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Sometime ago I wrote two posts in this forum: Expect a Microsoft, Google or facebook out of India? Won’t happen unless we THINK BIG! and How to Think Big in Software Products? . This post is a continuation of this thought process. What are the advantages for me in Thinking Big if I am a product …
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I really loved being there because: You meet and get to know some really cool people (Sharad, Avinash, Mukund, MR were just a few cool people I met at these events first). There is a bigger list but this will give you some idea of what I am talking about) The quality of conversations is …
5 phrases I heard and overheard at NPC12 and what they mean. I’m open to a thrash-out on this. 1. “Initially I was skeptical about coming to NPC. Now I want to come here every year.” – First time at NPC + US based speaker with 100% audience feedback. Achievers in America are looking towards …
As NASSCOM Product Conclave 2012 drew to a close, Sharad Sharma reiterated that product technology will eliminate poverty in India. The social consciousness and import of this statement, usually reemphasized as electoral slogans of gharibi hatao by politicians, points to envisioning a future in which the role of product technology encompasses not only growth of …
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On day two of the NASSCOM Product Conclave, nine ‘Product LaunchPAD’ companies were announced. These companies were recognized for their high-quality, emerging products. The gathering, which took place in the ‘Agenda’ hall at the Vivanta by Taj, comprised representatives of the selected companies, industry veterans, the co-hosts of the event (Sharad Sharma and MR Rangaswami) …
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A broad sweep of the first day of the NASSCOM Product Conclave gives rise to emotions of a day that rose in energy, stayed sober at the reality picture, and then gave a reason for cheer as the day drew to a close. On the shore of Big Blue ocean breakfast session opened up the world …
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The kind of conversations that you heard around product companies are changing. From an ambitious “billion dollar companies” born out of India (the overarching goal of NASSCOM Product Conclave last year), the focus is shifting to the bold prediction of product software’s robust growth, in the coming decade and half, eliminating poverty. In his opening …
Wow, what an energetic first day of the NASSCOM Product Conclave 2012! The ninth edition of the NASSCOM Product Conclave began with an opening address by the two co-hosts, Sharad Sharma and M.R Rangaswami who welcomed delegates and introduced them to the theme of the event this year, which revolves around the emerging technologies of …
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Getting patented has immense aspirational value for product developers, but it is a long drawn process and takes normally anything between 5-8 years. Our story this time is about how a bunch of very intelligent individuals, who got together to build a product and have it patented within two years. If it is aspirational to …
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Launched in 2003, Drishti-Soft Solutions specializes in software products for Customer Interaction Management and now empowers more than 10 million customer interactions per day for customers in 40 countries. We interviewed CEO Bishal Lachhiramka about the company’s product development journey and other advice for startup CEOs. SandHill.com: How did your company originate? Bishal Lachhiramka: When I …
Suresh Sambandam is the founder and CEO of OrangeScape, a company he set up along with colleague from Selectica, Mani Doraisamy. OrangeScape provides a Platform as a Service (PaaS) to build domain rich solutions, easily and fast. The company recently launched KiSSFLOW, the first workflow-as-a-service exclusively for Google Apps which seamlessly integrates with Google mail, docs and contacts. In …
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Here’s an interesting new term for entrepreneurs to be aware of – Commitment delivery percentage. I dont know for sure but I think in a year from now, most startups will start to follow this metric more seriously than others. Some investors are already claiming this metric to be the #1 indicator of future success of …
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Starting from where I left in my previous blog on new generation of solutions based on nexus of converging forces – social, mobile, cloud and information, I thought this time I will focus on a specific function “Marketing” and how the nexus of conversing forces will be influencing it in the coming years. Gartner is predicting …
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Sometime ago, I wrote another post in this forum – Expect a Microsoft, Google or facebook out of India? Won’t happen unless we THINK BIG! . Thinking Big is a process with definite and specific benefits, about which I will write in a future post. But this post is about How to Think Big? Again, some disclaimers! …
A revolution is taking place in India’s businesses, which is transforming India at large. It began with mobile phones. Although there were telephones in India prior to mobile phones, they never took off in a big way. But mobile phones are so inexpensive and provide such great benefits that now everybody has a phone. The …
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