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Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Zomato, Blinkit and the 10-Minute Delivery Question

Fast delivery is built on dense local inventory and demand, not simply faster riders. The financial analysis must separate order value, accounting revenue…

Corporate Finance & CFO
AI in Finance: The CFO Who Uses Prompts Will Beat the CFO Who Uses Excuses

AI can accelerate finance work, but a faster answer is not automatically a reliable answer. The CFO still owns evidence, judgement and sign-off.

Financial Modelling, ERP & Analytics
Archegos: The Family Office That Hid Leverage in Plain Sight

Archegos did not need to own every share directly to build a concentrated market exposure. Total return swaps created economic exposure while fragmenting…

Governance, Secretarial & Professional Ethics
Boeing 737 MAX: The Cost of Treating Safety Like a Schedule Problem

Safety-critical businesses fail when schedule pressure, incomplete information and weak escalation combine. The 737 MAX case is a governance lesson, not merely…

Banking, RBI & Payments
Buy Now Pay Later: The EMI That Disguises Itself as Convenience

BNPL is credit even when the checkout page makes it feel like a payment feature. Several small obligations can become one large cash-flow problem.

Banking, RBI & Payments
Credit Cards: Reward Points or Behavioural Debt Trap?

A credit card is a convenient payment tool only when the bill is controlled. Revolving a balance can cost far more than the value of rewards earned.

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
Credit Suisse: 167 Years of Reputation, One Confidence Crisis

A bank can meet capital ratios and still lose the confidence needed to fund itself. Credit Suisse showed how reputation, liquidity and market access interact.

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
Demonetisation: The Cash Experiment India Still Debates

Demonetisation should be assessed against measurable outcomes, implementation costs and long-term behaviour—not only the objectives announced on day one.

Accounting, Audit & Ind AS
Enron: The Company That Invented Profits Before Earning Them

Enron became a symbol of financial reporting failure because complexity, incentives and conflicts made weak economics look like durable profit.

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
ESOPs: Startup Wealth or Taxable Mirage?

An ESOP can create wealth, but it can also create tax before cash. Employees should model exercise cost, perquisite tax, liquidity and exit restrictions…

SEBI & Securities Law
F&O Retail Losses: Why 93% Losing Traders Still Come Back

Leverage, short expiries and frequent feedback make F&O trading feel controllable. SEBI’s data shows that the typical retail outcome was very different.

Governance, Secretarial & Professional Ethics
FTX: The Crypto Exchange That Confused Customer Money With Empire Building

FTX looked liquid and sophisticated until customers asked for their assets back. The collapse exposed the difference between platform balances and verifiable…

Investments & Markets
GameStop: When Reddit Turned Short Interest Into a Movement

GameStop became a market-structure event because social-media attention, short positioning, options, order routing and clearing requirements collided.

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
Harshad Mehta: The Bank Receipt That Moved Dalal Street

The 1992 securities scam showed how weak reconciliation between banks, brokers and the government-securities market could transmit losses into public markets.

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
India 1991: The Crisis That Forced Reform

India’s 1991 crisis was a liquidity and credibility event at sovereign scale. The country needed immediate financing and a structural change in policy…

Investments & Markets
IPO GMP: The Grey Market Number Retail Investors Love Too Much

GMP is popular because it converts uncertainty into one number. The problem is that the number comes from an unofficial market with limited transparency.

SEBI & Securities Law
Jane Street: The Expiry-Day Trade That Put Algorithms on Trial

The Jane Street matter is a test of how cash-market trades, index derivatives and expiry-day incentives can be assessed together. It is also a test of careful…

SEBI & Securities Law
Ketan Parekh: When Market Manipulation Learnt New Tricks

Front-running converts confidential order information into a trading advantage before a large client’s transaction reaches the market. It attacks both client…

Insolvency, Debt Recovery & PMLA
Lehman Brothers: The Weekend Liquidity Disappeared

Lehman’s failure showed that a balance sheet can contain assets and still run out of time. Funding maturity and market confidence decide whether assets can be…

Investments & Markets
LTCM: Nobel Prize Math Versus Market Panic

LTCM’s models were sophisticated, but leverage converted small pricing gaps into a threat when markets moved together and liquidity disappeared.

SEBI & Securities Law
NSE Co-location: The Milliseconds That Became a Fairness Debate

Co-location reduces latency by placing trading servers near exchange systems. The regulatory question is whether access architecture and controls provide fair…

Customs & Foreign Trade
Oil Prices: India’s Invisible Macro Tax

India imports most of the crude oil it consumes, so a global price move can reach the rupee, inflation, company margins and household budgets through several…

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Theranos: The Blood-Test Startup That Sold Certainty Before Science

Theranos sold a compelling vision, but healthcare claims must survive clinical validation, laboratory quality controls and regulator scrutiny.

Business Case Studies & Corporate Strategy
Volkswagen Dieselgate: When Engineering Beat Ethics and Lost

Dieselgate was not only an emissions problem. It showed how target pressure, software access and weak challenge can convert a technical workaround into…

Property, Real Estate & RERA
WeWork: The Tech Valuation on a Real-Estate Spine

WeWork sold flexibility to members while taking long-term property commitments itself. The mismatch made growth attractive in good markets and painful when…

Accounting, Audit & Ind AS
Wirecard: The €1.9 Billion Cash Balance That Vanished

Wirecard’s collapse turned on a basic audit question: did the company control the cash it reported? Complex payment flows did not remove the need for direct…

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Airbnb: From Selling Cereal Boxes to Rebuilding Travel After COVID | Finin2min Startup Comeback

A practical finance, strategy and governance analysis of what created momentum, what broke and which evidence matters now.

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Slack: The Failed Game That Became a Workplace Operating System | Finin2min Startup Comeback

A practical finance, strategy and governance analysis of what created momentum, what broke and which evidence matters now.

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Instagram: The Burbn Pivot That Proved Simplicity Beats Feature Overload | Finin2min Startup Comeback

A practical finance, strategy and governance analysis of what created momentum, what broke and which evidence matters now.

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Netflix: The Qwikster Mistake, Streaming Pivot and Ad-Tier Reinvention | Finin2min Startup Comeback

A practical finance, strategy and governance analysis of what created momentum, what broke and which evidence matters now.

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Shopify: From Snowboard Store Pain to Post-Pandemic Discipline | Finin2min Startup Comeback

A practical finance, strategy and governance analysis of what created momentum, what broke and which evidence matters now.

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Zoom: From Pandemic Rocket to AI-Work Platform Reset | Finin2min Startup Comeback

A practical finance, strategy and governance analysis of what created momentum, what broke and which evidence matters now.

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Canva: The Rejected Pitch That Became a Design Platform | Finin2min Startup Comeback

A practical finance, strategy and governance analysis of what created momentum, what broke and which evidence matters now.

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Notion: The Near-Death Rewrite That Built a Productivity Cult | Finin2min Startup Comeback

A practical finance, strategy and governance analysis of what created momentum, what broke and which evidence matters now.

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Figma: The Slow Browser Bet That Survived Doubt and a Failed Adobe Deal | Finin2min Startup Comeback

A practical finance, strategy and governance analysis of what created momentum, what broke and which evidence matters now.

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Spotify: From Piracy Problem to Audio Platform Reinvention | Finin2min Startup Comeback

A practical finance, strategy and governance analysis of what created momentum, what broke and which evidence matters now.

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Uber: From Scandal and Losses to Operating Discipline | Finin2min Startup Comeback

A practical finance, strategy and governance analysis of what created momentum, what broke and which evidence matters now.

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Zomato/Eternal: From Food-Delivery Losses to Platform Discipline | Finin2min Startup Comeback

A practical finance, strategy and governance analysis of what created momentum, what broke and which evidence matters now.

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
Swiggy: From Food Delivery Burn to Multi-Service Consumer Platform | Finin2min Startup Comeback

A practical finance, strategy and governance analysis of what created momentum, what broke and which evidence matters now.

Startup Finance & Cap Tables
OYO: From Blitzscaling Budget Hotels to Operational Reset | Finin2min Startup Comeback

A practical finance, strategy and governance analysis of what created momentum, what broke and which evidence matters now.