Essentials

The Essentials section offers a curated collection of academic articles covering a wide array of business-related topics. Ranging from marketing and branding to startups and entrepreneurship, these scholarly resources provide in-depth analysis, research-backed insights, and theoretical perspectives on crucial aspects of the business world.
Ideal for those seeking a deeper understanding of business concepts, strategies, and trends, the Essentials section serves as a valuable knowledge base for both seasoned professionals and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Marketing Essentials

What Is Real Estate Marketing?

December 17, 2024by Aashish Pahwa
Just like any other industry, marketing plays a critical role in the real estate market. A property …
Business Proposals

What Is A Business Proposal?

February 24, 2022by Tanya Chhabra
One of the biggest problems faced by a firm, an entrepreneur or a freelancer is getting clients to b…
Project Management

What Is Project Management?

September 5, 2021by Kavvya Kishan
Whether large or small, businesses work on plenty of projects simultaneously and in quick succession…
Startup Essentials

What Is A Startup Studio?

June 21, 2021by Kavvya Kishan
The startup ecosystem is booming like never before. There’s disruption and behavioural alteration …
Startup Essentials

What Is An Operating Model?

March 5, 2021by Aashish Pahwa
A business has to do two things right to stay in the market for long – create value for the custom…
Development Essentials

What Is Peer-To-Peer?

December 7, 2020by Aashish Pahwa
The IT world witnesses two significant types of network architectures: the client server-network and…
Marketing Essentials

The 12 Functions Of Marketing

August 26, 2020by Aashish Pahwa
Every business survives on the money of its consumers. Marketing is the way to reach those consumers…
Startup Essentials

What Is Angel Investor?

August 18, 2020by Aashish Pahwa
If you’re an entrepreneur or anyone who follows startups, you must have heard the terms angel inve…
Business GuidesDevelopment Essentials

How Do Courier Companies Work?

May 23, 2020by Bharath Sivakumar
Courier companies are similar to the usual mailing service – they help transport products & go…
Marketing Essentials

What Is The Buyer’s Journey?

April 14, 2020by Bharath Sivakumar
A buyer always goes through specific steps before making their final purchase decision. Most often, …
Sales Essentials

What is Business Development?

February 8, 2020by Anushka Pandey
Sales isn’t the only factor which results in the growth of the business in the long run. In fa…
Sales Essentials

What Is A Sales Funnel?

August 14, 2019by Aashish Pahwa
Profit or perish…There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs. This qu…
Startup Essentials

What Is Ramen Profitability?

May 21, 2019by Aashish Pahwa
Self-sustainability is important for the initial stages of a startup. If you’re self-sustainable, …
Startup Essentials

What Is A Decacorn?

May 6, 2019by Aashish Pahwa
Every startup dreams of becoming a unicorn (a startup having a valuation of at least $1 billion). Bu…
Startup Essentials

What Is Scaleup Company?

February 27, 2019by Aashish Pahwa
So you’re an entrepreneur with a clear startup concept in mind. You’ve been working on this idea…
Marketing Essentials

The Decoy Effect Explained

January 17, 2019by Kanishk Rana
What if Feedough changed its business model into a subscription-based business model where you&#8217…
Marketing Essentials

What Is Sports Marketing?

October 25, 2018by Kanishk Rana
The sun is out, you get ready for your morning workout. Donning your Nike sports shoes and Adidas tr…
Startup Essentials

What Is A Beta Version?

June 28, 2018by Anuj Nawal
With pre-releases being a common norm in the booming online market, beta versions and beta testers a…
Startup Essentials

The Startup Life Cycle

June 22, 2018by Anuj Nawal
Every startup goes through a roller coaster of hits and misses. While riding this incredible roller …
Startup Essentials

What Is A Startup Incubator?

June 2, 2018by Anuj Nawal
With startups booming in every fiscal year, startup incubator is just another term budding entrepren…
Marketing Essentials

What Is Microtargeting?

February 24, 2018by Aashish Pahwa
What if I told you that you can target different customers and craft a personal campaign for each us…
Startup Essentials

What Is Disruptive Innovation?

February 14, 2018by Nitya Shukla
Uber. A company that turned the industry upside down with the model that they had to offer. The taxi…
Marketing Essentials

What Is Social Marketing?

January 3, 2018by Aashish Pahwa
Ever since the term was coined by Philip Kotler and Gerald Zaltman in 1971, there has been a steep r…
Crypto Essentials

Blockchain for Dummies

December 22, 2017by Sourobh Das
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple are words all of us have been bombarded with in the past year or…
Management Essentials

MoSCoW Method Explained

December 5, 2017by Rameez M Sydeek
Businesses which considers customers’ requirements and priorities when they manufacture and de…
Branding Essentials

What Is Sonic Branding?

December 2, 2017by Aashish Pahwa
Can you sing this for me? “ba da ba ba ba, I’m lovin’ it”  What? Does …
Marketing Essentials

VRIO Framework Explained

November 30, 2017by Rameez M Sydeek
There are thousands of firms competing with each other extensively. These companies use different ki…
Product Management

What Is Product Management?

November 25, 2017by Sourobh Das
Have you ever wondered how a simple idea gets transformed into a full-fledged product that is sold i…
Product Management

What Is A Product Manager?

November 21, 2017by Sourobh Das
Product management is a relatively new field and many people do not know what or who a Product Manag…
Startup Essentials

What Is A Startup?

October 5, 2017by Aashish Pahwa
Scepticism finds no substance when we say that startups are the ones stealing the limelight in the t…
Marketing Essentials

The Marketing Research Process

July 19, 2017by Arieez Dutta
Marketing plays an important role in the success of a business in any industry. It is one of the rea…