Ashwin RamasamyWhen will AI take over sales?AI is real this time. It might be a toy. You might have gotten bored of Prisma already. But it’s there. But there is also a tendency to…Oct 25, 2016Oct 25, 2016
Ashwin RamasamyThe full-stack friction.The summer and the heat wave of Chennai notwithstanding, a group of founders met this Saturday. Some rituals can’t not be performed. The…Mar 31, 2016Mar 31, 2016
Ashwin RamasamyThe secret sauce behind extraordinary sales enginesOn a Sunday morning, like I do every weekend, I cycled to IIT Madras (my alma-mater, which is an urban beauty — a densely tree-lined forest…Feb 25, 20163Feb 25, 20163
Ashwin RamasamyBuild a relationship cadencePeople buy from people they know and like.Feb 17, 2016Feb 17, 2016
Ashwin RamasamyOur Logo Story is better than Uber’sUber, the company is brilliant.Feb 12, 20161Feb 12, 20161
Ashwin RamasamyThe anatomy of a good prospecting emailWhy should you be sending cold emails, in this day and age? Should you not be focusing on content marketing, hitting the conference…Jan 25, 2016Jan 25, 2016
Ashwin RamasamyBe Wonder-struck!Last week, on the night of Saturday, I was reading about the impact of AI on humanity. If you haven’t read this essay, drop everything and…Dec 24, 2015Dec 24, 2015
Ashwin RamasamyThe hard things about bootstrapping a startupI’ve been running ContractIQ as a bootstrapped company and it will soon be four years in that journey.Nov 5, 20155Nov 5, 20155
Ashwin RamasamyinPipeCandySales Negotiation and Turkish oil wrestlingNegotiation is an activity that involves numbers, psychology, grit, intelligence, earnestness and gut feel.Nov 4, 2015Nov 4, 2015
Ashwin RamasamyThe vendor who is “In The Know”60% of outsourced product development efforts fail to meet the expectations of the project owner. In ContractIQ’s own platform the failure…Jul 2, 2015Jul 2, 2015