We are very excited to share that the city of Pearls – Hyderabad will be embarking its journey towards Product Leadership for the first time ever, at a one of a kind Conference – Product Leaders Forum (PLF) on Oct 30th 2015. PLF – a not for profit initiative has partnered with NASCCOM, PMI, HYSEA, ISB and TIE to organize a one day Conference that cultivates and enriches product mindset and...
October 20, 2015
Product Leaders Forum – Anchoring India to Drive Product Leadership Revolution
20October
October 19, 2015
A Recipe for Selling a Product Globally from India
19October
iSPIRT regularly organises Playbook roundtables to help startups succeed by learning from successful entrepreneurs. One of such roundtable was conducted at GS Lab in Pune on 10th Oct 2015. This PlaybookRT was focused on Product startups (B2B) who are keen to sell to the global market. The PlaybookRT was facilitated by Samir Palnitkar, President of ShopSocially.com. Samir hosted a highly...
October 16, 2015
How “born globals” dance with gorillas to punch above their weight
16October
For over a decade now I have been studying “born globals” i.e. new ventures that internationalize rapidly, and in particular how these firms leverage relationships with large multinationals to facilitate this process. My studies on this topic span China, India, UK and USA. I recently published a book targeted at other academics, based on this research, titled Born Globals, Networks and the Large...
October 15, 2015
SaaSx2 – The Afterword
15October
SaaSx2 just got over last week, and we’ve been talking to several people who attended about what they liked, what they didn’t, and what they might want more of when we plan SaaSx3. We have the ratings from the attendees and also several testimonials that we pored through to get these up for you. Fireside Chat 1 : Aneesh with Ahi & Asha Fireside Chat 2 : Girish with Sumanth Onething Series by...
October 14, 2015
Product Market Fit – Pre Event playbook by @Avlesh @WebEngage & Arvind Kumar, @attunetech
14October
The morning of the SaaSx2 event saw a great pre-event playbook at the Attune Tech’s Office. Avlesh from WebEngage, Arvind from Attune Tech. and Suresh from KiSSFLOW came together to host the session and anchor the round table. With a casual round of introductions, Suresh kickstarted the entire roundtable discussion with a question: Who is your ideal user? Identifying the ideal user for your...
October 13, 2015
SaaS is the new black – and it has found a place in Chennai
13October
At SaaSx 2015, Girish Mathrubhootham, CEO of cloud-based customer support software Freshdesk and popularly known as the Rajnikanth (think an acting, singing James Bond) of India’s Software as a Service (SaaS) scene, did the unthinkable. He revealed the entire spreadsheet of internal data-based metrics that he presented to his investors in 2011. All the media people were asked to put away their...
October 13, 2015
Funding Game – The rules and the hacks via @skirani & @BKartRed
The weather in Chennai was finally getting kinder & more pleasant in tune with the time of the year, much like the funding climate which has been less testing on the entrepreneur in general. Depending on whether you ask a consumer product entrepreneur or a B2B SaaS product entrepreneur, the level of optimism could vary, but it’s optimism all around. As a pre-event runup to SaaSx2, we met at...
October 12, 2015
The #PNgrowth #OneThing Series – Mohit Gundecha, CEO of Jombay
12October
When we as a ecosystem try to help our entrepreneurs, we make the mistake of always focussing on the mistakes others have made, and trying to steer away from those. This is evident even from the stuff we write on blogs and platforms with the specific purpose of helping others. Maybe it’s time we step away from that. In this new blog Series from #PNgrowth, we are going the other way. We are...
October 12, 2015
The importance of having a defined mission for your start-up
If you are a small team, starting out to solve a problem, having a mission is hardly a concern. What must concern you at that stage is getting to the product market fit and customer validation. But even after building a successful product and scaling the business to a sizeable extent, many startups hardly articulate a compelling mission for themselves. With early signs of success, founders...
October 10, 2015
Are you in India/SaaS, and not at #SaaSx2? You missed transparent mind-blowing insights
10October
SaaSx event is a meetup organized by a bunch of SaaS entrepreneurs for all SaaS entrepreneurs in India. SaaSx Chennai event enables SaaS start-up founders to learn and share tribal knowledge from SaaS (software-as-a-service) start-ups in various stages of the evolutionary ladder. Every participant registered for the event and was vetted for fitness with theme of the event. (Do events really have...
