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Even better is to hear this as an Audio Book. An amazing book that I have ever read truly made me change the way of my thinking. After reading this book it will make you rethink how you understand the world around you.

Even better is to hear this as an Audio Book. An amazing book that I have ever read truly made me change the way of my thinking. It is written by Malcolm Gladwell. After reading this book it will make you rethink how you understand the world around you.

I first read this book when I was 19. I found this book worth reading for building a sound foundation of knowing your emotions and administering them well according to different situations. If you have less control over your emotions and you overreact or outburst on certain things, then you should definitely read this book for a brighter side.

One of my favourite quotes in the book is “The desire for a more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.”

One of the best books that I have ever read comprising life's most important lessons.

This is a small beautiful book which is divided into 27 parts. The chapters are concise and easy to read. Its simplicity has really inspired a lot, it’s straightaway written from the heart thus touches easily.

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‘Lateral Thinking’ was the first De Bono book I read. The book has a simple and easy approach for examining the thoughts and difficulties of life with a fresh perspective to each.

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Lockdown saw a surge of 2 hour to 5 day workshops. These were mostly introductory offerings leading to a larger product. Brands and individuals (Gig workers) both jumped on this big time. Here is an analysis of the phenomena that lasted for 2 quarters.

What exactly are the shorter programmes?

In India, we saw a lot of short courses especially around the lockdown that followed the pandemic in India, especially from March 2020. In this we had one hour workshops to 15-hour workshops, mushroom very rapidly, all across the landscape of this country. And the topics were as diverse as LinkedIn, Data Science, SEO, Writing, Dating, User Experience, Public Speaking, Coaching, Stock market Investing, Commodities, Selling you name it. The price points are anywhere between zero, which are absolutely free to attend to INR 2500. But the median price point being INR 499. That’s the sweet price point 499, which is basically psychologically, one 500 rupee note.

Community building requires certain ascetic quality. Communities are a sure shot way of building brands and longevity. The reason why a lot of brands don't do it - It's hard. Requires uncommon passion. Takes time.

Why we started DataGiri?

Today in this session, we are going to look at what, how did we build one of the largest data science communities in Mumbai. Great. So the journey for us regarding building DataGiri was very purpose driven. We essentially were building a product called 9Content, which was a MarTech product.

Growth function typically comprises of Sales, Marketing and Product functions. I have been at the helm of affairs running a Marketing team for good amount of time in my life. Some reflections from the same.

I’m going to reflect on the Growth Team’s at GreyAtom.

I reflected on the structure of the growth team for the last four years in the intervals of six months each.

Interns & Rookies

When we started out, we were a totally rookie team, a completely a team full of rookies, freshers interns. The company size at that point in time was less than 10, to be very honest. And in the first six months, we built a team of total interns. So the only people who were there were all interns.

Mathematically modeling is an iterative process. We start with the basics and gradually embellish the model to factor more of the reality.

9Content, and the high level components that it needed to have regarding the various stages and the sub products. There is a pre-process, discover, promote, promotions, impact and otherwise. So in the preprocess, we need to define the analysis universe, we need to design all the lag indicators, and basically do the pre-processing. This is essentially going to be some sort of time series modelling. So having all autoregressive components in place. Then putting together a segmentation plan, where you need to build out models on smaller subsets of the universe where there is homogeneity within those clusters, and be able to, you know, build it out over there.

There isn't really a recipe for building a AI first product. Reason - There aren't many 'product' people who understand enough Machine Learning. It's a rare intersection.

Great. So today we’re going to look at a step-by-step guide to building AI-first products. There isn’t really a recipe for building AI-first product. The reason there aren’t many people who understand enough machine learning & product, it’s a rare intersection. This blog post proposes a way – how people can build features that are powered by AI. Just like any new technology, it looks like magic, but at the core is some simple maths, deep human insight, and some machine learning.

I write this from having travelled 16,000 kms across the State of Maharashtra, India in 3 months. Visited 170 Colleges. Conducted 26 Drives. Tested 4600 students and recruited/ signed ~350 learners into the Income Share Agreement based program.

Today we’ll be looking at the income share agreements as a business model in India, and what experiences we have had at GreyAtom regarding the income share agreement as a model. Just to give you some sense of timelines, in August 2019, we launched our Frontend Engineering Program in the income share agreement model. We built out the content curriculum, online application form, so on and so forth. And we went live by September, and we started up accepting applications, vetting them, reviewing them. So September, October, we essentially spent in that. In November 2019, we started with the campus outreach, that’s where the bulk of recruitment happened in the income share agreement model. So in this structure, that we will have a look at how the campus outreach was done, and what successes & life experiences we had over here.

These 3 words are music to VCs ears - Repeatable Sales Machinery. This is a phase that an organization enters once they have some product-market-channel-model fit.

We are going to look at a step-by-step guide to building repeatable sales machinery. Part of the puzzle of building a repeatable sales machinery is also reaching a stage in company’s life, which is called as the product market fit.

It looks like Reid Hoffman spent a year in GreyAtom and wrote the book. Focuses on the approaches and mindset needed to scale anything.

It’s easy and clear to read. This book is best read with “High Growth Handbook” – Elad Gil. Blinkist version of this book would work well.

I especially appreciated that author speaks about when NOT to blitz scale.

Key Points:

Growth over efficiency

Maximise 4 growth factors (network effects, market size, distribution, high gross margins)

Minimise 2 growth limiters (product market fit, operational scalability)

7 patterns of success (modular system, platform, freemium, market place, subscription, digital goods, feeds)

3 principles underlying this need (Moore’s law, automation, adaptation vs optimisation)

The 5 stages and managerial changes (family, tribe, village, city, nation)

Best Quote – “Keep your personal learning curve ahead of the company’s growth curve”

The best thing about this edition is the spread of topics under the Theme of 'AI in Education'. It will broaden your horizon on quantitative possibilities in Education.

This book contains all the accepted full papers as well as the rest of the AIED 2013 program, including the invited talks, posters, industry and innovation papers, description summaries of the workshops, interactive event summaries, and Young Researchers Track (YRT) papers.

Click! is conversational, educational & personal. It makes conversion rate, KPIs, and sales funnel more relatable. Definitely recommended for anyone working on a commercial website.

Click! is conversational, educational & personal. It makes conversion rate, KPIs, and sales funnel more relatable. Definitely recommended for anyone working on a commercial website. I enjoy going straight to the point and find an answer to a problem.

Crockford tells us how to avoid the pitfalls and write reliable code using the language of the Web, which is not going away soon. The 5 hour Web Series by Yahoo on YouTube by the same name is even better. Crockford is a tech entertainer. Lectures are arresting and insightful.

This is NOT a beginners’s book. Kind of like a sacred book for JS lovers. It’s a super thin book. 176 pages. No frills. Every page is filled with valuable matter.

Both the 2020 and 2021 years are important in terms of e-learning. In 2020, the pandemic changed the priorities for e-learning forever. The things which were usually done in the offline mode are being done online or in pipeline. This blog is about the major e-learning trends of the year 2020 that…

Major e-learning trends of 2020.

Because of COVID-19, many things have changed. Amongst them was the closure of the schools and colleges and other educational institutions. And because of that, e-learning is getting more and more important. Though in the past years its graph was flourishing, this year it has shot up.

Some new studies predict that the e-learning platform will have maximum growth and opportunity for the workers. Many of the businesses have shut and people are unemployed. Investing in an e-learning platform is quite profitable. People will get a lot of opportunities if they wish to expand their e-learning platform.

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