How does one find new startup ideas? Every business is built around solving a customer pain. Solving a customer pain creates value which in turn, if successfully harnessed, can be monetized. Platforms, in particular, connect demand and supply to solve customer pain on both sides. Platform Thinking And Startup Ideas One of the patterns for new startup ideas, that I often see in platforms, is the...
Joydeep Sen Sarma and Ashish Thusoo started Qubole, a managed Hadoop-as-a-Service offering, in late 2011. Since then they have seen an impressive growth counting some of the well known names such as Pinterest, Quora and Nextdoor as their customers and raising a total of $7m of funding till date. They were recently mentioned as the one of the top 10 Hadoop startups to watch by CIO.com and Qubole...
Launched in 2009, Interviewstreet’s recruiting tool helps companies hire software programmers. It was the first Indian company to be chosen for an incubation program at Y Combinator, a Silicon Valley seed fund. Co-founder Vivek Ravisankar discusses the company’s journey to a differentiating recruitment product. This article is brought to SandHill readers in partnership with ProductNation. ...
“Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is wasting time. Vision with action can change the world.” Joel Author Baker. Abhiraj Malhotra is “Technology Head & Evangelist” – SchoolPad at Chalkpad Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Abhiraj is a passionate software developer and an entrepreneur, whose vision is to infuse productivity into organizations towards a positive change. His...
