Insights

How Indian software companies win international clients

Positioning, pipeline, trade shows and AI — written for IT services firms and product companies selling to the US, UK and Europe.

Sales

What actually closes an IT services deal in India

After recording with Ashim Goldar of Skywinds Solutions, here's my own read on why IT sales in this market still turns on relationships — and where AI genuinely helps.

7 min · from EP 01

Sales

Why your first ten customers can't come from a channel

Recording with Sharavan Rajpurohit of The Intellify reinforced a pattern I see constantly: every scalable channel arrives after the first ten customers, never before.

8 min · from EP 02

Positioning

Making expertise legible to people who don't share it

Recording with Shubham Maloo — a Chartered Accountant who became a content creator — clarified something I work on with almost every technical firm.

6 min · from EP 03

Positioning

What changes when you own the IP

Recording with Vivek Shah of Capermint Technologies about game development surfaced a question every Indian services firm eventually faces: keep selling hours, or build something you own?

7 min · from EP 09

AI

Real AI, AI theatre, and what actually ships

Recording with Pallav Purohit of Bombay Softwares about building an AI practice inside a services business. My own view on where the line falls.

8 min · from EP 06

Positioning

Four firms, one website

Open the sites of four development companies in the same city side by side. Most people can't tell them apart. Neither can their buyers — and that has a price.

24 July 2026 · 6 min

Events

What GITEX actually costs, and what it returns

Booth, flights, visas, shipping, and four people out of delivery for a week. Here's the real arithmetic, and the version of this channel that works.

17 July 2026 · 7 min

AI

The AI tools your team bought and never used

Almost every firm I walk into has the subscriptions. Very few have changed a single workflow. The gap isn't the technology.

10 July 2026 · 5 min

Sales

Your first ten customers can't come from a channel

Every founder I've interviewed got their first ten the same unscalable way — and every one of them wasted time trying to skip that stage.

3 July 2026 · 6 min

Global clients

The trust gap a buyer 8,000km away feels

Selling from India to the West is a trust problem before it's a marketing problem. Almost all of it is decided before the first call.

26 June 2026 · 7 min

Positioning

What twenty-five software firms have in common

After enough engagements the same three problems show up in the first conversation, regardless of size or specialism.

19 June 2026 · 8 min

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