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Mayuresh Shilotri

8 Lessons from Scaling a Growth Function over 30 months

8 Lessons from Scaling a Growth Function over 30 months

  • 11 min read

Growth function typically comprises of Sales, Marketing and Product functions. I have been at the helm of affairs running a Marketing team for good amount of time in my life. Some reflections from the same.

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Practical ways to check Product Market Fit & Iterate

  • 28 min read

Crossings on roads are nicely marked; unfortunately career crossroads and decisions that we take during Product market fit journey are subtle. It takes higher degree of awareness and presence to detect opportunities. More importantly you need conviction to act on them.

Design First Approach for B2B Products

Design First Approach for B2B Products

  • 26 min read

B2B products have a life of years (if not decades). The business dynamics shifts multiple times in this timeframe. The UX and design is bound to become obsolete. However, there are products that are well architected. The UI feels relevant even when you know it belongs to the previous era.

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Principles – Ray Dalio – Book Review

  • 2 min read

Dalio’s advice for individuals and companies boils down to harnessing the power of feedback, iteration, and improvement in response to failure.

Tipping_Point

The Tipping Point – Book Review

  • 2 min read

The Tipping Point describes the concept of why certain goods, firms, writers, etc. are highly popular (tip), while others never seem to break away as something special from the masses.

We are like that only

We are like that Only – Book Review

  • 2 min read

Gives an insight into the structure of the Indian urban and rural consumers. Outstanding book for beginners.

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Reversing Heart Disease – Book Review

  • 2 min read

Learned how to think, breathe, inter-relate, eat, and exercise in the best interest of my heart health. Get ready to read real science. Get ready to read that you need to stretch and meditate. Get ready to believe that you are capable of taking care of your heart.

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Beautiful Evidence – Book Review

  • 2 min read

This is the fourth book in the series. This book is awesome because you get it all: elegant prose, beautiful illustrations, historical insight, and helpful, practical advice

Econometrics

Basic Econometrics – Book Review

  • 2 min read

A perfect partner for the beginners in econometrics. One of the best explanations on Linear Regression and its requirements. Makes you understand the econometric school of thought.

DoET

Design of Everyday Things – Book Review

  • 2 min read

First written in 1988 and revised in 2013, some of the explanations and titles became obsolete, but the basic concepts have remained the same. I highly recommend this book to everyone. If you’re ever in a position to build something, you simply have to read it.

VIRTUAL BREAKOUT ROOM

How to manage a virtual breakout room?

  • 6 min read

A small group of students is always an excellent choice for fruitful learning. Virtual breakout rooms are no less than any group, giving the students more chances to speak, choose, and present.

UPGRADE THE LEVEL OF ONLINE DISCUSSION

4 methods to elevate Online Discussion Board

  • 6 min read

Online discussion boards are now the new normal platform for holding discussions. Many times students restrain themselves from becoming a part of an online discussion.

Top 5 principles for boosting the engagement in a virtual class

Top 5 principles for boosting the engagement in a virtual class

  • 7 min read

Virtual classrooms these days are the new normal due to the current situation of a global pandemic. Though the offline mode of teaching will resume after some time when the situation improves, but the trend of virtual classes is going to continue from now.

Jigsaw technique of cooperative learning

Jigsaw technique of cooperative learning

  • 3 min read

Jigsaw is a technique for cooperative learning, where each student in a school assumes responsibility for one piece of material and then teaches it to the other members of the group. Like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, to shape a full body of information, students match their individual chunks together.

Top 4 UX tips for better e-learning.

Top 4 UX tips for better e-learning.

  • 6 min read

Good UX and UI essentially comes down to following certain rules which are empirical and based on extensive user studies of interfaces. There are some principles that you can follow to ensure your e-learning platform has acceptable to delightful experience.

Skimming behaviours, visual span, Gestalt, visual scanning, and much more – these are established with eyeball tracking studies and user research. Below, I summarize the top 4 practices that you can follow

FASCINATING ELEARNING CONTENT

Things that make your e-learning content fascinating?

  • 6 min read

Several e-learning platforms mean more competition amongst them. And the one which possesses the best content wins the heart of the learners. From scripting to storytelling what to include and what not and what role the mixed media plays in enhancing the level of readability, all these essentials you will find in this blog.

Are e-learning platforms biased_

Are e-learning platforms biased?

  • 7 min read

We define bias in a human context. We rarely come across biased machine. Have you seen an ice cream vending machine that dispenses 20 grams extra to kids of certain ethnicity? Have you? Unlikely. Software and Algorithms can act strange. How? Read on