Come 2014 and we will launch ‘ProductCast’ – the interactions with ProductPreneurs. These will be in podcast medium and will get to hear from iconic ProductPreneurs on their journey. Certain to provide inspiration and valuable education based on first-hand experience, these sessions will extend the experiential learning to your mobile device, for your consumption at the time and place you choose...
December 20, 2013
Launching ProductCast – Podcast of Interactions with ProductPreneurs
20December
December 20, 2013
The curse of the horizontal solution or what to do when you think you have the product that can solve Global Warming?
There are many solutions that are targeted at a niche, that solve a specific problem. Selling these is relatively easy. You know the target, you know the problem. The challenge comes with the horizontal solutions, or ones that apply to wide variety of industries and business problems. There is tremendous potential opportunity there and yet they are devilishly difficult to sell for a small company...
December 19, 2013
Learnings From Building A Consumer Facing Web Product
19December
Before we got started with PriceBaba, both me and Tirthesh had almost zero experience of building a product. We are passionate about Internet and web services that create an impact. Building PriceBaba over the past two years has been a learning experience and we have been blessed to have some amazing friends who have guided us throughout the process. Here are a few learnings (while we still...
December 18, 2013
DNA mysteries of Products and Services
18December
It has been an interesting coincidence on the last few occasions in different discussions and industry forums I participated in, they have attracted a good amount of the classic “Products and Services” in IT deliberation. As such, this is not a new debate. It is common to see patrons from the products world root for it by generating IP and for the services gurus illustrate how they are able to...
December 17, 2013
Fireflies lighting up the sky
17December
Some years ago, Infosys and Wipro put Bangalore on the global map. Now, Bangalore is once again marching ahead. It is creating a new kind of technology ecosystem, which is culturally different from what exists today. Today’s tech-ecosystem is about a few ‘hathi’ firms doing IT Services. Metaphorically, this is about manicured lawns, straight rows of carefully planted flowers and an occasional oak...
December 16, 2013
Role of a Product Manager
16December
Ensure that the right things gets done in the right sequence A product manager helps a company to achieve its goals by helping customers get their jobs done in an unique and delightful way, and getting customers to payin some form (money, attention, information). Let me elaborate on the key responsibilities encapsulated in the above definition. Getting jobs done: A parent purchases your app to...
December 14, 2013
What You Missed at the #PNCamp
14December
In case you are one of those who did not make it to the iSPIRT PNCamp for Product Entrepreneurs at Pune on December 4 and 5, 2013, here’s an overview of what happened during the two-day event. Over 128 delegates took part in the camp that brought together entrepreneurs, developers and experts under a common platform for learning and sharing of ideas and experiences. Participants came from...
December 14, 2013
Startups and Product Managers
Who is a product manager and what does a typical development cycle with a product manager look like? Product managers are often the most overlooked job descriptions in startups. The “let’s hack together” mindset is great but might not scale after a certain point. It becomes imperative that someone is incharge of defining the “what to build” part of the problem extremely well, keeping the...
December 13, 2013
What Can Entrepreneurs Learn From Arvind Kejriwal's Start-AAP?
13December
Aam Aadmi Party’s success in the recent Delhi elections is nothing less than magical and as a geeky analogy, quite similar to a consumer startup hitting 1 million unique users mark in just few months of launch. Arvind is no less than an entrepreneur and AAP is no more than an early stage startup. Arvind Kejriwal’s fairytale story has so many parallels with what a typical entrepreneur in India...
December 13, 2013
Product warriors, pick your battles!
The first question that I asked iSPIRT volunteers running PNCamp, the first ever bootcamp exclusively focused on product entrepreneurs in India, was why Pune? They pointed to Dilip Ittyera whose greying strands of hair masks his passion to firmly perch Pune on the product map of India. Later during many conversations, it became evident why Pune was the destination for the “product mafia” (term...
