iSPIRT works to transform India into a hub for new generation software products, by addressing crucial government policy, creating market catalysts and grow the maturity of product entrepreneurs. Welcome to the Official Insights!
Design thinking has well and truly become the buzzword in the Indian Startup ecosystem today. With the rise of this phrase, we have seen an unprecedented rise in the status of formerly undervalued ‘designers’. Do designers possess some superpowered thought process that allows them to ingest any problem and come up with elegant and practical …
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When was the last time you skipped a movie for a workout, or chose a salad over a pizza? Or, actually got your annual tests done – annually? Or, visited a doctor without seeking a second opinion? Or, took your pills without constant reminders? These are problems even for someone who can afford the time …
Continue reading “#7 Healthcare leapfrog – but where is the problem?”
On a cloudy Bangalore evening on August 2nd, the otherwise quiet campus of a medical college in the ‘startup saturated hub of Koramangala’ was bustling with energy. That night the campus was hosting a fireside chat with Vinod Khosla (renowned Venture Capitalist and Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems) and Nandan Nilekani (Co-Founder of Infosys), with Sharad …
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For our most recent Startup Bridge Salon on May 9th, we had planned for sixty 1-1 strategic partnership meetings between 11 B2B startups and 35+ US corporates. In the weeks leading up to the event and the week post-event, we clocked 115 meetings. Read more to learn about the event & program, and how you …
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Join us for a conversation with Vinod Khosla and Nandan Nilekani. Together with Sharad Sharma, our fireside chat host, they will talk about what it means to be an entrepreneur in India today and how these entrepreneurs can solve the hardest problems of India. Vinod Khosla and Nandan Nilekani are arguably two of the most …
The budget has some relief for startups, but not an outsized role in the $5 Trillion plan In her first budget presented today by the newly-appointed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman started her speech with strong words stating that “We do not look down on legitimate profit-making. Gone are the days of policy paralysis and license-quota-control regime”. …
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Health Stack The National Health Stack aims to improve quality, access and affordability of healthcare, facilitate national health programmes, monitor insurance policies and claims, and boost medical research and health analysis. The stack is being designed to support existing and future health initiatives, both public and private. NHS is a visionary digital framework usable by …
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This is a guest post by Dewang Gala and Vishal Pardeshi (Pigeon Innovative). Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAV’s)/ Drones have been making a buzz all over the world. Drones in the past have been looked at as a threat in various countries. The public perception towards drones has been very different in the past and has been …
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PHR – Personal Health Record – is a mechanism to access a longitudinal view of a patient’s health history and be able to use it for different purposes. It is a component of the health stack: It relies on two building blocks – (a) registries, to know the source of the data; and (b) health …
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We had the incredible opportunity to host Dr. Don Norman in Bangalore in February this year. Dr. Norman is a living legend of the design world having operated in the field for over 40 years. He has been Vice President of Apple in charge of the Advanced Technology Group and an executive at both Hewlett …
National Policy on Software Product provides for creating a HS Code under Strategy item 1 for “Promoting Software Products Business Ecosystem” The tax regime will be demarcated for ‘Software Products’ from ‘Software Services’, by providing clearly defined HS Code for the “Software products (intangible goods)” delivered through any medium; physically or online using internet (to …
Continue reading “A right HS Code ‘need of hour’ for NPSP Success”