Akash Jain – Product Nation

The Services Industry moved India back 20 years in terms of building Products” – Arvind Jha, #PNHangout

April 9, 2014

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In 1986, when I graduated from IIT Kharagpur as a Computer Science major, I had picked up an obsession with building products. Soon after college, I had joined DCM Data Products. DCM like other players in the Indian market, were very focussed on product development, as the product culture for designing computers, or writing compilers, etc was prevalent in that era. We as any other product company...

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What’s Freemium Gaming?

By Akash Jain

In Product Management

February 10, 2014

3 Min read

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Freemium has become the preferred business model in mobile game development, accounting for almost 93% of mobile gaming revenue in 2013. Many, if not all game developers around the world have adapted their mobile development strategy to harness the power of freemium. As counter intuitive as it may sound, “Freemium” games are in-fact more lucrative than one time purchase games (premium games). If...

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Office Chat – The App for Messaging Securely” – Vipin Thomas, Product Manager – MangoApps #PNHangout

By Akash Jain

In #MadeInIndia, Product Management, Product Manager, Social Media

January 14, 2014

4 Min read

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With Office Chat, the goal was simple; we wanted to create a product like Whatsapp, but for enterprises. This app should seamlessly work between devices (mobile and desktop) and could also be sold alongside the other suite of apps offered by MangoApps (an enterprise social collaboration network). Although MangoApps has an IM client tool integrated in it, Office Chat differentiates itself by...

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Creating a platform needs a broad vision and a long leash from investors– Ranjit Nair, CEO of Germin8. #PNHangout

By Akash Jain

In #MadeInIndia, #PNHangout, Product Management, Product Manager, Startups

November 8, 2013

5 Min read

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Ranjit has a PhD in Computer Science from University of Southern California and is the CEO of Germin8. In this #PNHangout we had a chance to catch up with Ranjit on the challenges of building a platform and finding the initial market fit. Market research companies world over found conducting surveys about brands and products difficult. People were reluctant to take surveys and those who did take...

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19th #PlaybookRT – Insights on the Indian Product Ecosystem

By Akash Jain

In Playbook RoundTable, Product Management, Product Manager, Startups

October 21, 2013

8 Min read

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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 in TCS that used to call itself the Ship of TCS. The focus of this Round Table was to evaluate if product developers have enough insight about the Indian Consumer to make a product company. Most technology companies have an exposure to the...

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

By Akash Jain

In #MadeInIndia, #PNHangout, Product Manager, ProductNation, Social Media, Startups

October 11, 2013

5 Min read

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(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 (2.5%), early adopters (13.5%), early majority (34%), late majority (34%) and laggards (16%), based on a mathematical Bell curve put forth by Everett Rogers in his book titled “Diffusions of Innovations”. The book...

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The Atypical Product Manager – Nishant Pandey, Naukri.com #PNHangout

By Akash Jain

In #PNHangout, Product Management, Product Manager

September 13, 2013

6 Min read

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Every Byte Counts Earlier I worked as a field engineer in Schlumberger, providing Drilling Services. Drilling is a very high tech, and arduous task; whether it’s on land, on a river, on deep waters. My job on any rig was to determine the direction of the oil well and properties of the rocks we burst through – its density, its resistivity, its shear strength, its porosity. We did this via...

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“Social Commerce – Enabling trust and higher conversions in online transactions” – #PNHangout with Vipin Agarwal

By Akash Jain

In #MadeInIndia, Platforms, Product Management, Startups

August 12, 2013

8 Min read

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In this #PNHangout, we spoke to Vipin Agarwal, who is the co-founder of enMarkit and an ex-VC turned entrepreneur, about his journey in conceptualizing the product, his team, the tools and the product management philosophy and what a typical day in his life looks like! Give us a brief introduction to what enMarkit does. Enmarkit comes from a combination of the words: ENabling and MARKETing. We...

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“Envision, Evangelise and Execute”: Connecting with Satyajeet from Cleartrip #PNHangout

By Akash Jain

In Development, Interviews, Product Management

July 23, 2013

6 Min read

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We recently had a chance to catch up with Satyajeet Singh – head of Cleartrip’s mobile solutions, on Cleartrip and his take on the role of a product manager in Cleartrip, here’s what we learnt: Cleartrip has been an early adopter of m-commerce in India. How have you been involved in taking Cleatrip’s mobile offerings from a MVP, to the product that it is today. How did you ensure it was...

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