Intian teknoblogi: February 2008

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

You have never heard of Sridhar Vembu, founder and CEO of AdventNet, the company behind newly launched productivity suite Zoho.
A 100%, bootstrapped, $40-million-a-year revenue business that sends $1 million to the bank every month in profits.
Zoho does everything that you would do with Microsoft Office. It also has a hosted customer relationship management service that is free for very small companies and only costs $10 per user per month for larger ones. It competes with Salesforce.com, which charges $65 per user per month.
What the Chinese have done in manufacturing, he is showing that the Indians can do in software: undercut U.S. and European software makers dramatically. Not in information technology services. Not by body shopping. Vembu has done something few Indian entrepreneurs have been able to achieve--build a true "product" company out of India. This is not a head count-based business model.

In the 25-year period (2001-26) India will be adding 220 million to its urban population, taking it up by 77 per cent.
Will have to add around 14 Delhis or 18 Mumbais or 30 Bangalores!
"He has another idea. Instead of growing a city concentrically around its periphery, develop new towns in largely un-built-up areas with a fast rail or road link that can easily go up to 200 km."... Several such new towns can come up along a single link. Builders say such a town can be entirely self-financing in terms of its infrastructure so long as it has a critical mass, stretch over 5,000 acres or more in mixed development and accommodate half a million people upwards. The best new developments in the country, Greater Noida and New Town near Kolkata, meet these criteria.
To have land use plans for areas where a city will grow in the future or to plan new cities (India needs 200 new one million population cities in 20 years) you need state government and politicians who are willing and able.

Mango Technologies

Rediff.com kirjoittaa:

What will be the benefits of this application?
Mango's solutions enable rich features that were hitherto available only on the high-end phone segment, and spawn multiple revenue streams for phone manufacturers, application providers and operators.
For example, location-based services, local search, mobile banking, map navigation and traffic channels will soon be available on your low cost phones. Mango has filed patents for SMS-based theme download, advertising message download and non-linear display of mobile application data.
It would mean rich solutions at a lesser cost, resulting in improved productivity and lifestyle for the mobile consumers.
This solution enables application development for the mobile phone segment that has been constrained because of memory, processor, engineering and cost restrictions. It opens up vast possibilities for the mass market phone segment user.

The second gamer is our gamer, who plays on Games2win. Typically 22-28 years, the guy who's just got out of college and has his first job, and used to play games and does not have the time to play four-five hours and now wants to play a couple of half-hours everyday, and has access to an online machine. They play casual games.
Q. Where is the (global) traffic coming from?

A. You would be surprised. It comes from close to 180 countries a day. Europe and America are the biggest traffic drivers. There is also a lot of China, and a little bit of Korea and Japan.