SMS business.
Here is an idea i have been thinking about... and even proposed to someone in this space.
Though the Idea is good (according to me ha..ha...ha..) ... making it work is
a big challenge.
I call it "Pincode.com" ... this name is probably influenced by reading somewhere...probably rajesh-jain's blog.
You tell me (through sms) where you are right now with your pincode... i will give you what is exciting right now happening in the pincode.
Exciting: Events, Sale (discounts), Hotels etc.,etc.,
U show my SMS and redeem ...
This is just like creating a virtual world on the SMS-cloud....similar to www ...but a volatile data which vanishes every week or month. Some of the data can be everyday updated (totally contrary to www where the data resides for 10's of years).
What this calls for is million dollar investment to cover even part of a big city like Mumbai or Chennai.
Ultimately this can boil down to page-ranking level which i call "Cell ranking"
Based on cell ranking we can give more to a cell and block a cell....like how a page-ranking works now the Google.
Kasi
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
The following report and analysis is taken from somewhere ... i thought i
will post it here... to remind to look at it after 10-years ... whether
i fall into this as an entrepreneur ... the report says i have good chance !!! :-)
In any case, here are some of the points from the report that
I found the most interesting.
1. The average and median age of company founders when they started their current companies was 40.
2. 95.1 percent of respondents themselves had earned bachelor’s degrees, and 47 percent had more advanced degrees.
3. Less than 1 percent came from extremely rich or extremely poor backgrounds
4. 15.2% of founders had a sibling that previously started a business.
5. 69.9 percent of respondents indicated they were married when they launched their first business. An additional 5.2 percent were divorced, separated, or widowed.
6. 59.7 percent of respondents indicated they had at least one child when they launched their first business, and 43.5 percent had two or more children.
7. The majority of the entrepreneurs in the sample were serial entrepreneurs. The average number of businesses launched by respondents was approximately 2.3.
8. 74.8 percent indicated desire to build wealth as an important motivation in becoming an entrepreneur.
9. Only 4.5 percent said the inability to find traditional employment was an important factor in starting a business.
10. Entrepreneurs are usually better educated than their parents.
11. Entrepreneurship doesn’t always run in the family. More than half (51.9 percent) of respondents were the first in their families to launch a business.
12. The majority of respondents (75.4 percent) had worked as employees at other companies for more than six years before launching their own companies.
Which of the above surprises you the most and alters your mental model of what entrepreneurs are like?
will post it here... to remind to look at it after 10-years ... whether
i fall into this as an entrepreneur ... the report says i have good chance !!! :-)
In any case, here are some of the points from the report that
I found the most interesting.
1. The average and median age of company founders when they started their current companies was 40.
2. 95.1 percent of respondents themselves had earned bachelor’s degrees, and 47 percent had more advanced degrees.
3. Less than 1 percent came from extremely rich or extremely poor backgrounds
4. 15.2% of founders had a sibling that previously started a business.
5. 69.9 percent of respondents indicated they were married when they launched their first business. An additional 5.2 percent were divorced, separated, or widowed.
6. 59.7 percent of respondents indicated they had at least one child when they launched their first business, and 43.5 percent had two or more children.
7. The majority of the entrepreneurs in the sample were serial entrepreneurs. The average number of businesses launched by respondents was approximately 2.3.
8. 74.8 percent indicated desire to build wealth as an important motivation in becoming an entrepreneur.
9. Only 4.5 percent said the inability to find traditional employment was an important factor in starting a business.
10. Entrepreneurs are usually better educated than their parents.
11. Entrepreneurship doesn’t always run in the family. More than half (51.9 percent) of respondents were the first in their families to launch a business.
12. The majority of respondents (75.4 percent) had worked as employees at other companies for more than six years before launching their own companies.
Which of the above surprises you the most and alters your mental model of what entrepreneurs are like?
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
One life....
All we got is ... one life.
Think about born again with all your 40+ knowledge 20+energy and 60+wisdom.
We do have the entire 60+ years ahead.
Why i am blabbering about this?
I am 43 now and I feel less enthusiastic about changing the world
i see ... the thought i had when i was 20+.
At 20+ i felt that the whole life is in-front of me to explore.
I repeat... life is in-front of me to explore.
But after reaching 40+ i feel like i have left a lot behind doing
nothing to change the world as i see it.
Even the people i meet and all my friends are not talking about
changing the world and not talking about what is wrong with the world.
Most of them are talking about "how much we have saved"... to lead the
rest of the life..."how much we have earned"... that sounds more like...
i am getting ready to retire and die.
I am now wondering what it would feel like when i am 50+...
Will my friends talk about who are all alive and who are all dead?? and
not about changing the world?
Will that be like i am almost done and let me look for decent
death?
Will that be like I have left all these years doing nothing
and what i am going to do with aching leg, head and spine?
Will that be like I am closer to death and let me look for
things to feed without working?
Are there people who changed the world they saw... after 40?
There are very few .... Am i one of them?
Let me see.
Think about born again with all your 40+ knowledge 20+energy and 60+wisdom.
We do have the entire 60+ years ahead.
Why i am blabbering about this?
I am 43 now and I feel less enthusiastic about changing the world
i see ... the thought i had when i was 20+.
At 20+ i felt that the whole life is in-front of me to explore.
I repeat... life is in-front of me to explore.
But after reaching 40+ i feel like i have left a lot behind doing
nothing to change the world as i see it.
Even the people i meet and all my friends are not talking about
changing the world and not talking about what is wrong with the world.
Most of them are talking about "how much we have saved"... to lead the
rest of the life..."how much we have earned"... that sounds more like...
i am getting ready to retire and die.
I am now wondering what it would feel like when i am 50+...
Will my friends talk about who are all alive and who are all dead?? and
not about changing the world?
Will that be like i am almost done and let me look for decent
death?
Will that be like I have left all these years doing nothing
and what i am going to do with aching leg, head and spine?
Will that be like I am closer to death and let me look for
things to feed without working?
Are there people who changed the world they saw... after 40?
There are very few .... Am i one of them?
Let me see.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Thought and Solar Energy
Here is an interesting comment i made to my colleague today (8th Sep 2009)
I asked him " you look like you are lost in your thoughts"
He said..."yes ... i was thinking about something" "how can anyone
be without thinking"..."We always think".
Then i made this comment out of the blue (which i think i was
thinking about when i was thinking about blogs, teaching, social
media networking !!!).
"Thinking is like Solar energy...free and Wasted". He repeated the same and noded as if he acknowledged my statement "Thinking is like Solar energy...free and wasted".
Then this thought came to my mind...why there are no process
which puts all the thoughts available free and put them into
use (like solar concentrator....).
Damn my thought... that is and was done with text-books, papers,
stories.
Damn my thought... that is what google is doing concentrating the
most searched page on the topic.
Damn my thought... that is what teachers are doing ... delivering
concentrated lessons leanrt over decades.
Damn my thought...
I asked him " you look like you are lost in your thoughts"
He said..."yes ... i was thinking about something" "how can anyone
be without thinking"..."We always think".
Then i made this comment out of the blue (which i think i was
thinking about when i was thinking about blogs, teaching, social
media networking !!!).
"Thinking is like Solar energy...free and Wasted". He repeated the same and noded as if he acknowledged my statement "Thinking is like Solar energy...free and wasted".
Then this thought came to my mind...why there are no process
which puts all the thoughts available free and put them into
use (like solar concentrator....).
Damn my thought... that is and was done with text-books, papers,
stories.
Damn my thought... that is what google is doing concentrating the
most searched page on the topic.
Damn my thought... that is what teachers are doing ... delivering
concentrated lessons leanrt over decades.
Damn my thought...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Yet another number...
Here is another example of our obsession with number...what is so stupidly great about the number 70? If it is 50 or 100 i can understand...what is this 70?
Poland is celebrating the 70th anniversary of WWII....what a crap.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090901/ap_on_re_eu/eu_europe_wwii_anniversary
Poland is celebrating the 70th anniversary of WWII....what a crap.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090901/ap_on_re_eu/eu_europe_wwii_anniversary
Friday, August 28, 2009
Mobile and www
Everyone wants to think mobile as another accessory of www... but
Mobile web's requirement (vast majority) and www are entirely
different. Since mobile operators know where i am (lat - lan) the service and Monetization will be entirely different from www....
Simply put
Mobile - Me
www - Some stupid server
Mobile is about when i am on the move.
www is about when i am at the desk.
Mobile is about now-near-dear.
www is about anytime-anywhere-whothehellcares
Mobile data base should be volatile.
www is century's backed-up.
Mobile is mostly about voice.
www is mostly about visual.
Voice is slow.
Visual is fastest.
Mobile - wireless
www - wired (partially wireless).
Mobile- I should be informed.
www - I seek information.
Mobile- I know who the hell r u.
www - I don't care who the hell r u.
Mobile - kept mostly closer to my heart (shirt pocket).
www - Kept in some stupid island
Mobile - You connect to me.
www - Me connect to your server
Anything more?
Mobile web's requirement (vast majority) and www are entirely
different. Since mobile operators know where i am (lat - lan) the service and Monetization will be entirely different from www....
Simply put
Mobile - Me
www - Some stupid server
Mobile is about when i am on the move.
www is about when i am at the desk.
Mobile is about now-near-dear.
www is about anytime-anywhere-whothehellcares
Mobile data base should be volatile.
www is century's backed-up.
Mobile is mostly about voice.
www is mostly about visual.
Voice is slow.
Visual is fastest.
Mobile - wireless
www - wired (partially wireless).
Mobile- I should be informed.
www - I seek information.
Mobile- I know who the hell r u.
www - I don't care who the hell r u.
Mobile - kept mostly closer to my heart (shirt pocket).
www - Kept in some stupid island
Mobile - You connect to me.
www - Me connect to your server
Anything more?
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Statue smashing...
Thiruvalluvar statue at Bangalore and Sarvajna statue at chennai...
is it a good thing or bad thing to do?
One argument can be put in this way... now if any rift happens
between kanadikas and tamilians in bangalore or near...the
first target for kanadikas would be to smash the statue. That
will fuel the anger of tamilians and they will probably want to
retaliate fiercely.
The next thing that will happen is ... people in chennai will
smash the Sarvajna (Sarvangu as they call him in tamil) and that
will further infuriate the kanadikas.
Will this spiral the hatred between the two regional people
living in both states?
OR on the psychological front....another argument can be put.
People will show their anger on smashing the statue than smashing
people...is that good. I would say that is good...then we should
install as many such statues as possible everywhere and peoples
attention will go in protecting the statue and smashing the
statue than attacking each other
My thinking is that this fuel the people attack than bringing
harmony ...let us look at this way...what happens if tamil guys
in bangalore smashes Kempekowda OR Kevempu statue in retaliation
to smashing the thiruvalluvar statue.
According to me this is a bad move by both states to re-installing
the old-forgotten statues at both the places. We will know in
coming years that this will prove ....not too far i beleive...this is
september and we have the cauvery issue coming up.
So....What a stupid act both the state governments did.
is it a good thing or bad thing to do?
One argument can be put in this way... now if any rift happens
between kanadikas and tamilians in bangalore or near...the
first target for kanadikas would be to smash the statue. That
will fuel the anger of tamilians and they will probably want to
retaliate fiercely.
The next thing that will happen is ... people in chennai will
smash the Sarvajna (Sarvangu as they call him in tamil) and that
will further infuriate the kanadikas.
Will this spiral the hatred between the two regional people
living in both states?
OR on the psychological front....another argument can be put.
People will show their anger on smashing the statue than smashing
people...is that good. I would say that is good...then we should
install as many such statues as possible everywhere and peoples
attention will go in protecting the statue and smashing the
statue than attacking each other
My thinking is that this fuel the people attack than bringing
harmony ...let us look at this way...what happens if tamil guys
in bangalore smashes Kempekowda OR Kevempu statue in retaliation
to smashing the thiruvalluvar statue.
According to me this is a bad move by both states to re-installing
the old-forgotten statues at both the places. We will know in
coming years that this will prove ....not too far i beleive...this is
september and we have the cauvery issue coming up.
So....What a stupid act both the state governments did.
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