RippleHire is a SaaS-based employee referral product. Tell us about RippleHire – your journey so far… We help companies automate their talent sourcing by leveraging their employee pool. We spent our first year working with the ecosystem getting feedback and crowdsourcing problems on hiring. Only then did we begin our sales process and that too …
Great Tech Rocketships (GTRS) to the UK – a UKTI, Tech Hub UK and iSPIRT initiative
Great Tech Rocketships to the UK is an initiative by UKTI to assist companies from India that would like to do business in, with or from the UK. (UKTI, or UK Trade & Investment, is a UK Government department whose mandate is to assist UK based businesses in their overseas expansion, and also encourage the …
InTech50 – helping software product companies connect with influential CIOs from across the world
In a recent article in ET, Mohandas Pai and I suggested that if India does not produce enough product companies, our economy will not be sustainable in the future. The data is compelling. To quote from that article, “Boeing and Airbus alone generate almost as much profit as all global airlines put together. Pfizer’s profits …
RBI Governor Dr. Raghuram Rajan meets Product Startups.
He is a maverick, a reformer, a decision maker and above all the Governor of Reserve Bank of India. The country’s foremost authority in Economics met with Product startups in Bangalore to understand their challenges and also provide useful advise by participating in interactive sessions for close to 3 hours. Yesterday, at ITC Windsor Manor, …
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How to Bootstrap in India
I am bootstrapping AeroLeads and InBoundio, 2 product based startups and strongly feels before raising money, everyone should bootstrap as you want to learn how to manage resources and money before you actually raise money to have more resources. Here is what I can suggest from my learning, experience and what I have seen from …
‘Finding’ Innovation
In a highly competitive market, and one where market dynamics are changing faster than ever, innovation is the key to long-term sustainability and success. History has proven that companies that have a culture that encourages innovation stand a far better chance at sustaining their leadership position or emerging as market leaders. Harvey Firestone, an American …
The best things are simple. Is your messaging there yet? : from #PlaybookRT
The most crucial lessons come from looking at the mistakes: those that we make and those that we spot others making. A thought might get triggered by listening to great dreamers like Steve Jobs. But the termination, in terms of realization, implementation and imbibing the essence comes only when you have walked through that journey …
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Here’s how India’s “Product Nation” ambition be achieved and what the Budget can do for that ambition
The Next Google, Made in India If you look at the Indian business landscape, you will see several successful services companies in fields like airlines (e.g. Jet, Indigo), health care (e.g. Apollo, Manipal), mobile phone services (e.g. Idea, Airtel) and IT Services (e.g. TCS, Infosys). Many of these companies are comparable to global peers, if …
The Kayako culture – Startup lessons in building organisational values
How leaving our values unclear started breaking our culture at Kayako, how we fixed it and what we learned. In the early days, a startup’s values and culture — the essence — is very much a reflection of the founding team. These values don’t need to be documented, they usually just are. As new people join the team, the …
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Roles and Responsibilities of Startup Founders.
This is the 2nd in the 5 part series on ‘How to Sell in the US Market from India’. I had attended the Round Table organized by iSPIRT and here I attempt to capture the important points from the discussion. (You can read the first part here) One of the topics of deep interest for …
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Announcing the Business Catalyst program at InTech50
We are pleased to announce that this year Intech50 will connect Indian startups with experienced business catalysts and consultants visiting specially from USA. Why Are We Launching Business Catalyst In his famous blog, Ben Horowitz discusses why we need sales people in the cloud world. Last year we saw many of our startups getting the POC from …
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“Be Prepared to Move Very Fast” Mukund Mudras, CEO & Co-Founder of Heckyl #IfNotNowThenWhen
In conversation with Mukund Mudras – CEO and Co-Founder of Heckyl – winners of the UKTI ‘India’s Most Innovative Companies To Work With The Best of UK’ 2013. A brief about the company – Heckyl is a real time data analytics company that brings news, price and fundamental analytics through a single platform called FIND …
3 things I did right: Lesson 3 from a bootstrapped journey of 0 to 8 digit revenue
Last year we received 1.6 lakh pageviews with over 100 articles on improving customer interactions. But the bottom line remains: As an entrepreneur I play joker. I try – I fall – I stand up again for the next stunt. Whatsoever, I have to keep everyone entertained. This article is a part of a 3-article …