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As we look to understand the opportunities in the job market, for this discussion we have broken down the labor force into three buckets – White Collar, Grey Collar and Blue Collar. It is estimated that close to 300 million workers (excluding agricultural workers) are in the Blue and Grey collar jobs in India and around 15-20% (50MM) of the workforce in white collar jobs.
1 in every 6th Indian suffers from some form of mental illness – the World Health Organisation estimates that India will suffer a $1 trillion economic loss due to unaddressed mental health conditions between 2012 and 2030. At Lightbox, we are in the business of understanding the Indian consumer and her problems, and then investing in the best solutions to counter these problems.
rt @sandeepm1: what a collection of prototypes by the kids from @yeaindia. excited to hear their dreams and stories! @lbvc https://t.co/ahj…
rt @etgreycell: "power of the crowd: funding a dream" @grantthorntonin @mamaearthindia @ozivanutrition @nobrokercom @lbvc @meetthedrapers…
rt @dhrupadkarwa: delhi is a novel bangalore is a blog bombay is a poem
rt @bhumika14k: shifted back to delhi and i realised the power of internet economy. from @dunzoit getting me water to viper, @FURLENCO sett…
rt @suchitasalwan: happy monday 🎉 https://t.co/ulerlkn0nd
rt @thehardcopyco: how do you create a challenger brand? by not copying the big ones. that’s the approach @twitellectual took to build @w…
what marketplace excites you? @sandeepagg droom 🚗 @sidtalwar ones that sell niche products such as @stockx and… https://t.co/qxyvvq9hsc
why not build it like @carvana & @vroomcars in the us which offers an inventory and offline led model as well? 🇮🇳i… https://t.co/fbejij8fqo
Why did you choose to build Droom as a managed marketplace? 🚗Huge Market: Automobiles sector as a % of GDP in Indi… https://t.co/fdoUcnDNXo
🟢Looking at different categories to build a marketplace that can give better traceability and transparency is impor… https://t.co/Ph7SrdBuhh
Social Commerce (or Interactive Commerce) is a philosophy toward online shopping that humanizes the robotic online shopping experience, applying insights and design approaches that have been more traditionally associated with gaming, social media, or entertainment platforms. We deep dive into this topic with success stories, models and key takeaways for this rapidly evolving sector and is going to be the defining experience of commerce this decade.
We don’t have to wait till 2030 to see the effects of water shortage. In the last couple of years between Cape Town in 2018 and Chennai in 2019 we have come close to experiencing what this world feels like as water begins to dry up and we can assure you this is not a life you want. Why wait for Day Zero to give us a wakeup call? Let’s talk about what we can do fix it.
Propelled by the exit of TikTok, access to cheap mobile data powered by Jio, and the availability of budget smartphones has created an ever-expanding whitespace of these ‘Bharat’ users. This has resulted in a fascinating battle of video content being fought between upstarts and new offerings by incumbent Indian media / digital content companies. Instead of trying to predict a winner, we’re going to unbundle what it takes to build a brilliant company in the short-form video app space.