The November 8th announcement of demonetization of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes by Prime Minister Modi caught everyone by surprise. That was the intent. It is, however, widely expected that bank accounts, plastic cards and digital money usage will increase dramatically in the next 12 months. In other words, India will be pushed towards a cashless economy. The purpose of this piece however isn’t...
November 17, 2016
The Kaysh-less Economy
17November
November 15, 2016
Discussion On Digitisation Of The Indian Legal System
15November
Digitization surely acts as a catalyst for most of the flourished fields to prosper further. With the digital age revolutionizing all domains including law & legal services, it is important to study its impact within our fraternity. The foregoing Indian Legal System laid more emphasis on paperwork but less on technology while the current system strives to digitize the entire legal system...
November 14, 2016
Mavens are Everywhere
14November
Playbook Round Tables were created with an intention to orchestrate the coordination and exchange of tacit knowledge. Thoughtful Founders acted as facilitators in this sharing of tacit knowledge. We call them Mavens. For them, their contribution to #PlaybookRTs was a labor of love. It is a selfless contribution to making India a Product Nation. Thanks to the Founder Mavens, PlaybookRTs went on to...
November 13, 2016
National Software Policy 2.0 needed
13November
A recent article by Andy Mukherjee, predicting the end of India’s IT industry has caused lot of commotion. Though, the ‘end’ is an exaggeration, the warning of the ground slipping is not new. The declining growth is owing to the rapid transformation in technology and Software Industry itself, globally. The first Software policy of 1986, resulted into Software Technology Park (STP) scheme in 1991...
November 12, 2016
The specifics – How we grew 100% organically every quarter
12November
We had earlier written about the fundamentals that helped us in growing over past one year but recently we looked back to dig further and list down few specifics that we believe helped our growth. These come from our own experience as a consumer company and might not be applicable to every startup but we hope that something applicable and actionable is derived from the points below. What we did:...
November 7, 2016
GSP at GSTN what we know till now
07November
Recently GSTN invited application for becoming GSTN Suvidha Provider (GSP) under GSTN for enabling much awaited Goods and Service Tax. GSTN received total 344 applications. CEO GSTN reported in GSP workshop on 25th October that about 98 of these applicants are qualified for further evaluations according to them. The GSP application process, when started created lot of confusion and concern on the...
November 4, 2016
Launching Pune Chapter of iKen, pre-Entrepreneur bootcamp !
04November
After much experimentation elsewhere we feel confident and glad to Launch iKen in Pune on November 13th. Please check the original blog posts on iken history at the blogs below. , At a high level iKen is a 6 mandatory weekend (and access to an year of sessions) toastmaster style bootcamp around entrepreneurial skills. We had a pilot session in October and glad to find many high quality...
November 3, 2016
Is your product stuck with biased feedback?
03November
Product Management be it for Internet world or otherwise is an interesting job. One gets exposed to multiple business functions be it marketing, sales, customer support or general management. The only result that is desired from Product folks is to ship a product that users will love and then it should have a network effect — i.e. other associated functions can be almost on auto-pilot. Alas...
November 1, 2016
Internet of Hacks? Minimal prevention steps
01November
Friday 21st Oct 2016 has been billed as the first large scale cybersecurity incident from the IoT world. The widely reported attacks involved inserting malware into devices to turn them into a network of controllable bots that was directed to attack websites. One of the principal targets was Dyn the DNS provider to Twitter, Reddit, GitHub, Paypal, Spotify, Heroku, SoundCloud, Crunchbase, Netflix...
October 28, 2016
Volunteer Hero: Rohith Veerajappa #CredoStories
28October
Most of our iSPIRT volunteers have demanding day jobs and yet they jump in to build public goods. They are animated by a cause and a sense of community. Some of them take their commitment to the cause so seriously that they let no task, however unsexy and mundane, get in the way of progress. Their do-what-it-takes approach is what, ultimately, turns ideas and intentions into reality. These unsung...
