At the beginning of the year when we wrote down our thoughts in the 2016 Annual Letter about aspects such as break away from copy paste entrepreneurship, innovation bridge with Silicon Valley, …
A Leapfrog moment for Indian Banking
At iSPIRT, our belief is that banking will change more in the next five years than it has in the last 50 years. For a variety of reasons, the changes …
Technology has always been political
Rants are not worth responding but I have known Nikhil for 10 years and have the highest respect for him, after Om Malik he is my most favourite technology journalist for …
How To File Patents In India?
A patent is a form of intellectual property defined as “a government authority or licence conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude …
InnoFest 2016 – Innovation celebrated in Bangalore, and how…
Robots, Drones, Electric Bikes, 3D printers, Modular Homes – It’s all Happening in India – #IndiaInnovates The Indian Software Product Industry Roundtable (iSPIRT), a think tank dedicated to the …
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Industry 4.0: The New Normal
In case you are a manufacturing company beginning to explore how investment into Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things could help your top and bottom lines, you may already have …
What to expect from National Policy on Software Products [Draft]?
Ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) has released the draft of National Policy of Software Product (NPSP) for public consultation. Click here to see the announcement and how to …
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FirstHive @PNGrowth2016
‘Omwana ni wa bhone’ – a famous African proverb meaning: “ Regardless of a child’s biological parents, its upbringing belongs to the community” A cold November morning, we drove down to Devanhalli …
Startup Bridge India: Breaking Down Borders, Barriers and BS
India has fast emerged as the world’s second largest Internet market. Since 2012, nearly $15 billion has been invested in tech startups with over 300 M&A deals. However, a large …
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Thoughts on Open Source Communities
Supporting open source users seems like a thankless job. There have been many blogs written on this topic. Developers have stopped maintain popular projects because of the burn this causes. …
Behind the scenes of $2 billion Indian startup movie #PNgrowth
Last month, for the first time, I witnessed something really special. Even for someone like me, whose very job and calling is to evangelise this nascent software ecosystem of ours, …
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External Commercial Borrowing norms for Startup (ECB)
What is ECB? External commercial borrowings(ECB) imply borrowing (debt) from a foreign (non-resident) lender. ECB is an attractive financing route as it generally offers access to finance with low rate …
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How UPI is more convenient & secure than what most people think
A phenomenon that has been pretty popular recently in the news goes by the name of UPI (Unified Payments Interface). However, most people have not been able to experience the revolution and the …
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India Inc Version 2: Disruptive, Agile, Confident and… ready to Go Global
The growing internet penetration has fuelled India’s start-up ecosystem, which is now the third biggest in the world. US-based Compass (Startup Genome), in its 2015 report, puts Bangalore as the …
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3 Key Factors to Increase Revenue for Your SaaS Product
There are two types of SaaS products. New innovative product The commodity products (which is a copy of an innovative product) The innovative products get sign ups and are able …
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