You’re a dreamer? You’re a doer? You’re a doer-turned-dreamer? You’re a dreamer-turned-doer? If you are some or all of that, you are quite likely an entrepreneur!! It is no secret that a start-up’s journey is action-packed—identifying the right problems to solve, validating possible solutions, getting the product-market fit right, building an awesome product—figuring out the roadmap items to say...
September 29, 2016
Keep Calm and Attend PNcamp 2.0
29September
September 28, 2016
Customer Purchase Insights for Hotel Management Software
28September
SoftwareSuggest is an online platform exclusively dedicated towards Business Software Discovery and Recommendation. We analyze every aspect of the software trends for the customers so that they can purchase the best software from hundreds of such products thronging the market. Since we value the satisfaction of our customers highly, we analyze their requirements with extensive research, and...
September 27, 2016
Announcing The 2016 India SaaS Survey – A Joint initiative by Signal Hill & iSPIRT
27September
According to a recent report by Google and Accel Partners the SaaS market in India is expected to cross over $50Bn by 2025, driven largely by demand from Western markets, in particular from US-based SMBs. Indian firms are noted as uniquely qualified to serve this opportunity given the available talent, mobile-first mindsets and language skills that enable cost-effective inside sales. In realizing...
September 26, 2016
Why services firms struggle to build products
26September
I’ve seen this play out so many times over the last few years. A business leader at a services firm will sit down and talk about how they’re working on a product. S/he will quote the usual mix of arguments – services as a business is struggling; Indian firms have challenges making products but they think they can do it this time; automation/products are key to their future – and finally end by...
September 22, 2016
Asserting my Maven code-of-ethics and being a Proud Maven at iSPIRT
22September
I am Pallav Nadhani from FusionCharts. Like my fellow entrepreneurs, who dream of making India as a Product Nation and building a great ecosystem together, I found my calling answered with iSPIRT Playbook round-tables. I volunteered to become a Maven so I could share, learn and disseminate the best-practices I had learnt in my entrepreneurial Journey, with other fellow entrepreneurs. Playbook...
September 21, 2016
When sales hijacks your product roadmap
21September
Hey product manager, let me remind you of that time when you had the perfect roadmap for the market. You had it all sorted out (finally!) with engineering and were clear about what you’d build. Your teams had already worked on a few sprints and you felt that this time, you’d be able to get the product right. But then, your sales person turned up and said ‘I’ve just promised feature x to the...
September 20, 2016
Market Maps – Thinking market instead of an idea
20September
Starting point of a startup is an idea and it goes through a journey of product releases and pivots to reach its product market fit and further scale. Source of this idea is a brainstorming session or hot flavor of the season (foodTech, fintech etc) or even comes from past work experience of the founder, in rare some cases it is rooted in an unsolved customer pain point. For Indian software...
September 19, 2016
#PNCamp – No BS feedbacks and teardowns to build great products groundup
19September
So, you got a startup. Great! You have a product ready and a few users/customers too, Awesome! I am sure you are super excited to take it to next level, right? But thats when the hurdles begin. Users just do not understand it Users don’t go beyond certain point Our product is awesome, but Product lacks stickiness I am not sure how to position our product We have different kinds of users, how to...
September 16, 2016
5 email marketing myths you shouldn’t believe…
16September
Well, just as any other marketing strategy and methodology is important and it works, the concept of email marketing is equally important. Email marketing is sending emails to a group of subscribers promoting your product or services. In fact, most marketers don’t realize that email marketing is one of the major components of marketing. But just as everybody has myths about web marketing, there...
September 14, 2016
50 Companies. 3 Days of Bootcamp. 1 Year of Mentorship. #PNgrowth2016 is back
14September
We’ve done this for two years. It has been successful. But we still felt that it could be improved. We went back to the drawing board. We thought hard about how we could do this better. And we’ve come back with something that will be more powerful, and even more demanding from our product entrepreneurs. #PNgrowth2016 will feature only 50 startups, giving each startup more facetime with the...
