My name is Rajan Chandi, a technologist who likes to build software products, experiment and have fun. I was particularly fascinated by Google, Facebook and Tech Innovation. The reason why I quit my job was to be able to explore tech entrepreneurship and build awesome things. It has been a great ride building, launching and monetizing 3 software products to various degrees with small teams and...
September 28, 2015
Product Company OR Services Company?
28September
September 25, 2015
Growth is a bitch!
25September
Capillary Technologies is an information technology company headquartered in Bangalore, India. Established in 2008, Capillary is present in about 30 countries with over 200 enterprise customers. In this short candid chat with Aneesh Reddy, the co-founder and CEO of Capillary Technologies, he bluntly mentions that growth is a bitch! Aneesh shares how his company spent 1.5M to reach 1/6th the...
September 25, 2015
India Innovation Session with Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE
Every sector has a long period of evolutionary change that is only occasionally interrupted by a short (5-10 year) period of intense non-linear change. Global corporates like GE are able to position themselves to successfully embrace the evolutionary change. However, to leverage the period of non-linear change, a new kind of partnering model is needed. Keeping in mind this theme, iSPIRT, India’s...
September 24, 2015
Freshdesk’s Customer Happiness Tour : Gurgaon – Redefining the Customer Service Experience
24September
In the last few years, a lot of things have changed about the way we do business. For one thing, customer happiness is no longer an accessory to companies. It has become the matter of the hour influencing every aspect of a business, from the way we build the product to the way we support customers. Brands are finding it increasingly important to go the “extra mile” with their customer experience...
September 24, 2015
How coming to Valley fast forwarded us 10x
Noida/India, March 2015: Typical startup scene. Cash running out, existing product not scaling fast enough to excite Series A investors and the worse part, need to let go some awesome employees who believed in our vision & promises. For a few nights I couldn’t sleep properly in the hope of getting that “one” idea which could give us a new direction and the enthusiasm to keep going. During all...
September 23, 2015
Announcing the biggest software entrepreneur school in India – #PNgrowth
23September
India’s product startup ecosystem is at an exciting stage right now. There are several startups who are being talked about as unicorns, several others which are bring touted as the next big things, and a whole host of others who are in their infancy. Though India’s metres are the ones driving this revolution-in-a-bottle, smaller cities are also catching up. One reason for the emergence of these...
September 22, 2015
Inviting the most ambitious product founders to learn growth mantras at PNGrowth
22September
FusionCharts is one of India’s oldest product companies, and easily one of the first to get on the SaaS wave to world recognition. This makes Pallav Nadhani’s company one of the first few in India to actually face the problems that are now ruining the sleep of the nation’s new product company CEOs. As Pallav himself says, building the product and validating is one thing, and...
September 21, 2015
#SaaSx2 is here – The premier event for SaaS companies looking to scale
21September
When SaaS was discovered by India, a group of young people saw its potential and built incredible businesses around it. These were the originals, the first SaaS hackers. We brought a few of them together in March this year, under the banner of SaaSx1, so other SaaS entrepreneurs could learn from them, and don’t have to commit the same mistakes all over again. The idea was that the learning...
September 19, 2015
What you need to know while hiring an Image consultant?
19September
Every startup originates with a dream and a vision to make their ideas come to life and be instrumental in providing real life solutions; addressing critical problems, bringing innovation and delivering better user experience. A startup boost of entrepreneurial spirit with great zeal and enthusiasm coupled with determination, commitment and challenges. Growing a business in today’s fast evolving...
September 18, 2015
How do new ventures succeed in globalizing?
18September
The globalization of new ventures, be they from advanced or emerging economies, may sound like an oxymoron: how can a young firm with limited resources go global? Research by various academics, including my own for over a decade in India, UK, US and latterly China, shows that in many cases the answer is: by leveraging network relationships. Entering international markets typically entails...
