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DNA of building software products - Fast track method - Presentation by Sharad Sharma,
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The DNA of building software products - Fast Track method
Sharad SharmaCEO BrandSigma Inc.
Board Member, Indian Angel NetworkChair, Product Forum, NASSCOM
We are in the midst of a shift (again)
Mainframe
Operating Systems
ERP
ModularApps
Big Data
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Things that will certainly happen
• Cloud will be ubiquitous
• Mobile will be de-facto consumption device– Mobility is not just small screen
– Presence and Location
– HTML5
– Task specific apps
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Lets talk corporate apps
Apps, apps everywhere!
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On the Cloud
Cost of Product Development is down significantly
“Not once have I or my close colleagues ever heard a client say any of the following:•We don’t have a backlog of desired
applications with provable ROI.•We can’t find any applications that we think
are a good idea but without provable ROI.•We don’t need any new applications. We’re
all out of ideas!”Eric Knipp, Gartner, 2012
Backlog of Apps
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Apps, apps everywhere!
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Data-driven modularization of apps
A new apps hierarchy is emerging!
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Lower Costs
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Data-driven modularization
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India is an emerging flat world leader
These are some early success stories. The pace is quickening!
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• Finding and contacting the market– $10 ideas
• Conducting the conversation to extract the idea– Includes validation with 5-10 people
• Building the SaaS solution
• Selling the SaaS solution– Creating Landing Page
– Driving Traffic
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Fast Track Method
Fast Track Method
• Why $10 ideas
• Idea Extraction
• Building the SaaS solution
• Selling the SaaS solution
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The new buyers
“App Store Search on ‘Insurance’ threw up 443 Applications!
I wonder how many were there 3 years ago??”
Who’ll do make buying decisions for these apps? CIOs or LOBs?
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The Marketing Technologist
Controls IT spending in MarketingFastest growing role in Marketing
Has a jaded view of IT
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Zoho story
~$200 per seat
~$60 per seat
~$12 per seat
Fast Track Method
• Why $10 ideas
• Idea Extraction
• Building the SaaS solution
• Selling the SaaS solution
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Idea Extraction
1. What is your most important activity?2. Do you have pain associated with this activity?3. How is the pain related to the most important activity?4. Do you have a systemic process for the most important
activity?5. If that pain went away, how would that help you?6. If we created a process that addressed the pain would you
pay for it?
Dane Maxwellhttp://youtu.be/lHh83TWe7s8
• In the past, founders would stumble into an SaaS idea
• Now, it’s a science!
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Indian stories
Fast Track Method
• Why $10 ideas
• Idea Extraction
• Building the SaaS solution
• Selling the SaaS solution
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• Create the landing page
• Launch– at Google I/O in June’12
• Drive traffic– now #1!
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Indian story
Thank You!
@sharads
#MadeInIndia