October 24, 2015. A Saturday after Dussehra, and 59th roundtable of awesomeness in lively office of Zapty. Not only Sanjay (founder of Zapty) was great, offices of Zapty welcomed us with a lot of natural light. Then, introductions happened and people started to get comfortable around each other. It was Samir, founder of Shop Socially, who flew from Pune a day before, was going to share the things...
November 2, 2015
When we learned to crack US sales from India
02November
October 30, 2015
The next 25 #PNgrowth companies – the second shortlist is here!
30October
We now have the list of the second batch of #PNgrowth companies and this time, we have en even more eclectic mix of domains and products. And since we have also just announced the final agenda for the three day residential workshop that will launch #PNgrowth, the buzz we feel has only intensified. The program is now being over-subscribed many times over, and we request you to apply early if you...
October 30, 2015
SaaS India struggles with Inbound Lead Response
As Indian SAAS companies are aspiring to make a global footprint, the sales growth can make or break their goals. Companies who respond fastest as compared to competitors always have first mover advantage to close sales. According to the Harvard Business Review, companies that try to contact potential customers within an hour of receiving queries are nearly 7 times as likely to have meaningful...
October 28, 2015
The final agenda for #Pngrowth is here
28October
In the fourth #PNGrowth hangout last week, the usual suspects got together but this time with something a lot more concrete to hand out. With #PNgrowth generating the buzz that it has, we have been inundated with questions about what exactly the three days of the residential workshop will entail. As we have been vocal about, the residential workshop will kickstart the yearlong program that is...
October 28, 2015
With 16000+ installations in more than 10 states, in just 3 years. KisanRaja is growing big!
Perseverance or persistence are the 2 most important characteristics for an entrepreneur, says Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Dinnepu, the Chairman and CEO of KisanRaja. In an exclusive interview with Ashutosh Ranjan and Ragavendra Prasath of iSPIRT, Vijay shares how he came out of the monthly salary mania and started working to solve the problem of farmers. Here is the edited excerpts from the interview...
October 25, 2015
Five reasons to attend #PNgrowth
25October
Ever since we opened registrations for #PNgrowth, we wanted to do a list of this sort, to make it easier for those who wish to attend to have a look and decide whether this program is helpful for them. But somehow we never got around to it until now. #PNgrowth is now red hot, and we have three applicants for every place on the program. We still want to tell everyone about it because only a small...
October 24, 2015
Announcing the first 25 successful companies attending #PNgrowth
24October
Right. So the first batch of #PNgrowth companies is here. It has been a slog for us going through all the applications we received, and we have made sure that we are extremely fair in the way we are allocating places for our already over-subscribed program. If you don’t know what this is about, you go here, and if you want to apply, here, better late than never. ...
October 23, 2015
Early Stage Start-up? Your Chance to Get Market-Ready and Mentored by the Best Brains in the Business!
23October
Celebrating AnthahPrerana – the deep driving desire and self-motivation of an entrepreneur. You are what your deep, driving desire is As your desire is, so is your will As your will is, so is your deed As your deed is, so is your destiny BrihadAranyaka Upanishad (4, 4.5) AnthahPrerana is a TiE Bangalore initiative that recognises entrepreneurs for their articulation and the path to realising...
October 22, 2015
SEBI & iSPIRT Discuss Modernized Online Platform with Tech Startups and Securities Market Intermediaries.
22October
On 15th October, Mr. U.K. Sinha, honorable chairman of SEBI, had a more than 4 hour meeting with iSPIRT. The goal was to lay the ground-work for a new approach to Paperless and Presence-less Distribution Model enabling a 10X growth in the number of people buying Mutual Funds. The iSPIRT team was chaired by Nandan Nilekani and included key members of its Open API Expert Team – Sanjay Jain...
October 21, 2015
SaaSx Chennai Express – Board this Train Now!
21October
I am Amit – running a SaaS venture Interview Mocha, a pre-employment skill testing company. In this blog I am sharing my learning from SaaSx and how it helped me achieve product-market fit and grow my company fast. As they say, “a startup’s life is a roller coaster with ups and downs”, this ride has not been easy for me either. Just to talk in numbers, in the first 1.5 yrs of our existence, we...
