At SaaSx 2015, Girish Mathrubhootham, CEO of cloud-based customer support software Freshdesk and popularly known as the Rajnikanth (think an acting, singing James Bond) of India’s Software as a Service (SaaS) scene, did the unthinkable. He revealed the entire spreadsheet of internal data-based metrics that he presented to his investors in 2011. All the media people were asked to put away their...
The weather in Chennai was finally getting kinder & more pleasant in tune with the time of the year, much like the funding climate which has been less testing on the entrepreneur in general. Depending on whether you ask a consumer product entrepreneur or a B2B SaaS product entrepreneur, the level of optimism could vary, but it’s optimism all around. As a pre-event runup to SaaSx2, we met at...
If you are a small team, starting out to solve a problem, having a mission is hardly a concern. What must concern you at that stage is getting to the product market fit and customer validation. But even after building a successful product and scaling the business to a sizeable extent, many startups hardly articulate a compelling mission for themselves. With early signs of success, founders...
SaaSx event is a meetup organized by a bunch of SaaS entrepreneurs for all SaaS entrepreneurs in India. SaaSx Chennai event enables SaaS start-up founders to learn and share tribal knowledge from SaaS (software-as-a-service) start-ups in various stages of the evolutionary ladder. Every participant registered for the event and was vetted for fitness with theme of the event. (Do events really have...
I have read about startup founders who don’t (or stopped) attend events – justifiably so. In ecosystems where there is now an entire industry of events springing up (i.e. it feels to me that some people’s startup in itself is all about organizing events), it becomes very difficult to separate the wheat from the shaft. Overall, value gets diluted in a bid to make profit. SaaSx2 is in its own class...
Summer’s here! The sun, the vacations, the beach and last but not least, the lemonade stands. Those little kiosks on the roadside and kids standing beside each of them with jars of cold lemonade, glasses, and inviting smiles. So Joshua was among those 8-year-olds who had setup his own lemonade stand, for the first time. The stand was set, the lemonades were ready, he was good to go. Just then he...
I recently heard of the demise of renowned MP Ranjan. Though I’ve never met him, my friends and colleagues who are in design, speak highly of him. It’s amazing how much design as a field of study and profession has progressed. And I’ve been fortunate to have worked with a lot of smart and talented designers over the past few years. This was not the situation when I started in the tech industry...
First things first, we are really excited to announce our first JuliaCon India at Bangalore on Oct 9th and 10th. Julia Computing has partnered with Hasgeek for this event. For details and for registration, please visit . Julia is the future of data science and analytics. Julia is open source, and its research and development have been anchored at MIT since 2009. Julia can easily be orders of...
My name is Rajan Chandi, a technologist who likes to build software products, experiment and have fun. I was particularly fascinated by Google, Facebook and Tech Innovation. The reason why I quit my job was to be able to explore tech entrepreneurship and build awesome things. It has been a great ride building, launching and monetizing 3 software products to various degrees with small teams and...
Every startup originates with a dream and a vision to make their ideas come to life and be instrumental in providing real life solutions; addressing critical problems, bringing innovation and delivering better user experience. A startup boost of entrepreneurial spirit with great zeal and enthusiasm coupled with determination, commitment and challenges. Growing a business in today’s fast evolving...
