in problem solving. Yet, we…
Varying rates of digital adoption across send and receive-sides impact payment-flows

Varying rates of digital adoption across send and receive-sides impact payment-flows

Very simplistically put, payment is the movement of money from A to B. And the world is becoming increasingly comfortable…
Find what’s really broken before fixing it

Find what’s really broken before fixing it

I enjoy coding. While I have a long way to go as a programmer, coding does put me in a…
Factory and Lab mindsets in product management teams

Factory and Lab mindsets in product management teams

Factories and laboratories evoke very different images. With a factory – I am usually thinking the industrial revolution in all…
Quest for Friction Less Experiences

Quest for Friction Less Experiences

Yesterday, I got to experience the WhatsApp payment flows. It surely felt like a neat friction-less experience both for adding/mapping…
Beyond Big Data – A Small and fast data example

Beyond Big Data – A Small and fast data example

Big Data is all the rage. Everywhere you go, any meeting or presentation one sits through, Big Data seems to…
Good rules should be designed for higher adoption

Good rules should be designed for higher adoption

How do we drive adoption for rules in a community, or even at a country level ? Should a good…
Search Vs Social – the long tail of ad revenues

Search Vs Social – the long tail of ad revenues

Google and Facebook together took away 64% of the total US online advertising spends. And Facebook had around 65% of…
Unit Economics in the times of Auction Marketing Models

Unit Economics in the times of Auction Marketing Models

Unit Economics is all we hear these days in the consumer technology world. Unfortunately for many start-ups seeking venture funds,…
Public policy, ripple effects and feedback loops

Public policy, ripple effects and feedback loops

I have always been intrigued by product design and by extension policy design (& implementation). If the government were to…

Payments are a critical piece – Digital Banking ToolKit

In India, digital and mobile Payments is a really HOT space right now. HDFC Bank introduced PayZapp which intends to…

Showing Contact Addresses in Google Maps

Quick Summary: Here’s a small product feature recommendation for Google Maps on Android. Currently when I am in Google Maps…

Thin Mobile App or a Fat one – Digital banking toolkit

Mobile is the new frontier and banks know this well. Amongst the various choices to make as part of the…

SMS is reborn as an acqui channel in the Smartphone age

In the early days of Deal4Loans, we used to get a lot of traffic and leads through SMS campaigns. Especially…

Uber and Free Market Economics

Uber has changed the way we travel within cities. On a recent trip to Jaipur, the first thing I did…