Webkul Software Pvt. Ltd. found place in the 2015 Technology Fast 500 APAC Ranking. The co-founders, Vipin Sahu and Vinay Yadav started Webkul in 2010. Vipin Sahu comes from the small town of Fatehpur. He and his then roommate Vinay Yadav actively built software tools since their early days in college. Even thought they had no exposure to computers before college, open source excited their...
February 22, 2016
Hook for Enterprise Businesses – Webkul Software
22February
February 18, 2016
An Entrepreneur At 40? This Is What Not To Do…
18February
I have often heard people say that most men hit their mid-life crisis at 40. That’s when they run a marathon, try to reinvent their personal image or quit their job. Though, as a general rule, I do not believe in such lores, I must admit that it might have been true in my case. I experienced my ‘Eureka’ moment when I was merrily ambling towards my 4th decade. Sainergie was thus, borne. I am one...
February 17, 2016
Applications are open for the Summer 2016 Accelerator batch!
17February
And…we’re ready to accept applications into the third batch of our accelerator program (time flies!). As before, the 100 day program helps founders in the early stages of their startup do these things: Build products their customers will love Accelerate their progress; and Become investible faster. If you’re a startup building a technology enabled startup in one of the areas we like, and want to...
February 15, 2016
SaaS Pricing and Value Metrics – Lessons from the Top Seeds
15February
Two libraries. One charges you based on the number of books that you pick, while for the other, the rental period forms the basis of its prices. Now, which one would you prefer to get your books from? There’s no right or wrong answer in this scenario. What matters here is how you were able to make your choice, with a single criteria. Both libraries cater to the same audience, with the same...
February 14, 2016
Thinking PN: Tribute to the Spirit of ISPIRT
14February
The Dream of a Product Nation, to give India its true Identity and enable Bharat to be the crown jewel of the World, took seed in Feb 2013. An idea to harness the energy of many volunteers inspired by the Open Source movement took the shape of iSPIRT and Product Nation. The Spectrum of Volunteering spreads from Bad-to-Good-to-Great. Adam Grant in his book Give and Take highlights this mindset of...
February 11, 2016
3 Years of Volunteering to enable hundreds of experiments to blossom
11February
On Saturday, I was going to attend 3rd year anniversary event of iSPIRT On the way on my bus to meeting, my mind was filled with varied thoughts about 2010 or earlier, when I was outsourced product start-up employee. Looks like little time ago, 6 years has passed from 2010 when I met the volunteers of NPC. Sharing comments to volunteers (Avinash, Rajan, Vijay, Manju, Suresh) on lack of “Made in...
February 9, 2016
Q-Prize – A US$ 350,000 opportunity for Startups in Make in India week
09February
With only a few days to go for the Make In India week, the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) is set to announce a Rs 2 crore bounty along with Qualcomm. During the Make in India Week being held in Mumbai, the DIPP and Qualcomm Incorporated, through its venture investment arm, Qualcomm Ventures, have announced India’s largest Startup prize till date will see the winner walk...
February 8, 2016
Awesome By Design – Going Broad to Narrow
08February
Creating intuitive products used to be enough but not any more. Now customers demand awesome product experiences…the ones that they tell others about. ‘Design awesome’ – we use these words a lot, but what does it mean? And how do you go about it? It’s not about delivering awesome products; it’s about delivering awesome experiences that deliver unexpected delight. Design for Delight is grounded in...
February 5, 2016
Planting the Start-up Gene in Enterprise IT
05February
Every company in its inception is a start-up. However, excelling and remaining relevant in an ever changing, competitive market eventually transforms ‘start-ups’ into enterprises that follow a set of conventional/’safe’ methods of doing business in order for them to become profitable and remain so in the long run. Conversely, the current start-up buzz is posing fundamental questions to the...
February 4, 2016
2016 iSPIRT Annual Letter
04February
Seven years ago a band of volunteers came together to move the Indian software product ecosystem into the next orbit. Three years ago this movement became a think tank, iSPIRT. We pioneered the idea of building public goods without public money in India. Today, India has many software product Unicorns and many more are in the making. We are doing one M&A a month. India Stack is reshaping many...
