How to prepare for GDPR Compliance

What is GDPR?

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires businesses to protect personal data of European Union (EU) countries’ citizens. Organizations that collect and/or process data from the EU region must comply with the regulation by May 25, 2018.

What data are we talking about?

GDPR is here to protect the privacy of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as:

  • Name and address of a user
  • Web information like location, IP address, cookie data
  • Biometrics
  • Political opinions
  • Device IDs like IDFA, AAID

Who is affected?

All organizations that store or process personal information about EU citizens (no matter where on the globe they are), even if they do not have a business presence within the EU must comply with GDPR. Continue reading

Why is swift faster

Introduction

Swift was in limelight during last 2 years and was ranked #1 most loved programming language of 2015. It is a general purpose, multi-paradigm, statically typed language. Developed by team led by Chris Lattner at Apple.

While introducing Swift in WWDC14 Tim Cook described it using four words which are:

  1. Fast
  2. Modern
  3. Safe
  4. Interactive

In this blog, I will be explaining why and how swift achieves above mentioned qualities. Continue reading

Top 4 Questions To Answer Before Product Scaling!

On a recent trip to Europe, a prospect meeting reinforced a notion that I held to be important anyway! While most founders are quite confident in their product development capabilities, when it comes to scaling many of them are fundamentally unclear over how to go about it.

I have come across many entrepreneurs who believe that scale is something they need to factor in, at the very beginning. Be it their MVP or a major milestone release, I see most of them scurrying over the product scaling quandary from day 1. Unfortunately, this leads most of them to fail. Continue reading

Top 5 Reasons Why Startups Fail

I’m no VC, but I’ve been running a company that helps startups build products for the last 12 years. We’ve worked with 100+ startups during this time – some exited through profitable acquisitions while some shut shop. But in the process, they’ve given me a few interesting insights. Some of these should be valuable to entrepreneurs starting off with their own new ventures.
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