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On 23rd May, we hosted our first Open House Session in partnership with Swasth Alliance on the National Health Stack (NHS). For those unfamiliar with this infrastructure, it is helpful to …
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Yesterday afternoon, we hosted our first Open House Session in partnership with Swasth Alliance on the National Health Stack (NHS). For those unfamiliar with this infrastructure, it is helpful to …
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The National Health Stack is a set of foundational building blocks that will be built as shared digital infrastructure, usable by both public sector and private sector players. Healthcare delivery …
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Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman announced stimulus to help economic revival in wake of COVID-19. Out of these measure a major portion was announced for businesses in MSMEs category. Some of …
In the interest of transparency, here is our entire exchange with The Ken. Our first email response to The Ken Dear Sanjay and Siddharth, Hope you are safe and doing …
Continue reading “iSPIRT’s responses to The Ken’s questions over the last few days.”
As you may have heard from us or read about in our publications, iSPIRT takes the long view on problems. We call ourselves 30 year architects for India’s hard problems. …
Many ongoing industry efforts to bring cash flow lending to life for MSMEs are now on hiatus COVID19 strikes cash flow lending too At iSPIRT, with our long-cherished dream of …
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I wanted to write a post on how timing is important for a product-market fit – but with the covid19 times, this has become even more important as the leading …
In 1973, the British economist Ernst Schumacher wrote his manifesto “Small is Beautiful”, and changed the world. Schumacher’s prescription — to use technologies that were less resource-intensive, capable of generating …
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There are no atheists in foxholes, and there appear to be no capitalists in a global pandemic either. The head of Honeywell’s billion-dollar GoDirect Trade platform, which uses a permission-based …
An inspiring effort in response to COVID-19 Last Tuesday, for the first time in recorded history, India pulled the emergency brakes on all of the complex interactions that make up …
One lens I use to evaluate startup opportunities – and have written about in the past – is, are you offering an Aspirin or a Vitamin? My basic premise is …
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When constellation research published the best award for enterprise software to Zoho, I was thinking its yet another Silicon Valley startup that is kind of making some mark. But I …
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The Account Aggregator (AA) construct defined in this RBI circular, this technical specification, and this article is imminently coming to life. Individuals and businesses in India will be able to …
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“Words can inspire but only action creates real change.” Presenting the second Union Budget, the Finance Minister asserted that entrepreneurship has always been the strength of India and proposed a …
Continue reading “Union Budget 2020: A Good Start That Needs Swift and Decisive Action”