From being the protagonist of an Adoor Gopalakrishnan national award winning movie to a graphics trainer, from a book publisher to a printer, from services to products, our guest today has been there, done that. Meet Vish, the MD of Logical Steps. ProductNation: Hi Vish. Welcome to Product Nation. Let us begin with your story. Vish: I was born in an entrepreneurial family. My family ran a...
April 4, 2013
How Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Kathapurushan became a Software Product Entrepreneur ?
04April
April 3, 2013
So you want to enter the US market
03April
As many of you know, Avinash Raghava is a persuasive individual. So when he approached me first to write for Product Nation, after some hemming and hawing, I agreed. On a recent call, he told me that nice though my writings have been so far, he was hoping I could help our readers with specific issues related to entering the US market. He is absolutely right and I will start looking to him for...
April 2, 2013
Q&A with ERP Ecommerce Company, InSync Solutions
02April
InSync Solutions Ltd. provides ecommerce solutions for online retail businesses. Many software services companies in India are evolving to products companies. Atul Gupta, founder and managing director of InSync Solutions Ltd., describes how InSync made this transition. SandHill.com: When did you launch InSync as a services company, and what led to the switch to a products focus? Atul Gupta: We...
April 2, 2013
Entrepreneurship as an extra-curricular and hobby
If today a survey in done in schools across India and students are asked some questions like, What are your favorite hobbies or pastime? What do you do after going back home from school? What do you do during holidays? You’ll get all sorts of answers but ‘Entrepreneurship’. Even worse, if the following question is also included, Have you heard about the word...
April 1, 2013
How and why you should kickstart your Retention Marketing.
01April
I first read the term ‘Retention Marketing’ in an article in a marketing journal at University and dismissed it immediately as one of the new terms we marketers come up with. It was for an assignment and I did not pay it a second more attention than was needed to write a passable term paper. I heard it next at a meeting in office, about two years later. And was promptly dumbstruck by how...
March 29, 2013
The Great Facilitation ballgame of Multi-sided Business Platforms
29March
Let me start with a simple question. What is common among these, as of 2006 (and, for that matter, even as of today)? – Visa – Sony Playstation – Orbitz – NASDAQ – Microsoft Windows All of these are known examples of facilitation based multi-sided business models. These are not just products or businesses; these are platforms, in the true sense of the word. These...
March 28, 2013
The network effect playbook: Social products win with utility, not invites
28March
The proverbial chicken and egg problem of building a new social product is well understood among tech startups, and it’s been commonplace to follow two contrasting mechanisms for getting traction. Traditionally, startups have solved this problem by racing to connect users with each other, essentially providing them the pipes to interact with each other. Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn have grown...
March 27, 2013
Presentations to CIOSE and the KUDOS!!!
27March
In our latest blog we had written about CIOSE(CIO Strategy Exchange) and about the 5 companies that were shortlisted to provide a presentation to Ernest M Von Simson and these five companies were ArrayShield – “Two-Factor Authentication” C2il – “Asset Life Cycle Management” i7 networks – “Agentless BYOD Discovery & Control” Fieldez – “On Demand mobile workforce management” Kreeo –...
March 26, 2013
The Indian startup ecosystem should look at Israel as a role model
26March
I love Israel. Having been there 7-8 times over 5 years when I worked for a company (Mercury Interactive, acquired by HP) that had its development center there, I believe they have some of the best developers, product thinkers and execution oriented folks. They are also amazing at marketing. They have successfully convinced the world that they are the “startup nation“. Never mind that they...
March 25, 2013
Q&A with Seclore CEO on Information Rights Management Software
25March
Often, enterprise goals of security and collaboration are mutually exclusive. Seclore, with customers in Asia, Europe and North America, resolves that dilemma. Seclore’s CEO, Vishal Gupta, discusses Information Rights Management trends as well as development of the company’s IRM product. This article is brought to SandHill readers in partnership with ProductNation. SandHill.com: Please describe...
