The emergence of high speed Internet services and the ability to outsource the networking and processing requirements has generated a plethora of opportunities for various companies to avail these emerging services and reduce their overheads and speed up product delivery. There are however, various critical termination and post termination issues that are encountered by IT …
#TheWayForward for M&A in India
2013 was a hot year for Global Technology M&A: 204 announced Tech M&A deals took place at an overall valuation of ~$100B, of which 70% were pure software companies. Thanks to a strong stock market, 51 Tech IPOs took place in 2013. The story for the India software product industry has been different. Despite huge innovation …
A perspective from the other side – Seema Joshi, Lead Product Manager – BMC Software, #PNHangout.
In this #PNHangout, Seema Joshi, Lead Product Manager – BMC Software, shared with us her insights about Product management and the challenges and scope on the road ahead for Women Product Managers. Why did you choose to be a Product Manager? There are two aspects to why I chose to be a Product Manager. The …
Thinkflow Software – Keeping up with changing markets
I recently met with Thinkflow founder Praveen Hari and heard first hand their growth story of building a platform capable of powering business applications and services on the cloud. I specifically focused on learning how they accelerated their growth and scale phase, wanting to hear a few stories that could inspire other budding ventures on …
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A 10-Point Agenda to Support Technology-driven Innovation
With a new government at the helm, this is the time for wish-lists and advice as to how it can make a major impact. Here’s my two pennies worth on what should be the government’s priorities if it wants to promote technology-driven innovation and entrepreneurship. Ease of Doing Business India routinely does badly on the …
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Hiring Is Growth Hacking
Hiring is Growth Hacking applied to organizations. What does that mean? It is expensive to pay a staffing consulting $10k – $20k per hire, so creative, guerrilla tactics have to be adopted. Using your network to reach out to your audience, relying on word of mouth, the referral program that extends beyond employees, Quora/Twitter/LinkedIn for …
The link between corruption & early stage venture returns in India
As everyone knows, venture returns are determined by building innovative products and services that reach scale. The operative words being INNOVATIVE and SCALE. Stuff that has not been built or tried before, stuff that delivers much greater “value” to the customer. We also know that India early stage returns have not exactly been stellar. I’ll …
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Platform Metrics: the core metric for platforms, networks and marketplaces
You become what you measure. From my experience working with clients across enterprises and startups, the most common reason for failure and inefficiency is the focus on convenient, but inappropriate, metrics. Your technology doesn’t determine the business you build. Neither does your organizational capability. The metric you optimize for is the single biggest factor that …
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Product Management Principles across industries are the same” – Pandith Jantakahalli, Sr. Product Manager – iPublishCentral. #PNHangout
#PNHangout is an ongoing series where we talk to Product Managers from various companies to understand what drives them, the products they work on and the role they play in defining the products success. We recently had a chance to talk to Pandith Jantakahalli –Senior Product Manager at Impelsys, about his experiences as a …
It pays to be frugal – a list of money savers for companies
We Indians are notoriously cheap, second possibly only to the Chinese. There are countless comics in the US that make fun of both ethnicities, but for us it a point of pride, a virtue borne out of years of trying to make do with less. You can call it whatever you want, we like to …
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My learning from taking an idea to product to business – Sampad Swain, Instamojo
Instamojo.com was released to public on 24th April, 2012. That’s little over 2 years back. Here’s a screenshot of how it looked then with the boilerplate message: Although, we haven’t shifted from our core vision but we definitely have learnt a lot more about who are our customers, what do they want and what should we …
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Sold your company / Business ?? How to protect and handle the IPR transfer ??
As an entrepreneur launching a business in the IT and Software industry, one has his hand full with beating the competition and managing the overheads. The race is tough enough without employees stealing million dollar ideas and venture capitalists pulling the fast one during an acquisition. It is critical that start-up especially in the IT …
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workXmate – A cloud based ERP and On Demand SaaS App ecosystem for SMEs
Product Nation interviewed Kamal Mansharamani and Atul Bhatia, founders of workXmate – a cloud based ERP & CRM solution designed for SMEs. During the discussion, they share their insights on how technology and external environment changes are creating favorable opportunities for tech entrepreneurs to offer products to the market. Read on… Can you tell us …
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The redBus Founders on Motorbikes Story! Interested in India Domestic Consumption Start Ups! Seedfund #ThinkInvestor
ThinkInvestor is iSPIRT and ProductNation’s new initiative to serve as a catalyst between Venture Capital firms, Angels, Angel Networks and Entrepreneurs. It is to go beyond brochure ware and dig deeper into the whole life cycle of a typical investment; from introductions, funding, styles of on-going engagement, to exits. And in the process, capture their views on global …
When it comes to selling, you’re as good as your word(s)
Today’s slangy emoji text culture may have you thinking that formally written communications are a lost art. Don’t believe it. When it comes to professional communications, poised and precise prose rules over the casually misspelled messages passing between colleagues. This is especially true for sales professionals, since selling is fundamentally a communication process. No one …
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