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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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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 …
Continue reading “Roles and Responsibilities of Startup Founders.”
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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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 …
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 …
Successful products are not an accident, even if they may look like it from the outside. Successful products are the end result of a series of challenges tackled well. While each business is unique, many of these product challenges are not. As Indian startups are working towards building market-winning products, wouldn’t it be great if …
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Managing and handling the activities of schools manually is considered to be a painful task. Each and every department is important to be handled in order to ensure its proper functioning like a MNC. A Software technology can help you administer entire institute by providing a detailed as well as summarised reports of all students …
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As sales leaders, we all know that crafting a skilled, productive sales team is essential to our ultimate success; experts consider the keys to building a successful team a balance between art and science: a careful combination of skills, experience, education, and personality traits. New research, however, reinforces what we at ValueSelling Associates have long believed …
Today’s competitive market is reducing margins and driving enterprises from customer acquisition to customer retention approach. The need of the hour is customer centricity, to create products around customer needs. Telecom service providers, unlike online industries like Amazon, Apple, Google and eBay, store customer data in silos due to the inherent complexities in the service …
There are two things that ring loud in my head whenever I think about PLF. The first is the teaching by renowned Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And the second is the quote “Celebrate what you have accomplished but raise the bar a little higher …
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The 42nd iSPIRT RoundTable (RT) focused on an enormously interesting subject of ‘Nuts and Bolts of Selling to the US from India for First Timers‘. The session was meant for startups focusing on SaaS products (mostly in the B2B space) but the learning can be applied to any startup targeting the US market. This is …
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If you have any doubt that design of everyday things is the most important cultural movement of our time, then you need to look up the most valuable company in the world today, which is ofcourse, Apple. We want our tools to work flawlessly and naturally. Open source projects are catching up too.Elementary OS promises …
Continue reading “Refocus on design for our open source ERP project – ERPNext.”
You’ve heard of famous napkin sketches such as the Southwest airlines route map or Robert Metcalfe’s Ethernet diagrams. But did you know that iSPIRT also started out as a series of such sketches? It was a late wintersun afternoon in December 2012. I was sitting in Bangalore’s Karnataka Golf Association across Sharad Sharma and Avinash …
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