What is common to Cisco, Oracle, Google, Apple and WhatsApp? Besides being some of the most iconic technology companies in history, all these marquee firms share one more thing in common – an investor named Sequoia Capital. Sequoia Capital is arguably the most prestigious VC firm on the planet and its chairman, Michael (Mike)Moritz is …
5 tips to build a global start-up
I run Corporate360, an international bootstrapped start-up and here are some tips for taking your start-up international from our experience. Growing any business is no mean feat, and for many setting up abroad can be a significant milestone in the growth of their business. In different countries and markets, regulation and style of business can …
The Startup PR Checklist – What to do before a big launch
For early stage startups, cash-strapped and overworked, there are few things more valuable than PR. There is nothing more important at that stage than getting the word out there and getting users on board, for which PR is the only real shortcut available. And when there is an important feature release or a launch or …
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it!
India is interestingly poised today. About half of India’s 1.25billion people are under the age of 25 and by 2020, India will be the world’s youngest country with an average age of 29. According to the World Bank, India’s will overtake China to become the world’s fastest growing big economy by 2017-18. The scale of …
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Mobile Product & Growth Hacking RoundTable #playbookRT by @amitsomani & @VishalAnand
Having a completed a half century of RoundTables, the iSPIRT team was back with the 51st RoundTable on what’s currently the hot topic of discussion and debate in the startup community – mobile! A lot of startups are also trying to figure out their mobile strategy and this was evidenced in the great interest shown …
Christening of a Tribe and Launch of Home Tour Videos
iSPIRT is not a tradebody. It is a think tank focussed on transforming India into a Product Nation. To describe the set of things we do to make this happen, we have created four Home Tour videos. They will give you a good idea of what iSPIRT is doing today through the voices of some …
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Enterprise Software Products – Big Clients, Big Opportunity
Over the past few years, there has been a lot of investment activity in the B2B Technology product space. One can broadly classify B2B Tech into two categories based on the size of the end clients, and the delivery model (on-premise or Cloud). End Customer Mid-Large Enterprises SMEs Typical Delivery Model On …
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FinTech-Tech: The future of banking?
Banking and financial services industry is undergoing a massive transformation all over the world. While until the early 2010, FinTech wasn’t even on the radar of banking institutions let alone the entrepreneurial kinds, suddenly there is an upsurge in activity in the FinTech community. Global FinTech financing has grown from less than $930 million for …
The single most frequent mistake #entrepreneurs make during the #customer #development process
There are many assumptions we make about the product or the customer problem, which makes us develop solutions that may be really more complicated than required. A friend and fellow entrepreneur I met on Friday was showing me a prototype (HML mock up with transitions, with some simple functions implemented) of this SaaS application. He …
#ArthaSiddhi: Imparting life skills and effectual skills to pre-entrepreneurs…
2 week back, Rohan, Madhav, Milind and I graduated successfully from a first of a kind program, called ‘ArthaSiddhi’. This activity based program was conceived with the intent of imparting life skills to pre-entrepreneurs. The objectives of the program were to get participants to understand what it would take for them to embark on the …
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5 things to think about before starting your company blog
A few days ago, a friend of mine who’s starting work as a content marketer told me that she was putting together a plan for the company’s new blog. She was starting from scratch, she said, and this meant that she would putting the base in for future marketers in the company to take off …
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11 tips for Bootstrapping your startup
The Bootstrap Ride There are many paths to successfully bootstrapping a start-up. The trick is finding the way that works best for you. Now more than two years into my journey, I want to share a few lessons I wish I had learned earlier. I would like to share a few tips from my experiences …
Startups!! Do You Know Your Customers Well?
A business exists only till the time it has paying customers. The day your customers cease to exist, or have no reason to pay you for your products or services, your business is in deep trouble. So, if we consider all the stake holders in a corporate, an i.e. employee, executive management, investors and customers, …
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