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Breaking down Insurtech – Part-1

Working for a few years in the ever-evolving insurtech industry, I have had the opportunity to simultaneously oversee the technological and business aspects of insurance. This has allowed me to grasp the intricate yet straightforward nature of this industry. After hearing Varun’s honest(podcast linked below) and straight-from-heart reflection on the Insurance landscape which was packed with learnings and insights, I couldn’t hold but start typing my experience about the space less from a technology but more from a product lens which is a birds eye view of my experience.

Business Value driven Digital Transformation

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How Cloud Native Applications are Transforming Digital Businesses

Cloud native applications (CN apps) are revolutionizing the way digital businesses operate. Gone are the days of having to rely on bulky, outdated software that takes forever to install and update. Now, businesses can take advantage of the power of cloud native applications to quickly and easily access the latest technology. In a nutshell cloud native applications are born on public or private cloud in a packaged (read containerized) manner that makes their development and launch into the real world environment radically different than traditional .net, php, java applications. This means that they can be deployed quickly and easily, and they can scale up or down as needed. Plus, they are often more secure than traditional applications, since they are hosted in the cloud.

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DORA Metrics – let’s create value and not push code

I have been reading about data-driven development productivity and effectiveness for quite some time now and trying to visualise it both from a developer’s shoes, as I have been one for a large part of my career and then from an engineering manager’s eyes where continuous improvement, effectiveness and productivity are a constant topic when it comes to ‘achieving more with less’

Captable and Prorata 101

As a person who likes to be in the trenches, I was geeking out on captable economics in the past few weeks and wanted to share more about it in this blog.

VC PE Fund flows & Metrics

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Measuring the performance of investing in private markets has always intrigued me as little information is available in the public domain. So I spent the last few weeks reading more about this and thought of sharing my understanding

Startup Valuations & Liquidity

This week, I listened to two podcasts that made me think about the economics of early-stage businesses and how they are perceived by investors. It also shed light on how this perception impacts the founder and employees. I believe it’s important to first lay down the dots and then connect them in a way that provides a clear picture for an entrepreneur from an investor’s perspective.

I thought it would be good to lay down the dots first and then try to link them just enough so that when the jig-saw is put together although each piece may not make much sense but together will give a clear picture for an entrepreneur from the shoes of an investor.

Direct Listing

Direct Listing can be an alternative to an IPO for private company directors and CEOs when considering liquidity options for their company. It’s worth discussing this option with your boards.

In the traditional IPO route, new shares are created and sold to the public. In this scenario, the company works closely with underwriters/bankers.

Rental management

While the world order resuming back to normalcy, I was researching more about Airbnb , I stumbled upon how sophisticated the behind the scenes operations for rentals management has grown

RT @theburningmonk: Aws dropping another bombshell of an update, silently, last night – you can now trigger lambda with managed Kafka. This…

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