WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016 ! The debate around Internet.org and the #Netneutrality is very interesting and how startup founders and ordinary citizens are engaging is very fascinating. Proud of you young India for your activism! As per an article published on NDTV titled “IIT Faculty, Startup India vs. Zukerburg’s Free Basics”,Facebook says that Free Basics (the main...
This is it, then. The last announcement of #PNgrowth 2016 is here. We have now the entire 200 companies who will get together in January for the inauguration of what is the most ambitious mentorship programs for startups ever put together in India. We now have about half a month to go, and it would be great if the companies talked to each other, think about what they want out of this, and discuss...
While open source software is a fairly well understood in concept, I am always surprised how little it is understood in practice. At a round table of young product companies last month, there were a lot of raised eyebrows and questions when I explained our open source way of working. Jordan Hubbard, co-creator of FreeBSD and open source veteran, spoke on this topic at this year’s ERPNext...
A wise and successful entrepreneur once said, “Traction trumps everything”. Indeed, traction is the only thing that brings you customers, VCs, and energy to keep going. iSPIRT in partnership with PuneConnect & SEAP organized a playbook roundtable on “Getting traction for your product startup”. It was focused on peer to peer learning and taking away real feedback...
We are at the end of the announcements of shortlisted companies for #PNgrowth 2015. There’s only more to go after this, and we want to thank all those who applied. We put this event together for you, and you have responded. We are working hard on the programs so you get maximum benefits from Mysore and the subsequent interactions. So here you go, the second-last list of #PNgrowth companies...
So here are the next 25. Only two lists remain, and the calibre of the people on here in itself should convince you what we have put together. Mysore 2016 is going to be super awesome! Jayadev Mahalingam of Piqube Sachin Sharma of Townscript Shardul Mohite of YogurtLabs Nitin Gupta of NavStik Vinay Nathan of Altizon Mandeep Makkar of Amigobulls Prasad Nagalapura of Vitamap Nitin Kapoor of...
The life of an entrepreneur is really interesting and very challenging. It is interesting because they are trying radical ideas and something which has possibly been never tried before. Challenging because they are walking along unchartered territories and there is joy, disappointment, surprise, shock, failure and success lurking around every corner. It really tests your persistence, patience and...
It was in 2011 that Srijan spearheaded the first ever Drupal Camp in Delhi. A few meetups had happened before this. There were barely 50-60 of us at the Camp, but the interest in Drupal was high. Some of us even dared to think that one day we could have Drupal’s global conference, DrupalCon, right here in India. Cut to today. We have the very first DrupalCon of the continent being hosted in...
Valuations often have seemed to be a “Black Art”, but they seem to be crucial in determining your strategy for outside investment! Are they really? How is the early stage entrepreneur going to decide what is reasonable? Some other questions that routinely come up in the mind of entrepreneurs: 1. How does the process of creating value effect me, my co-founders, my team & investors? 2. How do I...
Entrepreneurship is the buzz word right now. Everyone seems to have that next disruptive idea which will create the next unicorn. Now, if you are the founder of a startup, you are looked upon as a role model and the society, in general, puts you on a high pedestal. It is amazing how things have changed in the last decade or so. When I completed my engineering and joined Philips as a graduate...
