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In July 2018, NITI Aayog published a Strategy and Approach document on the National Health Stack. The document underscored the need for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and laid down the …
Continue reading “#1 India’s Health Leapfrog – Towards A Holistic Healthcare Ecosystem”
There have been some notifications which have come out last week, it is heartening to see that the government is trying to solve the matter. However, this is a partial solution …
Continue reading “Angel Tax Notification: A Step In The Right Direction, But More Needs To Be Done”
If you are an entrepreneur, investor, or simply interested in the start-up sector, then you already know that Angel Tax is the buzzword right now. Based on a law that …
Continue reading “Disciplining The Not So Angelic, Angel Tax”
Traditionally, how many Indian SAAS companies have managed to become platforms so far? Very few. Customers needs are changing as they seek more flexibility to use their data to solve a …
Continue reading “31-Jan Transforming to Platform Products B2B SaaS PlaybookRT”
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) has put up a new set of draft rules for the IT Act, and is inviting feedback. The draft rules mostly relates to …
Last week, on Thursday evening, we received an email from Saikat Datta, where he claimed that he had a recording of a conversation, from an iSPIRT meeting, where we discussed …
Continue reading “Story in Asia Times, on iSPIRT, and Aadhaar”
As we begin 2019, for many startups the big question is – have they reached Product-Market fit or what should they do to reach Product-Market Fit. Market it is! There …
Continue reading “Obsessive Focus To Product Market Fit – Tricks of the Trade and 5 Case Studies”
“High share premium is not the basis of a high valuation but the outcome of valid business decisions. This new whitepaper by our iSPIRT policy experts highlights how share premia …
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Drones have been around for a long time, going back as far as World War II. For most of their history, they were considered part of the military arsenal and …
Continue reading “What lies beyond the horizon: Digital Sky & the future of drones in India”
Angel Tax (Section 56(2)(viib)) has become a cause celebre in Indian startup circles due to its broad-reaching ramifications on all startups raising capital. This paper traces the origin of this …
Today we are giving a fond sendoff to Praveen Hari and Venky Hariharan as they transition out of full-time volunteering and onto new challenges! This is a bittersweet moment: as …
In 2016, the company I co-founded, Thinkflow, went through a liquidity event. It was a great outcome for all and I was thinking of the next move. It was natural …
Continue reading “My iSPIRT Experience, A Learning Of A Lifetime By Praveen Hari”
India has leapfrogged the rest of the world by creating ‘India Stack’, a technology stack consisting of open APIs launched by the Govt of India. The idea is that established …
Continue reading “4-Dec Unlock Bharat Market Using IndiaStack (Delhi)”
With the maturity and large-scale adoption of digital payments & UPI, GST, and an upcoming public credit registry, there is a unique opportunity to re-imagine credit products for Bharat MSMEs …
Continue reading “8-Dec Digital Lending PlaybookRT for Bharat Entrepreneurs”
The govt is soon to launch Digital Sky – an enabling platform for Drones. With the new regulations, who will be the winners and who will lose? What is the …
Continue reading “4-Dec Drones & the Digital Sky PlaybookRT for Bharat Entrepreneurs”