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Announcing Validation Tank @InTech50

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The second edition of InTech50 is round the corner.  InTech50 (flagship event of iSpirt) brings together 50 promising enterprise software start-ups, 50 CIO’s from some of the biggest companies (read Citibank, Kroger, Procter & Gamble, Great American Insurance Company,  AllStage, Accretive Health, Nationwide Mutual Insurance, Crate & Barrel and the likes) and who’s who from the...

Announcing the Business Catalyst program at InTech50

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We are pleased to announce that this year Intech50 will connect Indian startups with experienced business catalysts and consultants visiting specially from USA. Why Are We Launching Business Catalyst In his famous blog, Ben Horowitz discusses why we need sales people in the cloud world. Last year we saw many of our startups getting the POC from large US customers, but some of them struggled to...

If you have a B2B Product, here are 5 reasons why you should apply for #InTech50

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If you have built an B2B 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 being selected by Global CIO’s for pilot or early adoption. Possibility of being...

Announcing InTech50 for 2015

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Welcome to the second edition of InTech50. We’re happy to report that we achieved some spectacular results from our first edition last year and are all geared up to announce the dates for the next version of the program. What did we achieve? 39 companies had active deals in progress In September alone, a 100 days after the last edition, 5 companies had closed deals 19 had active deals in the...

Innovation and User experience are two areas where CIOs are willing to look at new things: Highlights of #InTech50 2014: Day 2

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This post covers the highlights of day 2 of InTech50 2014.  The highlights of day 1 are here. Before getting into the highlights of the pitches of the 50 companies, here are some important points from the expert talks and panel discussions. View from the VCs: Rob Heiman, Alok Goyal, Sandeep Singhal and Tim Goddard gave practical tips to the entrepreneurs.  Some highlights: Quality of the team...

India is poised for success because of the 3 D’s: Highlights of #InTech50 2014: Day 1

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InTech50 is a joint initiative by iSPIRT and Terrene Global Leadership Network.  InTech50 is a showcase of some of the most promising software products created by entrepreneurs from India.  This is the 1st InTech50 and is going to be an yearly event. The inaugural edition of InTech50 saw great participation: 50 Top Indian product companies showcased their products to 25 Global CIOs, 25 CIOs from...

#InTech50 – The Secret Sauce

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InTech50 is a big success.  The visiting CIOs went back happy. The InTech50 startups are pleased with their POCs and leads. Press has celebrated the new platform and has heralded its importance to the Indian IT industry. They say that the biggest enemy of success is fear of failure. No, that’s not true. The greatest enemy of success is hubris. This happens when one forgets the core driver behind...

Innovation Leaders coming from India #InTech50

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We are only 9 days away from the inaugural showcase event.   We are  looking forward for the CIOs to dawn upon Bangalore to see the InTech50 – 2014 companies.  These are the 50 best Enterprise Indian Startups as selected by the Advisory Board. Providing the startups exposure to Innovation leaders is a huge step in their validation and evolution to next stage. Let me take the opportunity to...

Last 10 Finalists: #InTech50 Most Innovative Products from India

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The countdown to InTech50 has begun – as we are nearing the event that takes place on April 9-10, 2014 in Bangalore, to witness the 50 Most Innovative Products from India. We now present the last 10 finalists for InTech50 2014 Most Innovative Products after announcing 40 finalists in our previous rounds. (See the complete list here) AppExe from Mobilous is a zero programming product building tool...