Pankaj Kulkarni – Product Nation

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

April 16, 2014

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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...

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

By Pankaj Kulkarni

In InTech50

April 14, 2014

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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...

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101 Takeaways from the First ProductNation Boot Camp #PNCamp

By Pankaj Kulkarni

In PNCamp, Product Management, ProductNation

January 3, 2014

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The inaugural edition of PNBootcamp at Pune is the best thing to come out from iSPIRT yet – in my opinion. For all the startups that missed this bootcamp, I strongly recommend staying tuned to pn.ispirt.in for the next playbooks and bootcamps. There were two themes in the bootcamp: ‘Discovery Hacking’ for those companies who have not yet figured out the product-market fit. ‘Scale Hacking’ for...

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Enterprise Sales, Product Market Fit and Partnerships: Learning from the 23rd iSPIRT Round Table

By Pankaj Kulkarni

In Playbook RoundTable, ProductNation, Sales

December 4, 2013

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Vivek from iCreate facilitated yet another juicy round table with lessons learnt ‘from the trenches’. While this article provides a distilled summary, it cannot do justice to in-person learning. I strongly encourage you to attend the next iSPIRT round table. Vivek started off by saying that there is no silver bullet. Every product exists in its specific market conditions. Different things work...

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iSPIRT Sales RoundTable: Acquiring initial customers, Early product management, Indian SME Selling

By Pankaj Kulkarni

In iSPIRT, Playbook RoundTable, Sales, Startups

October 14, 2013

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Yet another extremely educational round table from iSPIRT – 8 out of 12 participants gave it a rating of 10/10! Girish from GreyTip and Shashank from Practo led the round table and Aneesh and Yashwanth contributed with their experience at Capillary. This article captures some of the key learning from the round table. The focus of this round table was on acquiring the initial set of customers...

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iSPIRT ProductNation Branding RoundTable: Why Product Branding is important for Startups?

By Pankaj Kulkarni

In Playbook RoundTable, Positioning, Startups

September 11, 2013

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As usual, the 16th iSPIRT RoundTable was a great learning experience. Many thanks to Avinash Raghava & iSPIRT for conceptualizing it, and to Helion Ventures for sponsoring the venue and the snacks. Dhruv Shenoy of Knowience Consulting, a well-known Marketing Guru, was the facilitator, along with Rajan from Intuit. Thanks, Dhruv and Rajan, for an educational and entertaining session. I used to...

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iSPIRT Sales RoundTable – Startup Sales, Lead Generation, Channel Partners

By Pankaj Kulkarni

In Go2Market, iSPIRT, Playbook RoundTable, ProductNation, Sales, Startups

August 7, 2013

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First of all, huge thanks to Vizury for sponsoring great food and the premises to hold the round table. Many thanks to Aneesh, NRK Raman and Srirang for leading the session and providing valuable inputs. And of course, to all the participants for the energetic discussions and knowledge sharing. Here are the key takeaways from my notes. Please note that there are several nuggets of practical...

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