I am a great fan of analogy, and one of the things I have been pondering for past year or so is comparing our software industry with that of medical and film industry. In this post, I plan to share some thoughts on how our software industry can consider the evolution of medical and film industry, and probably evolve in that direction. In Medical industry, the ecosystem contains Doctors...
CanvasFlip – The fastest and most awesome way to design an interactive prototype for Mobile Apps
We got to hangout with Vipul Mishra, Co-Founder of CanvasFlip – the fastest and most awesome way to design an interactive prototype. If you are a business that needs to design an app, read on… What prompted the idea for CanvasFlip and who is your main target audience? As a start up in the user experience domain, we get many requests inquiring about the standard practice in mobile app UX. Most...
Business Software Discovery made easier by SoftwareSuggest.com!
SoftwareSuggest.com is India’s leading business software discovery and recommendation platform. Product Nation interviewed Ankit Dudhwewala, co-founder and CEO of the company to understand their journey thus far. Read on… How did you hit upon the idea of SoftwareSuggest? The idea of providing a software discovery platform came about on account of my own prior experiences. In my earlier stint at a...
List of ISVs (Individual Software Vendor) for Hotel Industry from India
The Hospitality Industry is marked by intense competition. Hospitality industry provides intangible services that attract customers and prompt them to provide feedback and recommend it to others. To ensure flawless guest experience, the latest technology upgrades that keeps track of visitor room booking, banquet services, reservation, bill processing, and inventory management, comes in handy...
The software eco-system in India is still influenced by the services model. Product companies require a completely different mindset, especially when it comes to the programming workforce.
Infinite Analytics is a predictive marketing and analytics company set up in 2012, by two MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) graduates, Akash Bhatia and Purushotham Botla. The company has built a real-time personalization platform that learns and predicts by utilizing all available data to match a customer to a product or service. In an interview with ProductNation.com, co-founder Akash...
#MadeinIndia Personal Finance Software
Personal finance software helps understand your spending and saving patterns and take appropriate decisions to optimize them. However, choosing the right personal finance software can be a difficult and confusing task. Our team has done an extensive research on the subject and here we list below some of the most popular Personal Finance software from India (in no particular order): MProfit...
In conversation with Sanjoe Jose, Founder of TalView, participant in Intech50 2014.
Talview was founded as Interview Master in 2012. Starting up as an asynchronous video interview platform, in 3 years they have grown to a full-fledged Video Interaction Platform, with use cases as varied as hiring-training, telemedicine and customer engagement. In 2014, Mayfield funded them. Today, they have more than 60 large-enterprise clients, including many Fortune 100 companies. Do you think...
In conversation with the Founder of RippleHire – Sudarsan Ravi, participant – @Intech50 2014.
RippleHire is a SaaS-based employee referral product. Tell us about RippleHire – your journey so far… We help companies automate their talent sourcing by leveraging their employee pool. We spent our first year working with the ecosystem getting feedback and crowdsourcing problems on hiring. Only then did we begin our sales process and that too with the top global brands, so that we get the...
The Kayako culture – Startup lessons in building organisational values
How leaving our values unclear started breaking our culture at Kayako, how we fixed it and what we learned. In the early days, a startup’s values and culture — the essence — is very much a reflection of the founding team. These values don’t need to be documented, they usually just are. As new people join the team, the essence will transfer by osmosis. It’s in the air. The essence will be picked...
"Be Prepared to Move Very Fast" Mukund Mudras, CEO & Co-Founder of Heckyl #IfNotNowThenWhen
In conversation with Mukund Mudras – CEO and Co-Founder of Heckyl – winners of the UKTI ‘India’s Most Innovative Companies To Work With The Best of UK’ 2013. A brief about the company – Heckyl is a real time data analytics company that brings news, price and fundamental analytics through a single platform called FIND (Financial in News and Data). FIND can be used by a researcher, trader...