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After much experimentation elsewhere we feel confident and glad to Launch iKen in Pune on November 13th. Please check the original blog posts on iken history at the blogs below. …
Continue reading “Launching Pune Chapter of iKen, pre-Entrepreneur bootcamp !”
Product Management be it for Internet world or otherwise is an interesting job. One gets exposed to multiple business functions be it marketing, sales, customer support or general management. The …
Continue reading “Is your product stuck with biased feedback?”
In a highly competitive marketplace we all depend on nimble creative thinking to solve problems. The center of design thinking is the end user experience – which in turn reflects …
Continue reading “Design Thinking: Building a digital brand #PlaybookRT in Bangalore – 19th Nov”
Friday 21st Oct 2016 has been billed as the first large scale cybersecurity incident from the IoT world. The widely reported attacks involved inserting malware into devices to turn them …
Continue reading “Internet of Hacks? Minimal prevention steps”
iSPIRT invited select companies to leverage the IndiaStack API’s and collaboratively construct a pilot program, as a demonstrable proof of concept. Broadly, the pilots were established to transfer the invented technologies …
Continue reading “iSPIRT & the India Stack pilot – commercialization of techno-creative innovations”
Whenever I have helped someone I believe their thanks is sincere and heartfelt. Can’t beat that wonderful feeling, so I do my best to make time and pay-forward. Amongst the …
Bangalore was the next stop for the iSPIRT product round-table around the theme of “Getting Traction for Software Products”. The goal of this round-table, hosted by Niraj Rout (Hiver/Grexit), Natwar …
Recently I was called into a mid-size software organization – and got right in the middle of a heated debate that had obviously been going on for some time. Development …
Continue reading “Product Owner and/or Product Manager – Don’t Debate the Wrong Issue”
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, lived a grumpy old wizard who loved spending time throwing stones at little kids who played near his mansion… In …
Continue reading “Is your user story really about the user?”
Too much has been already written about ‘Growth Hacking’. Having been into product space for quite some time, I believe growth hacking is probably the most confused jargon being used …
iSPIRT put together its second Product Nation boot camp for product people, by product people on 8th October 2016 at Persistent Systems’ Office in Pune. It was a day-long coming …
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The payment gateway problem in exporting online from India It is not easy for Indian Software product companies to export products online and receive payments in India. This is true for both the …
Continue reading “The payment gateway friction in cross-border trade of Software products”
“Are you an accounting company or a finance company?” The question was addressed to Baskar Ganapathy, co-founder and product head of Numberz. It’s an early stage fintech startup with a …
Continue reading “Here seasoned founders make bulbs flash in the heads of newbies”
Conducting business in one’s own country is never easy, let alone conducting business overseas, where rules, regulations and business environments differ. ‘Ease of doing business’ is also an Index created …