iSPIRT is not a tradebody. It is a think tank focussed on transforming India into a Product Nation. To describe the set of things we do to make this happen, we have created four Home Tour videos. They will give you a good idea of what iSPIRT is doing today through the voices of some of our anchor volunteers. There was a trigger to create these these Home Tour videos. Recently the tribe of product...
July 20, 2015
Christening of a Tribe and Launch of Home Tour Videos
20July
July 17, 2015
Enterprise Software Products – Big Clients, Big Opportunity
17July
Over the past few years, there has been a lot of investment activity in the B2B Technology product space. One can broadly classify B2B Tech into two categories based on the size of the end clients, and the delivery model (on-premise or Cloud). End Customer Mid-Large Enterprises SMEs Typical Delivery Model On Premise SaaS Most of the recent investment activity in the B2B Tech...
July 16, 2015
Announcing the Working Group on IT Security
16July
With the growing penetration of technology, Internet, and digital medium, there is an increasing need for protecting critical infrastructure of the country. If compromised, these infrastructure can bring down the entire nation to stand still. With the nation going Digital India and the Prime Minister himself talking about security frequently, and challenging Indian citizens to create products...
July 15, 2015
Product Management for Startups and Understanding Growth #Playbookrt52
15July
It was a rainy Monsoon Delhi day with heavy downpour, traffic jams and water logging but these couldn’t keep a bunch of entrepreneurs from making it in time to the Product Nation Roundtable focused on Product Management and Growth Hacking. Led by Round Table veteran who has done it all and scaled Slideshare to great heights, Amit Ranjan, the excite bunch got together in the lovely office of...
July 14, 2015
FinTech-Tech: The future of banking?
14July
Banking and financial services industry is undergoing a massive transformation all over the world. While until the early 2010, FinTech wasn’t even on the radar of banking institutions let alone the entrepreneurial kinds, suddenly there is an upsurge in activity in the FinTech community. Global FinTech financing has grown from less than $930 million for the whole of 2008 to over $1.04...
July 13, 2015
The single most frequent mistake #entrepreneurs make during the #customer #development process
13July
There are many assumptions we make about the product or the customer problem, which makes us develop solutions that may be really more complicated than required. A friend and fellow entrepreneur I met on Friday was showing me a prototype (HML mock up with transitions, with some simple functions implemented) of this SaaS application. He had used a developer on hire at UpWork to develop the initial...
July 10, 2015
#ArthaSiddhi: Imparting life skills and effectual skills to pre-entrepreneurs…
10July
2 week back, Rohan, Madhav, Milind and I graduated successfully from a first of a kind program, called ‘ArthaSiddhi’. This activity based program was conceived with the intent of imparting life skills to pre-entrepreneurs. The objectives of the program were to get participants to understand what it would take for them to embark on the entrepreneurial journey. Further, through various activities...
July 9, 2015
5 things to think about before starting your company blog
09July
A few days ago, a friend of mine who’s starting work as a content marketer told me that she was putting together a plan for the company’s new blog. She was starting from scratch, she said, and this meant that she would putting the base in for future marketers in the company to take off from. This meant that her task was very important, as well as would be set the benchmark for the team. She asked...
July 8, 2015
11 tips for Bootstrapping your startup
08July
The Bootstrap Ride There are many paths to successfully bootstrapping a start-up. The trick is finding the way that works best for you. Now more than two years into my journey, I want to share a few lessons I wish I had learned earlier. I would like to share a few tips from my experiences of bootstrapping an international startup. I want to speak the reality I experienced, my personal opinions...
July 7, 2015
Startups!! Do You Know Your Customers Well?
07July
A business exists only till the time it has paying customers. The day your customers cease to exist, or have no reason to pay you for your products or services, your business is in deep trouble. So, if we consider all the stake holders in a corporate, an i.e. employee, executive management, investors and customers, the customer is the most important. Now the chances are that you know all other...
