Category Archives: Gyan

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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SMS based apps, killer content delivery mechanism ?

By lalit | Published: July 10, 2010
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 [...]
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Is there a business model for a downloadable app

By lalit | Published: July 8, 2010
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 [...]
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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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Mobile LBS 101 for Startups

By lalit | Published: June 10, 2010
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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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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