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 …
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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 …
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#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 …
Fast-Tracking Inclusion: Digital Infrastructure for Identity, Payments, and Data Empowerment
In 2011, just over 3 out of 10 Indians had bank accounts. This number was, according to the Bank of International Settlements’ analysis, in line with that of other countries …
A Great Leap Forward to Transform Fintech: Data Empowerment
India is one of the first nations in the world to kick off Open APIs for consented financial data sharing. And nobody’s heard about it! Dear Kickass Financial Product Managers …
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Bharat Calling In Bay Area
In the first week of October, around Dussehra, a bunch of Indians gathered in the Bay Area. The setting had nothing to do with Dussehra, it had more to do …
Indian Software Product Registry – All That Product Companies Need to Know
Earlier this year, National Policy on Software Products was rolled out to create a robust, participatory framework to bring together industry, government and academia on a common platform to make …
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The Global Stack: A Manifesto
Elevate digital cooperation to an interministerial level, promoting India’s advancements globally
#1 – Thinking about Design or Design Thinking?
Design thinking has well and truly become the buzzword in the Indian Startup ecosystem today. With the rise of this phrase, we have seen an unprecedented rise in the status …
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#7 Healthcare leapfrog – but where is the problem?
When was the last time you skipped a movie for a workout, or chose a salad over a pizza? Or, actually got your annual tests done – annually? Or, visited …
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Some reflections on the fireside chat with Vinod Khosla and Nandan Nilekani
On a cloudy Bangalore evening on August 2nd, the otherwise quiet campus of a medical college in the ‘startup saturated hub of Koramangala’ was bustling with energy. That night the …
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iSPIRT & Sahamati Present Account Aggregator Delhi Workshop
India will be taking its first step in empowering Indians with control over their data through the RBI-driven Account Aggregator (AA) system. The Account Aggregator (AA) helps citizens & small …
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iSPIRT & Sahamati Present Account Aggregator Bengaluru Workshop
India will be taking its first step in empowering Indians with control over their data through the RBI-driven Account Aggregator (AA) system. The Account Aggregator (AA) helps citizens & small …
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A Day at Startup Bridge – Crafting Strategic Partnerships
For our most recent Startup Bridge Salon on May 9th, we had planned for sixty 1-1 strategic partnership meetings between 11 B2B startups and 35+ US corporates. In the weeks …
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