Keeping with the world cup fever, where No.10 is center of everything for success, thought of writing this post on success of product managers, who are the No.10 for success of products. Here in plan to share 10 tips for successful product management. This is based on my dozen years’ experiences in the function, working in Ramco, Hyperion and SAP, rolling out both successful and not so successful...
September 8, 2014
No. 10 : product manager is for successful products, let’s explore 10 success tips
08September
September 6, 2014
Can you implement Growth hacking in your small business?
06September
With new start-ups coming up on a daily basis, the competition in the market is intense. To be successful in this competitive world, you have to think beyond the ordinary. This is probably why growth hacking has become the go-to word when looking for people you may want to hire! If you can scale your growth beyond a linear curve and find multiple ways to expand your reach multi-dimensionally, you...
September 5, 2014
Pallav Nadhani @FusionCharts on Bootstrapping your Startup the right way, all the way #BootUpINDIA
05September
Success is often measured by how much limelight you managed to get. Real success however, belongs to those who dig in and chart the fabled hockey stick growth path. Companies like Fusioncharts, Rategain and Wingify are but a few examples of globe scale bootstrapped Startups from India. Does Bootstrapping happen out of accident or by choice? Is it a long term bet or a compulsion? What are the...
September 4, 2014
Product Camp brings hot product topics to the fore
04September
Product camp is a unique event format where attendees get to drive the agenda. It is borne out of the bar-camp or un-conference movement that started in US and spread to other countries across the world a decade back. Traditional conferences do not allow attendees to provide inputs to the agenda. P-Camp gives them a direct opportunity to create the agenda, choose the topics and the speakers...
September 3, 2014
Lessons for Customer-Funded Entrepreneurs #BootUpINDIA
03September
More than two generations ago, the venture capital community – VCs, business angels, incubators, and others – convinced the entrepreneurial world that writing business plans and raising venture capital constituted the twin centerpieces of entrepreneurial endeavor. They did so for good reasons: the sometimes astonishing returns they’ve delivered and the incredibly large and valuable companies that...
September 2, 2014
HackerEarth: an online technical sourcing and assessment solution – Sachin Gupta, Co-founder. #PNHangout.
02September
HackerEarth is a Bangalore based start-up which helps companies hire programmers. It was started in 2012 by Sachin Gupta and Vivek Prakash, both of whom are alumni of IIT Roorkee. HackerEarth provides solutions for the technical recruitment space – one is an online assessment tool which is used by organizations to assess both internal and external candidates. Another solution acts as an...
September 1, 2014
Bootstrapping, not an excuse for being cheap #BootUpINDIA
01September
I witness the scenario on both sides of the table. A startup provides a solution to a problem; solves it elegantly. And makes it seamless for its users. They use a few other products too – that solves some of their non-core functions elegantly. They grow out of its free usage, but they don’t pay. And they sit and break their heads, day in and day out as to why on earth, many of its heavy users...
August 29, 2014
Bridging Code to Customer Gap
29August
One of areas I have focused in many years that I have been involved in building and taking enterprise software products to market is, bridging the code to customer gap. This really is the main reason for success or failure of products. Inspiration Inspiration for many of us building high tech products is offcourse Steve Jobs, and here is his take on bridging the code to customer gap Enterprise...
August 28, 2014
Bootstrapping – What To Do When You Get Rejected #BootUpINDIA
28August
Very few product companies make it big without taking external funding. The stories that are shared in the industry are all about companies that have targeted large markets, hit a phase of extremely high growth and have taken external capital to fund that growth. There are very few large (in terms of size / impact) companies that have bootstrapped their way to a product company. This is because...
August 27, 2014
How Companies Use Big Data to Help Their Customers?
27August
Big Data has gotten a lot of attention over the past 18 months as retail, manufacturing, and technology companies realize the gold mines they’re sitting on and rush to scour them for competitive advantage. Nearly all of this discussion, though, revolves around consumer trends, marketing guidance, new product planning, and other market-level insights. Here are how companies are using big data to...
