Sivaram V. T.

Group buy concept is becoming popular in India. Though it is relatively new, there are quite a number of players in the market.

This is one of them I liked

http://www.dealsandyou.com/

• Death march: Everyone knows that the project is going to be a disaster – except the CEO -- so the truth is hidden to prevent immediate cancellation of the project - (although the CEO often knows and does it anyway to maximise profit). However, the truth remains hidden and the project is artificially kept alive until the Day Zero finally comes ("Big Bang"). Alternative definition: Employees are pressured to work late nights and weekends on a project with an unreasonable deadline.
• Groupthink: During groupthink, members of the group avoid promoting viewpoints outside the comfort zone of consensus thinking
• Smoke and mirrors: Demonstrating how unimplemented -and difficult to implement- functions will appear
• Software bloat: Allowing successive versions of a system to demand ever more resources
• Waterfall model: An older method of software development that inadequately deals with unanticipated change

Courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern

I read an interesting article on Capital funding in the thesmarttechie magazine.

The author says that in India, technology start-ups are gonna prosper in the areas like mobility, product making and offering services through SaaS model.

Author also gives tips for entrepreneurs in creating a business in technology space.

• Building a strong trustworthy team
• Creating un-replicable value to clients that can sustain for longer time
• Securing angel funding at the optimal time to validate and improve the business model
• Building scalable business

When you are working as a leader in an organization, you go about doing your duties forgetting the opportunities for you to improve yourself.

In fact every situation presents you an opportunity to improve yourself. You have to be self aware to convert these duties into learning programs.

Interesting article from CEO of Eka software solutions.

Tips which helps you in tasting success in making a software product business.

• Understand the market & customer
• Understand competition
• Start the sales process right in the beginning of software life cycle
• Broaden your value proposition as you move on 
• Synergize with channels to get early sales impetus