InTech50, iSPIRT ’s flagship event is back. The first two editions have been very successful and InTech50 has become the ‘must-go-to’ platform for enterprise CXO’s and product entrepreneurs. Over the past two years, we have hosted CXO’s and business leaders from global companies like AllState, Citibank, HCC Insurance, Standard Chartered, Colgate Palmolive, Time, AirTel, Yes Bank, Exide Life...
February 4, 2016
Brace up all Product Entrepreneurs; InTech50 is back…
04February
February 2, 2016
iSPIRT’s Stay-in-India Checklist gains further traction: RBI and MCA follow the Startup India Action Plan
02February
Several notable announcements have been made by RBI and MCA pursuant to iSPIRT’s Stay-in-India Checklist (discussed in my earlier post here). In its bi-monthly monetary policy statement released earlier today, RBI has stated that it will take steps to contribute to an ecosystem that is conducive for growth of startups. It is noteworthy that each of the points in the policy framework released by...
February 1, 2016
Startup India: What Can You Do?
01February
At the Startup India event, our honourable PM shared that government’s impact is highest when it decides, intentionally, to stay away, and I agree with him. But we, as the citizens of India, can play a huge role. And we must. But as a co-founder of NowFloats, a startup, here are some of my asks to you, my fellow citizens, and you may fall under multiple categories: To Consumers: Sincerely, kindly...
January 29, 2016
A corporate wallet to simplify business payments and expense tracking: The Happay Story
29January
B2C wallets like Paytm and Mobikwik are known well enough. The B2B wallet story, however, is still in its nascent stage. Happay is that wallet which helps companies manage their expenses through employees, using corporate wallets. Varun Rathi and Anshul Rai were classmates at IIT Kharagpur. They worked for 2 years before they started up. After toying with different business ideas, they zeroed in...
January 28, 2016
Turbocharging #StartupIndia
28January
Maker Culture’ and ‘Make in Universities Programs’ for creating a cultural change in Engineering Graduates; to be job creators rather than job seekers. Our nation is faced with an exciting challenge – it needs to create over 1M new jobs every month for the next 20 years to give employment to the 200M youth who will join the work force. These jobs will have to come from new companies; and...
January 27, 2016
Why govts should open source software it develops?
27January
I am surprised not to find a single Indian govt software being open sourced. This is despite the fact that most of them have horrible user experience and highly buggy. In all probability the code behind it would be equally poor. The govt. continues to spend crores of tax payers money to IT service providers to develop these abysmal portals instead of open sourcing it. Examples of some portals...
January 26, 2016
Calling all Indian B2B companies: InTech50 2016 – the global platform beckons again!!
26January
With two super successful events in 2014 and 2015, InTech50 2016 is back – bigger than ever before. For the uninitiated, InTech50 is a showcase of some of the most promising software products created by entrepreneurs from India. A panel of Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Venture Capitalists, and Product Leaders from previous successes will look out for fifty companies to make the cut to...
January 25, 2016
PNGrowth – An Experience that transformed…
25January
Getting up at 4am in the morning and discovering 200 founders lined up at Madiwala, to catch the bus before the scheduled departure, instantly reminded me of the huge line of techies in front of the American Consulate at Annasalai for my H1B visa, two decades ago 🙂 Super pune gang @PNgrowth – @SarangLakare @amitdmishra @aballabh @vinaynathan @99sachins pic.twitter.com/fcfx6KCqxf — Abhijit...
January 22, 2016
Leading the fintech revolution | The humane approach
22January
Let’s start first with the elucidation of a buzzword that is floating around a lot –‘fintech’. In very simple terms, it refers to new technology that aims to change the existing models (and/or processes) of the financial industry. Considering that financial industry by itself is huge and everybody is a part of it directly or indirectly, it is quite logical that the tech...
January 21, 2016
Satisfied customers – isn’t that we all want?
21January
The other day on my regular Hyderabad- Bangalore flight I was reading this book titled Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles. The concepts in the book brought back memories of my experiences in building hardware and software products in a 30 year career. I also often deliver skills and tools for building “aha” products through my corporate workshops. There is a lot written about design...
