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"Potential of Software Products from India" – Insights from an interview with Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan, IIM Bangalore

December 31, 2013

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In an interview with Govindraj Ethiraj on the changing paradigm of the Indian software industry, Professor Rishikesha T Krishnan, IIM, Bangalore, talks about how the software industry is getting transformed from a services oriented model to creating successful products. He cites FusionCharts as a great example of finding a niche market and moving to the cloud as an efficient mechanism to deliver...

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Building profitable and sustainable software product company

By Dr. T.R. Madan Mohan

In Go2Market, Marketing, Product Management

March 1, 2013

7 Min read

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What common principles underlie success of software product companies such as Newgen, Nucleus, Tally, Polaris, Srishti, Mindmill, Quest informatics, Druvaa, Infrasoft, Zoho etc?. Kim and Maubrogne (1997) in their analysis of high growth companies found that these companies focus on bettering themselves, continuously let unprofitable customers go, and shed commodity resources/skills. Collins...

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Build it Right, then Sell it to Many (and Keep Repeating)

By Shirish Deodhar

In Development, Product Management, Startups

February 16, 2013

3 Min read

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Building a software product is more difﬁcult than doing projects or providing services. With projects, software is developed to meet the exact speciﬁcations of the client. Work begins only when the contract is signed. The project scope can be deﬁned accurately in consultation with the customer, and deployment happens in a controlled environment at client site, with known hardware and software...

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Best products are built, keeping its user experience in mind says Shalin Jain from Tenmiles…

By Avinash Raghava

In #BootStrapping, #MadeInIndia, Apps, Design, SaaS Based, Startups

November 22, 2012

5 Min read

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Hypothetically speaking, if one was offered a job and the decision to accept or reject was based on how far one had to travel, would “Tenmiles” be a round enough estimate, to base a rejection on? The answer is locked away somewhere in this piece. Read on to find out… Education, bunking and creation Shalin Jain’s enchantment towards Internet started way back, when he was in high school and...

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