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The next 25 is here making it 100 successful entrepreneurs – #PNgrowth. Application closes by Nov 15th 2015

November 13, 2015

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The next 25 #PNgrowth people are here, and this time, even we are excited by the sheer breadth of the domains that are coming in. The three-day residential launch camp at the Infosys camp in Mysore is what we are looking forward to, most, though. There’s still a slim chance that you might get in, though; you can apply here. The last 100 will be announced as one list, and will complete the...

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How to Incorporate in the USA: US Inc. as a Subsidiary – v2.0

By Suresh Sambandam

In Growth Stage, SaaSx

November 12, 2015

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Setting up your headquarters in the US and a subsidiary in India is a tested model. Here’s a blog post by Girish Mathrubootham – founder of Freshdesk, very clearly articulating the process. Well then, what’s this all about? The setup we follow at Kissflow is the model in reverse. Kissflow is headquartered in India, with a subsidiary in the US. I couldn’t find much information on this model...

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“How to position your product” is the biggest question.

By ProductNation Network

In Playbook RoundTable

November 6, 2015

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“No matter how many times you explain, customer just doesn’t get it” “We expect user to use our product in X way, but they use it in Y way” We do ‘this’, but they think we do ‘that’ and starts comparing us with something ‘that’. If this is your Kaifiyat (frustration), then you are not alone. Most of the startup entrepreneurs and marketers face this challenge every day. “How to position your...

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Month on Month, Quarter after Quarter, there is only 1 thing a startup needs to do.

By Rohith Veerajappa

In PNgrowth

November 3, 2015

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“Grow at a rapid pace!” Meet Shashank ND, Founder and CEO of Practo. Practo is a hyper-growth healthcare startup which has managed to raise $125M in three round so far, from the likes of Tencent, Sequoia, Google Capital, Altimeter Capital, Matrix Partners etc. Below is short video where Shashank shares his 7 year experience of running Practo in a nutshell. Shashank speaks about the...

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When we learned to crack US sales from India

By ProductNation Network

In Playbook RoundTable, Post Product Market Fit, Pre Product Market Fit, ProductNation

November 2, 2015

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October 24, 2015. A Saturday after Dussehra, and 59th roundtable of awesomeness in lively office of Zapty. Not only Sanjay (founder of Zapty) was great, offices of Zapty welcomed us with a lot of natural light. Then, introductions happened and people started to get comfortable around each other. It was Samir, founder of Shop Socially, who flew from Pune a day before, was going to share the things...

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SaaS India struggles with Inbound Lead Response

By Varun Mittal

In Post Product Market Fit, Pre Product Market Fit, SaaSx

October 30, 2015

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As Indian SAAS companies are aspiring to make a global footprint, the sales growth can make or break their goals. Companies who respond fastest as compared to competitors always have first mover advantage to close sales. According to the Harvard Business Review, companies that try to contact potential customers within an hour of receiving queries are nearly 7 times as likely to have meaningful...

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The final agenda for #Pngrowth is here

By Thiyagarajan M

In PNgrowth

October 28, 2015

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In the fourth #PNGrowth hangout last week, the usual suspects got together but this time with something a lot more concrete to hand out. With #PNgrowth generating the buzz that it has, we have been inundated with questions about what exactly the three days of the residential workshop will entail. As we have been vocal about, the residential workshop will kickstart the yearlong program that is...

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Five reasons to attend #PNgrowth

By Avinash Raghava

In PNgrowth

October 25, 2015

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Ever since we opened registrations for #PNgrowth, we wanted to do a list of this sort, to make it easier for those who wish to attend to have a look and decide whether this program is helpful for them. But somehow we never got around to it until now. #PNgrowth is now red hot, and we have three applicants for every place on the program. We still want to tell everyone about it because only a small...

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Announcing the first 25 successful companies attending #PNgrowth

By Gokul K.S.

In PNgrowth

October 24, 2015

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Right. So the first batch of #PNgrowth companies is here. It has been a slog for us going through all the applications we received, and we have made sure that we are extremely fair in the way we are allocating places for our already over-subscribed program. If you don’t know what this is about, you go here, and if you want to apply, here, better late than never. ...

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SEBI & iSPIRT Discuss Modernized Online Platform with Tech Startups and Securities Market Intermediaries.

By Manju Nanjaiah

In Learning Session, Policy

October 22, 2015

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On 15th October, Mr. U.K. Sinha, honorable chairman of SEBI, had a more than 4 hour meeting with iSPIRT. The goal was to lay the ground-work for a new approach to Paperless and Presence-less Distribution Model enabling a 10X growth in the number of people buying Mutual Funds. The iSPIRT team was chaired by Nandan Nilekani and included key members of its Open API Expert Team – Sanjay Jain...

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