iSPIRT – Page 24 – Product Nation

How We Got The IT Minister Excited About Indian Product Startups & Made Him Our Spokesperson #UnleashTheEnergy

In Events, iSPIRT, Learning Session, ProductNation

July 3, 2014

6 Min read

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A behind the scenes account of how a showcase of 11 disruptive startups was put together in just 100 hours! If you’re reading this, I’m sure you are a part of the Indian product startup community in one way or the other. And unless you were living under a rock (which is fine, if you were busy hacking away or traveling to sell your product), you wouldn’t have missed that our Hon. IT Minister...

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8 Reasons to switch to a Document Management System

By Ankit Dudhwewala

In iSPIRT, Software Adoption Initiative

July 1, 2014

5 Min read

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Document management was essentially born out of the need to manage ever growing amounts of information being created within organizations and enterprises. As the business grows, it becomes increasingly complicated to gain access to accurate and relevant information from the bundles and stocks of paper documents and files and as a result precious paid working hours of the management is wasted. ...

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Join us in hosting the Minister for IT – Bengaluru, 1st July

By Sandeep Todi

In iSPIRT, Open Source, Policy

June 30, 2014

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At the forefront of progress is change. iSPIRT continues to drive the process of change to Transform India as a Product Nation, using the engines of private initiative, policy and programs like Playbook Round Table and PNCamp. iSPIRT’s policy initiatives involve active dialogue with Government. Conclave for India as the Product Nation As part of this initiative, iSPIRT is hosting the...

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7 Must-Have Features of the right Point of Sale (POS) software for your Retail business

By Ankit Dudhwewala

In Software Adoption Initiative

June 18, 2014

4 Min read

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Point of Sale software is being used in millions of retail and hospitality businesses who have thousands of different POS software to choose from. A right POS software will give the business a new level of control over operations; increasing efficiency, boosting profits, and will help it fine-tune its business model. The wrong system, however, can be a waste of money, time and a source of...

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Presenting the iSPIRT Volunteer Model

By Manjula Sridhar

In iSPIRT

June 6, 2014

2 Min read

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Last few years have been very instrumental in making iSPIRT what it is today. A lot of thought had gone into creation of this movement. We thought it is a good idea to retrace the movement to its origins and codify the model with which we operate on. The whitepaper at the end of this blog post details the model. This whitepaper describes the foundational principles, operating practices and...

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Benefits of CRM Software – A 360° Evaluation

By Ankit Dudhwewala

In Software Adoption Initiative

June 5, 2014

7 Min read

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Do you own a business and face the problem of customer communication? Are you unaware of your customers’ needs? Are your customer’s unhappy with your services? Are you unable to analyze the progress of your business? Then, to all such problems there is one and only one solution – the CRM Software. In any business two things are very critical: customers and employees. The growth of any business...

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#TheWayForward for M&A in India

By Sanat Rao

In M&A Connect

May 29, 2014

4 Min read

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2013 was a hot year for Global Technology M&A: 204 announced Tech M&A deals took place at an overall valuation of ~$100B, of which 70% were pure software companies. Thanks to a strong stock market, 51 Tech IPOs took place in 2013. The story for the India software product industry has been different. Despite huge innovation and rising entrepreneurship, most Indian product companies have...

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Looking for full-time Program Manager for Software Adoption Initiative(SAI)

By Avinash Raghava

In iSPIRT, Software Adoption Initiative

May 3, 2014

2 Min read

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Program Manager for Software Adoption Initiative(SAI), is a full-time position (preferred location: Bangalore, India) with iSPIRT, would drive full-scale and focused implementation of the Action Plan 2014 that is drawn up by iSPIRT Founder’s Circle. The focus of SAI for the year 2014-15 would be to work with software product companies across multiple domains, software product buyers in India and...

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Presenting the iSPIRT Governing Framework

By Avinash Raghava

In iSPIRT

May 2, 2014

3 Min read

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It has been a great, great year here at iSPIRT, and though we have a long way yet to go, we are confident that we are well on our way to get to where we want to be. After all, well begun is half done. But then, there is also the question of structure, not unlike the problem entrepreneurs face they have to scale their business – when the organization becomes big and responsibilities fragment...

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iSPIRT Seeks Technology Intern(s)

By Shekhar Kirani

In iSPIRT

April 22, 2014

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iSPIRT has over 40+ volunteers who belong to different organizations. The volunteers are working on many initiatives that are complex, need a lot of analysis/thinking, experimentation, and outcomes take time. Currently, iSPIRT internal communication and interaction has been happening via email, google docs, attachments, etc. The current set of tools have worked so far, but, we need a...

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