The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

Category: Mobile

3:11. Chennai, a snapshot in time.

Life goes on. But imagine making a repository of life around, a snapshot in time, through the eyes and lenses of a multitude people on a certain instant of the flow of time itself. On November 3rd, at 3:11pm, whereever you are (within the boundaries of Chennai), reach for the closest thing that can click [...]

Will Google Dare with the Gphone?

So, The Iphone came, and is kinda sinking into oblivion – atleast with their current generation. I am sure they will plan out a better release and market capture strategy with their next version, but I doubt they will be able to play the hype-game all over again. But then,We are talking about Steve Jobs [...]

Skype in. Skype Out. Skype Gone?

I am running out of cards and I am looking at putting together a new design for it, and also revalidating all the information that is on it. I do have my skype ID on my previous cards. I barely even login into skype anymore – not sure if it is even going to serve [...]

The Telecom Innovation Vs. The Internet Revolution

“This is going to be such an unfair post”, I am thinking to myself as I mentally jot down all the points that the Internet and the Telecom world do share, differ from and the trails of path that they’ve left behind behind. They are contrastingly different in their methods, approach, deployment methodologies, strategies and [...]

Ideas to Toss: Mobile Caller ID

I was in the middle of a board meeting when the phone rang. There are a lot of new people whose numbers are not on my address book who do call me these days – or maybe i have a very small set of folks on my address book. I excuse myself from the boardroom, [...]

Chennai Telecom Professionals Group

What’s the most interesting thing about Professionals, and Entrepreneurs? Simple. The drive to get things done, and to be focused on milestones and deliverables. The conversations are always focused towards business opportunities and how to handle challenges. Needless to say, they are always looking for a network of like-minded people to let the network-effect kick [...]

MoMo Chennai

Mobile Monday is a tradition that started long time back and has made it waves to India, and is finally making its landing on the shores of Chennai – atlast! Mobile Monday is another initiative of the Knowledge Foundation, of which I am a founding member of, and the one that has been behind events [...]

Mobile Marketing: Have the Gates been Unleashed?

Mobile Marketing + Social Networking (with the age old referral pyramid) = mGinger The email that they sent out, (with a personalized name as the sender of the email, might I mention) reads: “mGinger.com pays you to read ads on your cellphone! These ads are only about your interests. Not only that, you get to [...]