100 minds – 8 mins with each.

In simple maths, every one of the 100 who saw the videos, was kept engaged for at least 8 minutes. Assuming they didn’t see all of the videos – a …

“AnthahPrerana” – the deep driving desire, self motivation of an entrepreneur, a TIE Initiative

AnthahPrerana is a carefully thought out program which plugs some very essential gaps in the eco-system. It’s an inspiring and action packed program which combines the value of celebration through …

Susant Pattnaik: Real Life ‘Doremon’ or an Innovation Champ?

TV addict Kids in India simply love Japanese cartoon character ‘Doremon’ who always come up with very cool gadgets to help his very average and foolish brother Nobita. Doremon’s gadgets …

19th #PlaybookRT – Insights on the Indian Product Ecosystem

This #PlaybookRT was led by Shivku, techie and founder of Exotel. The theme ‘The Ship of Theseus’ was inspired by the movie released in 2012 and also by a team …

Being Lean: Being Flat: Being Beautiful!

In this blog we look at the ever changing dynamics of organizations today, especially product organizations in India. Implementing lean and agile practices have become common practice across the enterprise, …

Building products to last – Can it increase your valuation?

The inspiration for this article came up from the animated discussion that’s going on at the Product Nation discussion Forum on ‘Customized Product’ – A true Oxymoron.  We all know …

Go to market strategy for start-ups

For small businesses to succeed in today’s fiercely competitive market is no easy job. While you might think that once you ideate and put a business plan in place, your …

Designathon 2013 – An Initiative by TLabs

Many of you would have already heard about the shiny new initiative of TLabs –TLabs Designathon 2013. This builds up on our Design Day initiatives and takes our commitment to …

The first #PNSummit – Are you ready to report for BootCamp? Yes, that’s right. BootCamp. For Product Leaders.

It has been a pretty frenzied two weeks or so for us #PNSummit volunteers, but here we are, and we have something to show you and the world. 

But first, …

iSPIRT Sales RoundTable: Acquiring initial customers, Early product management, Indian SME Selling

Yet another extremely educational round table from iSPIRT – 8 out of 12 participants gave it a rating of 10/10!  Girish from GreyTip and Shashank from Practo led the round …

You’re Not Fully Utilizing Social for your Business

Sure, your business has a Facebook fan page and maybe you even have a Twitter handle. Congratulations! You’re now one of hundreds of millions of people using social media and …

“We think more like Product Designers, and less like Product Managers” – Bharath Mohan, Pugmarks.me #PNHangout

(This passage is a summary of the conversation with Bharath Mohan. The audio transcript can be found here.) Adopters of any new innovation or idea can be categorized as innovators …

Billbooks is helping ease the invoicing for the freelance economy

It has never come as a surprise that the best startup solutions and most passionate entrepreneurs are the one who end up solving their own pain points. For Sagar Kogekar …

Lets Not Lose the Reason and Season for Products

One of the long running debates in the Indian technology entrepreneurial world is whether India will ever engender global product companies or will it be destined to be a purveyor …

Happy B’day ProductNation, We are One year Young

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. ― Mother Teresa. 
ProductNation is today, one year young. Yes! One year. It didn’t seem too long ago …