Being Lean: Being Flat: Being Beautiful!

In this blog we look at the ever changing dynamics of organizations today, especially product organizations in India. Implementing lean and agile practices have become common practice across the enterprise, …

Building products to last – Can it increase your valuation?

The inspiration for this article came up from the animated discussion that’s going on at the Product Nation discussion Forum on ‘Customized Product’ – A true Oxymoron.  We all know …

Go to market strategy for start-ups

For small businesses to succeed in today’s fiercely competitive market is no easy job. While you might think that once you ideate and put a business plan in place, your …

Designathon 2013 – An Initiative by TLabs

Many of you would have already heard about the shiny new initiative of TLabs –TLabs Designathon 2013. This builds up on our Design Day initiatives and takes our commitment to …

The first #PNSummit – Are you ready to report for BootCamp? Yes, that’s right. BootCamp. For Product Leaders.

It has been a pretty frenzied two weeks or so for us #PNSummit volunteers, but here we are, and we have something to show you and the world. 

But first, …

iSPIRT Sales RoundTable: Acquiring initial customers, Early product management, Indian SME Selling

Yet another extremely educational round table from iSPIRT – 8 out of 12 participants gave it a rating of 10/10!  Girish from GreyTip and Shashank from Practo led the round …

You’re Not Fully Utilizing Social for your Business

Sure, your business has a Facebook fan page and maybe you even have a Twitter handle. Congratulations! You’re now one of hundreds of millions of people using social media and …

“We think more like Product Designers, and less like Product Managers” – Bharath Mohan, Pugmarks.me #PNHangout

(This passage is a summary of the conversation with Bharath Mohan. The audio transcript can be found here.) Adopters of any new innovation or idea can be categorized as innovators …

Billbooks is helping ease the invoicing for the freelance economy

It has never come as a surprise that the best startup solutions and most passionate entrepreneurs are the one who end up solving their own pain points. For Sagar Kogekar …

Lets Not Lose the Reason and Season for Products

One of the long running debates in the Indian technology entrepreneurial world is whether India will ever engender global product companies or will it be destined to be a purveyor …

Happy B’day ProductNation, We are One year Young

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. ― Mother Teresa. 
ProductNation is today, one year young. Yes! One year. It didn’t seem too long ago …

Design in Indian Startups

A brief look at the state of the Indian startup ecosystem from the lens of design and how well it is understood or misunderstood. How the next generation of the …

‘Ensure that your product delivers more value than what customers expect out of it’ – Shaudhan Desai, Founder and CEO, D’Soft Infotech

In a reflection of his journey spanning 25 years, Shaudhan Desai, Founder and CEO of D’Soft Infotech Pvt Ltd., makers of India’s leading Jewelery software shares his experiences in building …

Reduce Data – Programmatic Advertising Platform

Reduce Data is a programmatic advertising platform. Reduce Data helps advertisers buy media efficiently using programmatic means – machine learning, real-time data driven optimization and real-time bidding. Asif Ali is …

iSPIRT ProductNation Playbook RoundTable on Product Management: Ship of Theseus (Bangalore)

iSPIRT ProductNation Playbook Roundtable’s objective is to support the emerging software product development industry in India. This #PlaybookRT on Product Management will be led by Shivku – Techie & Founder of Exotel. We seek …