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Flipkart – Lessons for "Make in India"

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Disclaimer : This article is entirely based on my reflection on what I read in the media It was exciting and encouraging to experience the marketing campaigns of Flipkart’s billion dollar day and painful and demoralizing to witness pitfalls. I completely empathize with Sachin and Binny who had to write an unconditional apology letter to angry consumers while “celebrating” the...

Gandhigiri to the Software & Technology Entrepreneur – Part II

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Gandhi and Customer Centricity The progression of Economic activity as it stands in the Global Economy today has accelerated from commodities->products->services->experiences->transformations. (Pine and Gilmore) Today we are already in the Experience Economy (Its Apple like experience, its not apple like products), but as professionals we are still grappling with how we build...

Looking for business leads? Want to be seen among the top level CXOs and decision maker? @CeBITINDIA

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The premiere edition of CeBIT in Asia is all set to get off to a very strong start. From 12-14 November over 600 companies spread over 9 topic clusters will showcase global enterprise technology innovations. 200 of these 600 exhibitors are international companies who are completely new to the Indian market. iSPIRT is a key strategic partner to CeBIT India and together the goal is to showcase...

Cloud Based #MadeInIndia Accounting Software

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Cloud based Accounting Software are becoming increasingly popular for small and medium business. There is no hassle of installing it, the data is safer on the cloud and the costs works out to be much less for the multi user version. India, has managed to produce quite a few efficient cloud accounting software. Here is the list of #MadeInIndia cloud accounting software. (In no particular order) ...

Product Camp brings hot product topics to the fore

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Product camp is a unique event format where attendees get to drive the agenda. It is borne out of the bar-camp or un-conference movement that started in US and spread to other countries across the world a decade back. Traditional conferences do not allow attendees to provide inputs to the agenda. P-Camp gives them a direct opportunity to create the agenda, choose the topics and the speakers...

Raja the Raja ! We miss you!

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Dear Raja, We have collaborated on many blog posts in the past but we are struggling to shoulder the burden of this one. People say you are 63, but you worked like a 23! You didn’t care what people thought about your views – you boldly put them forward. You worked for a large company but you cared for the success of innovation in smaller startups. While your mates were fighting for their...

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

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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...

The Most Important Technology Trends of 2014, According to Gartner

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Leading market analysts issue their latest technology trends every year. Gartner, Inc., the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company has defined the top 10 technology trends and drivers that will be strategic for Indian organizations in 2014. These technologies can impact an organization’s long-term plans, programs and initiatives. Implementing business process...

14 Ways to Emotionally Engage users with your Product

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Most conversations with entrepreneurs and product managers who want drive engagement and bring viral features to their products are answered as ‘We will gamify our product through features’. This post is about clearing some nuisance around the topic of gamification in products. Gamification has nothing to do with building features. In fact, even Product Management has nothing to do with building...

The Threat of Termination

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The emergence of high speed Internet services and the ability to outsource the networking and processing requirements has generated a plethora of opportunities for various companies to avail these emerging services and reduce their overheads and speed up product delivery.  There are however, various critical termination and post termination issues that are encountered by IT companies who are...