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2015 saw several major breaches in which startups got hacked. Though information security is important, it is not easy for a startup to focus on in while trying to scale …
Continue reading “Startup Security Playbook RT: Using 80-20 rule for Information security”
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’ …
Continue reading “Planting the Start-up Gene in Enterprise IT”
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. …
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 …
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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, …
The launch would begin with an introductory workshop for all the companies who wish to innovate in the payment eco-system and know more about the UPI platform. All product managers, …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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With two super successful events in 2014 and 2015, InTech50 2016 is back – bigger than ever before. For the uninitiated, InTech50 is a showcase of some of the most …
Getting up at 4am in the morning and discovering 200 founders lined up at Madiwala, to catch the bus before the scheduled departure, instantly reminded me of the huge line …
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Let’s start first with the elucidation of a buzzword that is floating around a lot –‘fintech’. In very simple terms, it refers to new technology that aims to change the existing models (and/or …
Continue reading “Leading the fintech revolution | The humane approach”
The other day on my regular Hyderabad- Bangalore flight I was reading this book titled Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles. The concepts in the book brought back …
Continue reading “Satisfied customers – isn’t that we all want?”
$8B of venture investment went into Indian startups in 2015 alone! Four firms–Ola Cabs, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Paytm–accounted for 32% of these investments. However, on the M&A side, things have been slow. …
Continue reading “The Road to Startup Exits – Think Next Roundtable Recap”