DeansMusings

In part 1 of my Ukraine series, I had provided my estimate of casualties on both sides. I had updated by estimates of July, to include an analysis by Mediazona (with the BBC) on Russian casualties. This is the most intellectually rigorous (and therefore credible) work on the subject I’ve found. It was heartening to me that against my `back of envelope’ estimate in July of 40,000 Russian dead and irrecoverable casualties (dead + seriously wounded and prisoner) of 120,000 Mediazona’s estimate at the end of August was 47,000 dead and 125000 irrecoverable casualties. Part 1 of the Ukraine series: https://rpdeans.blogspot.com/2023/07/ukraine-war-understanding-numbers-part.html In response to feedback that my blog is more supportive of the Russian position than the mainstream media, it must be reiterated that there is no equivalent analysis of casualties in Ukraine, therefore I have to confine myself to studying Russian casualty figures. The purpose of this post is to analyze what these

Guest post by Ms. Neha Kesarwani .  Neha was co-founder of Vertoe, a startup in the US and has worked in startups in India and the US.  Recently an old friend and a mentor, Rahul Deans contacted me to write an article on the key differences between the startup culture in India vs. the US. I have had the experience of building an on-demand short-term storage startup called Vertoe in the US that went on to expand to 65+ cities across 5 countries across the world and raised $3.85 million before COVID-19 hit the travel situation. Vertoe is an on-demand short-term storage app that allows anyone to drop off their bags/belongings at nearby shops within 5 minutes of wherever they are. The app simply enables the users to search for a location close to wherever they are in real-time. Apart from creating my own company from the ground up with my then co-founder, I also had the privilege to work as a Brand Manager at Cocoberry in its early stages where the seeds of problem-solving while navigatin