Why WebEngage’s CEO @avlesh wishes #PNgrowth existed a few years ago?

WebEngage is probably the most important product startup from India’s business capital Mumbai – it builds customer engagement tools for SaaS businesses, is very popular and successful, and is used by thousands of businesses worldwide. Avlesh is one of the original hustlers of the Indian ecosystem, and he has built a world class product company …

UX and Design in India

I recently heard of the demise of renowned MP Ranjan. Though I’ve never met him, my friends and colleagues who are in design, speak highly of him. It’s amazing how much design as a field of study and profession has progressed. And I’ve been fortunate to have worked with a lot of smart and talented designers over the past …

Why the CEO of OrangeScape thinks you should go to #PNgrowth

Orangescape is one of India’s first true product companies. KissFlow, their workflow automation software for small and medium sized businesses was one of the first successful products made out of India. This makes Suresh Sambandam, the CEO of OrangeScape, a visionary who saw what was coming long before any of us even had an idea …

Julia – The Future of Numerical Computing and Data Science

First things first, we are really excited to announce our first JuliaCon India at Bangalore on Oct 9th and 10th. Julia Computing has partnered with Hasgeek for this event. For details and for registration, please visit http://www.juliacon.in/2015. Julia is the future of data science and analytics. Julia is open source, and its research and development …

Product Company OR Services Company?

My name is Rajan Chandi, a technologist who likes to build software products, experiment and have fun. I was particularly fascinated by Google, Facebook and Tech Innovation. The reason why I quit my job was to be able to explore tech entrepreneurship and build awesome things. It has been a great ride building, launching and monetizing …

Growth is a bitch!

Capillary Technologies is an information technology company headquartered in Bangalore, India. Established in 2008, Capillary is present in about 30 countries with over 200 enterprise customers. In this short candid chat with Aneesh Reddy, the co-founder and CEO of Capillary Technologies, he bluntly mentions that growth is a bitch! Aneesh shares how his company spent …

India Innovation Session with Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE

Every sector has a long period of evolutionary change that is only occasionally interrupted by a short (5-10 year) period of intense non-linear change. Global corporates like GE are able to position themselves to successfully embrace the evolutionary change. However, to leverage the period of non-linear change, a new kind of partnering model is needed. Keeping …

Freshdesk’s Customer Happiness Tour : Gurgaon – Redefining the Customer Service Experience

In the last few years, a lot of things have changed about the way we do business. For one thing, customer happiness is no longer an accessory to companies. It has become the matter of the hour influencing every aspect of a business, from the way we build the product to the way we support …

How coming to Valley fast forwarded us 10x

Noida/India, March 2015: Typical startup scene. Cash running out, existing product not scaling fast enough to excite Series A investors and the worse part, need to let go some awesome employees who believed in our vision & promises. For a few nights I couldn’t sleep properly in the hope of getting that “one” idea which …

Announcing the biggest software entrepreneur school in India – #PNgrowth

India’s product startup ecosystem is at an exciting stage right now. There are several startups who are being talked about as unicorns, several others which are bring touted as the next big things, and a whole host of others who are in their infancy. Though India’s metres are the ones driving this revolution-in-a-bottle, smaller cities …

Inviting the most ambitious product founders to learn growth mantras at PNGrowth

FusionCharts is one of India’s oldest product companies, and easily one of the first to get on the SaaS wave to world recognition. This makes Pallav Nadhani’s company one of the first few in India to actually face the problems that are now ruining the sleep of the nation’s new product company CEOs. As Pallav …

#SaaSx2 is here – The premier event for SaaS companies looking to scale

When SaaS was discovered by India, a group of young people saw its potential and built incredible businesses around it. These were the originals, the first SaaS hackers. We brought a few of them together in March this year, under the banner of SaaSx1, so other SaaS entrepreneurs could learn from them, and don’t have …

What you need to know while hiring an Image consultant?

Every startup originates with a dream and a vision to make their ideas come to life and be instrumental in providing real life solutions; addressing critical problems, bringing innovation and delivering better user experience. A startup boost of entrepreneurial spirit with great zeal and enthusiasm coupled with determination, commitment and challenges. Growing a business in …

How do new ventures succeed in globalizing?

The globalization of new ventures, be they from advanced or emerging economies, may sound like an oxymoron: how can a young firm with limited resources go global? Research by various academics, including my own for over a decade in India, UK, US and latterly China, shows that in many cases the answer is: by leveraging …

Can e-commerce be price competitive…always?

While everyone is talking about the lower price points on online stores, people in the business understand that a lot of that price competitiveness is coming due to venture capital (VC) money, which is being used to offer further discounts on the purchase price of the e-tailers. The question to ask is – whether e-tailing, …