Ashish Sinha, Author at nextbigwhat

Product Management

Why Netflix didn’t follow the regular Gold, Silver styled subscription plan names from the beginning

It is quite natural for any company to follow the industry trend of naming pricing plans – after all, use the nomenclature what others are using, as customers (we hope)…

Tech

The Future of Upskilling Business is..?

Do you know that on average, 2.5 quintillion data bytes were generated daily in 2020? Now, that’s a huge number, and given the nature of online content, it’s only going…

Product Management

Clubhouse is the new Orkut? #GhostTown

Are you still on Clubhouse? Well, chances are that you are done with it. Clubhouse, these days seems more like a ghost town. And this reminds me of Orkut. Remember…

Product Management

How to find early adopters for your product

Run ads? Go out and start making noise in all possible traction channels? Not really. Finding early adopters of your product is extremely hard – irrespective of whether you are…

Product Management

Clubhouse: Have celebrities done more harm than good?

A visit to Clubhouse these days feels like a visit to ghost town. Very few interesting conversations and importantly, none of the celebrities are to be seen there. Rewind to…

Product Management

How to unlearn.. after tasting massive wins?

Pretty much all the important roles in an organization fall for confirmation bias, that is *I know-it-all* bias, and ‘this-is-how-it-works’ bias. For example, if you have had a very successful…

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Product Management

Not a Clubhouse Clone, But Clubhouse as a Service [An Idea]

It’s all about communities. Great products, businesses, creators are all building their communities – and having built some of the active startup/product communities, all I can say is that we…

Product Management

Decoding Amazon’s Working Backwards Process [Book Review]

We all must have heard, read about Amazon’s working backwards principle. But beyond the headline, nothing much has been offered in terms of details. How does Amazon’s working backwards process…

Product Management

The great unbundling: Theme for future

An interesting presentation by Ben Evans on what really will shape the post-Covid world and opportunities for tech founders to disrupt.

Product Management

How Amazon Eliminated Team Dependencies

Small teams. Great coordination. Everybody knows everybody else. Big Teams. Zero coordination. Too many dependencies. Nobody knows who is the owner. Sounds familiar? Every growing company goes through this phase.…

Indian Startups

Shades of Indian Startup Ecosystem: The 2020 Edition

A lot has happened in Indian startups space in 2020. And it’s time to do a recap! Every year, I have done 50+ shades, but thanks to our ever decreasing…

why some can build and scale businesses acros many domains

Product Management

Why few founders and product leaders are able to build great businesses across different disconnected industries?

No. we aren’t just talking about Elon Musk and his ability to build great businesses in totally disconnected industries (Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Open AI, Neuralink) But there are…

Product Management

Google Maps and the Quest for Relevance

Google maps worked like a water tap – always there when you needed it. The tap needs to be refilled and that will be the most important activity for the product management and operations team.

About

RIP Kunal Kant Sen.

He never bought a train ticket. And by mistake, even if he did, he didn’t take that journey. That was Kunal Kant sen, my first team member when I started…

Product Management

3 Mistakes a product manager should never make

There are many mistakes which product managers should never make, but here are the top 3: The echo-chamber: Me, my friends and family is liking it. Missing Perspective: Relying too…

Product Management

The rise of copycatting machines: Why (some) copycat product are more successful than the original !

Copycatting is the new black. After investors calling for TikTok (and the rest of 58 chinese apps) copycats, it seems copying successful products will soon be a normal (it has…