Software Patents rigamarole- non-starter for start ups!

Every few years, we witness a fierce attempt to re-ignite the discussion of patentability of software (something that the Indian Parliament had rejected in 2005) by the usual beneficiaries of …

Demystifying Startup Tax

Over the past couple of days, a lot has been written/discussed about the so called ‘startup tax’ and its perceived ill effects on the startup ecosystem. Under iSPIRT’s new initiative, …

Product Management for Startups and Understanding Growth

To build the kind of products that users have come to expect of us today, it is important to get the small things right, to know what features to develop …

Why did I love this Saturday?

I usually start my weekends with an intense workout regimen. This one was also quite intense but in a very different way. I attended the 71st edition of ‘Playbook Roundtable’ …

1 Critical Analytics Mistake

Why some well funded/big companies miss business targets? Companies tend to focus 80% of their analytics effort on analysing “Historic Indicators” versus identifying “Leading Indicators” to grow business. This is …

Identifying King Customers and building your business around them isn’t that easy!

“Throughout history, it has never been easy to identify a deserving king!” I attempted to address this in my previous post, in the context of customer strategy. I proposed Customer …

Why We Started A Change.org Petition Fighting India’s Late Payment Culture

  (Our petition against India’s late payment culture can be found here) The Late Payment Problem We’re going to keep this short. Now that 97% of Indian SMBs were reportedly paid …

fluxday — the internal task management & productivity tracking app of Foradian is now opensource

A no-nonsense, free & opensource task & productivity management tool for growing startups fluxday was developed by Foradian starting in 2013 and was a critical part of Foradian’s hyper growth …

Getting Traction for Product Startups #Hyderabad

This PlaybookRT will focus on “Getting traction for Product Startups“.  The PlaybookRT is facilitated by Niraj Ranjan Rout – Hiver & C. Chaitanya  Ozonetel Apply to get your slot here …

Metric-driven growth for product startups (B2B and B2C) #Pune

Most startup founders have had experience with hooking up analytical engines such as Mixpanel to their apps and services. What often results is total chaos with a flood of data, …

Tech in Asia Bangalore 2016

This year’s Main Stage features a world-class lineup of international and local speakers including Sequoia’s Mohit Bhatnagar, East Ventures’ Willson Cuaca, Bollywood star Kunal Kapoor, Zivame founder Richa Kar, Freshdesk founder …

Building Ecosystems, Not Just Products

When you analyze successful consumer and small business products, they succeed as a part of eco-systems and not just stand-alone products. Consumers and small businesses don’t buy products, the engage …

Payment Bank + Technology = Faster Profitability

Something very exciting is happening in India.Several Payment Banks are about to launch their operations with a dream to provide banking & transaction services esp. to millions of rural and semi …

#PNChat Twitter chat about iKen – Early Entrepreneur Bootcamp

We have curated the conversations about #PNChat Twitter chat about iKen – Early Entrepreneur Bootcamp image credit : @prasanna_Says ps: This content is curated by eChai team from public posts …

Digital economy needs tax clarity

“Digital” is an inevitable and progressive catalyst of change. Whereas internet-based online transactions have existed for some time now, the transformations at a national scale are morphing many more areas …