~ By Charmaine Mirza There’s no sale without scale. Or at least not in the virtual world. Ladies and gentlemen, grab your mouse tightly – the great e-commerce chess game has begun. As the Amazonian giant from the USA makes its great leap into the subcontinent,...
~ by Charmaine Mirza “…you cannot ignore a fifth of the world’s population…as an entrepreneur, if you have the opportunity to build both Amazon and Alibaba at the same time, you’d be crazy not to try.” – Travis Kalenick, CEO Uber. Is Uber’s unicorn cowboy trying...
We live in an interesting investment climate, where India and China can’t either do with or without each other. Cross border investments in online apps and platforms are breaking traditional barriers and creating healthy, profitable companies for both...
As India stands in the sunshine with her rising GDP projections, growing investments and overall sunny outlook over a gloomy global economy, in the shadows lurks responsibility. The responsibility of sizing her social sector up to International (read Western)...
~ By Charmaine Mirza Indian pharmaceuticals have been trying to enter the Chinese market for a while. Priced cheaper than drugs available on the Mainland, Indian pharma companies have always been kept at bay for fear that they may disrupt the industry. However, there...
Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is on a five day tour of China to pitch for Chinese investments from the slowing Chinese economy. India which is on a growth trajectory is aiming for 7.5 to 8 percent GDP growth at a time when China’s GDP has decelerated to 7...