#PNHangout – Product Nation

Making the world flat, one programmer at a time. Vivek Ravishankar, Co-founder at HackerRank. #PNHangout.

October 6, 2014

6 Min read

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I am one of the founders of HackerRank, formally called InterviewStreet, where we are building a platform for programmers to hone their skills and companies to streamline their recruiting process. Currently we are a team of 66 split across Palo Alto and Bangalore and we have been signing up companies like FB, Amazon, VMWare, Bloomberg, etc. as our customers while simultaneously growing our...

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HackerEarth: an online technical sourcing and assessment solution – Sachin Gupta, Co-founder. #PNHangout.

By Aparna Somaiah

In #MadeInIndia, #PNHangout, SaaS Based

September 2, 2014

7 Min read

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HackerEarth is a Bangalore based start-up which helps companies hire programmers. It was started in 2012 by Sachin Gupta and Vivek Prakash, both of whom are alumni of IIT Roorkee. HackerEarth provides solutions for the technical recruitment space – one is an online assessment tool which is used by organizations to assess both internal and external candidates. Another solution acts as an...

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Interakt – an all-in-one customer engagement platform, Sudhanshu Aggarwal – Product Manager and Founder @ Fizzy Software, #PNHangout

By Aparna Somaiah

In #PNHangout, Product Management

June 26, 2014

8 Min read

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Fizzy Software was founded in 2007 when I was doing my under-graduation in the US. Back then the Facebook platform had just come out and we saw that this could be an excellent opportunity to build some interesting apps on their platform and the first Facebook application that we built exploded well on the market resulting in us developing more Facebook and I-phone applications. We eventually sold...

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Reach, Revenue, Retention – Sampad Swain, Co-Founder and CEO at Instamojo. #PNHangout

By Aparna Somaiah

In #PNHangout, Product Management

June 16, 2014

7 Min read

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Sampad Swain is co-founder and CEO at Instamojo – a platform that lets you sell & collect payments instantly by just sharing a link. Today, individuals & businesses are using Instamojo to sell & collect payments for digital downloads, physical goods, event tickets, services, subscriptions & much more. He was also the co-founder of WanaMo.com and DealsAndYou. In this...

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A perspective from the other side – Seema Joshi, Lead Product Manager – BMC Software, #PNHangout.

By Aparna Somaiah

In #PNHangout

May 28, 2014

12 Min read

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In this #PNHangout, Seema Joshi, Lead Product Manager – BMC Software, shared with us her insights about Product management and the challenges and scope on the road ahead for Women Product Managers. Why did you choose to be a Product Manager? There are two aspects to why I chose to be a Product Manager. The first is related to the evolution of the Indian IT industry and the second my personal...

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Product Management Principles across industries are the same" – Pandith Jantakahalli, Sr. Product Manager – iPublishCentral. #PNHangout

By Aparna Somaiah

In #PNHangout

May 20, 2014

9 Min read

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#PNHangout is an ongoing series where we talk to Product Managers from various companies to understand what drives them, the products they work on and the role they play in defining the products success. We recently had a chance to talk to Pandith Jantakahalli –Senior Product Manager at Impelsys, about his experiences as a Product Manager and his take on the role of a Product Manager...

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The Services Industry moved India back 20 years in terms of building Products” – Arvind Jha, #PNHangout

By Akash Jain

In #PNHangout, Product Management

April 9, 2014

9 Min read

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In 1986, when I graduated from IIT Kharagpur as a Computer Science major, I had picked up an obsession with building products. Soon after college, I had joined DCM Data Products. DCM like other players in the Indian market, were very focussed on product development, as the product culture for designing computers, or writing compilers, etc was prevalent in that era. We as any other product company...

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Creating a platform needs a broad vision and a long leash from investors– Ranjit Nair, CEO of Germin8. #PNHangout

By Akash Jain

In #MadeInIndia, #PNHangout, Product Management, Product Manager, Startups

November 8, 2013

5 Min read

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Ranjit has a PhD in Computer Science from University of Southern California and is the CEO of Germin8. In this #PNHangout we had a chance to catch up with Ranjit on the challenges of building a platform and finding the initial market fit. Market research companies world over found conducting surveys about brands and products difficult. People were reluctant to take surveys and those who did take...

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“We think more like Product Designers, and less like Product Managers” – Bharath Mohan, Pugmarks.me #PNHangout

By Akash Jain

In #MadeInIndia, #PNHangout, Product Manager, ProductNation, Social Media, Startups

October 11, 2013

5 Min read

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(This passage is a summary of the conversation with Bharath Mohan. The audio transcript can be found here.) Adopters of any new innovation or idea can be categorized as innovators (2.5%), early adopters (13.5%), early majority (34%), late majority (34%) and laggards (16%), based on a mathematical Bell curve put forth by Everett Rogers in his book titled “Diffusions of Innovations”. The book...

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The Atypical Product Manager – Nishant Pandey, Naukri.com #PNHangout

By Akash Jain

In #PNHangout, Product Management, Product Manager

September 13, 2013

6 Min read

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Every Byte Counts Earlier I worked as a field engineer in Schlumberger, providing Drilling Services. Drilling is a very high tech, and arduous task; whether it’s on land, on a river, on deep waters. My job on any rig was to determine the direction of the oil well and properties of the rocks we burst through – its density, its resistivity, its shear strength, its porosity. We did this via...

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