Posts Tagged ‘online payments’

Need a business partner / CTO / Techie / Super Geek to build beta products @ZaakCo

10 Oct 2009 at 03:06

Upasana

Entrepreneurship, India, Products, Technology, ZaakCo

9 Comments

I have this mostly untested BHAG – big, hairy, audacious goal in business lingo. The BHAG is to ideate, build and launch beta products in order to early exit (by sale or spin off).Key assumptions I am making are:

1. In today’s day and age, building simple “need fulfilling” products and getting a read on their performance in the market within 6-9 months is not impossible.
2. Further, with the right team, this can be done for multiple product ideas one after the other.
3. If you are detail oriented and a fast learner, you do not need 10 years experience in a particular domain before building a product for it.

From an initial pool of a dozen ideas, I have chosen 3 concepts to start with based on their business case. These products concepts are in the ecommerce, online payments and mobile VAS spaces; 1 is for the Indian market and 2 for global customers [...]

Online Payments Ecosystem & Payments in India

26 Sep 2009 at 17:10

Upasana

Customers, Entrepreneurship, India, Products, Technology

15 Comments

Recently, an article by Sanjay Goel (of MustSeeIndia, an Indian travel site) on Pluggd.in about Payment Processors in India sparked my interest. The discussion highlighted 2 prominent points for me:

- lack of awareness about existing Indian + global payment options amongst Indian businesses (entrepreneurs, technologists, startups). Some users even suggested that PayPal is illegal in India.

- few merchants discussed real features (that they should demand more of) offered by their payment provider; most (and rightfully so in the Indian context) were concerned with pricing and ease of integration.

I thought it would be great to introduce the key players in the online payments ecosystem (also called e-payments or web payments) so everyone understands the differences between a payment gateway, a payment processor and a 3rd party payment platform……..