India’s B2B software product industry has grown nicely since we published the first edition of this index in November 2014 – the top 30 companies are valued at $10.25 billion (₹65,500 crores) and employ over 21,000 people. The index has grown 20% in USD terms and 28% in INR terms from October 30, 2014 to June 30, 2015. There has been an acceleration since 2010 in the pace of creation of B2B...
September 3, 2015
India B2B Software Products Industry Clocks Solid Growth from 2014 to 2015
03September
September 2, 2015
Next BIG Idea Contest – Your Gateway to North America
02September
Most of the tech businesses today, look at a global reach and expansion. However, it is difficult to achieve this without a strong network, and finances. Also, it does not help if you are an early stage technology startup from India, with a limited customer base – no matter however great the product is. The Next BIG Idea Contest provides an opportunity to tech startups from India, to tap into the...
September 1, 2015
Three Things To Do Before You Launch Your SaaS Startup To Get InBound Leads
01September
There are 3 items you should do quickly, if you are going to launch your SaaS startup or a new product that caters to a new audience. First, get listed on SaaS marketplaces, Cloud Brokerage Services and Cloud listing providers. There are over 120 SaaS marketplaces from telcos – AT&T, T-Mobile and others, to large Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Google, Microsoft, etc.) and other large...
August 31, 2015
India innovated and celebrated @Inno_fest #IndiaCanInnovate
31August
With whatever little humility we can garner, we created a platform for showcasing, inspiring, and celebrating innovation in India – in less than 27 days!! With the awesome support from our partners, sponsors, believers, dreamers, creators, speakers, patrons, volunteers and each and every one who was a part of InnoFest – we rocked it J You asked us – Why the focus on Innovation? Well, the...
August 28, 2015
Stop Wasting your Hard-Earned Inbound Leads
28August
Inbound Digital Marketing – A must for Generating Leads! Organizations rely significantly on inbound digital marketing for their business. One of the most popular marketing channel used is Pay-Per-Click Campaigns, wherein inbound leads are captured as soon as a visitor clicks on sponsored landing pages/Google Adwords links and fills the details to access specific resources/offers. Direct...
August 27, 2015
Get a team first.
27August
Nothing can be done solo. Everything can be done with the right team. I meet dozens of people in Bangalore, who when they realise I am an entrepreneur ask me my two cents on starting up. Some of them have started up, some are about to and many want to sometime soon. If there is one thing common between many of them – it is the lack of a great team. Or any team at all. I see people with great...
August 26, 2015
A perspective on Entrepreneurial Independence
26August
To me, entrepreneurship is a dynamic manifestation of creating connected values with compassion; so I focus on creating connected values without worrying for my funding orientation. When I started, after coming out of Sun Microsystems, I was not thinking about money as I was able to get some money by helping people who were using the product that I built at Sun. I did not know what it takes to...
August 25, 2015
As somebody rightly said “it was all a notion but hey, its innovation now”
25August
What’s more, when you give this notion a Woodstock fever! That would be Innofest’2015. My participation was courtesy iSPIRT and Avinash, with whom I was interacting for my startup. One thing lead to another, and like a typical startup guy, I asked for a discount. Voila, got a free pass. So, the day was 22nd August, a Saturday; excitement was there in the air, I am still at home but the thought of...
August 24, 2015
Innovation @ Innofest 2015
24August
Here is small write-ups of stalls I visited and could relate better with innovations at stalls@Innofest. Wish that innovation stalls were open for viewing by public,children and youngsters. Captured innovations to share and motivate readers to dream. Let me start with TeamIndus, prototype design and aerial vehicle. Young guys have been able to innovated on large scale and serve as motivation for...
August 21, 2015
Promote innovation and entrepreneurship to achieve sustainable economic growth
21August
We are at a profound moment in India’s history. We have a young and energetic workforce, a robust macroeconomy and a strong leadership at the Centre. This is our chance to power India forward. A key aspect for achieving sustainable economic growth and providing jobs to our youth is to promote innovation and entrepreneurship. We need to do more to enable our young people to think creatively...
