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I have often heard people say that most men hit their mid-life crisis at 40. That’s when they run a marathon, try to reinvent their personal image or quit their job. Though, as a general rule, I do not believe in such lores, I must admit that it might have been true in my case. …
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And…we’re ready to accept applications into the third batch of our accelerator program (time flies!). As before, the 100 day program helps founders in the early stages of their startup do these things: Build products their customers will love Accelerate their progress; and Become investible faster. If you’re a startup building a technology enabled startup in …
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Two libraries. One charges you based on the number of books that you pick, while for the other, the rental period forms the basis of its prices. Now, which one would you prefer to get your books from? There’s no right or wrong answer in this scenario. What matters here is how you were able …
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The Dream of a Product Nation, to give India its true Identity and enable Bharat to be the crown jewel of the World, took seed in Feb 2013. An idea to harness the energy of many volunteers inspired by the Open Source movement took the shape of iSPIRT and Product Nation. The Spectrum of Volunteering …
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On Saturday, I was going to attend 3rd year anniversary event of iSPIRT On the way on my bus to meeting, my mind was filled with varied thoughts about 2010 or earlier, when I was outsourced product start-up employee. Looks like little time ago, 6 years has passed from 2010 when I met the volunteers …
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With only a few days to go for the Make In India week, the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) is set to announce a Rs 2 crore bounty along with Qualcomm. During the Make in India Week being held in Mumbai, the DIPP and Qualcomm Incorporated, through its venture investment arm, Qualcomm Ventures, have announced India’s largest Startup prize …
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Creating intuitive products used to be enough but not any more. Now customers demand awesome product experiences…the ones that they tell others about. ‘Design awesome’ – we use these words a lot, but what does it mean? And how do you go about it? It’s not about delivering awesome products; it’s about delivering awesome experiences …
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Every company in its inception is a start-up. However, excelling and remaining relevant in an ever changing, competitive market eventually transforms ‘start-ups’ into enterprises that follow a set of conventional/’safe’ methods of doing business in order for them to become profitable and remain so in the long run. Conversely, the current start-up buzz is posing …
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Seven years ago a band of volunteers came together to move the Indian software product ecosystem into the next orbit. Three years ago this movement became a think tank, iSPIRT. We pioneered the idea of building public goods without public money in India. Today, India has many software product Unicorns and many more are in …
InTech50, iSPIRT ’s flagship event is back. The first two editions have been very successful and InTech50 has become the ‘must-go-to’ platform for enterprise CXO’s and product entrepreneurs. Over the past two years, we have hosted CXO’s and business leaders from global companies like AllState, Citibank, HCC Insurance, Standard Chartered, Colgate Palmolive, Time, AirTel, Yes Bank, Exide …
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Several notable announcements have been made by RBI and MCA pursuant to iSPIRT’s Stay-in-India Checklist (discussed in my earlier post here). In its bi-monthly monetary policy statement released earlier today, RBI has stated that it will take steps to contribute to an ecosystem that is conducive for growth of startups. It is noteworthy that each …
At the Startup India event, our honourable PM shared that government’s impact is highest when it decides, intentionally, to stay away, and I agree with him. But we, as the citizens of India, can play a huge role. And we must. But as a co-founder of NowFloats, a startup, here are some of my asks …
B2C wallets like Paytm and Mobikwik are known well enough. The B2B wallet story, however, is still in its nascent stage. Happay is that wallet which helps companies manage their expenses through employees, using corporate wallets. Varun Rathi and Anshul Rai were classmates at IIT Kharagpur. They worked for 2 years before they started up. …
Maker Culture’ and ‘Make in Universities Programs’ for creating a cultural change in Engineering Graduates; to be job creators rather than job seekers. Our nation is faced with an exciting challenge – it needs to create over 1M new jobs every month for the next 20 years to give employment to the 200M youth who …
I am surprised not to find a single Indian govt software being open sourced. This is despite the fact that most of them have horrible user experience and highly buggy. In all probability the code behind it would be equally poor. The govt. continues to spend crores of tax payers money to IT service providers …
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