If you have been reading Mint lately (and most people who read Product Nation do), you must have come across the Mint/MIT search for the Top 10 Innovators under 35. Organised by Mint in association with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the India edition will shortlist India’s top 10 innovators in the technology space to compete for the global awards. This is a prime opportunity...
December 15, 2015
Nominations are open for MINT MIT Innovators Under 35
15December
December 14, 2015
Top 10 Mistakes Startups Can Avoid
14December
Being a consultant and a coach for companies both large and small gives me the opportunity to learn of challenges first hand at several places, situations and from talking to colleagues. I also have been dedicating a part of my time in mentoring startups in India. I have participated in several mentoring sessions organized by Google Launchpad, TiE Boot Camp, TLabs here in Bangalore over the past...
December 11, 2015
Design thinking Playbook Roundtable by Deepa Bachu
11December
The core idea of a startup is to tap into the previously unexplored markets, identifying unsolved problems and bringing to the market innovation that disrupt the existing eco-system. It’s about understanding complex problems and coming up with innovative, disruptive solutions…a process that requires understanding the consumers’ requirements and behavior patterns to create a well-thought out...
December 10, 2015
Open Source and SAAS
10December
While open source software is a fairly well understood in concept, I am always surprised how little it is understood in practice. At a round table of young product companies last month, there were a lot of raised eyebrows and questions when I explained our open source way of working. Jordan Hubbard, co-creator of FreeBSD and open source veteran, spoke on this topic at this year’s ERPNext...
December 9, 2015
Design Thinking: When creativity and process come together
09December
Design Thinking as a mindset and process that is starting to get its’ due attention in the US. In India however, it is lesser known and in most cases, an after thought. What is Design Thinking, you ask? It is a creative process of building products that people simply love to use! Products that not just meet but beat customers’ expectations and bring in the element of unexpected delight! There are...
December 8, 2015
Traction Trumps Everything – How to get traction for your SaaS product
08December
A wise and successful entrepreneur once said, “Traction trumps everything”. Indeed, traction is the only thing that brings you customers, VCs, and energy to keep going. iSPIRT in partnership with PuneConnect & SEAP organized a playbook roundtable on “Getting traction for your product startup”. It was focused on peer to peer learning and taking away real feedback...
December 7, 2015
One more list to go. The last #PNgrowth companies are here!
07December
We are at the end of the announcements of shortlisted companies for #PNgrowth 2015. There’s only more to go after this, and we want to thank all those who applied. We put this event together for you, and you have responded. We are working hard on the programs so you get maximum benefits from Mysore and the subsequent interactions. So here you go, the second-last list of #PNgrowth companies...
December 4, 2015
We are almost at the end of the lists. Here are the next 25! #PNgrowth
04December
So here are the next 25. Only two lists remain, and the calibre of the people on here in itself should convince you what we have put together. Mysore 2016 is going to be super awesome! Jayadev Mahalingam of Piqube Sachin Sharma of Townscript Shardul Mohite of YogurtLabs Nitin Gupta of NavStik Vinay Nathan of Altizon Mandeep Makkar of Amigobulls Prasad Nagalapura of Vitamap Nitin Kapoor of...
December 4, 2015
Entrepreneur..rise..fail..resolve..rise..fail..resolve..rise
The life of an entrepreneur is really interesting and very challenging. It is interesting because they are trying radical ideas and something which has possibly been never tried before. Challenging because they are walking along unchartered territories and there is joy, disappointment, surprise, shock, failure and success lurking around every corner. It really tests your persistence, patience and...
December 3, 2015
Disruptive Blue Oceans and India to the world!
03December
In this article, we brief on what the architect of disruptive innovation Clayton Christensen explained in his seminal work called disruptive theory. This contains the edited excerpts of ‘What is disruptive innovation’ article published in Harvard Business Review. We also considered the tools, frameworks and concepts from Blue Ocean Strategy developed by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, as we feel...
