MAIA Intelligence, launched in 2006, was the first business intelligence software product company in India. Its product, 1KEY Agile BI Suite, is designed with the vision of serving the analytics …
“Great Designers Steal”
Picasso is purported to have remarked, “good artists borrow, but great artists steal.” He probably did not mean it in a literal sense. He wanted to inspire us from great …
SaaS #MadeinIndia Products – HR & Recruitment
This post and the one’s following this are attempts to improve the coverage and knowledge of Indian made Product companies who are solving issues with their SaaS type solutions. This …
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Why More Indian Software Product Companies will Emerge
Any discussion about building products from India is lost in the hype and din about India as an IT services powerhouse. However, the mostly unnoticed surge in product start-ups marks the …
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Building Killer Products in a young startup….
It was a cold Saturday afternoon with the rain gods already drenching the earth beneath them. The location reminded me of college with its red brick interiors, jute chairs and …
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Profit from Price, Always – The Bootstrapped Story of RateGain
This is part of our “Podcast with a Product Entrepreneur” series. Do check out the 30 minute podcast! His first fling with business was a video game exchange, while at …
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Guerilla Marketing 2.0 for Product Startups!
Jay Conrad Levinson, father of Guerilla Marketing defines it very simply as going after conventional goals with unconventional means! When you are a product startup, trying to build a business …
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Geeks with Dilli Wallas
Geeks on a Plane (#GOAP) is an invite-only tour for startups, investors, and executives to learn about burgeoning technology markets worldwide. #GOAP is headed to India and after visiting Bangalore &Mumbai the geeks will …
Geeks with Dilli Wallas
Geeks on a Plane (#GOAP) is an invite-only tour for startups, investors, and executives to learn about burgeoning technology markets worldwide. #GOAP is headed to India and after visiting Bangalore …
An iSPIRT’ed Budget
One of the pillars of iSPIRT’s mission statement is a focus on converting the needs of the product ecosystem to policy direction. One of the first undertakings of the iSPIRT community …
Build it Right, then Sell it to Many (and Keep Repeating)
Building a software product is more difficult than doing projects or providing services. With projects, software is developed to meet the exact specifications of the client. Work begins only when …
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Customer support lessons from the Yellow Tire Company
It’s quite a matter of pride for the Dabbawalas of Mumbai to be counted right up there in the performance toppers chart. With efficiency metrics that any manager would die …
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How to go from an engineer to a product entrepreneur?
When you work as an engineer regardless of whether it is startup or a big company (in consulting services or products) you are always given guidance on what you should …
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In discussion with the Founders of Qualitia
Today there are proven automation tools in the market from HP, IBM as well as open source tools like Selenium, Webdriver but the success does not lies in just investing …
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CIOSE selects 8 #MadeInIndia product companies to showcase on global platform
CIO Strategy Exchange (CIOSE) has selected 8 companies from India from the #MadeInIndia tag to showcase them on a global platform. Its director Ernest M. von Simson reviewed many applications …
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