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Dhiraj Kacker

Dhiraj is CEO & Co-Founder of Canvera.com, an online Digital Photography company based out of Bangalore.

GoogleMaps, here’s how you can help India’s GDP

BY Dhiraj Kacker

This post is solely written with the hope that someone at GoogleMaps reads it and does something about the problems I am highlighting.

27 February 2013 - 7:26pm

in: Economy

Tags: Dhiraj kacker, GDP, GoogleMaps

Grokking India: High fixed cost per transaction

BY Dhiraj Kacker

This idea is very important to understand and in the context of VC funded companies has a non-trivial impact on capital efficiency, scalability and therefore returns.

27 August 2012 - 5:57pm

in: Finance

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Apple vs Google: vertical integration vs crowd-sourcing

BY Dhiraj Kacker

Apple is the epitome of vertical integration owning the end to end supply-chain including the consumer touch point and Google is the epitome of crowd-sourced development: throwing stuff on the walls and letting users vote with their time & money on what sticks and what does not.

23 July 2012 - 11:13am

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Tags: Dhiraj kacker, Google, Apple

Why a telecom company can revolutionise payments in India

BY Dhiraj Kacker

At Canvera, we concluded that managing cash (not COD) and encouraging online payments through debit and credit cards was most suited for our business.

21 May 2012 - 5:34pm

in: Telecom

Tags: Dhiraj kacker, COD, Bharti Airtel

Distribution Is King. Much More So In India

BY Dhiraj Kacker

With present-day low levels of per-capita consumption, domestic consumption in India will continue to grow for decades and companies that address the India market at its own terms rather than following copy-cat business models are the ones that are going to capitalize on this growth.

7 February 2012 - 11:10am

in: Alternative Investment

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Why I Donât Believe In COD

BY Dhiraj Kacker

The COD payments business is a services business and in order for the math to work, it needs to quickly transform to a products business, i.e. be replaced by an electronic payments system.

20 January 2012 - 10:10am

in: General

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Accounting For Cost Of Collections In LTV

BY Dhiraj Kacker

LTV and corresponding customer acquisition costs help determine long-term financial viability & strength of the biz.

19 August 2011 - 9:00am

in: Startups

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Building a Brand by Building Trust

BY Dhiraj Kacker

Different economies offer different types of challenges; some of the challenges can be overcome by good execution, good timing and intelligent allocation of capital but some are out of the control of individual companies and depend more on the operating environment.

6 July 2011 - 1:36pm

in: Startups

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What Is The Closest Landmark?

BY Dhiraj Kacker

Believe it or not, technology may help us solve various problems in ways that take into account the dynamics of India.

16 June 2011 - 1:24pm

in: Economy

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Start-ups In India Must Tackle Hidden Costs

BY Dhiraj Kacker

Hidden costs often lead to unproductive capital lock which could have gone into business development.