Recurring Billing – demystified for SaaS companies Abstract For any SaaS Startup with India market focus, the biggest bottleneck today is recurring billing. It is not available as an open, over the counter service from payment gateways. Most startups have to work around to solve this problem. The workaround may be using an expensive international payment gateway or it may be incorporating...
September 13, 2016
Recurring Billing for SaaS. Is it available in India?
13September
September 12, 2016
Ease of Doing Business – Is India Game?
12September
Conducting business in one’s own country is never easy, let alone conducting business overseas, where rules, regulations and business environments differ. ‘Ease of doing business’ is also an Index created by the World Bank. It ranks economies from high to low, with the former indicating easier, simpler and better conditions for business as compared to the latter, indicating difficulty in...
September 10, 2016
Why Attend the ERPNext Conference 2016
10September
The ERPNext Conference is an annual event where the ERPNext community of users and developers meet and share their experiences of how they use ERPNext and what they expect from the project in the future. Attendees at the ERPNext Conference ERPNext today is used by more than 3000 companies across the globe and is one of the few fully open source ERP projects remaining (there are no closed modules)...
September 9, 2016
Payments 4G (aka UPI) The Best is Yet to Come!
09September
Last week was a landmark week for all Indians and by sheer coincidence; the country witnessed the launch of two generational shifts. The one that has everyone excited is Jio, a pure, data-only high-speed mobile network. The other that perhaps will have equal transformational impact is its peer in the world of digital payments, the Unified Payment Interface (UPI). As soon as I had my first...
September 9, 2016
Founders: you are not doing it right
I see a lot of founders requesting 15min time from me for quick advice. They are clear that it is not a funding pitch, but, more to get my opinion on some of their questions – is this a right market, whether idea has legs, customer size, product feedback, etc. Based on who is requesting, I tend to allocate time for few and discuss, which usually goes for 30min+. I know that 30min is not...
September 8, 2016
How To Choose The Name For Your Startup?
08September
A Company name is the identity of a company and what people use to refer to it. Picking a company name at times can be harder than finding a business opportunity, and on several occasions, people have gone ahead and started their company without an apt name. This can damage the value of the company or the business itself because you are losing customers who don’t understand what your company...
September 7, 2016
5 ways to increase your CTR on blog posts
07September
For those who don’t know what CTR or Click-Through Rate is, it is the number of times visitors click on the ad placed on your blog divided by the number of views your blog gets. The business rules are simple. You get paid per click that is made on an ad placed in the blog. But, there are certain factors that control the way users click on such ads. The prime reason for placing such ads is to...
September 6, 2016
8 Personal Finance tips for Bootstrapping Entrepreneurs
06September
Starting up is hard, make no mistake about it, while media romanticizes startups and mostly talks about the glorious success stories, what goes behind is months and years of toil, frustration, fighting all kinds of odds. Cliched as it might sound but overnight success is the culmination of years of hard work. Bootstrapping a startup is even tougher, apart from challenges of building right...
September 5, 2016
Learnings from iSPIRT Product Roundtable: Building a supercharged team in Silicon Valley
05September
How should Indian entrepreneurs think about hiring and scaling teams in Silicon Valley? What are the thorniest hiring challenges? Who should the first hires be? How can founders scale culture globally? To focus on this topic, iSPIRT organized its 2nd Bay Area playbook roundtable– “Building a supercharged team in Silicon Valley”. It was moderated by Jaspreet Singh, Founder and CEO of Druva, a...
September 2, 2016
India in 2030's – Impact of India Stack
02September
The year is 2030. India is a developed, happy democracy. With a population of over 1.5 billion, it has become a role model for other nations, both developed and developing, in putting public digital infrastructure to enable paperless, presence-less, frictionless transactions. The new generation does not know what a government office looks like and has not encountered government bureaucracy...
