Most product professionals can recite the definition of an MVP in their sleep, but they often flake when it comes to putting one in front of their users. Here’s a better way of looking at it. Imagine for a moment that you’ve stumbled upon a great idea. You’re passionate about it and you want to…
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It was the twenty eighth of February, 2005. Two enterprising men in their twenties met in the city of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to start a business together. The first, Sheikh Mohammed Al Thani, was an intrepid Emirati adventurer, who would later go on to conquer Mt Everest and complete the grueling Seven…
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Have you heard the estimate about how much money Amazon could stand to lose if it were just a second slower? 1.6 billion dollars – that’s the number. It’s been echoed at numerous e-commerce conference since 2012, yet the race to improve search speeds in travel hasn’t even begun. The problem isn’t the lack of…
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Most people who know me today may find it difficult to believe that I was once quite the mischief-maker. Now I’ll admit that most of my mischief revolved around avoiding Hindi exams, but what I do remember are the speeches that followed. You see, in most Indian families, you’ll get to hear one of two…
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A few weeks ago, I was invited to speak at the Sabre Connect conference about how OTAs are evolving in the Middle East. The region has come a long way from single digit OTA market share to a potential $15bn segment in just a decade; however, it still lags behind the rest of the world…
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India doesn’t get a lot of credit on the global culinary map for its puddings. In reality, we probably make more puddings than the rest of the world combined – we just don’t call them puddings. They go by names from “kheer” to “payasa,” and they’re made out of practically everything from rice to tapioca,…
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Take a moment to look around you. Everything from the coffee mug on your table to the lamp in your room was designed – designed to look luxurious, designed to look quirky and maybe even designed to look, well, designed. But what about being designed to look delicious? This weekend, I tried my hand at…
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If you’ve ever tried to search for online payment processing options in the UAE, odds are that you’ve probably hit a brick wall. The problem isn’t that there aren’t options out there, but rather that they’re shrouded in secrecy for reasons I’ll never understand. Here’s a presentation I shared at The Internet Show, Abu Dhabi…
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The eighties were a simpler time. Publishers were happy if their typewriters came with eraser ribbons and users were thrilled if the text on their monitors appeared in white. However, with the advent of the Internet in the late nineties, publishers were forced to prepare their content for constantly changing browsers, ever increasing screen resolutions…
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When people think of Dubai, the first things that usually come to mind are the tallest, the largest or even the smallest. Yet nestled between the superlatives and the pre-fabricated wind towers that remind the city of its humble beginnings, is a street that time forgot. The cabbage-patched street runs right through the heart of…
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