The August Edition of Startup Saturday themed “All About Product Design” saw a number of interesting talks. Jasmeet Singh Sethi, CEO and Co-Founder of Tinkerform, a B2B innovation and design consultancy firm, shared his views and experience in designing easy to use products in the product teardown session. Jasmeet began his interactive session by taking the… Continue reading Product Teardown Session – Key Takes
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Creativity In Product Design
Do you build what users ask you to or do you not? Pavan Soni, Innovation Evangelist at Wipro and Research Fellow at IIM Bangalore, strongly advocates the latter. The Opening Question What is the one common thing that unites the products below? Do take a minute to think! No one explicitly asked for these products! Yet, these… Continue reading Creativity In Product Design
User Research 101
There isn’t a greater teacher than failure and we often hear Lean practitioners preaching the mantra to fail fast. The idea, however, isn’t to fail beyond a point of recovery, but, rather, to fail quickly, learn and reduce your risk of a complete failure. Veena Sonwalkar, Group Lead of Institute of Customer Experience at Human Factors… Continue reading User Research 101
Two very useful and well executed online applications
Quite easily the most impressive travel blogging application we have seen, Entrip was showcased at HeadStart and Compute 2009 earlier this year. Entrip from Headstart Network Foundation on Vimeo. Alertpedia is a very interesting alerting service that works on structured queries and could be a very useful tool for both online visitors and publishers. Alertpedia… Continue reading Two very useful and well executed online applications
ZiMesh : Powering knowledge discovery in informal networks
We have all heard of social networks which are really formal networks of people who have identified themselves as having relationships with each other. However, would you know people who have similar interests such as yours ? When you look at the number of documents you have created on your office desktop and those that… Continue reading ZiMesh : Powering knowledge discovery in informal networks
Wisdomtap : Plugging wisdom to websites
Wisdomtap is a product search engine. It indexes discussion forums for products and ranks reviews on products as well as people doing those reviews. What I find most interesting is their API which allows e-commerce sites to plug the Wisdomtap engine into their websites and in effect, integrate an Amazon type review engine into their… Continue reading Wisdomtap : Plugging wisdom to websites
Well done ! Verismo, Adoroi, TringMe, CashNxt
While we release all the videos from HeadStart 2009 on this site, I could not wait to tell you how happy we feel with the achievements and rave reviews a few startups that demo’ed at HeadStart 2009 have received. NetGear launched a set top box at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with VuNow which is… Continue reading Well done ! Verismo, Adoroi, TringMe, CashNxt