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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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#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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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InMobi’s Miip May Be More Important to India than Pichai
The emergence of an IP and technology-based leader from India will have a bigger long-term impact than a few Indians heading major global corporations Isn’t it strange that we were obsessed with happenings at Google while the really momentous news of the coming of age of a serious desi challenger got lost in the noise? …
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UXINDIA announces the UX Clinic 2015
It’s an e-world now. Your website is the first point of contact for the consumer. The brand’s image/identity and positioning are completely dependent on the UI and UX on your website. To get that bit right may not just be necessary, but critical. UXINDIA, a pioneer of UX in India for over a decade, extends …
Making the Future
What we see in theMaker addiction, is that a relatively small amount of people can have a big impact. You don’t necessarily need the world’s largest company behind you. – Dale Dougherty- Founder, Make Magazine 4 years ago, I walked out of the elevator onto the 4th floor of NYU’s TISCH building, home to the …
Founders don’t scale
As founders, many of us had to learn skills that don’t come naturally. Some responsibilities are better handled by your co-founders and other team members. You may be an amazing engineer, but a weak product manager. You may be a great product manager, but terrible at sales. And then there’s the universal challenge that every …
Getting The Funding Piece Right
Creative inventors with creative ideas need creative capital “As a first-gen entrepreneur and professional by training, I have become contemptuous of the local investor community—it uses a cookie cutter approach with very limited imagination. They would rather blow their cash on an app (without proof of concept) than on a good service model that has …
Is the Hyperlocal Model Fundamentally Flawed?
There are about 50+ startups in India, which are offering hyperlocal services (or what is being called Offline to Online O2O) – connecting online shoppers to brick and mortar retailers. They vary in the segments that they are addressing, with grocery and daily needs being the most popular ones. One thing which is common across …
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Open Source leaders discuss innovation, entrepreneurship and software patents.
Rohini Lakshané attended “Open Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Our Digital Culture” in Bangalore on August 13, 2015. Major takeaways from the event are documented in this post. Prof. Eben Moglen on FOSS and entrepreneurship The culture of business in the 21st century needs open source software or free software because there is one Internet governed by …
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