When you realize that you have hit on a very innovative method to retrieve real time information without the need of internet right on your mobile phone, your imagination runs wild. cricket scores, santa-banta jokes, train/bus status lookup come to your mind. One category that emerged in my mind out of this noise was stock quotes lookup. ...
The third mobile phone based idea, code named Cacofonix centered around classifieds. What really appealed to me about using mobile phone for classifieds is that the size of the classifieds is invariably around 160 characters. ...
Operation Botanix started of as a corollary to operation Asterix. Again the idea was quite simple. ##Idea I remember in my childhood days, Pepsi used to come out with a full page newspaper advertisement with half a page of coupon. You were supposed to tear the coupon, take it to the shop and claim your free pepsi (7UP I think it was). Fast forward to today. I see an advertisement which promises me an inviting offer. But to claim the offer, instead of tearing the advertisement, I just have to send a SMS, say “EZEE 7UP” to a regular 10 digit mobile number (9243000111). And I get the coupon on my mobile phone as a SMS. ...
Even before I was introduced to the term ‘code repository’ or cvs in my college, I was using names of characters to represent the version of my assignment codes. They will start with Alice, Betty etc.. Somehow I find it quite amusing to name a project (in this case an idea) with a character of my liking. It gives life to the idea and you can relate to the attributes of the idea as its characters characteristics (wow !!). So the first Idea is called Asterix - Mobile Gift Cards. ...
I have heard and lived that phrase a hundred times in the past 6 odd months. Being on my own during these times carefully juggling between a revenue positive business targeted idea to consumer focused no business model idea, I have learned a lot. However the most important lesson I have learnt is that it is impossible to run a business on your own. Yes that is a generic statement, and I am not going to support it as I feel I cannot justify it in writing. Though would love to pick up this topic on a debate and mince meat my opponent (just kidding, do drop by for a healthy debate). ...