When it comes to a successful negotiation, which is more important: strategy or skill? The definition of the verb, negotiate, is to “deal or bargain with others, as in the preparation of a treaty or contract or in preliminaries to a business deal.” In a sales context, the key definition is to “bargain in order to …
Shephertz: Powering the Mobile Backend
ShepHertz endeavour is to make App developers successful on the Cloud, irrespective of the technology or platform on which they are developing. They provide a complete cloud ecosystem for app development – Mobile, Web, Social, Gaming and TV Apps. All their products focus on making App developers’ life easy and augment their business. ShepHertz is …
Ezmove – Redefining the Movers and Packers Services
Businesses succeed with a mission to serve customers and related ecosystem. Ezmove is following the same path. I recently got a chance to catch-up with Ezmove co-founders – Anand & Vishwajeet. Ezmove aims to be a guiding agent, to whom consumers can just outsource their movers & packers requirements. Q:Why do you guys feel there …
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The trouble of selling to BigB
I was talking to one of the CEOs of an enterprise product company who sells to CIOs of enterprise. The typical industry classification for them would be B2B, a business selling to business. When you read it that way it seems like a fairly balanced relationship between the two. However as we discussed his situation …
15 Steps towards Building a Great Product!
This for all founders & product geeks (that includes me too) who want to build the next great product. Sharing all this for #StartupKarma (Heard this from Bowei – ‘Continue to give away and help other entrepreneurs with a hope that it comes back to you someday!’) 15 Steps towards building a Great Product! from P J …
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If you have built an Enterprise Software Product, here are 5 reasons why you should apply for #InTech50
If you have built an Enterprise Software Product and have aspirations to take it to a global scale, here are the 5 reasons why you should apply for #InTech50. An opportunity to showcase, get validation of the concept and product direction, better understanding of business value in the enterprise from Global CIOs. High probability of …
Office Chat – The App for Messaging Securely” – Vipin Thomas, Product Manager – MangoApps #PNHangout
With Office Chat, the goal was simple; we wanted to create a product like Whatsapp, but for enterprises. This app should seamlessly work between devices (mobile and desktop) and could also be sold alongside the other suite of apps offered by MangoApps (an enterprise social collaboration network). Although MangoApps has an IM client tool integrated …
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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The Most Important Metrics Immediately After Launch
Just released or about to release a mobile app? Do you have a checklist of which metrics you should be tracking? Deciding which metrics to track is simply deciding which questions you want to answer. And the key is in asking the right questions. Getting information about your app usage shouldn’t be like this. 1. …
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Raja of v-shesh on how social impact can be “greater through a business model”
Mr. P Rajasekharan (Raja) is the founder of v-shesh, a social impact enterprise that enables people with disabilities find employment. Working with both job-seekers and employers, v-shesh has placed over 90% of its trainees in banks, ITES, hospitality and manufacturing sectors. Prior to founding v-shesh, Raja worked in development sector and project finance at Japan Bank for Regional …
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Earning a rupee in India is more difficult than earning a dollar in US! – Kumar Vembu, Founder and CEO, GoFrugal Technologies
ProductNation interviewed Kumar Vembu, Founder and CEO of GoFrugal Technologies. In a candid conversation, Kumar shares his experiences of dealing with Indian retail market and shares key mantras for succeeding in the Indian market. Read on… Could you explain the rationale behind venturing into the Indian retail space through GoFrugal? I started GoFrugal during the …
Yammer is facebook for Business! – Product Positioning and Messaging!
Yammer is facebook for Business! – This was apparently the Product Positioning choice of its own CEO. The CEO thinks that this is good shorthand for conveying what his product is all about. It could also be meant in a pejorative way. Users could feel that the user interfaces and functionality are too similar to …
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Sanket – A disruptive health/wellness product to monitor health ailments
Sanket – a revolutionary product in the healthcare/wellness space is the brainchild of Agatsa, a Noida based product and Solutions Company. ProductNation interviewed Rahul, co-founder of Agatsa to understand the product and their plans to make it available to the masses. Read on… What was the motivation to start Agatsa? My wife Neha (Co-Founder) and …
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My final comments on a Twitter discussion about Design & India focused startups
Here’s the starting point of the discussion on Twitter: @avinashraghava @dkhare better Q:what is the role of design in d larger socio-eco context? Which business & consumer problem does it solve? — Dhiraj Kacker (@dhirajkacker) January 3, 2014 Just to summarize my thought: the original referenced article talked about design being a key pillar of …
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Innovation in India: Where do we stand at the end of 2013?
As the new year approaches, its customary to review the year that has passed. Here is my take on where we stand on innovation at the end of 2013. Positive Highlights of the Indian Innovation scenario in 2013 Innovation in the public/strategic sectors took two important strides. The first was the successful launch of the …
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