Harsha Halvi's Blog

Superhuman’s cocktail for Growth: February 7, 2021 SaaS If conversations in 2014 were all about Slack and its clones, come 2019 and the talk is all about an email client. Did you get any mails that had a Show it, sell it; hide them, keep them February 7, 2021 Product The best product marketing campaigns follow a very simple road map: “Show it, sell it; hide them, keep them” Show it : Optimize your marketing to My SaaS Startup’s Stupid Experiments February 7, 2021 SaaS Recently I was talking to a friend of mine and recounted my startup experiences, this time there was a slight difference: I was proud of all of the Xbox Game Pass - Game Requests February 7, 2021 Random It’s almost a year since I have been using Xbox Games Pass and lord knows how much I have saved over the course by paying 10$ over buying 25-50$ Second Innings: SaaS August 8, 2020 SaaS I was talking to a friend and recounting my experiences building multiple SaaS startups and why SaaS is generally a tough nut to break into. While I Making Productivity Work July 26, 2020 Notes After years of trial and errors I have found the trifecta for my Personal Productivity. All my goals have to go through the following process. Curious case of Smartphone Addiction: June 28, 2020 Musings About a year ago I ended up getting an Apple Watch since it was on a sale. I had no (good) reason to buy the Apple Watch apart from writing it off Start, Stop and Improve April 26, 2020 Musings Back when I was running Contactz I was in this weird dilemma, there were tons of things to do but very little time and lack of ability to outsource SaaS Learnings December 27, 2019 SaaS I have started a couple of SaaS startups, consulted and worked with a few more over the better part of the decade and most of my learnings come from Your first week as a PM Checklist October 28, 2019 Product It doesn’t matter if joined a new workplace, took on the responsibilities as a Product Manager for the first time or are joining another team in the A year of writing September 19, 2019 Notes I remember it as if it was yesterday when I was still trying to find a good Wordpress theme. I decided that I would be finally sticking to writing 30 Day Challenges: One month at a time! August 17, 2019 Musings I had once heard that you typically over-estimate what you can do in a year and under-estimate what you can do in 5 year (or a decade) and I now Things that no one tells you about being a Product Manager July 20, 2019 Product The most common question folks ask me is some variation of “How do I become a Product Manager” & “How did I land up a Product gig”. I usually tell Obvious lessons I have learned over the years June 22, 2019 Musings As I am writing this, I am hit with a realisation that in less than 2 months I will turn 23. I remember the 19 year old naive (well naiver) version Going beyond step one! May 30, 2019 Startups Its hard to admit a couple of things for me but one of the things I have come to terms with is acknowledging the flaw of me taking the first step 2 Months with my iPhone XR: May 30, 2019 Random I recently picked up an iPhone XR and I just realised that I have been using it for nearly 2 month now as my Primary Device. Moving away from A brief hiatus with someone I barely knew April 14, 2019 Random It was drizzling in an evening sometime this June or July where i found myself in a rather peculiar situation of sorts. I had been down to HSR The simple truths for being a founder March 16, 2019 Startups “Being a founder isn’t easy” is something that I heard a million times but did not completely understand the sentiment before I actually became one. Prepping for 2019 December 25, 2018 Random 2019 is just a few days away and I ended up retrospecting my life, goals and the events that have got me through the year. Most of the guiding paths Scale of things that don’t scale November 29, 2018 Notes One of the take aways from life, starting up, doing things that are damn serious about is doing them in a way that doesn’t scale at the beginning.