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 …
Product Leaders Forum brings PLF 2015 to create and celebrate product leaders!
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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Nuts and Bolts of Selling to the US from India for First Timers : Part 1
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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Refocus on design for our open source ERP project – ERPNext.
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 …
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iSPIRT: Big ideas on little napkins. #iSPIRTturnstwo
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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A startup going global has to be stronger, better, faster than others – Bhanu Chopra #ifnotnowthenwhen
Cue in to what Bhanu Chopra, Founder & CEO at RateGain, has to say about going global… Why do you encourage Indian companies to go global? Since the evolution of modern trade, commercial activities between countries and across the seas have been an integral part of our society. While earlier, it was all about access …
If you have a B2B Product, here are 5 reasons why you should apply for #InTech50
If you have built an B2B Product and have aspirations to take it to a global scale, here are the 5 reasons why you should apply for #InTech50. An opportunity to showcase, get validation of the concept and product direction, better understanding of business value in the enterprise from Global CIOs. High probability of being selected …
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What you need to make a Sholay?
I am a great fan of analogies and for software products that we make, I always try to get an analogy as we grow through the journey. In a recent post I had shared the medical analogy of classifying how software products can be classified as vitamin, pain killer or vaccines. One of the favorites for …
40th #PlayBookRT in NCR on “Break the Barriers of Selling” by Deepak Prakash
iSPIRT kicked off its first roundtable for 2015 on 17th January at the office of Eko India, Gurgaon. The PlaybookRT was led by Deepak Prakash, Former VP of Sales at Tally Solutions. He has led building the entire sales network bottoms up and was the #1 sales person at Tally. Under him, Tally evolved from …
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Fingerprint entry into cars? Read what this venture is doing…
Great Tech Rocketships to the UK is a unique initiative to fast-track India’s most promising tech companies and talent to global success. Read more. Tell us about your venture – what problem are you solving, and why do you think it is an important problem to be solved? Identisafe is a biometric company and our product, …
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3 questions to expect at your Product Marketing interview
Perhaps you are an Engineer considering a lateral move into Product Marketing and watching out for opportunities within your company. Perhaps you’ve gone through an MBA and are anxiously awaiting interviews on campus. Whatever the situation, your first interview for a Product Marketing role can be an intense experience, especially if your past interviews have been …
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3 things I did right: Lesson 2 from a bootstrapped journey of 0 to 8 digit revenue
We deployed over 1.62 million lines of code to add functionalities and security to the data. But one thing that doesn’t change is this: 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 …
M&A Roundtable: Indian startups are breaking through
M&A activity in the Indian startup ecosystem has, for a long time, remained fairly nascent. Relatively small exits, averaging $10-15M, are commonplace in India. But things are changing, and with India being the third largest startup ecosystem in the world, Silicon Valley giants are beginning to pay more heed to the entrepreneurs and IP emerging …
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Why India needs to move beyond “Jugaad”.
Innovation is a result of an unaddressed problem. Contrary to general perception, design process strives to find the correct problems. Solution to these form the second half of the process and which has complete dependency on the earlier, yet is more celebrated. A designer observes a given brief, studies it in the context and then …
Microsoft Windows 10 needs more than an oil-change, it needs an overhaul.
The author extrapolates learnings from the last ten years of the Indian Automotive industry and makes the point that all things remaining equal, success in emerging markets depends largely on how premium a design feels in the hands and eyes of consumers. He suggests that Microsoft adopt a bold and fresh approach in the redesign of Windows 10. I …
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