iSPIRT’s responses to The Ken’s questions over the last few days.

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 …

iSPIRT Playgrounds Coda

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. …

COVID19 strikes cash flow lending for small businesses in the country

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 …

Timing is key for Product Market Fit

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 …

The future of ‘civic’ technologies after COVID-19

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 …

The history of technology is about to change radically. India must seize the moment

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 …

When one door closes…

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 …

#BlackSwan: Has Corona turned your Vitamin into an Aspirin?

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 …

R&D Revolution from Rural India – Rendezvous with Vembu

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 …

Account Aggregators : Opportunities For Entrepreneurs And Technology Companies

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 …

Union Budget 2020: A Good Start That Needs Swift and Decisive Action

 “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 …

Union Budget 2020 – iSPIRT Recommendations

India is among the top startup ecosystems in the world with home to 50,000+ startups and 3,500+ funded startups growing at a rapid pace at 30 per cent. While the …

Focus – Essential ingredient for product success

As we enter 2020 and a new decade, I wanted to touch upon an essential ingredient for startup entrepreneurs and product managers – Focus. In India, we all know about …

#8 Call for Volunteers: Designing Digital Infrastructure for Healthcare at National Scale

Why Healthcare? Interacting even briefly with the healthcare system reveals the issues that plague the sector in India: a severe shortage of high-quality doctors, nurses, or medical supplies (and a …

Announcement: iSPIRT Foundation & Japan’s IPA to work together on Digital Public Platforms

Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA), Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), and the Indian Software Product Industry Roundtable (iSPIRT) have shared common views that (i) our society will be transformed into …