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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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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 …
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 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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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 …
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 …
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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 …