Success is often measured by how much limelight you managed to get. Real success however, belongs to those who dig in and chart the fabled hockey stick growth path. Companies …
Product Camp brings hot product topics to the fore
Product camp is a unique event format where attendees get to drive the agenda. It is borne out of the bar-camp or un-conference movement that started in US and spread …
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Lessons for Customer-Funded Entrepreneurs #BootUpINDIA
More than two generations ago, the venture capital community – VCs, business angels, incubators, and others – convinced the entrepreneurial world that writing business plans and raising venture capital constituted …
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HackerEarth: an online technical sourcing and assessment solution – Sachin Gupta, Co-founder. #PNHangout.
HackerEarth is a Bangalore based start-up which helps companies hire programmers. It was started in 2012 by Sachin Gupta and Vivek Prakash, both of whom are alumni of IIT Roorkee. …
Bootstrapping, not an excuse for being cheap #BootUpINDIA
I witness the scenario on both sides of the table. A startup provides a solution to a problem; solves it elegantly. And makes it seamless for its users. They use …
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Bridging Code to Customer Gap
One of areas I have focused in many years that I have been involved in building and taking enterprise software products to market is, bridging the code to customer gap. …
Bootstrapping – What To Do When You Get Rejected #BootUpINDIA
Very few product companies make it big without taking external funding. The stories that are shared in the industry are all about companies that have targeted large markets, hit a …
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How Companies Use Big Data to Help Their Customers?
Big Data has gotten a lot of attention over the past 18 months as retail, manufacturing, and technology companies realize the gold mines they’re sitting on and rush to scour …
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Simple Dynamic Pricing for Mobile Games and Apps
There are many tactics mobile games and apps can borrow from retailers and e-commerce stores when it comes to selling In-App Purchases. Dynamic Pricing is one of the most powerful of them. This post …
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Enterprise Agility in Public Sector Insurance
Indian insurance market today is primarily dependent on push, tax incentives and mandatory buying for sales. There is very little customer pull, which will come from with increasing savings and …
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The ‘Desi’-fication of Indian startups
Desification is an invented acronym of course. It doesn’t exist in the dictionary. Or in lexicon. Nevertheless, it most aptly describes the phenomenon of a technology companies culturally adapting to …
Making your sales engine succeed in North America
Like many other technology entrepreneurs in India, I am the founder CEO of a software product company. We make a Global Human Resources SaaS product EmpXtrack and have over 300 …
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Product Camp Bangalore
Product Camp is a free user driven, collaborative “unconference” for Product Managers and Marketers! Unconference is the opposite of Conference. No pre-set agendas and sales pitches! Here, you the attendee drive the agenda by …
Bootstrapping – Boon or Bane for Product Startups #BootUpINDIA
On August 14th, 2014 iSPIRT, the industry enabler that is creating a vibrant eco-system for promoting, encouraging, supporting and enabling product companies out of India, organized a very useful online …
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iSPIRT Welcomes Product Circle Donors
The world has been witness to several movements that have changed the face of history. India is not alien to these – Mahatma Gandhi’s silent revolution that finally led to …