Dear Friends -

I am picking up my blog after a few months, so would like to apologize for the long break, just got busy with life :)

So I wanted to reset the dialogue and conversation, and really go back to the core purpose and context to why I started ‘Billion Digital Buyers’.

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Since childhood, I’ve always been fascinated by greater than life characters:

• The famous Movie Stars like Al Pacino, George Clooney, The Rock, Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan.
• Indian Cricket Players like Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid.
• Many global CEOs of large multi-national companies…

Dear network — I am very excited to share the Audible version of ‘Billion Digital Buyers’.

You can purchase the listen here: http://bit.ly/BDB500

We discuss 15 unique stories to inspire the listeners with interesting thoughts on how to strengthen retail acumen and business thinking muscle.

I’ve always found audibles and podcasts to be a great source of brainfood when we’re busy with work, travel, family and don’t get much time to read.

Now, we all agree that internet has fundamentally shifted the way we shop, function and think. And this is my attempt to make us realize of the profound…

Someone said if you don’t know history, you cannot create it.

In this digital age, it’s more critical than ever to appreciate the retail business and global internet trade to get a deeper perspective on how it all began.

As the world gets more digital and conversational AI becomes more mature, companies must deeply understand the fundamental shifts in global thinking, commerce operations and digital consumerism to truly appreciate our evolution as humans to learn from the past and create a great future.

Per a recent world economic study, we have entered a ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ where industries, technologies, and…

Baba Shiv, professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business said ‘Failure is the mother of invention’. Jeff Bezos, emphasizes how Amazon’s new ventures had either no impact or negative impact on revenues for the first 5–7 years. There is an internal joke in bay area that if you have co-founded a startup, failed miserably then Google will hire you as a ‘Product Manager’. This embraces the fact that Silicon Valley celebrates failure and is not afraid to try out new things.

E.g: Every employee at Google gets 20% time weekly to work on a side project of their choice. This…

Internet of Things(IoT): A global mega-trend recognized by the industry pundits that has the power to change our future and potentially become the next industrial revolution, sometimes referred to as Industrie 4.0.

The Internet of things (IoT) is the network of physical devices, vehicles, home appliances, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity which enable these objects to connect and exchange data.[1][2][3] Each thing is uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing system but is able to inter-operate within the existing Internet infrastructure. …

In our previous article, Work from Internet, we covered how the rise of digital nomads and location agnostic professionals are becoming increasingly popular.

One powerful underlying technology that the on-demand economy could harness is AI.

Artificial Intelligence fundamentally boils down to machines exhibiting intelligence in learning and problem solving as opposed to humans.

Ex-Chief scientist with Baidu, Andrew Ng, discusses how companies must think about having an AI-first strategy and hire a chief AI officer.

This article interviews Ravi, who is the founder and CEO of Kriya.AI …

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The term social commerce was first introduced by Yahoo in 2005.

Simply put, its leveraging social networks to influence e-Commerce transactions.

Shopping has always been a social experience. Families, friends and couples spend time at the malls over the weekends trying out new outfits and shoes, window shopping gifts, inquiring about home decors and show it to each other for approval.

Some customers feel good when they buy something and others feel good they get complimented for their purchasing decision. …

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Team-Dignitas, is an e-sports company based in the UK that was acquired by Philadelphia 76ers late last year. This was the first time a north american sports team invested in an e-Sports business.

e-Sports is a growing field for professional gamers, which potentially could distract attention from the traditional model of physical athletics and sports. There are about 150 million e-Sports enthusiasts worldwide today. And this number is growing.

We are also seeing more sports team’s curious and excited about this space. Internet has the addictive power to mind control and influence eye-ball behaviors.

Imagine if all the 2…