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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An Entrepreneur At 40? This Is What Not To Do…
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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Applications are open for the Summer 2016 Accelerator batch!
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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SaaS Pricing and Value Metrics – Lessons from the Top Seeds
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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Thinking PN: Tribute to the Spirit of ISPIRT
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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3 Years of Volunteering to enable hundreds of experiments to blossom
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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Q-Prize – A US$ 350,000 opportunity for Startups in Make in India week
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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Awesome By Design – Going Broad to Narrow
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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Planting the Start-up Gene in Enterprise IT
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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2016 iSPIRT Annual Letter
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 …