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When constellation research published the best award for enterprise software to Zoho, I was thinking its yet another Silicon Valley startup that is kind of making some mark. But I was really surprised and it was a bit of a shame when I found out that its an Indian company – how could I have …
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The Account Aggregator (AA) construct defined in this RBI circular, this technical specification, and this article is imminently coming to life. Individuals and businesses in India will be able to link their bank and financial accounts with an AA application and begin leveraging their own data in order to avail of cheaper, faster, and more …
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“Words can inspire but only action creates real change.” Presenting the second Union Budget, the Finance Minister asserted that entrepreneurship has always been the strength of India and proposed a number of measures and policy changes to help boost the Indian startups. The Budget was a step in the right direction, but these are just …
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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 future outlook of the Indian startup ecosystem is definitely promising, further accelerated growth can happen only if the government introduces more startup-friendly policies, other than …
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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 the great archer Arjuna. When asked by his guru Drona on what he sees during an archery session, he replies that he just sees the …
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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 lack of information on where the best are); misdiagnoses or late diagnoses; overcrowding and long waits in public hospitals; overpriced and over-prescribed procedures and in …
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 a new digital society where due to the rapid and continued development of new digital technologies and digital infrastructure including digital public platforms, real-time and …
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 with a similar GDP per capita. By 2018, more than 8 out of 10 Indians had bank accounts and around 330 million people had been …
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 and (current & future) Fintech Entrepreneurs, Amidst the usual flurry of sensational headlines, you may have missed a quiet announcement a few weeks ago that …
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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 with whether they would be spending their next Dussehra while settled in India or in the Bay Area. iSPIRT conducted two sessions around opportunities emerging …
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 India as a global hub for software products development. This is a much-needed initiative to provide holistic and end-to-end support to the Indian software product …
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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 of formerly undervalued ‘designers’. Do designers possess some superpowered thought process that allows them to ingest any problem and come up with elegant and practical …
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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 a doctor without seeking a second opinion? Or, took your pills without constant reminders? These are problems even for someone who can afford the time …
Continue reading “#7 Healthcare leapfrog – but where is the problem?”
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 campus was hosting a fireside chat with Vinod Khosla (renowned Venture Capitalist and Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems) and Nandan Nilekani (Co-Founder of Infosys), with Sharad …
Continue reading “Some reflections on the fireside chat with Vinod Khosla and Nandan Nilekani”