The second edition of InTech50 is round the corner. InTech50 (flagship event of iSpirt) brings together 50 promising enterprise software start-ups, 50 CIO’s from some of the biggest companies (read Citibank, Kroger, Procter & Gamble, Great American Insurance Company, AllStage, Accretive Health, Nationwide Mutual Insurance, Crate & Barrel and the likes) and who’s who from the...
February 19, 2015
Announcing Validation Tank @InTech50
19February
February 18, 2015
Roles and Responsibilities of Startup Founders.
18February
This is the 2nd in the 5 part series on ‘How to Sell in the US Market from India’. I had attended the Round Table organized by iSPIRT and here I attempt to capture the important points from the discussion. (You can read the first part here) One of the topics of deep interest for the participant was on clearly understanding the role of the Startup Founders and where should their time and focus be...
February 17, 2015
Announcing the Business Catalyst program at InTech50
17February
We are pleased to announce that this year Intech50 will connect Indian startups with experienced business catalysts and consultants visiting specially from USA. Why Are We Launching Business Catalyst In his famous blog, Ben Horowitz discusses why we need sales people in the cloud world. Last year we saw many of our startups getting the POC from large US customers, but some of them struggled to...
February 16, 2015
"Be Prepared to Move Very Fast" Mukund Mudras, CEO & Co-Founder of Heckyl #IfNotNowThenWhen
16February
In conversation with Mukund Mudras – CEO and Co-Founder of Heckyl – winners of the UKTI ‘India’s Most Innovative Companies To Work With The Best of UK’ 2013. A brief about the company – Heckyl is a real time data analytics company that brings news, price and fundamental analytics through a single platform called FIND (Financial in News and Data). FIND can be used by a researcher, trader...
February 13, 2015
3 things I did right: Lesson 3 from a bootstrapped journey of 0 to 8 digit revenue
13February
Last year we received 1.6 lakh pageviews with over 100 articles on improving customer interactions. But the bottom line remains: As an entrepreneur I play joker. I try – I fall – I stand up again for the next stunt. Whatsoever, I have to keep everyone entertained. This article is a part of a 3-article series, where I would share 3 most vital lessons as I grew as an entrepreneur, our...
February 12, 2015
Learn Silicon Valley antidotes to product challenges faced by Startups
12February
Successful products are not an accident, even if they may look like it from the outside. Successful products are the end result of a series of challenges tackled well. While each business is unique, many of these product challenges are not. As Indian startups are working towards building market-winning products, wouldn’t it be great if we could learn from some of Silicon Valley’s best and avoid...
February 11, 2015
List of 20 #Madeinindia School Management Software
11February
Managing and handling the activities of schools manually is considered to be a painful task. Each and every department is important to be handled in order to ensure its proper functioning like a MNC. A Software technology can help you administer entire institute by providing a detailed as well as summarised reports of all students as well as staff. Our team has done an extensive research on the...
February 10, 2015
A successful sales team recipe
10February
As sales leaders, we all know that crafting a skilled, productive sales team is essential to our ultimate success; experts consider the keys to building a successful team a balance between art and science: a careful combination of skills, experience, education, and personality traits. New research, however, reinforces what we at ValueSelling Associates have long believed to be true: there’s a...
February 9, 2015
NEED FOR CUSTOMER CENTRICITY
09February
Today’s competitive market is reducing margins and driving enterprises from customer acquisition to customer retention approach. The need of the hour is customer centricity, to create products around customer needs. Telecom service providers, unlike online industries like Amazon, Apple, Google and eBay, store customer data in silos due to the inherent complexities in the service portfolio. This...
February 7, 2015
Product Leaders Forum brings PLF 2015 to create and celebrate product leaders!
07February
There are two things that ring loud in my head whenever I think about PLF. The first is the teaching by renowned Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And the second is the quote “Celebrate what you have accomplished but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed” by Mia Hamm a leading soccer player who has many firsts to her name. At...
