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Hiring for startup? How to attract “Crazy geeks”.

By lalit | Published: August 11, 2010
Let’s assume that you figured out the business, and core team challenges of a startup. The next in line is scaling up and one of the biggest challenges in scaling up is hiring. As a startup you have basic 3 thumb rules while hiring 1. You need the best possible talent 2. You can’t pay [...]
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The Art of debugging

By lalit | Published: June 11, 2010
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 [...]
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Browser is the new OS even for Mobile phones

By lalit | Published: March 5, 2010
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

By lalit | Published: January 22, 2010
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 [...]
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Android in India , hype or opportunity

By lalit | Published: January 15, 2010
When you say Android phones and India in the same sentence ,  you will here lot of pessimistic rants about how small is the market and how there are not enough phones. But while looking closer at it, to me it looks like a huge potential opportunity in a years time. Here is why I [...]
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6 things to know for a Mobile apps developer

By lalit | Published: January 11, 2010
With new smartphone operating systems such as iPhone, Android, Maemo ,Palm WebOs and the legacy ones such as Symbian , Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Mobile application development is a booming industry. As someone just starting in Mobile application development, it could be confusing as to where to start. So here is a list of at least [...]
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Business case for ‘Indian’ App store

By lalit | Published: December 15, 2009
Though downloadable Mobile applications is 10 year old industry, apart from iPhone applications there isn’t any other proven business model so far.  The iPhone application’s success is derived more from it’s own app store.  The success of app store is due to the fact that it made it easy to develop, market and monetize the [...]
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How to improve usage of Mobile Applications

By lalit | Published: October 21, 2009
It’s one thing to generate downloads for your application while it’s completely another thing to generate usage and hence value. Recent post from Ashish again highlighted this issue to me. Our experience in working with various companies to develop their Mobile applications has taught us some valuable lessons, so here I am sharing some insider [...]
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Munimo is reborn

By lalit | Published: August 10, 2009
munimo.com was launched as a community effort to find the coolest applications for Mobile phones using the brains of the Mobile enthusiast community. Blame it on the slow user interface or sluggish community or the most likely reason ..  lack of effort from the promoters (momo Bangalore,Mayank and Mobisy) themselves, munimo never went beyond a [...]
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