Kreeo Makes Disparate Information Discoverable and Manageable for Collaboration

Launched in 2007 in India, Kreeo helps organizations enable information discovery, collaboration and co-creation. CEO Sumeet Anand discusses knowledge/information management solutions in a Big Data world and shares lessons learned …

Quick Research / Usability Methods: Heuristic Evaluation

(Post 2 of a series on quick research and usability techniques. Start-up’s can use these techniques fairly easily to connect to and understand their end users better, as well as maintain usability …

Where is Dropbox headed?

Having started in September 2008, Dropbox today is a leading cloud storage provider (CSP). It has over a 100 million signed free users and about 4 million paid users (4% …

#PNMeetup: The Zen of building winning products – a view from the trenches

Product management space is a graveyard of failed products. It is said 80% product ventures fail. Even leading innovators like Apple, Google and Facebook have a string of failures behind a …

Why #Hashtags are the future of monetizing social media

You can’t invite people to a party and try to sell them stuff. Pretty much every starry-eyed startup that went after eyeballs gets it by now. Over the last seven …

8 Truths why IT Services Organizations cannot do Software Products

The bread and butter of the Indian IT Industry has been IT Services.  IT Services, as the terminology implies, is servicing a customer.  A customer states his needs, the IT …

How to think about a product startup progress ?

One of the most difficult things in a product startup is to know when has progress happened and if it is in the right track. This is an even more …

iSPIRT Sales PlaybookRT

In line with our objectives to support the emerging software product development industry in India, we are seeking participation in a roundtable to share, discuss and learn about challenges and …

Crowdfunding In50hrs: India’s Idea-to-prototype Event Platform

I am in the middle of building two platforms. One being The Startup Centre, the older one, and its younger sibling In50hrs. In50hrs does get a bit of my attention, partly because …

iSPIRT M&A PlaybookRT: Assisting product entrepreneurs in their readiness for a successful M&A.

Despite huge innovation and rising entrepreneurship, most Indian product companies are invisible on the global map. The reasons are many, but a big one is the lack of meaningful exits …

Cybersecurity: Israel’s Innovation as India’s Opportunity

India is one of the leading victims of cyber-crime and the cybersecurity market is estimated at around US$218 million. Indian cybersecurity companies have developed indigenous products to address rising cyber-threats, …

Networking Infosession in Pune | Engage with Industry Execs on Product Leadership

  Share a conversation with Sanjeev Kumar (MD Informatica India), Asutosh Phadnis (MD QLogic), Suhas Kelkar (CTO, BMC), Nitin Deshpande (President Allscripts), Dr. Vinay (Famed Author for 8 Steps to Innovation), Pinkesh Shah (ex-VP Mcafee, …

Why just ‘knowing’ your customer is not enough

Every customer support forum and blog has at least one post talking about the importance of ‘knowing’ the target customer. This is one of those well established cliche-stereotypes that David …

Stories are Better Than a Feature List

You’re at an event, and you’re ready. You know your product inside out. You know the competition. You know the licensing terms. The deals. The partners. The competition. Technical details. …

#PNMeetup – Showcase your Product & Get Advice from leading CIOs

We are pleased to partner with APAC CXO Forum to put together the 8th #PNMeetup in Noida.  If you have a brilliant Enterprise Product and you just know that its the best out there, …