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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Show Me The Money
Who doesn’t remember the famous four words of the 1996 film Jerry Maguire? The relevance of these words encompasses all generations. We look at the rich and mighty with a hint of jealousy, sometimes incredulously , some other times in awe, yet other times perturbed. On the other hand, the poor and downtrodden are subjugated …
India B2B Software Products Industry Clocks Solid Growth from 2014 to 2015
India’s B2B software product industry has grown nicely since we published the first edition of this index in November 2014 – the top 30 companies are valued at $10.25 billion (₹65,500 crores) and employ over 21,000 people. The index has grown 20% in USD terms and 28% in INR terms from October 30, 2014 to …
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Three Things To Do Before You Launch Your SaaS Startup To Get InBound Leads
There are 3 items you should do quickly, if you are going to launch your SaaS startup or a new product that caters to a new audience. First, get listed on SaaS marketplaces, Cloud Brokerage Services and Cloud listing providers. There are over 120 SaaS marketplaces from telcos – AT&T, T-Mobile and others, to large …
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India innovated and celebrated @Inno_fest #IndiaCanInnovate
With whatever little humility we can garner, we created a platform for showcasing, inspiring, and celebrating innovation in India – in less than 27 days!! With the awesome support from our partners, sponsors, believers, dreamers, creators, speakers, patrons, volunteers and each and every one who was a part of InnoFest – we rocked it J …
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Stop Wasting your Hard-Earned Inbound Leads
Inbound Digital Marketing – A must for Generating Leads! Organizations rely significantly on inbound digital marketing for their business. One of the most popular marketing channel used is Pay-Per-Click Campaigns, wherein inbound leads are captured as soon as a visitor clicks on sponsored landing pages/Google Adwords links and fills the details to access specific resources/offers. …
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Get a team first.
Nothing can be done solo. Everything can be done with the right team. I meet dozens of people in Bangalore, who when they realise I am an entrepreneur ask me my two cents on starting up. Some of them have started up, some are about to and many want to sometime soon. If there is …
A perspective on Entrepreneurial Independence
To me, entrepreneurship is a dynamic manifestation of creating connected values with compassion; so I focus on creating connected values without worrying for my funding orientation. When I started, after coming out of Sun Microsystems, I was not thinking about money as I was able to get some money by helping people who were using …
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As somebody rightly said “it was all a notion but hey, its innovation now”
What’s more, when you give this notion a Woodstock fever! That would be Innofest’2015. My participation was courtesy iSPIRT and Avinash, with whom I was interacting for my startup. One thing lead to another, and like a typical startup guy, I asked for a discount. Voila, got a free pass. So, the day was 22nd …
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Innovation @ Innofest 2015
Here is small write-ups of stalls I visited and could relate better with innovations at stalls@Innofest. Wish that innovation stalls were open for viewing by public,children and youngsters. Captured innovations to share and motivate readers to dream. Let me start with TeamIndus, prototype design and aerial vehicle. Young guys have been able to innovated on …
Promote innovation and entrepreneurship to achieve sustainable economic growth
We are at a profound moment in India’s history. We have a young and energetic workforce, a robust macroeconomy and a strong leadership at the Centre. This is our chance to power India forward. A key aspect for achieving sustainable economic growth and providing jobs to our youth is to promote innovation and entrepreneurship. We …
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