Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. William Pollard And that is the change that we are looking driving as part of Innofest. Innofest recently held as part of Rajasthan IT Day in Jaipur saw 3000 people visiting about 15 stalls including the Honourable Chief...
April 8, 2016
Innofest in Jaipur.
08April
April 7, 2016
Every Product Needs A Good Teardown
07April
(originally posted here) Last Saturday in Chennai at the SaaSx3 I had the privilege of participating in my first “Product Teardown” A Product Teardown, “or simply teardown, is the act of disassembling a product, such as a television set, to identify its component parts, chip & system functionality” – Wiki In the context of the teardown of my company, Hummingbill, a Software as a Service...
April 6, 2016
Using the product roadmap to keep an organization in sync
06April
When organizations are relatively small, it is possible to keep all parts of the company – execs, PM, sales, engineering, QA, operations, etc – in sync with the direction and with the vision of the company. Communication across the company can be seamless and everyone can remain aligned to what they are working on and understand how their work maps to the broader vision. However, as...
April 6, 2016
Scaling from $1m to $5m, lessons learned by Freshdesk
I travel to India once every quarter to catch up with our India team based out of Coimbatore. I was planning to attend SaaSx for a while now and this time, it was perfect timing the event is scheduled on 2nd April, right in the mid weekend of my India trip. This is an invitation-only event, I’m thankful for the organiser to get me involved. With 200 attendees where the majority of them are...
April 5, 2016
Hey Indian SaaS Founders, Are you dreaming big enough and aiming high enough?
05April
I took SaaSy bus to attend SaaSx3, a fun journey networking and ice break session among SaaS founder The sessions were on common challenges from funding to hiring right resources and also instant mini FinTech RoundTable (picture below). The venue was at Chennai (Mahabalipuram) well described by above tweet and event started with afternoon session by Pallav Nadhani of FusionCharts on Referral...
April 5, 2016
Write up the Business Plan !
Most of us have read the famous story about Jeff Bezos’s cross country trip from New York to Seattle. Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994, writing up the Amazon business plan on the way. Jeff’s important advise for startup company or any company is to write up the business plan. Now if Jeff Bezos has done it, and become one of the most successful entrepreneur in the internet era, why not just do...
April 4, 2016
Product Teardown at the “SaaS”y Day at Chennai: Chapter 2 on SaaSx3
04April
The sea breeze was cool. And the SaaSy people went cool as well. Kiruba unleashed some tricks for networking that had the participants engaging in banter, fun and games on the lawn. It also wore off the participants from postprandial somnolence (carb coma) after lunch. The SaaSy bus by then had arrived from Bengaluru, and the participant number swelled to 150 or so. Using your product as a...
April 4, 2016
Aadhaar: Zero to 1-Billion in 5.5 years!
A Podcast with Nandan Nilekani, founding Chairman, UIDAI On the occasion of Aadhaar reaching the 1-Billion landmark – the fastest of any digital initiative in history – I had the privilege of recording a Podcast with the founding Chairman of this grand vision, Mr. Nandan Nilekani. Nandan shared his views on how they went about building Aadhaar, the teams involved, some challenges...
April 3, 2016
It Was a “SaaS”y Day at Chennai: Chapter 1#SaaSx3
03April
The April sun wasn’t evident at the beach side locale, near the historic town of Mamallapuram, which hold relics of exceptional beauty on its rocks sculpted under the patronage of the Pallava kings. Had it been the early part of last century, in all probability, we could have reached this place in passenger boats sailing through the Buckingham Canal, now condemned to history. It was using this...
April 1, 2016
Announcing the third batch of 15 companies selected for @InTech50 2016
01April
Last week, we announced the second batch of winners of InTech50 2016. It’s been a hectic month for all the stakeholders. Happy to announce the third and final batch of 15 companies that are selected for InTech50 2016: Aujas: Security Analytics and Visualization Platform Canvazify: Canvazify is a visual collaboration tool for team brainstorming and planning. Its a pinterest of team ideas...
