Category: Business Models

What colour is your startup’s moat?

The purpose of this blog is to provide the startup CEO with a framework that captures learnings from successful competitive battles. I believe this framework should (1) Help entrepreneurs shape their business model such that it enjoys impenetrable competitive advantage or a large barrier to imitation (2) Encourage entrepreneurs to alter capital and resource allocation to feed and widen the barrier to imitation (yes they need to be fed and protected – more on that below) (3) Help better communicate the same to their employees and investors as they align on a business strategy (4) Avoid ‘Grow or Die’ mindset which leads to ‘Grow and Die’ results

‘The Deception of Growth’​ – Hyper-growth rendering Competitive Advantage meaningless?

Hyper-growth is hiding flaws in business strategy and clouding the entrepreneur's ability to invest behind sustainable competitive advantage. The idea if the blog is to bring to forefront core tenets of good strategy and also, present an easy framework to communicate the same.

Business Model Scalability – Understanding & applying the concept to adopt the right business model

We as venture investors love highly scalable business models! - "But what does that mean in simple terms?" - has often been the question thrown right back at me. On the other hand, I continue to interact with entrepreneurs who choose a highly scalable business model  over a relatively lesser scalable business model even though … Continue reading Business Model Scalability – Understanding & applying the concept to adopt the right business model →