Independent Analysis: AI, SaaS, and Revenue Growth Strategy

I love NPR and Marketplace and have been a listener for a long time. It was bucket list moment when I was interviewed on the December 29th episode by Matt Levin. What are your resolutions? Listen and tell me how I did (end of the 4-minute mark)

I got my 2 vaccinations and the booster shot of Pfizer plus the flu vaccine. Son went to school and I went to the office 4 days a week. We masked when going indoors to shops and only recently started going a few times to a restaurant. Other than close trusted friends and relatives we did not socialize much. In December my pleasure activity was 2 restaurant visits and a holiday party. Well after t…

Written in 2017 for a Indian new site and was not accepted This week I joined the 369,000 Uber users from the US who use Uber in India annually ( Source:NDTV ). In 2010 I was in a conversation with Travis Kalanick then CEO of Uber at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in DC where I had mentioned being impressed by the GPRS tech-enabled radio taxis in Hyderabad. He was curious about how taxis were used in In…

Languages are fascinating. I was thinking about my own mastery of English and here are my thoughts. Growing up in India, you could be either one of these 3 groups Government schools  Private schools  Convent schools If you spoke English you were higher up in the hierarchy ( Ranked by convent first, Private second, and government third)  In some states like New Delhi, government officials asked you to t…

Serena Singh Flips the Script by Sonya Lalli My rating: 5 of 5 stars Entering the library after the pandemic for the first time, I headed to the new book section, chanced upon this book, and read it over the July 4th holiday. The book is funny, joyful, emotional and gives you an insight into realistic fiction and the lives of families of South Asian origin in the Washington DC area. The main char…

In life I have learnt to always be thankful. Every morning, I am thankful to be alive, the fresh crisp air,family, a place to live and food to eat. I am originally from India and have lived in the Washington DC area for about 24 years.  The positive side about the past year has been my calls to my parents using my Amazon Echo Show every morning. I could do this during the time I could save  the ab…

When things are normal, the distribution system of the pharmaceutical drug supply chain in the US has been robust. According to the CDC over 48% of the US population receives one prescription drug in a month. Combine this stat with the fact that the US Pharma industry provides 2.9 Billion drugs in a year, we have an already existing supply chain that can more than adequately take care of the vacc…

How are you doing with your cable and TV subscriptions? If you are a baby boomer and in some cases a Gen Xer, you may remember a world without the internet, and cable TV was the technology that seemed so advanced.  This is more the late 90's and the competition was cable or over the air TV. Next came the internet which was through your phone providers which was dial-up. Think AOL and the CDs …