In May of 2017, the cover of the Economist proclaimed that Data is “The world’s most valuable resource”. The proof of this proclamation can be seen by the domination of …
A New Tryst with Destiny
On Aug 15th 1947 at the dawn of India’s political Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru delivered his “Tryst with Destiny” midnight speech. In 1991, India gained economic freedom from a clutch of …
Build On IndiaStack – Venture Pitch Competition
Announcing ‘Venture Pitch Competition: #BuildOnIndiaStack’ Dalberg and iSPIRT invite applications from early-stage ventures that are tech- based solutions leveraging the India Stack platform at the core of their business model to …
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Being entrepreneurial isn’t just for startups
An unusually hectic travel schedule this summer took me to four great cities in four weeks: London, Chicago, Dubai and Beijing. In each, I learned about at least one interesting …
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Innofest to Innonation
Evolving from a festival of innovation to a platform helping innovators to succeed… Over the past 3 years, while volunteering for Innofest – the platform for hardware entrepreneurs – I …
Announcing Product Pathshala #ProdShala, 15–16th Sept, Goa
I’m sure you remember the popular song Masti Ki Pathshala from Rang De Basanti. We are planning to pull together something similar for the Product Thinker community. Last month, in …
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What I learnt from organising 100 #PlaybookRT. #iSPIRT
When I was a kid, the only goal that I had in my mind was to become a cricketer and play for India. But never did I get an opportunity …
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Workshop on activating potential strategic partnership
Startups are bought never sold, this maxim while true makes a startup acquisition look very esoteric and opaque. This leads to many misconceptions and poor preparation on the part of …
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Understanding Your Customers And Building For Them – #99PlaybookRT
Building great products requires us to understand customer needs and its nuances, are more often than not, counter-intuitive to our assumptions. The Design Thinking Roundtable session by Deepa Bachu helped …
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Virtual Teardown Experience
Recently, I got the opportunity to participate in a virtual product teardown session. After attending SaaSx4 teardown, and participating in PNCamp hyderabad tearddown, I was curious to see how it …
Are you having fun in what you do? #PlaybookRT
Michael Jordan once remarked: “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game’s winning shot and …
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Playbook for launching in the US
US is by far the most lucrative market for most domains. And in many ways, it’s also the toughest. Thanks to the startup boom in India, many world class B2B …
0 – 100 customers! How fast can your SaaS startup accelerate?
The toughest challenge in your startup journey is getting to the milestone of first 100 customers. iSPIRT’s 97th PlayBook RoundTable, ‘Zero to One’ was held last Saturday in the hot …
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The cause of ‘SaaS’ Industry is top priority on iSPIRT’s policy radar
‘SaaS’ can drive the future of Indian IT Industry both in International trade as well as domestic front. With changing dynamics in Software sector globally, ‘SaaS’ can help India remain …
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Are you a Baba Entrepreneur? 98th #PlaybookRT
Let me set the stage for iSPIRT’s 98th Playbook held at the EKO office in Gurgaon. 43 Degree Celsius in a very dry and dusty Gurgaon summer, a Playbook …
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