Piyush Singh is the Chief Information Office (CIO) and Senior Vice President at the Great American Insurance Company—a property and casualty insurance company, and Vice President of it’s parent company, …
Product/Market Fit and Why Startups Should Care
Most successful products go through two distinct phases 1) product/market fit 2) growth/scale. There are a large number of startups that fails before achieving product/market fit and therefore, it is …
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Autodesk Acquires Qontext Social Collaboration Platform.
Acquisition to Expand Social Capabilities of Autodesk 360 Cloud Services. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4, 2012 — Autodesk Inc., (NASDAQ: ADSK) has completed the acquisition of Qontext,enterprise social collaboration software, from India-based …
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Should we aim for quantity or quality in Indian startups?
I had a very good discussion with 2 folks over the last week about the current state of technology entrepreneurship in India. The rough estimates from multiple sources indicate a varied number …
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Marketing: “Line Extension Trap” – How SMEs can use this to take on big boys in their own game!!
This is more of a go-to-marketing issue rather than juts marketing per say. This issue is mainly suffered not by startups but mainly those who probably has a product which …
Jalandhar School Kid drops University builds a Global Software Product Company
NASA.GE. Disney. A global software product – Kayako. Jalandhar – a growing city in Punjab,India. And a school kid who opted out of University. Sounds like the script of the …
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Demo Days: Obsolete. Over-Hyped. Disaster
If we were going to let the cat out of the bag, so to speak, comparing accelerators, here is my biggest gripe about “Accelerator Models” – Demo Day. For the fortunate, …
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Software Products: Funding and Opportunities, Shoaib Ahmed, Tally Solutions (Part 3 of 3)
Read the Part 1 and Part 2 of the series. Shoaib Ahmed, President of Tally Solutions, began his career as a retail software developer in the early 90s. Formerly the …
Want Software Product Success? Narrow the gap between the User and Technology!
Guess what’s the #1 Business Intelligence Tool in the world is? Oracle BI? Microsoft BI? Informatica? Cognos? None of the above! The ugly and the real truth is that the …
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Entering the Product Space – Shoaib Ahmed, Tally Solutions(Part 2 of 3)
You can read the Part 1 of the 3 series interview here. Shoaib Ahmed, President of Tally Solutions, began his career as a retail software developer in the early 90s. …
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The weight of expectation
How many times last month did you use Power Point? Most would have used it at least a couple of times. Power Point is one of those products that seem so …
Start of the Product Journey – Shoaib Ahmed, Tally Solutions(Part 1 of 3)
Shoaib Ahmed, President of Tally Solutions, began his career as a retail software developer in the early 90s. Formerly the Founder-Director of Vedha Automations Pvt.Ltd, Mr. Ahmed was responsible for …
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Is Software Innovation an Art or a Science? It’s Artful Science or Scientific Art!
When we think of Software Product Innovation, we imagine getting “Eureka!” moments 3 am in the morning, getting up and writing down inspired thoughts and coding them the next morning! …
Five Paradoxes of building a successful product business
Building products is hard. Building a successful product organization is even harder. Start-up ecosystem is replete with ideas and prototypes. Few of them reach the market with a product and …
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Observations on India
I’ve spent a decent amount of time in India over the past few months. Most recently, I spent a little over two weeks of August meeting with founders and investors …