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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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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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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You may have heard of the 828 meter tall Burj Khalifa that stands in Downtown Dubai, but what you probably haven’t heard of is a freshly veneered jaliboot that goes by the same name just a few kilometers due west. I happened to be strolling through Dubai’s Jumeirah beach when I came across this magnificent…
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that I ought to have had my photograph pasted alongside the entry for ‘workaholic’ in the Oxford dictionary years ago. We compete with our classmates as children, burn midnight oil trying to outwit entire campuses as teenagers and bask in the glory of eighteen Watt fluorescent tubes…
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When wine.com and business.com sold for a record-breaking $2.9 and $7.5 million, respectively, at the height of the dot-com bubble, a growing number of people saw an investment opportunity which we’ve come to know as cybersquatting. In fact, a brand-jacking report released by MarkMonitor this spring shows that the practice has grown by approximately 40%…
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In most parts of North India, you’ll come across some interesting family names which have roots dating back to their first ancestors’ professions, such as Screwvala, which literally means screw vendor. However, back down in South India, I was content with the fact that our names didn’t mean much; or at least that’s what I…
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Even as children back in grade six, we knew there was something special about the swoosh or those three stripes we found on our desks. They were brands that inspired. Brands that inspired you to make every last segment of pencil lead count, as your chemistry teacher turned to the periodic table on page 345.
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Albert Dias 