Startups are natural transgressors, but payroll and HR is one area where a startup simply cannot afford to break rules. Entrepreneurs of startups may have to come up with disruptive ideas if they want their enterprises to be listed in Fortune 1000, but there is one particular area, where entrepreneurs of startups certainly would not want to break the rules: HR and payroll. Startups that fail to...
5 Signs you need a SaaS based Cloud Payroll Software for your Startup
How IndiaStack can bridge country’s digital divide
IndiaStack can enable the government, the citizens and entrepreneurs to interact with each other through an open digital platform. At a time when financial technology is changing the face of Indian banking, the government is looking to bridge the digital divide. The biggest hurdle here is paper-based authentication and approvals. To bridge this gap iSpirt is working with various government...
When to open the purse for that Blockchain-y project of yours?
Blockchain, Blockchain ! The buzz continues to spread from coffee machines to boardrooms. Everyone I speak to nowadays is eager to know how to leverage Blockchain tech and what’s in it for them. A key question in front of us as solution providers is when to choose Blockchain (and when to stick to relational databases) and more importantly which use case to fund/invest. Based on my...
Setting up Inside Sales to sell SaaS into US – Learning's from iSPIRT #PlaybookRT
Inside Sales was presented as one of the strategic levers for SAAS companies selling to the US market at a recent Google Accel event. no wonder when iSPIRT arranged for a round table on this topic there was a buzzing interest. If you are not familiar with the round tables of iSPIRT check them out here. (Highly recommended) Suresh of kissflow.com who has been successful in cracking the US market...
India’s reverse Brexit: Passing the GST Bill will create millions of formal sector jobs
Imagine a warehouse of more than one crore square feet in Central India – around five times the size of the largest football stadium in the world. It would have an eight lane highway that is connected to all four corners of the country on one side. It would have one of India’s largest railway container terminals for handling enormous goods trains on another side. It would have an all-cargo...
Customers Purchasing Insights for Customer Relationship Management Software
SoftwareSuggest is a software discovery and recommendation platform. As a part of our work, we gather customer’s requirement, we analyze them and serve the industry with deep insights on software buyer trends under our initiative – SoftwareSuggest Insights.
The Value Added Service Providers in Cloud Telephony
Industry discussion on response to Consultation Papers by TRAI on Voice Mail/Audiotex/Unified Messaging Services Licence TRAI floated a consultation paper to review the license of Voice Mail/Audiotex/Unified Messaging Services. The consultation paper throws light along with an in-depth analysis of various issues involved. Many call these companies as Cloud telephony companies. Cloud telephony is...
Learnings from "Running Inside Sales for US, from India" – iSPIRT Playbook Roundtable
It is an exciting phase for the Indian SaaS eco-system. There are a lot of companies from India trying to build products for the global market. Some of them have been able to scale to tens of thousands of customers and millions of dollars in revenue. Many others are just getting started or want to step up their game. In both cases, there are trying to figure things out, sort of solving a jigsaw...
Convertible Notes
In this session we take up another announcement by ministry of corporate affairs on convertible notes. This is a step forward to solving the problem of receiving funds as loan from foreign investors as convertible notes. Sanjay Khan Nagra talks about the issue in the video embedded below. What is a convertible note? Convertible notes are debt instruments that converts in to equity, at a later...
A 3-Stage Power Booster for Your SaaS Rocket
When a capsule is launched into space, the initial rocket gets it off the ground. However, that rocket can only get it so high. Eventually it runs out of fuel and the structure needs to drop off. At that time, a second rocket booster ignites and continues to propel the capsule into space. In the world of startups, getting your company into orbit usually takes a few power boosters to get there...