• North of Brooklyn — Positioning a pie

    North of Brooklyn — Positioning a pie

    A note before you read: Josh and Alex, I have a lot of respect for what you have built at North of Brooklyn over fourteen years. I have been watching your work for a while, and I keep coming back…

  • Ramp: The Best Experience Is the One You Don’t See

    Ramp: The Best Experience Is the One You Don’t See

    Ramp, Eric Glyman, and the position they built by accident and never named A note before we begin: I have been watching Ramp for a while now, and I think highly of what Eric Glyman and his co-founders have built.…

  • Fin: The Man Who Hated Bots Now Sells the Most Personal One

    Fin: The Man Who Hated Bots Now Sells the Most Personal One

    I have been following what Intercom, now Fin, has been building for years. Eoghan McCabe’s willingness to destroy a functioning business to rebuild it around a conviction is rare, and it deserves to be taken seriously. This analysis exists because…

Dive deep into business, brand and strategy.

  • Girls To Avoid Vol 2

    I’m sure all the women out there, who’ve read the first of this 2-part series, will brandish me as the creep-who-generalizes-women in one egotistical-male-chauvinist induced confab. I couldn’t agree more. In fact, I’d say there’s truth down that road – where men are spectators to women playing dodge ball with…

  • Girls To Avoid Vol 1

    Over the years, with my experience and trained eye, I’ve compiled a flock from Venus who make us cringe, dig a grave or even recluse for the hills. These women are everywhere – living next door, at work, the coffee shop and (while you read this on your iPad) in…

  • The European Bluff

    For the past week I’ve been at the receiving end of sarcasm-tossed and mischievously-rolling-in-it jokes at work. And, now all thanks to social media, and with a little help of my colleagues – Round 2 has ensued on Facebook as we speak. They can’t help but snicker over the fact…

  • GQ Men Of The Year 2010

    Around half past six – looking dapper in a white suit – I arrive at The Grand Hyatt, Mumbai, with the Editor of GQIndia.com, who looks like an ad man from the hit TV show Mad Men. At this point, the venue for GQ Men of The Year Awards 2010…

  • Sell Yourself

    The art of seduction works quite like an advertising campaign. You get a great product; like yourself, a consumer; the lady of your dreams, and some great direct marketing techniques. The lattermost, requiring fine-tuning those inter-personal skills and fabricating some engaging packaging. Like most advertising campaigns, we will begin with…

  • The First Impression

    Alright, you’ve memorized the language spoken on Venus in one odious chug-a-thon. What next? How do you move from classroom inspired ideas into the real world – a place where women swarm around like sharks, making lawyers poodles in frocks? Frankly, first impressions are old fashioned; yet they work like…

  • Day 1

    Day 1, June 23, 2015 Chandigarh-Mumbai By 3am we had successfully failed for 4 straight hours at booking a trip to the concrete jungles of India- Bombay, Delhi and Bangalore. Anyone who’s ever lived in small town will tell you how suffocating clean air and a peacful life can be.…

  • Guy finds girlfriend’s Backpage post

    Rested my laptop, walked out of Starbucks on the corner of Fifth Ave & 49th Street and to my shock/surprise, in the middle of the chaos that is Manhattan -at 6pm- a hot girl (possible part-time model) jumps out of an Uber cab and bolts for the next one. Seconds…

  • How I was caught shoplifting

    With nothing on the cards for a sunny Sunday afternoon, my mother announced a trip to the local mall. I was in the 3rd grade that year. A few Nintendo games aside, a toboggan [a long, light, narrow vehicle, typically on runners, used for sliding downhill over snow or ice]…

  • Why smokers have great ideas

    First thing first. Yes, I’ve smoked cigarettes. Benson Lights. India Kings. Classic Milds. Gudang Garam. Marlboro Lights. I wasn’t exactly loyal to any one brand or the taste [as compulsive and habitual smokers would have amateurs believe]. Labelled -to my convenience- a social smoker, I would light one after having…

  • Dear Indian Women

    I wish to congratulate you from the bottom of my heart for your new found self-image. The new Indian woman is liberated, powerful, ballsy, daring, commanding, in-charge, leader of the wolf-pack and most importantly driven by this inner radiance of rebel (so so sexy). The submarine of sexual revolution under…

  • All meaningful relationships begin by letting go

    Drop your stinking preachy socks in the laundry, walk the bitch of society in a park of could-care-less [no leashes, please.], sip on a hot cup of calm-the-fuck-down and drop the burden of the bubble-wrap-world off your shoulders. In other words, free your mind of any preconceived animations of what…

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