VINITA BHATIA

  • strategy 4 / Feature

    The 28% Curse for Online Gaming Players

    The sunrise sector has often found itself caught in the crossfire of regressive legislative action, with certain states citing safety and legality concerns to either put companies on a tight leash or ban them completely. Will the Central government’s recent rules for online gaming bring transparency or crush it under excessive GST demand?

    June 01, 2023
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    Reliance Tira: The Mammoth In The Beauty Store

    From the brand power of its parent company to the near absence of a strong rival in the burgeoning beauty and personal care industry and an omnichannel strategy for market penetration, Reliance Retail’s Tira, launched last month, has a lot going for it. Will others be able to hold their own?

    May 01, 2023
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    Mensa Brands: Steering Clear Of The ‘Winner-Takes-All’ Approach

    Ananth Narayanan, founder of Mensa Brands, talks about his plans to build a tech-led house of brands with omnichannel as the lynchpin

    May 01, 2023
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    Sequoia Stuck Between Start-Up Frauds And Controversies

    Every time an Indian start-up hits headlines for wrong reasons, Sequoia Capital and its most famous fund manager Shailendra Singh are in the spotlight. Is it the doing of their rivals? Or, are there serious issues that the VC firm needs to address? Can Singh pull Sequoia out of troubled waters?

    February 28, 2023
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    India’s Digital Winning Like A Frankenstein

    India is an aspirational digital state. It wants to belong to the connected world like a leader despite its limitations of being a low-middle-income economy, having a large number of poor people, large illiteracy levels and less-than-reliable telecom infrastructure. Will the government’s push from the top create a national digital blueprint or turn the country into Charlie Chaplin’s Feeding Machine?

    January 01, 2023
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    Investors’ Choice: Digital Payment Wanes, Insurtech Shines

    Once the blue-eyed babies cradled by investors, are digital payment providers ceding their leadership position to incumbents offering ancillary fintech services?  

    January 01, 2023
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    Radhakishan Damani: The Slow And Steady Retail King

    With his unwavering focus on profitability, Damani has made DMart a brand to reckon with in the retail space 

    December 01, 2022
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    Siddhartha Lal: An Indian Powerhouse On Two Wheels

    The CEO of Eicher Motors, the owner of the iconic Royal Enfield brand of 350 cc plus motorcycles, is going global with a vengeance, just as he is adding more engine displacement on Indian roads. The world is taking note of the Indian brand 

    December 01, 2022
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    Vikas Oberoi Shows How To Succeed Like A Cautious Realty Entrepreneur

    Averse to raising debt capital and vanity buying, the chairman of Oberoi Realty ensures that the company’s growth philosophy is about customer centricity even when the times are tough

    December 01, 2022
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    Influencer’s Compulsion

    Past the gold rush in the social media space, the young and relentless influencer is now figuring out ways to stay relevant. With a short shelf life, it could be a story of diminishing returns

    October 01, 2022
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    Where There’s A Wheel, There’s A Way

    Drawing from her unpleasant personal experiences, disability activist Virali Modi is adamant that she will do everything in her power to make travel easy for the disabled

    October 01, 2022
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    Ahead Of The Game

    Having learnt the hard way that life is not always fun and games, Naman Mathur, aka Mortal, has built an online brand that several companies can bank on

    October 01, 2022
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    What’s In A Surname?

    Lots, if it is Birla. For Nirvaan Birla, MD and promoter of Birla Open Minds and Birla Brainiacs, it opened many doors but also shut a few

    August 01, 2022
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    Diverse Ambitions In The Family

    Despite founding disparate enterprises, Shruti Shibulal and her father, Infosys co-founder S.D. Shibulal, share similar entrepreneurial styles, driven by their passion for building value-driven organisations 

    August 01, 2022