Long gone are those days of communicating through letters and filing them as a means of processing them for reference and actions. Email did the most brilliant job of becoming our fundamental mode of business communication and it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. But lets […] Continue Reading…
7 Design Thinking Tips To Build Habit Forming Products
In my last blog I chronicled the roadblock we faced while building our app. A well-structured design thinking approach helped us in freezing the features, UI, UX and backend of the first version of Augment app. Reuven Cohen rightly point out in this article that, “design thinking” is a a human-centered, […] Continue Reading…
4 Common Mistakes Founders Make While Building a Product
Life is too short for a bad software!
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I love good products, cool and sexy tech that does magic! I admire and adore their creators but criticize the not-so-great ones all the time. Fortunately, the entire team that I work with shares the same degree of enthusiasm towards tech products as […] Continue Reading…
Egoless Product Building
It takes enormous effort to build a product. When I say product, it is not only the software. It requires more than an engineer to build a product. It goes through long process of ideating, researching, customer development, proof of concept(MDP), validating, structuring (MVP), cleanup, and then you get […] Continue Reading…
Best Books On Productivity
Productivity is not just about maintaining to-do lists and calendars. A truly productive person should have the right mindset and discipline to organize himself. It takes effort and commitment to be productive. Once the habit of being productive kicks in, any person can seamlessly manage time effectively without any effort at all.
There are a bunch […] Continue Reading…
5 Quick Ways To Boost Email Productivity
Emails are supposed to make our work freakishly easy. Imagine what would be the state of humanity if not for the faster and reliable communication via email. Such is the power of emails that it has enslaved us. We keep refreshing our email clients even when we are not […] Continue Reading…
What is it like to be the only non-tech hire in a technology startup?
My previous employer and a good friend Utkarsh, offered me a job in his new startup over a casual coffee meeting. I was overwhelmed and spooked at the same time. Overwhelmed with joy because he is the best employer that I have ever come across but spooked as I […] Continue Reading…
Mobile Age : 3 Hot New Productivity Problems
Just now, I got off an hour long phone call with my finace.
Soon enough, two of my friends pinged me on Google Hangout and Slack. Kashmira, via Hangout, wanted me to review an explainer video for her, and Anubhab, via Slack, wanted me to share the latest copy of the […] Continue Reading…
Evolution and the Next Gen Software
The current wisdom in software design is Minimal Interaction Design.
But gradually, we are going from Minimal Interaction Design to Almost No Interaction Design!
And by no interaction, I do not mean voice actuated - I mean literally no interaction. I mean that my phone tells me to carry an umbrella, […] Continue Reading…
Life inside an accelerator
Update: This has been reposted from Utkarsh’s personal blog and was also published in e27.co where Utkarsh is a Guest Author.
A lot has been written about what to do in different stages of building up your company. Being in an accelerator makes this journey quite smoother. Now that accelerators […] Continue Reading…