Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple Inc and one of the greatest innovator from the tech world, believed that innovation was the only way to win, and by no means did he just see innovation in making things more complex. An advocate of simplicity, he also reiterated, “Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.” That’s why we, at GHV...
August 19, 2015
India Inc's Innovators Are Setting The Stage For The Ecosystem
19August
August 18, 2015
When it Comes to Startups, an 80% Fix is No Fix
18August
In this polytheistic world of entrepreneurs, who is the Startup Initiative for? There are many types of entrepreneurs. There is the self-employed vegetable-vendor type, the Thelawala. Then there is the small businessman in Okhla or Peenya who has grown to be in GST net. And how can one ignore the technology entrepreneur who graces the pages of ET every day . Even these tech startups come in many...
August 17, 2015
The Secret Sauce Of Networking Success
17August
On a page of the daily, I saw Mr. Obama shaking hands with a young man at the back of a handful of fans hammering into the president. The young man seemed to be at a height of euphoria and the president almost being dragged by his securities away from the crowd. Pragmatically, there is no correlation between sales and a presidential Campaign, but the image made me think of the essence of...
August 15, 2015
Happy Independence Day from iSPIRT #IndiaCanInnovate #PNGrowth
15August
It’s Independence Day today, and the last year has been one of the most exciting years in India’s product ecosystem. Just last week, the news that Sundar Pichai has taken over as the CEO of Google has been another shot in the arm for Indian techies. If ever it was the time for Indian product companies to raise the battle cry to take on the world, it is now. In conversations with other people in...
August 14, 2015
Free Open Software and Growing Entrepreneurship Climate in India
14August
“Imagine if Mathematics was owned by corporates and every time you wanted to use it you had to buy some from a corporate!” started Eben Moglan, Founder of Software Freedom Law Centre at the Open Innovation and our Digital Future Lecture series organised by iSPIRT. It was definitely a thought provoking preview of the work that is taking place in India in the space of Free Open Source Software with...
August 13, 2015
Build, Create, Connect, Improvise and Explore at the Makers Pavilion @Inno_Fest
13August
We are celebrating innovation, innovatively.And we mean it. We will be showcasing some of India’s best innovations – the ‘real stars’ of our show – the makers, innovators, dreamers and creators. Who knows, you might just get ‘inspired’ to innovate and fulfil your own dream! And if not, you might just walk out in ‘awe.’ We look forward to a...
August 13, 2015
Innovation has to be the starting point for entrepreneurs
Innovation significantly expands your options, possibilities, and opportunities That there is enthusiasm about entrepreneurship across India is apparent, and clearly visible. A number of our young citizens are now thinking about starting a business rather than taking up a job. And that’s a good thing, because we need more job creators. However, in India, innovation is often not the starting point...
August 12, 2015
What I got from the pre-entrepreneur bootcamp called iKEN.
12August
I started this journey with a jolt this January, when I got laid off from my job as a Manager at a big MNC. In the notice period, they did offer me many other roles, one of which got finalized and was about to accept, but something in me kept telling me to use this opportunity to fulfill the startup dream that I was dreaming for a long time. First there is a bit of flashback. I came from humble...
August 11, 2015
A Day In Radha’s Life @ Innofest ‘15
11August
The stage is set, I have received my invite to Innofest’15 and look forward to the day with great anticipation. I have just completed my engineering degree from Davanagere, and have received two offers, both through campus interviews. Both seem interesting, and both are in technology, after all thats where everything is today. And yet! I am not sure if thats where i want to be. You see, i have...
August 6, 2015
Open Innovation, entrepreneurship, and our digital future
06August
Open Innovation has lead to the creation of priceless resources like Wikipedia, and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) that form the foundations of our digital society. The freedoms enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of young people around the world, hacking on laptops, hacking on servers, hacking on general purpose hardware is the primary source of the innovation which drove much of the...
