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Anshu Sharma

Anshu Sharma

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Partner, Storm Ventures. Previously VP of product management & strategy at salesforce.com across applications and platform. Previously founded and led Oracle SaaS Platform, and held engineering and product management roles in SOA and Identity Management. Anshu has a B. Tech. (Honors) and M.S. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill respectively. Read his blog here.

Facebook WhatsApp Red Ocean, Google Nest Blue Ocean

Facebook WhatsApp Red Ocean, Google Nest Blue Ocean

By Anshu Sharma on February 20, 2014

I come here to bury the WhatsApp conversation not to praise it. The Noble Om hath told you Zuck was ambitious. And grievously he is paying for it. Yes, $19 billion dollars. Yes, half a billion people use WhatsApp and its on its way to being the ne…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged AOL, apple, Facebook, google, Paul Graham, WeChat, WhatsApp | 1 Response

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The AOL 401K Lesson: Is HR Failing at Your Company?

By Anshu Sharma on February 10, 2014

The cost-cutting policy change at AOL intended to save a few million dollars a year (hey, free money to bottom-line) is yet another example of a failing human resources function in many companies. While there are many reasons to justify cutting corners in benefits to employees especially in an earnings-starved company like AOL, it was […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 401(k), AOL, Human resources, tim armstrong | 2 Responses

Satya Nadella: Microsoft, Coffee and the Relevance Question

Satya Nadella: Microsoft, Coffee and the Relevance Question

By Anshu Sharma on February 4, 2014

Satya Nadella is a highly accomplished, extremely smart Microsoft executive who is correctly receiving a warm reception from media and pundits. The question that remains open however is – is he the change agent that can help Microsoft avoid the fate that other Wintel players are facing? He clearly seems to have taken to Marc […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Bill Gates, Marc Andreessen, microsoft, MSCEO, Satya Nadella, Steve Ballmer

Forbes: What do Startups not know that Big Companies know?

Forbes: What do Startups not know that Big Companies know?

By Anshu Sharma on January 28, 2014

The Quora editorial team picked out my post on this topic and published it on Forbes. Forbes Quora: What do Startups not know? 1. Most startups are afraid of charging real $$$$.  You can charge $5M for a website with 7 static pages. Annually. For a very public example of this, just take a look at the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Forbes, Quora, startups

Does your Startup Charge too Little?

Does your Startup Charge too Little?

By Anshu Sharma on December 13, 2013

Most startups are afraid of charging real $$$$. You can charge $5M for a website with 7 static pages. Annually. There is a trend I have seen with accelerator startups – charging too little. I think this comes from youth and the feeling that if X was 10 times cheaper you would buy it. In […]

Posted in Business | Tagged pricing, startups

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Bitcoin is Not like Gold

By Anshu Sharma on November 26, 2013

Bitcoin has a uniqueness problem – Bitcoin has lots and lots of unique features and advantages that you can read about. However, I find one particular risk that you can drive a truck through. Compared to US Dollar (or Euro, Pound, any national currency) which by definition can have only one of each – and therefore […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Bitcoin, currency, Federal Reserve | 3 Responses

Are you missing the real genius of Coin?

Are you missing the real genius of Coin?

By Anshu Sharma on November 18, 2013

There are plenty of questions around viability of what Coin has built and will be offering. There are plenty of naysayers and people with opinions on why it won’t work. But here is what Coin got right – they have proven that there is a lot of demand for us to have a virtual wallet […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged coin, Credit card, google, Wallet | 1 Response

Salesforce Startup Lesson #1: How are products built by Oracle, SAP or Salesforce different?

Salesforce Startup Lesson #1: How are products built by Oracle, SAP or Salesforce different?

By Anshu Sharma on November 6, 2013

One of the questions often asked by venture investors and entrepreneurs alike is – how does product strategy work at a company like Salesforce? How is it different from Oracle? How does Salesforce thinking about products fundamentally different than how SAP or Oracle approach it? To me it comes down to the way the three […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business process, design, oracle, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, software as a service, ui, ux | 6 Responses

Just Stop It: Apple Does Not Need a New Category

Just Stop It: Apple Does Not Need a New Category

By Anshu Sharma on October 29, 2013

Every time one more journalist wakes up from his sleep they talk about how Apple may be doing fine for now but it really really needs a new breakthrough product.

Time Magazine says “Apple has to create a new category, or it will sink into normal…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged apple

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Future of CRM: Next Gen CRM does not look like CRM

By Anshu Sharma on October 10, 2013

Since leaving Salesforce after five and a half years, I am often asked by entrepreneurs and venture investors what the next generation of CRM looks like.  Or the billion-dollar question: Who will disrupt Salesforce.com?I have seen well written articles about the future of CRM like this post but I don’t view the world of CRM through this […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged airbnb, CRM, customer relationship management, disruption, mobile app, Next Gen CRM, OpenTable, salesforce.com, Trulia, Uber | 8 Responses

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