Startups – Page 8 – Product Nation

Platform Roundtable in Bangalore on “Global Platform businesses – Are Indian companies poised to win?” by Dr. Peter Evans, Vice President and Sangeet Paul Choudary of Center for Global Enterprise

March 23, 2015

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iSPIRT – co-hosted the first Platform Roundtable to prime the discussion on Indian platform companies’ game plan for potential business disruption that platform companies bring to a sector. It was held on 12th March at the office of InMobi, Bangalore. The Roundtable was anchored by Dr. Peter Evans, Vice President at CGE and Sangeet Paul Choudary, a CGE Fellow and founder of Platform Thinking Labs...

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Announcing Platform Scale, the book: The pre-orders campaign is now live

By Sangeet Paul Choudary

In Growth Hacking, Startups

March 12, 2015

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Are you building a marketplace, social network or a platform? Do you ever describe what you’re doing as the Uber for X, Airbnb for Y or the Twitter for Z?1 Do you want to understand why certain startups scale and others fail?1 Over the last few years, I’ve been obsessed with platform business models and their ability to scale. Unlike traditional enterprises, platforms do not scale by scaling...

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The cofounder dilemma – or when the biggest reason for success is also the biggest for failure

By Mukund Mohan

In Startups

March 9, 2015

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Over the last 2.5 years I have had the chance to closely observe over 70 startup teams for more than 6 months each (some a lot more) to find out which of them succeed (by their own definition) and which of them fail. The thing that struck me 2 nights ago at the TIE dinner was a question that was asked by one of the solo founders – why do investors insist on having co founders if one of the...

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The Kayako culture – Startup lessons in building organisational values

By Jamie Edwards

In #BootStrapping, Culture, Enterprise, SaaS Based, Startups

February 20, 2015

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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...

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Roles and Responsibilities of Startup Founders.

By Kiruba Shankar

In Playbook RoundTable, Startups

February 18, 2015

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This is the 2nd in the 5 part series on ‘How to Sell in the US Market from India’. I had attended the Round Table organized by iSPIRT and here I attempt to capture the important points from the discussion. (You can read the first part here) One of the topics of deep interest for the participant was on clearly understanding the role of the Startup Founders and where should their time and focus be...

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3 things I did right: Lesson 3 from a bootstrapped journey of 0 to 8 digit revenue

By Ankit Jain

In Startups

February 13, 2015

4 Min read

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Last year we received 1.6 lakh pageviews with over 100 articles on improving customer interactions. But the bottom line remains: As an entrepreneur I play joker. I try – I fall – I stand up again for the next stunt. Whatsoever, I have to keep everyone entertained. This article is a part of a 3-article series, where I would share 3 most vital lessons as I grew as an entrepreneur, our...

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What you need to make a Sholay?

By Muthu Ranganathan

In Product Management, Startups, ThinkBig

February 2, 2015

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I am a great fan of analogies and for software products that we make, I always try to get an analogy as we grow through the journey. In a recent post I had shared the medical analogy of classifying how software products can be classified as vitamin, pain killer or vaccines. One of the favorites for we Indians is cinemas, whether hindi or tamil or telugu, and here is another analogy I would like...

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Fingerprint entry into cars? Read what this venture is doing…

By Prajakt Raut

In Go2Market, Startups, US/UK

January 29, 2015

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Great Tech Rocketships to the UK is a unique initiative to fast-track India’s most promising tech companies and talent to global success. Read more. Tell us about your venture – what problem are you solving, and why do you think it is an important problem to be solved? Identisafe is a biometric company and our product, Identisafe-09 helps to start and secure your car with your fingerprint...

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3 things I did right: Lesson 2 from a bootstrapped journey of 0 to 8 digit revenue

By Ankit Jain

In #BootStrapping, Startups

January 27, 2015

3 Min read

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We deployed over 1.62 million lines of code to add functionalities and security to the data. But one thing that doesn’t change is this: As an entrepreneur I play joker. I try – I fall – I stand up again for the next stunt. Whatsoever, I have to keep everyone entertained. This article is a part of a 3-article series, where I would share 3 most vital lessons as I grew as an...

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Are you an Indian Tech company, looking to go global? Apply now for our Great Tech Rocketships initiative.

By Prajakt Raut

In Eco-system, Startups

January 20, 2015

3 Min read

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“Great Tech Rocketships to the UK” is a unique initiative to fast-track India’s most promising Tech Companies. Winners of this competition will receive a one-week guided UK experience tour, including advice & mentoring from specialists, interactions with investors, accelerators, and incubators. The initiative will also take the shortlisted companies to Tech City – the most...

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