Are you ready for the product teardown roundtable in your city As Diwali marks a Joyous celebration and heralds a Prosperous New Year for all, we kick off a series of Product Teardown Roundtables to help our SaaS startups prepare for a successful year ahead. This series of PlaybookRT will focus on Guiding the customer journey from Discovery to …
iSPIRT needs you!
iSPIRT works to transform India into a hub for new generation software products, by addressing crucial government policy, creating market catalysts, building societal platforms, and assisting product entrepreneurs evolve into the next role. It’s a think-tank with an emphasis on following up our ideas with great execution. This is where you come in. Over the …
Product Market Fit!
The Product Market Fit or PMF in short is one of the first holy grails that every entrepreneur strives to achieve. The second Holy Grail is also another “P” – Profits, which I will deal with in a blog post later. I will share my learnings of what constitutes a Product Market Fit for an …
Software Exports – GST makes it difficult to do business
The GST was welcomed by all as a revolutionary measure. We had covered one earlier topic, “How GST will work for software exporters”. There have been many changes in last few weeks before GST was launched in the IGST law. Please note that “GST law” treats Software as “Service”. Hence, there may be a mention …
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That’s why Indian entrepreneurs will win…
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi When I was invited to attend Niti Aayog’s event held recently with our Honourable Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, for a two-day focussed discussion on creating ideas for a ‘New India by 2022,’ I wasn’t entirely sure as to what to expect. …
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The best way forward for Privacy is to open up your data
Since conception, the India Stack has always been presented as having 4 layers. The first 3, paperless, presence-less and cashless, would essentially combat the price of doing transactions. Whether government to consumer or business to consumer, these layers significantly drive down the cost of interacting with your end consumer. With reduced cost, came increased access. …
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India must embrace Data Democracy
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 Tech Giants in virtually all major global markets. Moreover, they are quickly gaining ground & unseating incumbents in more traditional industries such as transportation, media, …
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 socialist era shackles. In 2017, it is time for India to redeem its “pledge in full measure” towards freedom of the individual and enterprise to …
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 bring financial or transactional services to the underserved in India. Pitch to some of the leading investors and thinkers in the Indian start-up ecosystem, including …
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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 organization. In London, I added to my knowledge about Unilever, the well-known consumer goods giant whose products range from soaps and shampoos to ice creams …
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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 realized two things: Doing a hardware product in India is much tougher …. … but there are several resources available across the country that can …
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 a collaborative post, we spoke about the missing Product DNA in India. We got an excellent response. Many product guys resonated with the problem and …
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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 to play beyond the gully cricket and few matches as part of the school cricket team and my cricket was just restrained to the park …
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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 us identify methods to bridge this gap between building great products and understanding customer need. I was lucky enough to be part of the small …
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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 would work in an virtual format. In a teardown, you get critical (sometimes more critical than you expect!) feedback on your product, if you don’t …