Apple iPhone 6 Review

Introduction

Two years ago, Apple’s venerable iPhone received one of the biggest design changes in its history. Previous to the unveiling of the iPhone 5, all other iPhones before it featured 3.5-inch screens – a large screen size for a phone back in 2007, but hardly the stuff that contended with the more spacious screen sizes of other modern, top-tiered smartphones. Still, for the many fans of the iPhone, they were ecstatic to see the increase.During Steve Jobs’ reign, he rebuffed the idea of putting an even larger sized screen in the iPhone. As the phablet segment gained popularity in recent years, however, many owners of the iPhone urged the company to produce one with a BIG screen, but it never came to fruition. Well folks, the company that redefined the modern smartphone is making right with its latest model, the iPhone 6 – one that bears a new design and larger, 4.7” screen to combat the onslaught of flagship phones from the Android side.

Naturally, there’s a lot of buzz riding on this phone. Outfitted with several new upgrades, the iPhone 6 also receives an updated experience in the form of iOS 8 as well. Arguably the biggest launch for Apple to date, can the iPhone 6 continue Apple’s dominance in the market?

The package contains:

• Lightning cable
• Wall charger
• Apple sticker decals
• Get Started Guide

Design

Exhibiting all of the hallmark qualities of an iPhone, like its premium choice of materials, solid construction, and iconic looks, this year’s model is quite frankly a larger sized iPhone.

Sporting a totally new redesign, the iPhone 6 boasts all of the hallmark qualities of an iPhone to keep up with the line’s prestige legacy – while still laying claim to its iconic looks. Naturally, there’s the overall increase in its footprint, which is what’s most profound with its design. Indeed, it’s more spaced out, but it’s still relatively easier to grasp than most of today’s flagships. On top of that, Apple is able to shave off even more of its fame to an impressive thinness of 0.27-inches – besting its predecessor’s mark of 0.3-inches.

Premium has always been something associated with the iPhone, so that’s something intact here with the iPhone 6, since its unibody frame is constructed out of aluminum. And just like last year, the same color options are presents – space gray, silver, and gold. From afar, it’s undeniably an iPhone, but upon closer inspection, there are several new changes that give it a different look. For starters, it follows the design language first introduced to us by the iPad mini – where it’s more rounded on its sides. Due to this, we find it more comfortable to hold than the chamfered beveled edge of the iPhone 5s.Apple has been making a point about “continuity” with its design approach, where everything seems to follow a seamless pattern, but we’re a little shocked because of how the camera lens in rear interrupts the design’s continuity. Let’s be honest folks. The iPhone 6 is one meticulously crafted, beautiful looking smartphone that’s a cut above those plastic-bodied ones, but at the end of the day, even with the switch with its design language, it looks like an iPhone – a larger one than before to be exact.

Attributed to its larger size, the power button has moved away from its traditional location on the upper right corner of the phone, and is now placed along the right edge – a fitting change, since it’s easier to access. As for the volume controls and silence switch, which are still in their same old spots on the left edge, they might not jut out as much as before, but they’re still relatively easy to distinguish and operate. Notably different is the size of the volume buttons, which are elongated now, in order to accommodate the iPhone 6’s skinnier frame. Meanwhile, other familiar items, like the Lightning docking power, 3.5mm headset jack, speaker, earpiece, and microphones are found in their usual locations.

Underneath the display, we have the phone’s iconic home button, which has the Touch ID biometric touch sensor incorporated into it. Still rocking the same responsiveness and easy unlocking operation as before, it’s still somewhat mind-boggling to know that it’s the best implementation around.

Apple’s iPhones have always been known to take spectacular photos, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone to find that the iPhone 6 is packing some new gear. Even though its iSight camera doesn’t increase in count, a decent 8-megapixel sensor with a two-toned dual-LED flash, Apple introduces a new technology called “Focus Pixel”, which we’ll expand more on later in the camera section of the review. Likewise, they’ve opted to stick the iPhone 6 with the same 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera.

 

Drag the picture or use the keyboard arrows to rotate the phone.
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Display

The iPhone 6’s 4.7-inch 750 x 1334 Retina Display continues to deliver high-quality results, like its potent brightness and superb color accuracy, but we wish for something higher in resolution.

Playing into its main rivals, Apple has increased the size of the iPhone’s display to a more contemporary mark of 4.7-inches. Combined with its resolution of 750 x 1334 pixels, it delivers a very Retina display pixel density figure of 326 ppi. Sure, the this doesn’t turn heads as much as the quadHD resolution of the LG G3 for example, but at the end of the day, we’re still able to make out fine details with very few issues. Still, a part of us wished for the iPhone 6 to come to the party with a resolution of more than 430ppi to match its rivals.Apple continues again to ensure that the panel is a high-quality one. Based on IPS LCD technology, which is protected by a layer of Gorilla Glass 3, the display lives up to the hallmark qualities of past iPhone displays. First and foremost, it’s super easy to view outdoors with the sun presents, thanks in part to its potent brightness output of 606 nits – a modest step up over its predecessor’s 587 nits mark, but an excellent result nonetheless.

Once again, too, the Retina Display present here is one of the most accurate when it comes to reproducing colors. With a color temperature of ~7100 K, there’s a slight cooler tone to the screen. From the looks of it, the panel in here closely matches its predecessor when it comes to color accuracy. Yes, there are very few minor differences, but for the most part, the display here is pretty darn excellent at producing accurate colors. In addition, viewing angles are pretty fantastic too, as it maintains its clarity at even the widest angles.

Aside from a phone’s design, the other main thing to catch our attention from an initial glance is the phone’s display. On one hand, we’re ecstatic to see an increase in size to make the iPhone 6 competitive, but on the other, we’re a little disappointed by Apple’s decision to sit behind the pack with a lower resolution panel. Its saving grace, however, is the high-quality panel that it uses.

Display measurements and quality

• Screen measurements
• Viewing angles
• Color charts

	Maximum brightness (nits)Higher is better	Minimum brightness (nits)Lower is better	Contrast Higher is better	Color temperature (Kelvins)	Gamma	Delta E rgbcmy Lower is better	Delta E grayscale Lower is better
Sony Xperia Z3	713 (Excellent)	4 (Excellent)	1:1148 (Good)	10324 (Poor)	2.55	6.43 (Average)	9.28 (Poor)
Apple iPhone 6	606 (Excellent)	7 (Good)	1:1563 (Excellent)	7162 (Good)	2.23	3.51 (Good)	3 (Good)
Apple iPhone 5s	587 (Excellent)	5 (Excellent)	1:960 (Average)	7351 (Good)	2.18	3.41 (Good)	3.44 (Good)
HTC One (M8)	490 (Good)	16 (Poor)	1:1362 (Excellent)	7182 (Good)	2.11	4.33 (Average)	4.82 (Average)
Sony Xperia Z2	458 (Good)	16 (Poor)	1:1329 (Excellent)	6909 (Excellent)	2.59	4.41 (Average)	2.95 (Good)
LG G3	455 (Good)	9 (Average)	1:997 (Average)	7099 (Good)	2.26	3.60 (Good)	2.86 (Good)
Samsung Galaxy S5	442 (Good)	2 (Excellent)	unmeasurable (Excellent)	8183 (Poor)	2.25	5.08 (Average)	7.38 (Average)
Sony Xperia Z3 Compact	436 (Good)	3 (Excellent)	1:1315 (Excellent)	9964 (Poor)	2.67	6.03 (Average)	8.96 (Poor)

Interface and Functionality

iOS 8 might not see a huge overhaul with is visuals, but it has surely been outfitted with several new notable features that really balances out its functionality to almost the same level as Android – though, it’s still simple and easy to operate at its core.

Besides a few hardware upgrades, last year’s iPhone was most noteworthy for Apple’s decision to finally update the iOS experience. Going with a flatter design philosophy, iOS 7 undoubtedly sprinkled a refreshing change of scenery to the otherwise antiquated visuals and functionality of the platform. With this year’s offering, though, iOS 8 moves in a forward direction by throwing in several enhancements to the experience – making it a more capable and complete platform in the process.

Well, the one area we don’t see any major design alterations is in the interface. In fact, you’ll barely notice some of the minor changes, but they do exist! Getting to the iOS 8 homescreen, all of the familiarities are still present, like its grid-like layout, folder organization, and bottom launcher. With the unveiling of the updated software, Apple throws in a handful of new background wallpapers – though, we’re a bit disappointed that they didn’t include any new dynamic ones.

So the visuals are pretty much unchanged with this latest iteration of iOS, but it sees yet another degree of updates to its functionality. Without further ado, let’s jump in and talk about all of the new stuff with iOS 8!

Notification Center

Enhancing what it populates beyond the local stuff in the phone, like our contacts or apps, Spotlight Search has been improved with iOS 8 to offer recommendations/suggestions from a bevy of places. We already know how useful it is for searching local content, but Apple has extended its searching scope to sniffing out songs/albums on iTunes, various web sites, and Wikipedia results. We dig the added functionality, seeing that eliminates our need to launch the web browser.

Siri

Speaking of queries and searching, Siri has been taught a few new tricks as well. First and foremost, you can make her (or him) listen to your input with a simple voice trigger – "Hey, Siri..." followed by your question or command. There's a catch, however. The said voice command works only when the iOS device is plugged into a charger or after Siri has been already launched.

Yelling "Hey, Siri..." while on a home screen or with the phone locked wouldn't do anything. That's a limitation we weren't expecting given the fact that a number of Android phones already support always-on voice commands. Nevertheless, it is better to have the "Hey, Siri" trigger working as described than to not have the feature at all.

Always the one to become smarter and wiser with each major software upgrade, iOS 8’s introduction yields Shazam integration as well with Siri. Naturally, it comes in handy when we’re stumped with some kind of song playing in the car. Besides that, Siri continues to populate relevant responses and searches – while also amusing us with some of her/his witty remarks.

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[UPDATED] How big was the Big Billion Day?

[UPDATE]
If you’re a Flipkart customer, you must have gone through some amount of agony while making purchases during the Big Billion Day. Keeping true to its reputation and philosophy of great customer service, Flipkart went ahead and apologized to everyone. When was the last time you saw an organisation saying sorry to their customers for not living up to the promises?

Dear Customer,
Yesterday was a big day for us. And we really wanted it to be a great day for you. But at the end of the day, we know that your experience was less than pleasant. We did not live up to the promises we made and for that we are really and truly sorry.
It took enormous effort from everyone at Flipkart, many months of preparation and pushing our capabilities and systems to the limit to be able to create this day. We were looking at fulfilling the dreams of millions of Indian consumers through deals and offers we had painstakingly put together for months.
And though we saw unprecedented interest in our products and traffic like never before, we also realized that we were not adequately prepared for the sheer scale of the event. We didn’t source enough products and deals in advance to cater to your requirements. To add to this, the load on our server led to intermittent outages, further impacting your shopping experience on our site.
An unprecedented 1.5 million people shopped at Flipkart yesterday. While we stand humbled by the sheer faith that such a large number of customers have shown in us, we are unhappy that we were unable to live up to the expectations of millions more who wanted to buy from us yesterday.
And this is not acceptable to us.
Delighting you, and every single one of our customers, is absolutely the top most priority for Flipkart and we have worked very hard over the last seven years to earn your trust. Yesterday, we failed that trust. We have learnt some valuable lessons from this and have started working doubly hard to address all the issues that cropped up during this sale.
Price Changes As we were preparing various deals and promotional pricing in the lead up to the sale, the pricing of several products got ​changed to their non-discounted rates for a few hours​. We realise that this breaks the trust our customers have put in us. We are truly sorry for this and will ensure that this never happens again.
Out-of-stock Issues We ran out of the stock for many products within a few minutes (and in some cases, seconds) of the sale going live. For example, most of our special deals were sold out as soon as they went live. We had ensured availability, anywhere from hundreds to a few lakh units for various products, but it was nowhere near the actual demand. We promise to plan much better for future promotions and ensure that we minimise the out-of-stock issues.
Cancellations We had large number of people buying specific products simultaneously. This led to some instances of an order getting over-booked for a product that was sold out just a few seconds ago. We are working round-the-clock to ensure availability of additional units for these products and will do our level best to ensure that we minimise any cancellations.
Website Issues  ​We realise that the shopping experience for many of you was frustrating due to errors and unavailability of the website at times. We had deployed nearly 5000 servers and had prepared for 20 times the traffic growth – but the volume of traffic at different times of the day was much higher than this. We are continuing to significantly scale up all our back end systems so that we do a much, much better job next time.
Everything that we have achieved at Flipkart is purely on the basis of our customer’s trust and faith. This is why we come to work each day and continue to remain extremely passionate about building the best possible customer experience for Indian consumers. We failed to live up to this promise yesterday and would like to apologise once again to every single customer for our failure.
Thank you.
Sachin and Binny

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

The famous American author and humorist, Mark Twain sums the ecommerce war in India pretty well in the above statement.
As a market leader in the Indian ecommerce industry, Flipkart has redefined ‘big’ in many ways in the year 2014. Be it the big acquisition of Myntra (for an estimated $300 million), or the big funding of $1 billion, nothing of this scale was witnessed before. Riding on the same wave, the ecommerce giant had announced the biggest sale day for 6th October. It was called ‘The Big Billion Day’ and concluded few hours ago. On one side (which was slightly heavier), it attracted a lot of backlashes on social media, while on other, the company claims that it was able to achieve its sales target of $100 million in GMV in a matter of 10 hours only (fixed as 24 hrs initially).

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YourStory explores the very ‘big’ nature of the Big Billion Day.
Big Promotion
The climax for the ‘Big Billion Day’ by Flipkart has been building since last month by ads on television, print media, YouTube, and more. There were two video commercials made to promote the big day, one of them featuring stand up comedian Vir Das.

An email specifying the emotional significance of the date 6th October to the founders Sachin and Binny Bansal was sent yesterday to all the subscribers. Here’s what it was like:

610 – The number of the flat from where Sachin and Binny Bansal began a journey in 2007 that no one in India had ever seen before!
6.10 – The day India will see an event like never before!
It’s the Flipkart Big Billion Day!
You have seen the ads – and now the countdown for what we believe will be the greatest sale ever in the history of our nation, has begun. With products across categories like large appliances, books, toys, mobiles, laptops, cameras, clothes, shoes, bags and watches available at heavy discounted prices, Flipkart promises to offer lots of surprises and interesting deals for every Indian on “The Big Billion Day”.

There were more than 10000 field staff to make sure that the ordered product during the deal day is delivered on time.

Big Response 
Achieving $100 million in GMV within 10 hours would have definitely given a reason to smile to the Flipsters amidst all the backlash on twitter. But the happy customers also made sure that there good wishes are reaching the ears of Flipkart. Here’s what they had to say:

Please end #BigBillionDay sale @Flipkart. I have already spent Rs. 12230.

Sachin And Binny Bansal expressed their gratitude at the end of sale,

“The Big Billion Day is an unprecedented day for us as this is the biggest sale ever in India.
Our technology team has been dedicated towards addressing errors and providing constant support to accommodate the largest scale of traffic and customer visits e-commerce has witnessed across the country.
Our teams and sellers worked days and nights to make this sale a success – and our efforts paid off. We got a billion hits on our site today and achieved our 24 hour sales target of $100 mn in GMV in just 10 hours.
We are truly humbled by the immense faith our customers have shown in us. And this inspires us to dream bigger,”

Big bashing and big jokes
The following tweets captures the mood of tweeps about the #BigBillionDay .

Big fight
Not everything went perfectly for Flipkart on this day. The morning newspapers carried Snapdeal’s print advertisement (on front page immediately after the jacket ad of Flipkart) trying to belittle the BigBillionDay’s claim of discounts, while the domain bigbillionday.com was redirected to Amazon India. It is yet to be known if it was Amazon’s ploy or some enterprising person’s ‘creativity’. [UPDATE]

At the end of the day, Flipkart is left with the happiness of achieving the target earlier and the thoughtfulness of how to avoid the customer dissatisfaction (at this scale) next time. We’ll leave you with the following tweet which caught our attention:

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Hangoutt – get instant local rewards by playing games

Hangoutt is a product of 135 Tech Labs Private Limited, which was started in November 2012. It is headed by Apoorva Kakkeri and Sameer Mehta, both MBA graduates from ISB, along with Vineet Kulkarni, a PhD from North Carolina State University.

Hangoutt is a unique mobile application that lets users earn hyperlocal personalized rewards by playing mobile games, chatting etc. It is a reward platform which engages with a user through games, surveys or other activities and rewards them with coupons or discounts focused on instant personal gratification. It has a SDK that allows third party game developers to integrate their games on Hangoutt so that users can play their game and get access to real world rewards from the nearest store of their favorite brand.
It also has a simple web tool that lets any business create its brand’s hangout in a matter of minutes. This helps businesses engage with consumers by creating their instant mobile surveys, discussion forum topics and provide interesting games from the library of mobile games in Hangoutt application. This is bundled with an analytics engine which gives detailed information about consumers such as demographics, time of day engagement metrics, reward redemption metrics, and store level engagement.
“While Hangoutt can be used by pretty much any smartphone user, we are initially focusing on the 16-30-year-old age group, with a strong bias towards college students who love to play mobile games and chat. Ours is one of the few products in the market that gives users real world rewards for a mobile activity. With other existing reward platforms, when users play a mobile game, there isn’t anything tangible that the user receives. However, if the game is played via Hangoutt, you can earn reward points of your favorite brand that can be redeemed at the store around the corner,” adds Sameer.
Talking about their competition in this space, Sameer says that any business with a reward delivery is their competitor, but real differentiator is their focus on enabling consumer engagement for businesses and gratifying their users instantly. They have already signed up 15 big clients from India and Philippines, including Cafe Coffee Day, KFC, Pizza Hut to name a few.
They have three revenue streams from the Hangoutt platform:
1. Monthly subscription fee from businesses
2. Advertising revenue from interstitial ads
3. Commission on every rewards for consumer

Their biggest challenge in their startup was when Google shut down Hangoutt service without clear reasons. “Though we did reason with them it was of no use. There is no use reasoning with a Goliath. So we backed down, went back to the drawing board and found a quick and better solution to the problem,” adds Sameer.
By next year, they are ambitious about reaching out to at least a million satisfied / rewarded users across India and Phillipines from more than a hundred brands.

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GSF joins DreamPlus alliance with 10 other Asian Accelerators, helps Whatfix raise $300k

Founded by Rajesh Sawhney, GSF is an Indian Accelerator that has invested in more than 35 startups through its 3 batches till now. The Accelerator has just announced that it has joined the DreamPlus Alliance which is a group of 11 Accelerators from across the countries in Asia. Dreamplus Alliance will help these Accelerators exchange ideas and learn from each other and it will help startups in Asia expand in the region through a collaborative network of alliance partners. DreamPlus is an ICT Accelerator powered by one of the largest conglomerate in Korea, Hanwha Group. Focusing on supporting the expansion of new and developing a network including leading accelerators from the ten
major Asian markets.
At the inaugural DreamPlus day held in Seoul, Korea, 11 Accelerators and 11 startups (one from each alliance member) participated. Whatfix, a GSF startup, won the competition as the leading startup in Asia. Hanwha Group, the Korean Conglomerate behind the initiative announced a $300k prize for the winner.
WhatFix is a SaaS customer engagement startup that helps business on board their customers seamlessly and provide interactive knowledge flows to enhance product adoption. It allows for creation of interactive support FAQs, training material and tutorials which can be integrated with ease across all touch-points inside applications, blog, etc. The aim is to enhances self-service capability of web-based products and applications, which helps companies to reduce support queries and improve user engagement. The company had started of as a B2C solution but seems to have shifted focus more to a B2B proposition.
Whatfix is a product from Quicko Labs which is a Bangalore based startup which was founded by Khadim Batti and Vara Kumar Namburu in 2011. Talking about winning the event, Khadim Batti says,

Whatfix has several customers across Europe & Amercia and now having support from Hanwha group will help us to get into Korea and other south Asian markets. We also look forward to rapidly scale our team and focus on aggressive growth.

GSF as an accelerator has always been in favour of companies taking a global approach as son as possible and the DreamPlus Alliance is another step in that direction. Rajesh says, “GSF has a comprehensive Global strategy to help its startups go global fast. With DreamPlus Alliance, we unfold our “look-east” strategy, idea is to provide a platform to GSF startups to access different Asian markets with the
help of our alliance partners in these markets.”

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Insider View: a perspective on returns

Cisco. WhatsApp. Alibaba.
What’s the common underlying thread in their stories? These companies are all icons of the Venture Capital industry.
Let’s take a quick look at the rough estimated returns generated for the industry:
Cisco went public in 1990 with a market cap of $224 million and their estimated market cap as of 2010 was $115 billion.
WhatsApp had a total investment of $58 million– rumored to have returned $3 billion for investors through their $19 billion acquisition by Facebook.

After the recent historic IPO, Alibaba made hundreds of people multi-millionaires. Jack Ma’s net worth is estimated north of $18 billion, while the investors Yahoo and SoftBank made $37 billion and $74 billion respectively.
In this article, I try to explain why it is extremely important to understand the concept of returns if you are an entrepreneur.
Let me begin by saying Venture Capital is not well understood in India
In India, the venture model is not well understood. The investor and entrepreneur relationship is not a lending relationship as most people confuse it to be; it is a shared risk relationship.
If you have a fixed deposit, you will get approximately 9% return, mutual funds will give you 10-20% return, but you have no further upside to these investments. Venture Capital on the other hand is about creating new markets and outsized returns.
Indian entrepreneurs sometimes think that venture returns should be capped. It is important to understand that venture investing is predicated on a few very successful companies and hence the investors take immense risk along with the entrepreneurs at a very early stage. Unless investors are convinced that there is a high probability of attractive returns they are not going to invest in your business.
Another important aspect of creating game-changing businesses in new markets is that, the promoters or entrepreneurs have to raise significant amount of capital to get to scale. Because of this, the entrepreneurs are usually not the majority shareholders, but the investors become significant shareholders – and this is most typical of the venture capital industry.

We are competing for Venture Capital that is truly global
Today, Venture Capitalists are present in India but the source of their capital for venture investing is not yet primarily available in India. Venture Capital managers maybe from India, but the capital itself comes from largely a global pool, regions such as North America and Europe where there is more understanding and experience of investing in venture capital funds. Thus Venture Capital’s attraction to India is dependent on its continued validation from a global perspective of returns.
We compete with China and the US for the same Venture Capital investment dollars. We are not based on a local index. Hence, it is important to understand that competing with companies globally from a returns perspective is extremely important. A sizeable number of companies in the new industries require significant capital to scale. Thus, in order to attract growth investment for these companies, we should be able to generate returns on par with the global markets.
To attract this capital, you as an entrepreneur need to be able to show a large market opportunity, aggressive execution capability, a highly scalable management team, and of course the ability to generate very attractive returns. Thus I urge entrepreneurs from early on to think scale and innovation so that they can compete for capital and commit to generating attractive returns through their ideas and superb execution.
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 Total number of VC-backed deals listed (in the past 5 years) for US = ~250
 Total number of VC-backed deals listed (in the past 5 years) for India = 15
 Total amount of VC-backed IPO proceeds in US = ~$ 45 Billion (excluding Alibaba) 
 Total amount of VC-backed IPO proceeds in India = ~$1B
Credits for data: Mukti Hariharan
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Ask yourself ‘Why am I raising what I am raising?’
When you are asking for capital, think about whether you can generate at least 10X returns for investors. If you are asking VCs for $2 million, and let’s say you get to $100 million in value (dilution 10%) 10 years after that investment and you never raised any further capital. If this were realistic, your investor would have made an annual return of 18%. Now benchmark this with other forms of returns easily available. If you need 10 million over the next 5 years from venture investors, then you need to ask yourself why does the VC investment make sense from a returns perspective?
Often entrepreneurs come to venture investors and say “I want to raise a next round of $20 million”. For investors to make a 5X return they need to get $100 million back, so they should be confident that your company will be worth a billion dollars for that to happen. How many companies have been created in India that are now worth a billion dollars? Entrepreneurs often forget that part of the equation. Venture investors are usually okay to write a $2 million cheque because they only need to make $20 million from this investment and for that to happen you need to be a $100 million company, and there are a lot of companies in India that have done that. Entrepreneurs have often not thought through this part of the equation while going to investors.
Are you going to be a billion dollar company?
Are you going to be one of the billion dollar companies? The bravado is good, but be prepared and be aware of what you need to do to achieve that milestone. If you want $100 million from investors, then you need to sell them the multi-billion dollar story.
However, there is exuberance in the market about India today. The booming middle-class and emerging consumer gives tremendous opportunity for entrepreneurs to out-innovate incumbents and create many new billion dollar opportunities in the next decade. I am very excited about this phase that we are in and look forward to meeting the next generation of entrepreneurs who will create the next Cisco, WhatsApp and Alibaba of India.

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7 mobile innovations from the land of Samsung and LG

This is the second part of the list of the most promising mobile innovations of South Korea. You can check the first part here.
Here are seven most promising Korean innovation in mobile technology which we saw at Global Mobile Vision 2014 in Seoul last week. Most of the companies are at a mature stage having being founded before 2010, with an experienced team and already profitable.

What happens in South Korea, no more stays in South Korea

1. BridgeCall (Bridge Mobile, Inc)

What is it?: Ever since the first VOIP call was made, the world has changed to a better place where it is possible to keep in touch with people who matter in one’s lives, for a cost that was once unthinkable: free. However, and despite the ubiquity of VOIP technology, the only way to have a truly seamless integration of VOIP in the mobile phone experience is a carrier-supported WiFi call feature, which is very rare.
Bridge Call may be the solution: it is an Android app, which aims at being invisible. It integrates with the existing phone and contact user interface. When a call is made, it determines if both parties are registered on Bridge Call, and if that’s the case, the call is switched to a free VOIP call, without user intervention. If not, the call uses the standard voice call provided by the carrier.

Why is it in the list?: Bridge Call does an impressive job of integration that has eluded established players who all require users to open a different app. This gives Mobile Bridge Inc a chance to provide what users truly want.

2.  CallGate:

What is it?: CallGate is a SaaS provider of high ROI enterprise mobile solutions. CallGate Visual Voice allows customers to view call center’s service menu on their mobile screen while listening to recorded voice from the IVR service.

Why is it in the list?: CallGate is solving an important problem faced by all while making calls to customer service centers. The company has a strong IP with over 300 patents in APAC region. With USD 3 million raised so far, they have already gone profitable last year and the revenue is almost doubling every year. The company has 40+ call centres as their clients (of the total 700) in Korea. They are soon going to launch in the US, Taiwan & Japan. An experienced team behind the company makes its future more promising.

3. Hub & Spoke (Tenjoy Board)

What is it?: Tenjoy Board is a tweaked gym board with multiple functionalities which can be used for education, fitness and gaming. Men and women of all ages can exercise continuously anytime and anywhere with Tenjoy Board. One can exercise by manipulating the smartphone and computer games with their feet.
Why is it in the list?: The company has an experienced team behind the product who has already sold over 300,000 gym boards in the past (in Korea). It has a tie up with the telecom giant SK Telecom in Korea to sell the product (Tenjoy).
Korea is undeniably one of the hottest gaming markets in the world, and with the additional applications in education and fitness, the Tenjoy board is more promising than any other piece of hardware. The applications (software) have massive potential to be tweaked around and thus increase the number of use cases for the board. The product is apt for all age groups; education for kids, gaming for teens and youth and fitness for elderly. A possible collaboration with companies like Samsung and Intel can further boost the international presence of the product (already in talks).

4. Korea Creadic Life (Adpop)

What is it?: Korea Creadic Life develops software and provides payment service related to CAT, POS, electronic signature pad, and credit card payment at about 450,000 member stores.
AD-POP is equipped with multifunction (NFC payment, RF payment, QR code recognition, advertisement, and mobile coupon, etc) unlike conventional sign pad that only credit card users could use to sign the bill. This embraces even mobile-based payment market along with the credit card users.

Why is it in the list?: There are additional features like visitors personal information encryption, real time visitors statistics, automatic transmission exhibition e-catalog, which cater to exhibition industry. The innovative features provide usefulness and fun to the users and convenience and service to member stores and advertisers.

5. SpacosaCorp (Famy):

What is it?: They provide learning content applications for infants and toddlers based on the key concept of ‘family value’ and ‘smart organization’ service which recommends customers with customized information by analyzing big data such as childbirth, infant care and shelter, shopping information.

Famy, a family locator application, is a mobile service for private groups with location information share and group messenger.
 Why is it in the list?: Currently, Famy is localized for 10 major languages and used in more than 130 countries, with a great growth rate in South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and China.
 

6. Bench soft

What is it?: Mobile accessory development company, Bench Soft  has made a charging cable which enables charging at 2X speed.
Why is it in the list?: The product and the team of specialized engineers in audio DSP, 2.4 GhZ wireless technology, mobile applications, battery operations.

7. Ilias Project (by Puzlook)

What is it?: It is an optical lens case for smartphone which doesn’t need any clips, magnets or detachable covers.
Why is it in the list?: The product is designed based on portability, convenience, simplicity and fun. They also won CES 2014 Innovation Design and Engineering awards.

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[Techie Tuesdays] Ahimanikya Satapathy – Entrepreneur, Geek, Technology veteran, Ecosystem enabler

When it comes to Startup ecosystem in Bangalore, Ahimanikya Satapathy needs no introduction. He has been running the Bangalore Alpha Labs for quite some time, and has also been organising ‘Bootstrap At Breakfast’ event for over two years, both of which have grown into great platforms for entrepreneurs. Ahimanikya has been in the limelight for being an enabler to the ecosystem. Today, in Techie Tuesdays we bring to you the other side of him – ‘The Geek’.

 The Art Scholar

Ahimanikya spent his early days in Bhubaneshwar, where he graduated in Chemistry. His family had an inclination towards literature. His father is a poet who owned a printing press and had a keen interest in politics. The environment at home shaped Ahimanikya during his early adulthood. His father wanted him to be a lawyer. After his graduation, Ahimanikya took a break and started exploring his life purpose. He learned to make sculptures and started painting, reading about religion and literature. He wanted to join Shantiniketan to learn art, but they had very stringent admission procedures. Ahimanikya could not clear the interview. After the interview he got to know that one of his uncles was on the interview panel, but Ahimanikya wanted to go through the right medium and not using influence. He chose to forgo the opportunity.

Art by Ahimanikya

Magician who could ‘C’ through networks

During the time when he took a break, one day Ahimanikya visited a library. He came across “Introduction to Computer Science”. The book was enough to spark his interest in the field. Ahimanikya joined a course in computer Science. His main inclination towards Computer Science was ‘C’ language. In his first semester Ahimanikya had read most of the books on ‘C’. He had read 36 books on ‘C’ in six months, possibly every book which was there in India on the subject. It was the thrill of doing things and his expertise of ‘C’ came in handy. After one year Ahimanikya dropped out of the course and went to Mumbai to look for a job.

 Jobless Jack beats IITians

Ahimanikya spent six months roaming around the city without a job, until one day when he saw an ad in the newspaper for the position of a Research Associate at IIT Mumbai. Ahimanikya wrote the exam and got selected from among a total of 200 people, most of which comprised of MTech and PhD students from IIT. Dr. Deepak Phatak, who was the Dean of Resources Development at IIT Mumbai at that time, took Ahimanikya under his wing and assigned him to a project where he would help develop an aircraft simulation system for training of pilots.

Life at the IIT Mumbai hostels was a dream come true for Ahimanikya. Things were entirely different from Bhubaneshwar. The student of art had entered the abode of science. There was internet connection in the hostel (we are talking about 1995). Ahimanikya ensured that he made the best use of facilities which were provided to him. He used to spend 18-20 hours in the lab. “I learnt most in this period”, he reminisces.

Ahimanikya Satapathy, Founder – DocEngage, Bangalore Alpha Labs, BootStrap At Breakfast

One day when he was working in the lab, Dr. Pathak came and dropped a book “Java in a nutshell” on a table. When, for almost a week, nobody touched the book, Ahimanikya took it and started reading. Soon he picked up another book on HTML and Applets and went on to get his hands dirty with Java. He started applying for positions to different places. He got an offer from US, but Ahimanikya was quite skeptical about it. He got another offer from Equinox Solutions, a Bangalore-based firm which required a Java engineer. He joined them. Wherever Ahimanikya went, he hacked the network devices as most of them used ‘C’.

From desi boy to US

Soon Ahimanikya got a consulting job in the US. He was also engaged by this time. He moved to US for the first time, most of his salary was spent in international calling. In his first year in US, Ahimanikya had worked for several big companies and had got a taste of the cubicle life, which he did not find to his liking.

He joined another company ‘Knowledge Universe’ in US, which was an education and talent management company. He helped build the core logic of the platform during the short duration. As he moved on through different companies, Ahimanikya made sure he was growing with the team, both in terms of  knowledge and as a person, mentoring and managing people. Once when he was working with a company, ‘VerticleNet’, his manager went for a four week vacation. This gave him the freedom to do what he wanted. To impress his manager, Ahimanikya developed a GUI based tool which could query different databases and manage the data intelligently. When his manager returned he saw the tool, but real magic happened when his manager went to Oracle’s OpenWorld conference. There he got to know about ETL. Upon returning, the manager told Ahimanikya that what he had developed was an ETL tool. Ahimanikya thus became an ETL expert without even knowing the terminology.

As the craze for databases caught on, Ahimanikya was hired by a company SeeBeyond where they wanted him to build a complete team. They wanted him to be a manager, while Ahimanikya saw himself more as a coder. He joined the team as a Software Architect. After sometime SeeBeyond was acquired by Sun Microsystems. At Sun, Ahimanikya’s team was getting ignored. There were less resources being allocated for the team. In this fight for existence, Ahimanikya took the role of an intrapreneur to save his division in the company. To motivate his team, they developed a some trendy stuff using Data Mashup as part of Sun’s Data Integration Suite, which includes Sun Master Patient Index. The company liked it and thus the team was saved. This was also the beginning of Ahimanikya’s interest in the amalgamation of Healthcare and Technology.

 Returning to India

Ahimanikya returned to India in 2006 and he built a team in India for his division in the company. He quit Sun in 2009, after which he rented a friend’s room in JP Nagar, Bangalore. Soon enough some of his former teammates joined him. His team at Sun was laid off. Within a week they had over 17 team members working in a 300 sqft room. They continued working on the same product (it was open source) which they were working on when they were at Sun. As they created a presentation and sent it to people, they started getting business. Within a few days they had a business of around 15 lakh. And thus, Fresco Informatics was born.

Ahimanikya took a break and shut Fresco Informatics as it was getting more of a services business. He went back to Bhubneshwar and in 2011, Ahimanikya came back and started Bangalore Alpha Labs, a co-working space for startups and ‘Bootstrap at Breakfast’. Contrary to popular belief, the word ‘Bootstrap’ in Bootstrap at Breakfast does not come from bootstrapping, instead it comes from Twitter Bootstrap – a CSS framework, which Ahimanikya witnessed at one of the meetups he went to.

In 2013, Ahimanikya started DocEngage, a healthcare CRM for doctors, which has been going great since then. Coming from an arts background, Ahimanikya can deftly relate coding to art. He believes coding is like painting, only the canvas has changed. As a veteran he advises people to create things which last long, like a piece of art which never loses its meaning.

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[TechSparks Grand Finale Speaker] Manu Jain: from co-founding Jabong to leading Xiaomi India

Manu Jain is the India Operations Head of Xiaomi and he joined the company on June 11, 2014. He is based in Bangalore and is responsible for setting-up and kick-starting operations in India.
Before Xiaomi, Manu co-founded Jabong.com, India’s leading fashion & lifestyle player. He was Managing Director for two years and was integral in establishing and growing the company from its inception. Apart from giving overall direction to the company, he headed the entire demand generation – sales, marketing, TV & brand advertising, digital marketing, strategic alliances, PR, and business intelligence.
Prior to Jabong.com, Manu co-created DINK Couple, a cartoon series inspired by real life experiences, and was associated with the company for more than a year. Prior to this, Manu was Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company for more than four years. He worked across multiple functions such as Sales & marketing, Strategy, Operation and Supply chain management among other initiatives.
Earlier in his career, Manu interned at Tata Administrative Services and also worked as Senior Associate at Headstrong.
Manu Jain completed his bachelors in mechanical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Post this; he did his PGDM in Business Management at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta in 2007.
To share his vast experience of first running his own company and now running the entire operations as GM, Xiaomi India, Manu will be speaking at TechSparks Grand Finale 2014. This biggest entrepreneurial summit of India is slated for the 17-18th of October (Hackathon on 17th followed by the main conference on 18th). Manu will be speaking about “The Xiaomi Strategy” and how the four-year-old company has won the hearts of and the mindshare of the Indian consumers.

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