You have an idea, and you start up. Then you quit your job, and pursue it full-time. What follows next is the quintessential dilemma of a startup founder — “Should I raise money now?” Unless you have a machine that mints money, you will find yourself wondering about it in your startup journey. In mine, …
List of 11 #Madeinindia Applicant Tracking Software
Applicant tracking systems are great for HR professionals and recruiters. Even though there are disputes about their effectiveness as they target keywords more than candidate skills, it greatly helps recruiters to minimize the size of talent preposition without wasting their precious time and energy. Statistically speaking, ATS has saved over 20% of companies’ precious time …
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SIX INDIAN COMPANIES EMERGE AS WINNERS OF GREAT TECH ROCKETSHIPS 2016
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) India and iSPIRT announce the winners of the Great Tech Rocketships Initiative 2016 (GTRS) The 6 winners are: Wigzo – A machine learning engine that understands user attributes, and allows marketeers to personalise and engage each user 1:1 onsite, and on communications Tydy – Employee Onboarding & Engagement Software. With automated & …
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Nuts & Bolts of Marketing & Selling in US for First Timers: A crash course playbook!!
After releasing recently SoftALM and SoftAgile (Agile Project & ALM Tools), we at JamBuster were trying to decide on how to sell these tools in US. We had sold software services in US earlier, but selling software product to US from India is new to us. So we were looking for some help! They say- we …
Going From Negative To Cashflow Positive
This is not a new story. At least, not the first part of it. About two months ago, the company I had founded, Synup had grown 4000% in a year but, we were still burning money like crazy. It was really bugging me that we were growing so fast, adding so much more revenue, but …
SaaS-y marketing with Nuns: How @ChargeBee used guerilla marketing to promote an unsexy B2B product.
This is the story of how we spiced up our marketing campaign, brought a lot of smiles and drew attention during the recent SaaStr Annual event. Background The objective is to create the largest Enterprise Software company from India. This can be accomplished if top entrepreneurs can learn each other and then pass the learning …
Timing is key, entrepreneurs should be resilient!
Setting up a new business venture is driven by passion, determination, intimidation and is a lot of fun. The idea of getting your solution to the market is so thrilling that it almost matches the excitement of sighting your first crush in college! Unfortunately, sometimes the market isn’t ready yet, and convincing consumers of the …
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Reactions from #iSPIRT to the Union Budget presentation
iSPIRT is happy to note the Union Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley’s thrust in the direction of boosting the digital infrastructure in the country with specific reference to the Aadhar. Aadhar powered by India Stack will allow people to offer presence less, cashless paperless service delivery to millions. Also digital literacy will also provide a …
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Tax holiday for startups should be provided in first few profitable yrs instead of first 3 yrs
Progressive steps taken by the Union Government for the Startup Community in its Start-up India initiative are encouraging. We hope the Union budget will reflect a similar sentiment and introduce policies around tax relaxations and process simplifications. The structure of taxation and corporate laws in India is not very conducive for startups and early stage …
How the UPI Platform will transform the Payment System in India? #FinIndia
UPI Platform is Cheap, Secure, Reliable mobile first, inter operable/ open source, instantaneous settlement, both pull and push. One major disadvantage of pre paid wallets is in a given month they can’t do more then 10,000 worth of transaction with out KYC, while UPI enabled platform bank accounts can do a transfer upto Rs 1 …
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How culture is the fevicol of a startup
I recently attended a Playbook Roundtable organised by iSPIRT on “Culture Design” discussing how to preserve culture of a company that it started with? Reading so much strife because of culture conflict globally or in India or how MNCs should imbibe the “Transparency Culture” & “Accountability Culture” has made me wonder Isn’t “Culture” a confusing …
Digital India’s DigiLockers: Boon To Startups & SMBs
India’s Step Forward India’s government is rewriting the rules on basic standards of living and business. It’s an ambitious goal, but there’s been a rise in foreign direct investments in those sectors that have been affected by the “Digital India” campaign. So, the world seems to agree with what they’re doing – let’s not forget …
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The six key pillars of software that enables Innovation-led growth
Ever wondered if a Software could help business chart the next growth curve?. The marketplace is changing and the competition is catching up. Organisations need a new concept to break out to create the next growth curve and they depend on functions like Strategy, NPD ( New product development ), R&D Teams internally. Some of …
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Hook for Enterprise Businesses – Webkul Software
Webkul Software Pvt. Ltd. found place in the 2015 Technology Fast 500 APAC Ranking. The co-founders, Vipin Sahu and Vinay Yadav started Webkul in 2010. Vipin Sahu comes from the small town of Fatehpur. He and his then roommate Vinay Yadav actively built software tools since their early days in college. Even thought they had …
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