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Author Archives: lalit
Mobile developer economics
If you have not already done so, I would strongly recommend you to read up Andreas’s blog about Mobile developer economics here. When Andreas says developers, he doesn’t just mean the individual developers but the whole Mobile app publishing industry. Most interesting bit he notes is that Mobile developers are choosing platforms based on Monetization [...]
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SMS based apps, killer content delivery mechanism ?
What’s great with SMS as medium? It’s one medium that can reach all the mobile users without any issues of handset compatibilities and so on It’s a push mechanism by definition It’s offline (lesser spammy than a voice call) It’s extremely cheap (at least in India) What’s not so great? It’s very difficult to make [...]
Posted in Blackberry, Cross Platform, Gyan, J2ME, LBS, Symbian Leave a comment
Is there a business model for a downloadable app
Every now and then people talk to me about converting their kickass idea into a downloadable mobile application. The reasoning goes that “Everyone is going to use it”. Well here is some light on the actual data from app stores so far. I have taken some reference data from pluggd.in, readwriteweb and pinch media. As [...]
Posted in Appstore, Cross Platform, Gyan 2 Comments
The Art of debugging
An average developer is someone, who can write code, once explained what to do and how to do it. A good developer is someone, who can implement something, once told what to do (he can figure out the how part) An awesome developer given business goals, can also figure out what to do. But a great developer [...]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, General, Gyan 4 Comments
Mobile LBS 101 for Startups
Mobile LBS is a very happening space, lot of players are expecting it to become huge even in India. But still plenty of companies and start-ups look confused about how to take best advantage of this wave. So here are few of my thoughts about the value chain and where the money may lie. LBS [...]
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Mumbai Meri Jaan..
As a start-up entrepreneur based in India, what I have been looking for for past 3 years are business opportunities. Though Bangalore is a great city with it’s nice weather, abundant software talent and relatively laid back attitude, it has limited business opportunities. As someone who lived in Bangalore doing business development for years told [...]
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Symbian Descriptors
String manipulations is the toughest part of learning any new language. Symbian C++ is no different. It has it’s own quirky way of handling strings which is quite different and confusing compared to any other language I have worked with so far. If you agree, this blog is a very good reference for handling Symbian [...]
Browser is the new OS even for Mobile phones
At Mobisy we always believed that the future of Mobile computing is in the cloud. And Browsers are the doorways to access the rich information available over Internet. But on the other hand, mobile device native applications provide much richer functionality that browsers cannot match. Our platform mobitop was born, exactly to solve that problem. We [...]
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Wanna be an entrepreneur, learn football
This post is on a lighter note .. Today morning, during a casual chat with Kesava, we said sales is like “center forward” you may not be the best footballer in the team but you know how to be at right place at right time. And that’s when it clicked. Most of the good product [...]
Hiring for startup? How to attract “Crazy geeks”.