When nearly two dozen product enthusiasts sit around a table passionately talking for 4-½ hours, expertly addressed by two product veterans – Amit Somani and Amit Ranjan, you can expect …
Brainstorming Session about cross-border M&A
Discuss issues related to cross-border M&A, particularly the acquisition of innovative Indian startups by major US corporations. As a leader in your organization, we strongly believe that you could provide …
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Notes on Product Management – insights from Slideshare / MMT / ex-Google PM
Avinash Raghava, who is doing a wonderful job of getting product start-ups together all over India, organized a product management roundtable with the help of Aneesh Reddy(CEO, Capillary). They invited Amit Ranjan (Cofounder, …
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Pricing dilemma
A year back I was involved with a leading mobile apps company on an issue related to product pricing. The company developed customized mobile apps for business. At the time …
The Other E-commerce Guys
“Fifty years ago the nice housewife still prided herself on knowing the right place for everything. There was a little man in a back street who imported just the coffee …
5 Essentials of SaaS Revenue Models for Product Companies!
Enterprise as well as Consumer Software is moving fast towards a Software As A Service (SaaS) model. Who would not like paying a per user, per month charge as opposed …
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Users or Customers?
If you’ve been around the internet startup world for long enough, you’ve probably engaged in the user-customer debate at least once. Who’s the user? Who’s the customer? Who should we …
CollateBox: Cloud-Based Software Simplifies Small Biz Collaboration
Small businesses with growing lists of data are the ideal customer for U.S.-incorporated CollateBox, a software product of India-based WOLF Frameworks. Sunny Ghosh, co-founder and CEO, describes CollateBox’s value proposition …
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Indian SMB market at 48.8 million units growing at a CAGR of 4.53%
Our recently launched study titled, ‘Indian SMB Sector 2013’ captures some interesting facts and figures on the burgeoning SMB segment in India. The study reveals that with a total base of 48.8 million …
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Cloud Services and Mobile Apps
In addition to vendors of traditional on-premise products that are shipped or downloaded via web, a different generation of providers is fast emerging. They are leveraging new technologies and business …
The day Zest.Md picked on smartest brain for inputs at #PNMeetup
I met Avinash a few weeks back to share details about zest.md, and to discuss some of the challenges which we are facing. Avinash, helped me to understand a lot …
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Some Takeaways from the First iSPIRT Playbook Roundtable on Positioning & Messaging for Products
“99% Practice, 1% Theory”. This was the ground rule laid down for the session by the workshop facilitator Shankar Maruwada at the beginning. Sounds very much like the tagline of a …
Financial Inclusion in India – Challenges & Opportunities
What is Financial Inclusion? Financial inclusion is the delivery of financial services & products to sections of disadvantaged and low income segments of society, at an affordable cost in a fair …
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What should you expect from an accelerator?
I have written previously about how to evaluate accelerators and choosing the right accelerator since there are so many of them these days and also about what the goal of an accelerator is. I wanted to …
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Why does India struggle to develop its own complex high technology products like fighter aircraft?
Dr Raghuram Rajan, Chief Economic Adviser to the MoF, GoI, was the chief guest at the IIMB convocation this year. I had the privilege of meeting him briefly before the …