tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-348622392024-02-20T19:33:17.692+05:30Lakshman Srikanth - BlogPassionately curious software architectLakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-55712358879497319402012-09-26T08:35:00.000+05:302012-09-26T09:31:40.338+05:30Startup - The Truth - 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">
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Its been almost three years since we started <a href="http://www.gavista.com/" target="_blank">GAViSTA TECH</a> and every moment has been an experience! I've learnt a great deal and thought I should share some of my experiences of how its been so far and what I've learnt,<br />
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<b>Mistakes</b> - As a start-up you are bound to make mistakes! The real question is how fast you realize that you have made a mistake and correct it?<br />
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<b>Pricing</b> - You have got to be more flexible in pricing your product or service. You might have great expectations of what you've built and you wouldn't want to sell it for lesser than what its worth, but considering that the start-up is still growing and there are quite a few people who neither know about you or your product, you have to give in sometimes. <br />
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<b>Salary</b> - As a founder/co-founder or the heart and soul of your start-up, If you don't fix a salary for yourself, you will never get paid and you will never make the amount of money needed to run the company!.<br />
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<b>People</b> - Less number of brains = more work. Hire a few people and hire those who can contribute effectively. The more you hire, the more you lose money! They need not be brilliant, but if they are passionate,eager to learn and dedicated, they are more valuable than geniuses who wont take ownership of their tasks. The amount of work is never-ending and there are not enough resources to conduct a full fledged training, so your best bet is to hire those who are self-driven and passionate about learning new things and trying new ideas. You cant afford to hire those who are just looking for a way to make easy money. <br />
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<b>Marketing</b> - This is the toughest! Your customers seriously care about TRUST more than anything else. You might have an awesome product with some of the best features but word of mouth can only take you that far. Out of sight is truly out of mind, and until you build a brand, customers will be least concerned or interested in what you have to offer. Like I said earlier, being flexible in pricing will help gain the first few users who will potentially help you by spreading information about the product if they found it useful and efficient. Good products and good branding - both are equally essential for a start-up to sustain and be successful. <br />
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<b>Ego</b> - You need to let it go. Unless you learn to suppress your ego, learn to build a good network, learn from your mistakes and make decisions in favour of the growth of your start-up, you will only continue to struggle. <br />
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<b>Push</b> - There are three pushes required to succeed, First push is to start the company, second is scaling up (launching new versions, more money) and the third is expanding the market, expanding the product/service line and going public. <br />
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Its been an eventful journey so far, and its a continuous learning process...<br />
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Read <a href="http://www.lakshmansrikanth.com/2010/12/startup-truth-1.html" target="_blank">Startup - The Truth - 1</a> <div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-79449645969508173812012-02-01T21:09:00.002+05:302016-12-04T21:14:04.953+05:30LegalCrystal Corporate - India's Most Powerful Legal Search Engine. It's here.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In 2010,<b> we revolutionized the way advocates access Indian Law</b>. Our clientele increased rapidly and we received a lot of feedback, ideas and suggestions from existing users of LegalCrystal (<a href="https://www.legalcrystal.com/">www.legalcrystal.com</a>). As mentioned in my earlier posts, there are three segments to this Market - High Court Advocates, Law Firms, Companies. LegalCrystal was focused mainly towards High Court and Supreme Court advocates.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">LegalCrystal Corporate (<a href="https://www.legalcrystal.com/">http://corporate.legalcrystal.com</a>) which was launched on January 26th, 2012, has an improvised user interface, search functionality and includes tribunals, commission and will very soon cover international case laws. The primary focus has been<b> User Experience</b> which has been completely revamped in this version. There are tons of features which are of primary importance to Advocates such as <b>Tabbed Browsing, Search Filters, Sort Results, View Head-note, Analytics, Adding Note, Saving Judgments on the cloud...</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">To know more about LegalCrystal Corporate see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i3uH-KlILA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i3uH-KlILA</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">We have two other parallel products related to law in the pipeline.! Watch this space for further details! :)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I would like to personally thank the team which worked on LegalCrystal Corporate :</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.gavista.com/team">GAViSTA Team 2011</a> - Akarsh E.S, Pratik Mehta, Pavan Sudheendra and Pavan SB,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Thank You Guys, Without you, Corporate Version wouldn't have been launched successfully.</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-1698093721171887402011-12-07T14:19:00.001+05:302011-12-07T20:11:05.198+05:30EiNSTASOFT to GAViSTA TECH<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>GAViSTA - In Sanskrit means " One who takes a dip in the Ocean of infinite knowledge and rises "</b><br />
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I was inspired by a company named "Payoda - rain bearing cloud(in Sanskrit)", its a start-up which provides cloud services. So I thought, why not do some research and come up with a good name for our start-up. We spoke to a few Sanskrit scholars and finally made a list of names in Sanskrit which has some relevance to the kind of work we do! Here are the list of names we shortlisted - Gavista, Gabhasti, Gambharam, Gadhita, Gambheera...<br />
I personally liked GAViSTA, which is short, crisp and has a beautiful meaning!<br />
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<b>WHY GAViSTA TECH?</b><br />
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<li>I've been told by quite a few people that its difficult to pronounce EiNSTASOFT, some even went to the extent of asking me if it was a tongue twister!! </li>
<li>There have been plans of late to register as a Private Ltd. Company and we heard from several people that its hard to get the name you want. </li>
<li>Being an Indian Start-up, and Sanskrit being a integral part of our nation's cultural and spiritual heritage, we considered using a unique sanskrit name. </li>
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To those who asked if something was wrong with the company or the team, well, whats with the pessimism guys? :D Thank you for the concern but things are going good and the change in name is just another step forward for us!<br />
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The start of yet another phase for our start-up - hope this change brings us good luck and fortune!!<br />
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<a href="http://www.gavista.com/">www.gavista.com</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"> Every
software company and every software employee survives because of Steve
Jobs and wozniak's vision of building a home computer! if it wasn't for
Steve, we would have lived in Stone age! <br /> Steve jobs is the reason why I was able to get motivated and start a company on my own without anyones moral support!<br /> Running a startup isn't a joke, if there were no folks like Steve, it
would be highly difficult to get inspiration and inner drive to Think
Different. The world has lost a brilliant thinker. </span></span></h6>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"> I still remember when I was in college, where things around me were not so motivating to start a startup, Steve Jobs quotes taught me everything.It taught me how to start think different, How to develop a innovative product, How to sell/market it. That too in India where academic results matter a lot more than your LIFE ;), its hard to go against a system to start something on your own. </span></span></h6>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}">“what really gets you is the way he talks — there's something about the rhythm of his speech and the incredible enthusiasm he conveys for whatever it is he's talking about that is just infectious.” - Alan (Journalist)</span></span></h6>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}">The biggest lesson is Steve's RDF - Reality Distortion Field. Jobs has mastered RDF. I am still trying to get a pinch of RDF! I badly wanted to see Steve on stage in one of the Apple Dev Conferences, that was my dream! I even had saved money to goto USA just for Steve Jobs Keynote. As soon as I got up today, saw notifications on my iPhone! For a moment my brain was blank!</span></span></h6>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}">Well I can go on and on talking about Steve! He is and will be my SuperHero!</span></span></h6>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-80120886122723651952011-09-11T19:45:00.001+05:302011-09-11T19:46:00.469+05:30iOS enrollment woes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We all know how Apple is hellbent on perfection in all aspects. Recently I wanted to register for iOS developer enrollment which costs $99 a year. I followed the instructions in <a href="http://developer.apple.com/" style="color: #2a5db0;" target="_blank">http://developer.apple.com</a> and at the end of my enrollment, immediately I saw a screen which said, "Please download the purchase form, fill necessary details and fax it to Apple" WTF! I thought this was highly ridiculous..why couldnt they have any provision for online payment? Frustrated and reluctant to fax my bank account details, I thought I would ask my friend in USA to register using his credit card. He was able to register and paid the amount using his US credit card and Apple even debited $102 with tax from his credit account.<br />
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I was relieved that it was finally done..Suddenly that night I recieved a mail from Apple saying "There is some problem with your identity, we are unable to match the credit card details with your iOS enrollment details so please FAX us identity verification form with Notary's Seal and Signature on it"<br />
Aargh! I wanted to get the registration done at any cost, so I filled all the details in the identity verfication form, went to a notary , got it signed and sealed and even faxed it immediately.<br />
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Again that night, I received a mail from Apple saying, you will have to mail us photo identification (photocopy of your passport or Driver's license)! Without further ado, I dialed 1800-MY-APPLE from Skype. After a series of questions I was put on call to someone named Latisha from Apple Customer Support! I told her whatever had happened until then. She said it was against Apple policy to activate iOS Developer Program if the details of the credit card holder and iOS enrollment details dint match.<br />
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She also said, Please mail us your enrollment ID with Refund as subject and our customer support will get back to you!<br />
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A lesson learnt, I never bothered to see this before I registered for the program -<a href="http://developer.apple.com/support/ios/purchase-and-next-steps.html" style="color: #2a5db0;" target="_blank">http://developer.apple.com/<wbr></wbr>support/ios/purchase-and-next-<wbr></wbr>steps.html</a> . I just googled and found that in a few forums they mentioned that it was possible using someone else's credit card and was misguided!<br />
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So finally, I created a new Apple ID, filled in details which matched my billing and credit card details. I downloaded the purchase form and faxed it to Apple.<br />
They mailed me with iOS activation code and a link within 4 days. Finally, I have access to iOS Developer Resources!<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com12Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12.9715987 77.594562712.724026199999999 77.2787057 13.2191712 77.910419699999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-46466256429386543242011-08-28T20:39:00.001+05:302011-08-29T10:26:03.198+05:30How Corruption affects Start-ups in India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I am re-surfacing on the blog scene after a really long time and mainly because I got some inspiration to write this post after the Anna Hazare anti corruption movement. We all know how corruption is the root cause of most problems in our society. From an Indian start-ups point of view here is the gist of how corruption can be a huge pain :<br />
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Consider a startup has to be incorporated as a Partnership Firm or Proprietorship Firm or Private Ltd. Company. It all starts with the NAME that you choose for your start-up. If you want your chosen name to be incorporated, the Govt. sometimes reject the name even if it is unique without providing any valid reason as to why it was rejected. There is no transparency right from the start!<br />
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To register as commercial entity, dont even bother entering the Govt. office without a bulging wallet if you are not willing to wait for long periods of time, nobody will listen to you unless you start slipping money into their hands , starting from the attender till the officer.<br />
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The worst part is probably selling your product to the Govt. If you are a Rich Dad's kid, then consider it done. They wont even look at the product, you can even by-pass the tender process. They wont even call other companies for tender. They will only form new companies which have no existence except on the letterhead that is signed by random people. <br />
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An Indian Start-up is almost expected to consider bribe as a part of their investment and then develop a business plan.<br />
I am not just cribbing about our system, I am just happy that there is something happening in the country, A great movement that we all are a part of and actively participating in. I am dead against corruption after facing tricky situations in government offices and I am glad to see kids and adults alike getting involved in the anti corruption movement and eager to learn about the steps that can be taken to curb it.<br />
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I am sure there are a few non-corrupt Govt Officials, but they all are interconnected with people who are corrupt. With LokPal Bill being passed, we are atleast at the liberty to sue anyone directly with no intervention whatsoever and with a fair hearing and trial if they are found to be against the law.<br />
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Hoping for better times ahead - communities,entities and individuals receiving funds and benefits which they are entitled to!<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Lokpal_Bill">LokPal Bill</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com0Einstasoft, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12.9715987 77.59456269999998312.7518902 77.342821199999989 13.191307199999999 77.846304199999977tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-66303810241986326252011-02-23T15:00:00.002+05:302011-02-23T15:04:49.976+05:30"Uncut" version of Bangalore Mirror Article - "The law on a screen near you"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050;">Tell us a bit about your entrepreneurial journey. Is this your first start up? [What's the status on others, if any]</span></b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Yes, this is our first startup, but we have previously worked on several ideas as students. We have tried our hands on ideas related to Speech Recognition, Carpooling and then on developing a NLP Search Engine.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">LegalCrystal – the idea sprouted when I noticed my mother, Smt. Rekha Prasad – Advocate, High Court of Karnataka who blogs about several legal issues, referring to humungous books which have listings of judgments. In these books, Judgments are bifurcated into different subjects or based on different law points. That’s when I realized </span><span lang="EN-US">that a lot of time and effort was being wasted by numerous advocates and judges in the process of searching the precedents suitable to their requirements and<span style="color: blue;"> </span>in<span style="color: black;"> this process the main issue in focus was sidelined. Being a technology enthusiast, I figured it would be interesting and challenging to develop a search engine as easy to use as Google for Indian Law.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">We began our research in March 2008 and discovered several other players in this market. We had several discussions with their customers (law firms, individual advocates) on the pros and cons of the products they were using. Most of them were frustrated with the products and they pointed out some features which would be really useful for them.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">After analyzing the information we received, my friend Phaneendra Kaddi (Co-Founder and the brain behind the coding) and I strategized on what we could build and chalked out the basic outline of our product. Soon after that we started working on it. We started by building the search engine, then we structured the data, and several beta versions later, the end product was what we had dreamt of. We founded the company on February 28 2010 and launched the product on June 21st 2010 at High Court of Karnataka, Bangalore. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050;">What is LegalCrystal's 'elevator pitch'?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">The highlight of our product is the simple and effective search feature. Its hassle free and an advocate/user does not require any training to use the software. By keying in a phrase, our product retrieves judgments pertaining to Supreme and All High Courts related to that phrase in just one click. Any Advocate who is looking for a judgment supporting any "Point of Law" can search and research in one single window, and has access to the complete Library at the tip of his finger.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #500050;">Who are the primary users for the service? There are similar services online, what is the differentiation? How have users responded to the service? How have you marketed the service? Any insights you'd like to share?</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">The primary users for this service are advocates/judges all over India. There are three segments to this Market – advocates/judges, Law Firms and Companies/Businesses. LegalCrystal serves the need of all these three segments. We will be releasing a Corporate Version sometime in April 2011 with additional features and tools, bound to make the job of the law fraternity easier.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">We are a rapidly growing startup and at the moment, we have covered different parts of Karnataka. We have visited District Courts and the respective Taluk Courts. We usually fix a date, present our product and interested advocates or Judges contact us for subscriptions. We have covered High Court of Karnataka and bar associations in Kolar, Mysore, Mulbagal, Chintamani, Chickballapur, Hoskote and Malur. Our software is also being used by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and Karnataka Judicial Academy which is currently the training academy for judges.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">The Main Differentiator would be the efficient search and ease of navigation. We have a panel of advocates who write Case Analysis, Headnotes for every judgment (Headnote – Gist of a judgment, User can get a glimpse of what the judgment says by reading the Headnote). We also manually format the judgment to increase readability. So far, we have received a lot of good feedback from our clients and it has motivated us to enhance the product further and also to consider international judgments ahead.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050;">Is there a business model to this service? If so, what is it?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">LegalCrystal is based on a yearly subscription and an annual fee. At the end of each year, the user can subscribe for the latest updates (Latest Judgments, Acts, and Amendments). The online version is updated on a daily basis and the offline version, once every quarter.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050;">What are the trade offs you've had to do for making this work'? [Personal/professional]</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Phaneendra and I started working on this product when we were students, while we were focusing on this, we faced a huge challenge in convincing our parents and the people around us regarding starting a company of our own.</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">The biggest challenge we faced was to successfully execute our idea and reach out to potential customers, with no prior work experience! It took us almost 6 months to get LegalCrystal running properly and when we finally did that it spurred us to go further.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">It requires tremendous amount of effort and articulation to convince lawyers and while pitching our idea to them we mainly focused on “differentiators”.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050;">Do you have a mentor/ investor? (Names please and whether they're mentors or investors)</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Chief Mentors – My revered Parents who are advocates themselves, D. L. Prasad & Smt. Rekha Prasad</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">. </span></b><span lang="EN-US">I would also like to mention here the people who have come out of the way in order to help me to run the company and sell the product – Mr.V.K.Haridas Bhatt, chartered accountant Mr.Chakra Pani / Mr.Krishna Murthy.</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Investors – my parents, my uncle </span><span lang="EN-US">– D.N. Badarinath a<span style="color: black;">nd Phaneendra's uncle Mr. Subbanna.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050;">What are your plans for the immediate future? [Service evolution, funding/revenue model, break even, marketing]</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">In the near future, we are looking to expand our reach to advocates in every other state in India. Of course, usage of the software is not limited to advocates; even laymen could use LegalCrystal to find solutions to their legal issues.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Our main focus is innovation, brainstorming on new projects is an ongoing process in our startup.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #500050;">So what's the entrepreneurship end game for you - fame, money or the adrenaline rush?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Entrepreneurship is all about the adrenalin rush for us. Any radical person would disagree with the risk of starting a company without prior experience of any kind. Its pure passion to work on new things which drives us.</span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-90502633842673235002010-12-08T13:46:00.001+05:302010-12-08T13:47:00.697+05:30Startup - The Truth - 1<div><b></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfyxXyXM9U_tNrd6Sl9k4SYQDp6j7vrF6SnToW8GBszE5EQv_WsaXrITg2lfx4eFxDkdjKmIJIoF5aTPKeLwrE4DLHoITyq7R_vTME7A2pltcV_PFPjs7fC_pAiEt6C_aQswf5/s1600/truth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfyxXyXM9U_tNrd6Sl9k4SYQDp6j7vrF6SnToW8GBszE5EQv_WsaXrITg2lfx4eFxDkdjKmIJIoF5aTPKeLwrE4DLHoITyq7R_vTME7A2pltcV_PFPjs7fC_pAiEt6C_aQswf5/s200/truth.jpg" width="157" /></a></b></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><b>When we were working on our product, people’s reactions were :</b></b></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><ul><li><b><b><div style="display: inline !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">If you don't respect education, why even be here?</div></b></b></li>
<li><b><b><div style="display: inline !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Why are you dropping your engineering classes to work on something new?</div></b></b></li>
<li><b><b><div style="display: inline !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Just look at THAT guy, why cant you be like him!</div></b></b></li>
<li><b><b><div style="display: inline !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">You are damn lucky to have gotten this far, right people, right time.</div></b></b></li>
<li><b><b><div style="display: inline !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Your parents have made lot of money, you can take risks!</div></b></b></li>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">You get the flow.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I hated these people and still do, but they are the ones who made me who I am and drove me to work even harder to reach where I am now, so they indirectly helped me!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Many people think that to go against a group, or to be a rebel requires a lot of strength, courage blah blah!!! NO!! You need people who discourage you, who put you down, who undermine your effort!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">There is no shortage of such people around us. A lot of people fear these Bozos (as I prefer to call them)! Fear that society wouldn’t approve and fear to do something on their own. There is no point in living in fear, and living your life for others. Instead, take the opportunity and drive your energy into the work that you love to do rather than wasting it on answering them and justifying why you are doing it.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">To quote a few lines from an inspiring speech I read lately, and which I believe in,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">If you do what is expected of you, you will be limiting yourself. You will be living your life according to boundaries set by average people. I have nothing against average people. But no one should aspire to be them. And you don’t need years of education by the best minds to prepare you to be average.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">This is what we had in mind, while we worked on our product. We strived to make a difference, nevertheless a tiny one at least. We faced a lot of difficulties during bootstrapping which I can just write briefly about. I am sure that any startup (founded by people straight out of college without getting funded by any investor) would face the same for that matter! I will share few experiences which got us going, helped us in implementing our idea effectively and finally selling the product to the targeted crowd!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">First thing we learnt, was to accept uncertainty. It’s quite easy to write or just theoretically understand uncertainty. In reality, it’s a disturbing feeling which will continuously nag you 24/7. When you don't know what's going to happen in the future or even in the present. If something goes wrong, you are doomed and people who are dependant on you are doomed too. This is the feeling you have to live with, not just live, but you will have to work with day in day out.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Its always comforting to share this uncertainty with someone whom you have known for quite a long time, someone whom you can trust. When you do, get ready for a lot of debates, arguments, and mental trauma. Because there is no easier way!! At the end of the day, you will figure out what your problems are, what has to be done and cope up with it.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Time is something which cannot be undervalued. You would’ve fixed a date for the launch of your product. I am damn sure the product might not be ready even the day before the launch. So the day before the launch feels like climbing a hill and never reaching the hilltop! The feeling that you get the night before the product launch is just ultimate! I am sarcastic of course but these are the realities of a startup!! Working with the people who share your uncertainty, trying to get things done under pressure, and handling the tension in the room is something we have to get accustomed to, the night before any deadline. In the end, it’s worth the effort, all done to show your customers that your product is one of a kind!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Before you blink your eye, the deadline has been reached, the demo is over and you sigh in relief. You think you are now certain about things to an extent. A list of customers sign up to buy the product. And the feeling of “Hell yeah, we finally did it!”. But the story doesn’t end. There are a zillion questions popping in your head, a zillion more tasks to complete and It’s the beginning of yet another cycle of uncertainty..</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Welcome to my world. :P</div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><a href="http://www.zmelifetips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/truth.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">image courtesy</span></a></b></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-89370816331162560382010-10-21T16:51:00.003+05:302010-11-01T12:18:28.531+05:30EINSTASOFT - The LegalCrystal Story - 2<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;">Before I start talking about the product, I just want to share a few experiences in running a startup!<br />
It's been one hell of an amazing experience running a company, developing a product, Marketing and Selling the product. Before we launched the product and before we even started the company, there were a lot of uncertainties.Today looking at what we have achieved, we are more confident in executing tasks, working with people of great stature and of-course on great ideas. Looking at the future we are more enthusiastic, adventurous to work on Great Ideas with Talented people.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><br />
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Today we have customers in Bangalore, Mysore, Chintamani, Kolar, Chickballapur and Judges all over Karnataka i.e in every district. There were few major milestones that we achieved in the first three months after the product launch.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 12.75pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;"><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;">Product Launch at High Court of Karnataka</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 12.75pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;"><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;">Selling it to first few customers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 12.75pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;"><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;">Implementing new ideas and suggestions from our customers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 12.75pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;"><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;">Demo at Karnataka Judicial Academy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 12.75pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;"><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;">LegalCrystal used by District/Taluk and High Court Judges of Karnataka.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;">Product Launch at Karnataka High Court was huge Success! Our first few customers loved the product and W-O-M spread, we received valuable feedback , ideas from our customers and started working on next version of LegalCrystal. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;"> Judges were completely impressed looking at our Product, the very next day after the demo they called us saying "Can you come over to our office , we have a list of judges lined up to buy your product". We successfully completed the installation within two days! Our product requires atleast 10GB of Hard Disk space.Soon, Judges from Mysore were impressed, and they called us for a DEMO.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;"> We reached out to few other courts in and around Bangalore. The response from Taluk and District courts have been okay. Everyone who owned a computer bought LegalCrystal. In these areas there are only few advocates who own a computer, they still use books for their research and to find judgments. Few other advocates are a little hesitant, they just don't want to use a computer and they are very happy with their books.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;">As they say "Sky is the Limit", In this product the "Things to do" is huge! its never ending! not just in terms of Software Development, even in marketing, sales. We want our software to make advocates’ life easier and hassle free. Even a layman should be able to use LegalCrystal if he has any legal issues. We want every advocate in every nook and corner of INDIA to use LegalCrystal.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;"><span> </span>And, that's the mission statement of this great product.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-10739118587339673332010-06-30T13:23:00.001+05:302010-06-30T13:24:36.521+05:30EINSTASOFT - The LegalCrystal Story - 1 I am not going to talk about LegalCrystal!, I am just going to answer WHY LEGALCRYSTAL? , hope you get a better understanding of LegalCrystal that way.<br />
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Well, if a business has to prosper, you need three kinds of people , first you need domain experts (R&D) - the ones who knows everything about the kind of product that you are developing. Secondly, those who build the actual product (Developers). Lastly, those who are articulate,has the ability to convince people or the market that you are targeting(Product Evangelists). These are the key resources which a company needs to exist.<br />
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In my case, I am lucky to have found out right people at the right time, We have Developers, Domain Experts, Evangelist/Marketing Experts.<br />
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</div> Born and brought up in a family of advocates, the reason for LegalCrystal to exist and to grow each day is because of my parents. My dad runs a century old office and one fine day he heard of a software which could just give you the relevant judgment by entering few details. I was a computer freak from primary school , of course I was lucky because my dad was one of very few advocates who owned a computer at that point in time that too in a town known as <a href="http://www.chintamanicity.gov.in/">Chintamani</a> - A beautiful place, 80km from Bangalore.<br />
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So this sales rep. from that software company gives a demo of their product and installs the software, me having attended many lectures about W-O-M(Word of Mouth) and Viral Marketing! This was like seeing live, if you just plant the virus properly!! how more viral can your product be? , my dad just heard from his colleagues about this software, he is convinced and he bought the product!!<br />
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Here it was , a complete <s>SHIT.</s> Just to view a judgment you have to approx. undergo 10clicks, finally you end up getting no judgment, very soon you lose all your interest using the software, You should be a genius or a computer freak to reach level of viewing the judgment. It would be lot faster if you had searched manually with help of books. Well How did I know that its useless, Well in my family I am known as the computer guy! "any computer problems call Srikanth"! So my dad never used the product, instead I did! This was the moment where LegalCrystal was born in my damn brain.<br />
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My mom, genius behind the product! She is the one who gave us proper advice to develop LegalCrystal, later on my dad joined and poured in more valuable thoughts!. From the moment I thought I could build a better product than the existing software products, I started researching on Indian Law, spoke to lot of advocates, did a lot of research on what they are really looking for? and How can I develop something better , innovative than the existing products?.<br />
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Everybody Googles nowadays, even I am googler! I love Google! Based on research that I did, the nearest possible way to build a effective UX is to minimize no. of clicks, GOOGLE is one of the best products which gives you relevant data with just a single click! hence we thought of design something similar to Google. We developed it and advocates just loved it from the first instance showed it to them! Well its not just the UI that made advocates to love our product! there is more, lot more!<br />
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EINSTASOFT - The LegalCrystal Story - 2 is more interesting and is on its way - it will answer few questions , What makes LegalCrystal so unique/innovative? Our Product Launch at High Court of Karnataka, Our first few Customers....<div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-54277940358523935692010-05-12T13:55:00.019+05:302010-05-23T10:53:01.898+05:30How to develop iPhone application on windows 7<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Developing iPhone application on windows is possible!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span> </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.redmondpie.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/SnowLeopard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="184" src="http://www.redmondpie.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/SnowLeopard.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You can easily install MAC OS X Snow Leopard and then Xcode on Windows 7 , deploy your iphone/ipod application on jailbroken iphone/ipod. I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard on my Sony Vaio E series which has Intel i3 Proc. , 3GB Ram, 512MB graphic card. Snow Leopard works smoothly and Xcode too!, successfully deployed my application on my jailbroken Ipod-touch which has Iphone firmware 3.1.3. If you have an upgraded firmware i.e higher than 3.1.3 then you will have to Google and find out the latest version of RedSnow or any other tool to jailbreak.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span> </div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Requirements :</span></b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Vmware workstation v7 </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Xcode v3.2.1 iphone SDK 3.1.3 </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">MAC OS X 10.6 retail DVD </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Darwin Snow leopard ISO </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">RedSnow to jailbreak your iphone/ipod (if it isn't Jailbroken) </span></li>
</ul><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">*If RedSn()w doesnt work for you , Use Spirit to jailbreak OS 3.1.3</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span> </div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mac Os X retail v10.6 DVD ISO :</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Search in Torrents or Rapidshare</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span> </div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To install Macintosh OS X Snow leopard v 10.6 </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-install-os-x-snow-leopard-in-vmware-windows-7-9140301/</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Darwin ISO to boot MAC :</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Without Darwin ISO you cant boot MAC in VMWARE. So download this latest version of Darwin iso for mac v10.6 and follow the instructions as in 'RedmondPie'</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.rapidshare.com/files/328517751/Darwin_SnowLeopardv2.0.zip</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Xcode and iphone SDK :</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is the only version of Iphone SDK in which which works on Mac OS X v10.6 , please dont upgrade your mac after you installed Mac in Vmware.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">iPhone SDK 3.1.3 with XCode 3.2.1 for Snow Leopard :</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://developer.apple.com/iphone/download.action?path=/iphone/iphone_sdk_3.1.3__final/iphone_sdk_3.1.3_with_xcode_3.2.1__snow_leopard__10m2003a.dmg </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">*If you cant download in windows, try downloading in MAC or search for torrent.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Removing code-signing :</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You should remove code signing which makes possible to deploy your Iphone application on real jailbroken Iphone/Ipod i.e without ADC membership, but you cant host your Iphone Application on Apple Appstore! .</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.alexwhittemore.com/?p=270</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Vmware Tools :</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This tool lets you connect /share folders from windows and mac and few other utilities.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.rapidshare.com/files/327912184/Install_VMware_Tools.app.zip</span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-47881782609401798552010-02-25T10:50:00.015+05:302010-07-31T16:04:58.586+05:30Einstasoft - The Formation<div face="Verdana,sans-serif"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbTXhm0Nxx3pEyrWdTg0BEaDXPTbstzW5Obr2jKpaO8zsf50aLDGw5NSf361WSpN3xAWqK2sRzB36gMR2iEJEZVwAQz0EONCO2OuRaozi6neyYNHAel6xfzItcESt5nHnPaxgs/s210/einstaetterhead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbTXhm0Nxx3pEyrWdTg0BEaDXPTbstzW5Obr2jKpaO8zsf50aLDGw5NSf361WSpN3xAWqK2sRzB36gMR2iEJEZVwAQz0EONCO2OuRaozi6neyYNHAel6xfzItcESt5nHnPaxgs/s210/einstaetterhead.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living."</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> My dreams are now slowly transforming into reality. Phaneendra K N, my friend and I, recently started a Web Company called </span></span><b><a href="http://www.einstasoft.com/"><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Einstasoft"</span></span></a></b><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. Web, here, doesn't signify website designing or web solutions. We strive to be an </span></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">innovative web product based company</span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> and are currently working on a major product which reflects our ideals about the kind of products we aim to build.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Getting to the crux of what i want to share in this blog-post, I just wanted to share our experience on the entire registration process for the start-up briefly and the hiccups we faced along the way. As soon as the company was officially registered, we were soon on the fast track and currently, things are moving as quick as greased lightning! As the current scenario is proving to be highly ideal for aspiring entrepreneurs, hope the information in this post helps all you aspirants out there to speed up the entire registration process and avoid the roadblocks which we faced, especially those in Karnataka.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How we registered Einstasoft :</span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> My dad is an attorney, and one of his clients is a Chartered Accountant so we had the advantage of professional guidance from a close acquaintance. As we were novices in this matter, he was able to clear up several issues bothering us regarding the company registration and give us crucial pointers. He gave us three options, to register </span></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Einstasoft as a firm</span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> , as a private limited company or as a public limited company. The last two , we were informed, would turn out to be pretty expensive, approx more than Rs.25,000. As our startup is completely self-funded at the moment, a major chunk being the prize money from Google summer of code, we came to a decision that Einstasoft would first be registered as a firm. After a while, we could move on to being private limited and then finally a public limited company as time goes by.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Registering Einstasoft as a Partnership Firm :</span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The first thing to be done was obtaining a Rs.1000/- stamp paper in the name of the company i.e Einstasoft from one of the </span></span><a href="http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&client=opera&hs=wQW&rls=en&q=sub-registrar+offices+bangalore&meta=&aq=0&oq=Sub-Registrar+Offices+"><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sub-Registrar Offices in Bangalore</span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. Due to security issues, Stamp Papers aren’t available in State Bank of India or any other nationalized banks.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> We received a mail from the Chartered Accountant regarding the partnership deed, The deed had details of the company, the shares in profit of the partners, and additional valuable information about our start-up which are pre-requisites. The cost of registering as a partnership firm is around Rs.3,500/-. After a subsequent payment of Rs. 3500/- to the Chartered Accountant, we were half-way through the process!</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Basically, the Chartered Accountant takes care of going to the Govt and submitting the form to the concerned officer on paying a certain amount, so a major part of the company registration process is taken care of by him. We were just required to fill </span></span><a href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:3E5PqgurVHcJ:haryanaforms.nic.in/industries/downloads/form-1.pdf+form1+in+india+partnership+act&hl=en&gl=in&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShAbjc6oV2vYYHvEg2LcbVx9OxpWizs6c_YMNqBGYFvOZW7pX573jd383vuoGHACCyx7Mmz72THq9RvFtniGnGqUWcA7l3Ic7163kP6IixfY16JKoKdWdsxuRK78dt4qQqboMWX&sig=AHIEtbQC7rO2WvJLzj_Wjjt5Hmev_KbVJQ"><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">form 1</span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> of the <a href="http://legalcrystal.com/judgements/search/name:Indian%20Partnership%20Act/type:1">India partnership act.</a></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Applying for PAN in the name of the firm is a must for filing company tax returns. So we photocopied the partnership deed attested by a gazetted officer( in any of The Central Library) and submitted the PAN form in one of the </span></span><a href="http://www.tin-nsdl.com/TINFaciliCenter.asp"><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">PAN center's</span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. A pan application costs around Rs.100/-. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The entire registration process was successfully completed with approximately Rs.5000!</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Opening a current account in the bank of our choice :</span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> For filing tax returns and accounting the profit/loss margin,every Company needs a Current Account in some bank. We thought of opening a current account in Canara Bank, Basavanagudi for our convenience and also because of our opinion that as it is a nationalized bank, we would be on the safer side in case of an economic crisis! </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> For opening an account, you are required to fill the Current Account opening application and include the following supporting documents :</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> · a photocopy of the Partnership Deed</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> · two photographs each of the partners</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> · address proof(D.L /Passport) of each partner and of the company premises</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> · an introduction by a current account holder in any of the bank's branches. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> We were not aware of anyone who had a current account in the bank, and though it was not personally a easy task to find out about customers who could give an introduction initially, you might have a better chance at it. Luckily , my friend's mom was an employee of Canara Bank and she referred us to the Branch Manager directly, soon after which we were able to proceed more smoothly.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The wheels have been set in motion and our Revenue Cycle will be starting from July 2010. Hoping that our efforts are rewarded soon and that we make some good profits with your best wishes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">*Our First product : </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.legalcrystal.com/">LegalCrystal.com</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">**A note of caution : Registering as a partnership firm has its own limitations. If anyone sues u , your personal assets are doomed with the company’s assets! As the chances of that are pretty rare considering that you have done your homework, it is still a feasible option for registering.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As soon as your profits reach 2lakhs, you should register your firm under shop and establishment act.</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">**Special Thanks to my beloved uncle Mr. Badrinath D N, IBM who believes in us and our startup, our <b>FIRST INVESTOR</b>! </span></span></i></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-70935246621281239942009-10-27T11:38:00.018+05:302010-07-31T16:02:00.274+05:30Guy Kawasaki at NASSCOM 2009, Bangalore<span style="font-family: verdana;">Here is the presentation by Guy Kawasaki at <a href="http://www.nasscom.in/nasscom/templates/flagshipEvents.aspx?id=57431">NASSCOM Product Conclave 2009</a>, Bangalore. It was really an amazing presentation by Guy.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Lakshman Srikanth with Guy Kawasaki *</span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh28osXmWDui5EXnMvDh0ig7HffysiTwUAS2lwhyphenhyphenv9MWgwFe7iWcjYzt3EfXa6E3g8uNKwHoFk1fPsv55UZbRU9R3in7K3QXkduLfX2x3Q0kbUuDFPtE-PKE-LdL1BGpOIxPb2q/s1600-h/Image0158.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="150" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397171263452164306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh28osXmWDui5EXnMvDh0ig7HffysiTwUAS2lwhyphenhyphenv9MWgwFe7iWcjYzt3EfXa6E3g8uNKwHoFk1fPsv55UZbRU9R3in7K3QXkduLfX2x3Q0kbUuDFPtE-PKE-LdL1BGpOIxPb2q/s200/Image0158.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" width="200" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-75176259141829900872009-10-01T08:01:00.003+05:302009-10-01T08:12:26.099+05:30Who To hire - Guy Kawasaki<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Here is an amazing video from <a href="http://blog.guykawasaki.com/">GuyKawasaki</a> about hiring right people for your startup. Watch and enlighten your senses ;).</span></span><br /><br /><center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JvryrILt8d0&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JvryrILt8d0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-1139400974011973782009-09-11T11:49:00.005+05:302009-09-11T11:53:54.179+05:30Google Technology User Group - Launch Event<center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0ILtHaYRfU4&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0ILtHaYRfU4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">un-official video : Google Technology User Group Launch Event at Google,Bangalore... ;) Njoy googl-ing<br /><br />*for more details about the event<a href="http://blog.bangalore-gtug.org/2009/07/bangalore-gtug-launch-event-session.html"> click here</a><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-89570118788766777802009-08-11T06:10:00.017+05:302010-07-31T16:05:23.569+05:30My brand new Yamaha R-15<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuDNuzRLSqFA8TKHGpcUrbalXy8tLpysiTh8IJ0-OsknEyH1ZTlWFIqdiIU8Q-3HFI6ql21QqoryvNve08dSSurTGbH3wBLL3GoCeMTpyk9Kn9k_zeZhAuCUairvuiELN9ia9a/s1600-h/Image0082.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368504041312499490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuDNuzRLSqFA8TKHGpcUrbalXy8tLpysiTh8IJ0-OsknEyH1ZTlWFIqdiIU8Q-3HFI6ql21QqoryvNve08dSSurTGbH3wBLL3GoCeMTpyk9Kn9k_zeZhAuCUairvuiELN9ia9a/s320/Image0082.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a> <span style="font-family: verdana;">For the past few months I have been away from the blogosphere... due to frequent "</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt" style="font-family: verdana;">F-U-D</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">" . First of all I would like to share information about my new bike - Yamaha YZF R-15 .<br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Why did I buy R-15? Why not Pulsar 220cc?<br />
</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">People have been asking me this question! For heaven's sake don't compare Pulsar with Yamaha! its like comparing "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajaj_Sunny">sunny</a>" with "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YZF-R1">R1</a>" :O..<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://www.yamaha-motor-india.com/product/r15/specs.html">Yamaha R-15</a> is a subset of Yamaha R1 and it looks SEXY HOT!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;">It has a liquid cooled engine which is far better than oil cooled or air cooled. Idling rpm is 1500rpm which is normally prevalent in high-end racing bikes!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;">and moreover it is powered with </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">Yamaha </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Engine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;">The feel is Ultimate</span>!The p<span style="font-family: verdana;">ower is simply awesome!<br />
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<ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">India’s first 150cc</span><strong style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="color: black;">4 valve engine</span></strong><span style="font-family: verdana;">.</span></li>
</ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is India’s first </span><span class="glossarycrosslink" style="font-family: verdana;">Bike </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> with </span><strong style="font-family: verdana;">forged pistons.</strong></li>
</ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is India’s first </span><span class="glossarycrosslink" style="font-family: verdana;">Bike </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> with a </span><strong style="font-family: verdana;">Diasil Cylinder</strong><span style="font-family: verdana;">.</span></li>
</ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is India’s first </span><span class="glossarycrosslink" style="font-family: verdana;">Bike </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> with the </span><strong style="font-family: verdana;">Deltabox frame</strong><span style="font-family: verdana;">, again based on the R1.</span></li>
</ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is India’s first </span><span class="glossarycrosslink" style="font-family: verdana;">Bike </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> with a</span><strong style="font-family: verdana;"> 6speed gear box</strong><span style="font-family: verdana;">. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">I have driven both pulsar 220cc and R-15 and I really liked R-15. R-15 is a 150cc racing bike! For those of you who are looking for Power, Speed and grabbing the attention of everyone on the road - go for R-15.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">So within 5 days i covered 1000km. Had been to </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savandurga" style="font-family: verdana;">Savandurga</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">, Manchinbelle Dam, almost near Mysore, </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaYlKxxAc4I" style="font-family: verdana;">KailasaGiri-Chintamani</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">. Will be posting few videos of my stunts on R-15 asap. :P</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdRXFWjgNedauDrqLhHK_qPNLiCY_1RmXgswhdxVw5st4HWWcXaxKlhyphenhyphenJhw9Ca8KD14e8atunH7lzjRMh76Nwo57V4dmSHeklFDf6cA7DOnvpeXC52QAWGzwEk0FFw5HrthSC-/s1600-h/Image0077.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368505552330672290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdRXFWjgNedauDrqLhHK_qPNLiCY_1RmXgswhdxVw5st4HWWcXaxKlhyphenhyphenJhw9Ca8KD14e8atunH7lzjRMh76Nwo57V4dmSHeklFDf6cA7DOnvpeXC52QAWGzwEk0FFw5HrthSC-/s400/Image0077.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><br />
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*On-Road Price : 1,11,400 INR<div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-18069237687688232442009-04-25T11:36:00.004+05:302009-09-29T21:53:34.897+05:30Off from the Blogosphere...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFj8WrB-_3R9VgweTLbx5OiL_P5EGkPqE7SUgKIrXk5YQfBqqGq5ECTwAiUs473WGtzOXMI8FUIMgv7kOf0yhP3as3q0v8B4S_2C-3GOg0bdWGQwAEcStGmwvn53MYLuxy1hVw/s1600-h/GreenSeeYou.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFj8WrB-_3R9VgweTLbx5OiL_P5EGkPqE7SUgKIrXk5YQfBqqGq5ECTwAiUs473WGtzOXMI8FUIMgv7kOf0yhP3as3q0v8B4S_2C-3GOg0bdWGQwAEcStGmwvn53MYLuxy1hVw/s400/GreenSeeYou.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328507780876141122" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Working on a Search Engine!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Clue : Indian Law Search Engine (watch out for : </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.legalcrystal.com/">Legal Crystal</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I will start blogging in a few months.... :P</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">though this was a completely unnecessary post..just wanted to keep you all posted!</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-25060872813350688062009-03-19T14:59:00.014+05:302009-09-29T21:51:59.408+05:30Academic Developer Conference 2009<span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://bdns.in/">BDotNetStudent</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> User Group is proud to announce its annual event for Student Developers to get started with their Software Development, The event comprises 4 talks and 4 DEMO sessions + lots of Goodies.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Entry for registered members only!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">For Registrations logon to </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://devcon.bdns.in/">http://bdns.in<br /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Here are the Event Details :</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIjB2D8ng2n2aDMfMBnpXgGnoOdThSSO6sGn820Sjj2JYWRZRJPzblcdDPMOCEt7zsfZP7AXWrVGjJ7X8twPpLhGvmwvEbZ24V4vtkYyzt37HhZruFGMiPtqxO456af1TuXae0/s1600-h/mail.google.com.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 503px; height: 628px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIjB2D8ng2n2aDMfMBnpXgGnoOdThSSO6sGn820Sjj2JYWRZRJPzblcdDPMOCEt7zsfZP7AXWrVGjJ7X8twPpLhGvmwvEbZ24V4vtkYyzt37HhZruFGMiPtqxO456af1TuXae0/s400/mail.google.com.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315088975522568850" border="0" /></a><br />*Online Registrations are only for Colleges with no Microsoft Student Partners.Also applicable when referred to by your Microsoft Student Partner.<br />*referral code : srikanth<div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-88036318513363402882009-03-17T09:28:00.006+05:302009-09-29T21:57:13.519+05:30iRobot at Virtual Tech Days<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> It was a great experience being a part of <a href="http://virtualtechdays.com/">Virtual Tech Days</a> , a online tech event which took place in February. Here is my live Webcast.. check it out!</span></span><br /><br /><center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Wnz2pQIDsD8&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Wnz2pQIDsD8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center><br /><br /><br /><center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/D8zGnZVCuu8&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/D8zGnZVCuu8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-23170042207023820682009-03-15T05:33:00.007+05:302009-09-29T22:01:46.271+05:30Classic Chennai<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwRP_czScFuZ7dAZLkoiGOS07gLKNNuhjMZDQMbgipJ4IL-Q8WxaSjddNqgEBgoh-mEcquH6mX-_oj-pmo3YI-APVq_3M86t6NUMKNIRXPJciMXxBT9lMIxbjCqKMqAUvdgh8q/s1600-h/Classic+CHennai-logo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwRP_czScFuZ7dAZLkoiGOS07gLKNNuhjMZDQMbgipJ4IL-Q8WxaSjddNqgEBgoh-mEcquH6mX-_oj-pmo3YI-APVq_3M86t6NUMKNIRXPJciMXxBT9lMIxbjCqKMqAUvdgh8q/s400/Classic+CHennai-logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313198994280116594" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.cnugstudent.net/">Chennai UG</a> is organizing an event called "Classic Chennai" (<a href="http://classicchennai.net/">http://classicchennai.net</a>). The event is an online one which spans a month from March 15th to April 15th and is mainly aimed at students students to motivate them and let them discover how fun technology is. Through this we also intend to popularize the UG and its activities.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span> <span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">The event is divided into the following categories :</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span> <span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">1. Blogging</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">2. Photography</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">3. Photosynth</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">4. Short Film</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">5. Documentary</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">6. Poster Design</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">Intro to Classic Chennai:</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">CLASSIC CHENNAI is a fiesta of month-long online competitions for students, organized by the combined efforts of the CNUG student Chapter and the Microsoft Student Partner (Chennai) community.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">Event Description:</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">Classic Chennai is a kaleidoscope of creative, inspiring and thought -provoking competitions that are sure to be a huge favorite among Chennai’s student community. The Classic Chennai banner comprises of an exciting set of online events held throughout the month of March, aimed at finding the hidden talent among the youth of the city. What makes Classic Chennai one of a kind is that it doesn’t restrict itself to any particular sphere and hence, personifies the diverse community that Chennai is, as a whole.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">Theme of Classic Chennai:</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">It is impossible, not to forget, unwise to classify or categorize something as vast and varied as the city of Chennai. It equally unfair to try to categorize the vast and varied talent pool that the students in Chennai are blessed with. Categorization imposes restrictions and Classic Chennai aims at breaking this very unwritten rule that competitions should pertain to some theme or the other. The crux of the competition is that there is no particular topic a participant should adhere to, in any of the events. Just make sure your entry revolves around what you think Classic Chennai is, in any aspect, and send us your entries. So what are you waiting for? Put on your thinking caps and start expanding your horizons! Let the spotlight turn on YOU and CHENNAI!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-1126214526756515082009-02-28T08:25:00.007+05:302009-02-28T20:17:04.409+05:30Google SearchMasters 2009 India<span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" >for instant updates.....<br />follow me on twitter : <a href="http://twitter.com/bloggersrikanth">www.twitter.com/bloggersrikanth</a><br /><br /></span><center><br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flakshman.srikanth%2Falbumid%2F5307678678205130929%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="600" height="400"></embed></center><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-8089162328829513532009-02-15T19:33:00.008+05:302009-09-29T22:13:51.215+05:30Yahoo HackDayIndia<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hackday was a fantastic event and i thoroughly enjoyed myself. Our Team H-U-B "Hack Ur Brain" did a good job. We used Yahoo Messenger </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">SDK and SunSpot SDK and developed a small app , its a sort of S</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">oftware - Hardware Hack because we used a device known as </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sunspotworld.com/">SUNSPOT</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and developed a app which notifies you if somebody pings you on your Yahoo Messenger. The notification appears on the SUNSPOT which is a wireless device which has an accelerometer, a temperature sensor etc.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Moreover, I had a great time with all the GEEKS/UBER GEEKS</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> who coded through the whole night. All the attendees were given away BEAN BA</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">GS,Labels and T-SHIRTS...... and at the moment , i am blogging ,seated on the same BEAN BAG i was sitting on while hacking...! :)</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgltJsE5v3U6oJ1FnypOWtEGHV7JhBG5zTcAwrLOYJHmvZMIyoBZD7AVl6UejfHH-aeQAfyvN_Jc3e-sZy435G4btwO-UvNAdNyCKg7NfgQZVNvI2HXX0zR_53Mb1mUjugQ4_AQ/s1600-h/DSC03897.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgltJsE5v3U6oJ1FnypOWtEGHV7JhBG5zTcAwrLOYJHmvZMIyoBZD7AVl6UejfHH-aeQAfyvN_Jc3e-sZy435G4btwO-UvNAdNyCKg7NfgQZVNvI2HXX0zR_53Mb1mUjugQ4_AQ/s400/DSC03897.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303027503734922754" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">From Left : Nitin Rao, Vittal P, David Filo(Co-Founder Yahoo!), me.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://acquestech.com/">Phaneendra Kaddi</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - the Photographer ! who was also in our team.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">This is our team(H-U-B) with David Filo who started Yahoo! with Jerry Yang.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;">"Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful"</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">- David Filo<br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">just some twitter updates by attendees .... about the DEMO o</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">f our hackproject!<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiawV5B_g6rFG4n3UdZ0G1y6wFG87DnKVlbFupPtjBalfGH195_yg6cxDy6FydevbdTf8oK926yzNx65llxv3wAUFwUQUKqh7W9xizsoMNLrl2mT2kWjcxsJxdsyPsjWhkDwxIy/s1600-h/hack2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 195px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiawV5B_g6rFG4n3UdZ0G1y6wFG87DnKVlbFupPtjBalfGH195_yg6cxDy6FydevbdTf8oK926yzNx65llxv3wAUFwUQUKqh7W9xizsoMNLrl2mT2kWjcxsJxdsyPsjWhkDwxIy/s400/hack2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303042775735976626" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkZXU_G872XBhMGTbRalt720WpQ5W9dmZNEhjcsqGbi9R3DgRN5i686YNgYMQv5htJPw_x95MSwvViFsOUEWw8G6qZxwaKEVG4d1ajw5q9P3IazsqCMR98xWfXJqTtivn_w9Tb/s1600-h/hack.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 145px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkZXU_G872XBhMGTbRalt720WpQ5W9dmZNEhjcsqGbi9R3DgRN5i686YNgYMQv5htJPw_x95MSwvViFsOUEWw8G6qZxwaKEVG4d1ajw5q9P3IazsqCMR98xWfXJqTtivn_w9Tb/s400/hack.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303042797715788418" border="0" /></a>*click on photo to zoom...<br />*<a href="http://openhack2009.pbwiki.com/FrontPage">Winners </a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-91710307211345854272009-01-26T18:03:00.006+05:302009-09-29T22:16:14.387+05:30Barcamp Bangalore 8<span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIDEGKAkdiAYDYw7GykDZOWRWfevXU2OqUwLO_ZWjvYAaRL5TWAaJI7z2j-okcJYhUYr692ptItdh6lEtoPeR3VgFu4gQcGmeFgSwQeSBR7xJ985FNMYnReIzkN1YvRb0xHhjf/s1600-h/Ashwin-Bcb8logo.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 120px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIDEGKAkdiAYDYw7GykDZOWRWfevXU2OqUwLO_ZWjvYAaRL5TWAaJI7z2j-okcJYhUYr692ptItdh6lEtoPeR3VgFu4gQcGmeFgSwQeSBR7xJ985FNMYnReIzkN1YvRb0xHhjf/s400/Ashwin-Bcb8logo.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295580050770161986" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">Woah! <a href="http://barcampbangalore.org/">BCB 8</a> is here, on march 7th and 8th! looks like there are a lot of positive changes this time , check out </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.barcampbangalore.org/">www.barcampbangalore.org</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">. </span><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp"></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">See my older posts </span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://lakshmansrikanth.blogspot.com/2007/11/barcampbangalore-5-chilled-out.html">Barcamp Bangalore 5 "Chilled Out</a><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://lakshmansrikanth.blogspot.com/2007/11/barcamp-bangalore-5-winter-edition.html">Barcamp Bangalore 5 "Winter Edition"</a><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://lakshmansrikanth.blogspot.com/2008/04/barcamp-blore-6-summer-edition-hotter.html">Barcamp Bangalore 6 "Summer Edition"</a><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://lakshmansrikanth.blogspot.com/2008/09/barcamp-bangalore-7.html">Barcamp Bangalore 7 "Completing the innovation spectrum"</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I attended bcb 3, bcb 4 but never blogged about it... :( anyway I will be </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://lakshmansrikanth.blogspot.com/">blogging</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">,</span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://twitter.com/bloggersrikanth">twittering</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> live for bcb8!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">All in all, Barcamp is heaven for Startup Enthusiasts, Geeks, Entrepreneurs and is totally FREE!.<br />*</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">New to Barcamp find out <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp">what is Barcamp?</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-23457337267154899882009-01-22T19:58:00.010+05:302009-09-29T22:19:55.740+05:30Innovative Ideas<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZVwjSYbOH88tc2dqMtCNZLNluZQNQJWzOhkXhGAaUeQvCp0lY-fAdKirZlOXHWmSDtyvyk-vkmH50gBfJhgol4S00FWELwZnNwrp03npryCdZYBWsj7KWf6KztEfu1gkaeAFj/s1600-h/innovation.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZVwjSYbOH88tc2dqMtCNZLNluZQNQJWzOhkXhGAaUeQvCp0lY-fAdKirZlOXHWmSDtyvyk-vkmH50gBfJhgol4S00FWELwZnNwrp03npryCdZYBWsj7KWf6KztEfu1gkaeAFj/s400/innovation.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294130231274213762" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">While digging out some old docs in my system, I noticed a document which <a href="http://www.acquestech.com/">Phaneendra</a> and I did for our College <a href="http://pessetech.co.nr/">Tech Club</a>. Its called as <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">"Innovative Ideas"</span>..... We Give you a list of situations/challenges and you need to give us some ideas to solve the issue!... I would love to share this document, here are few questions from that doc. Please reply ... add a comment.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPs6bKaDHFHV-yyMH9Me0715pGUAxk5_DUvfZeNeUz8JdeFUH0-8vhE-F9qCKM7KsErO1lfbP9v9SpZfeQIEoOqR5HA4yAdgzeAv4cknIp6gr7lmZWJYxmhjQIqodgfB5WaZs/s1600-h/peru-piracy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 141px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPs6bKaDHFHV-yyMH9Me0715pGUAxk5_DUvfZeNeUz8JdeFUH0-8vhE-F9qCKM7KsErO1lfbP9v9SpZfeQIEoOqR5HA4yAdgzeAv4cknIp6gr7lmZWJYxmhjQIqodgfB5WaZs/s200/peru-piracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294129479136199410" border="0" /></a><ul style="font-family:verdana;"><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The amou</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">nt of piracy is extensive all over the world. 98% of th</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">e </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">software in India is pirated. Companies invest billions of dollars to </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">control piracy. Innovate an idea to control piracy..maybe then, you too can make billions of dollars. :)</span></span></li></ul><ul style="font-family:verdana;"><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">If you have, by chance visited our college library you </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGeD18Xbc9EFk-RTtB_IlNQkNXW67PYipiUjFYh4FnIY379Yi6zQDJwbDBBglnVOzFt6G5fNgBAXnXRY8zznoLA-coW9JWkNxDp0fqMhOzg7RLfodZEXxYs7V2qU1_Y10AC61R/s1600-h/85ce194d2a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGeD18Xbc9EFk-RTtB_IlNQkNXW67PYipiUjFYh4FnIY379Yi6zQDJwbDBBglnVOzFt6G5fNgBAXnXRY8zznoLA-coW9JWkNxDp0fqMhOzg7RLfodZEXxYs7V2qU1_Y10AC61R/s200/85ce194d2a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294129760533723138" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">mi</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ght have come across many quotes related to educatio</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">n. It tells how an education sys</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">tem should work, how teachers should in</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">s</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">pire and motivate students, how the goal of learning should be knowledge </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">alone etc. Inspite of that our education system still has many loopholes. Please suggest an idea that can revolutionize our education system.</span></span></li></ul><ul style="font-family:verdana;"><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">You might have heard about Apple(iPhone), Google(search), Yahoo(mail) and many other companies which make amazing produ</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU8-WYcTtd8gm6bUMrXbquKbuREMPn_oBbyQlUZJs7OHAbgXviFdJQr6NXfPuOJSVndjwOk_rJOPebwCITEbq3RVXkOPiYL_7907SxLmHC3ohi1ocnNSpLcFqehdTULHfbGg_x/s1600-h/Innovation_Workshop_Banner.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 171px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU8-WYcTtd8gm6bUMrXbquKbuREMPn_oBbyQlUZJs7OHAbgXviFdJQr6NXfPuOJSVndjwOk_rJOPebwCITEbq3RVXkOPiYL_7907SxLmHC3ohi1ocnNSpLcFqehdTULHfbGg_x/s200/Innovation_Workshop_Banner.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294131078341411186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">cts and people buy them at any cost. These products ha</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ve become a part of life for many human beings. Have you ever wondered why there isn't any successful Indian company for whose products Indian people crave for. What do you think is the drawback in our country which is preventing us from producing such a company? What can be done about it?</span></span></li></ul><ul style="font-family:verdana;"><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">When you query a search engine in the internet you get a lot of results. These results are links to websites which are accessible to everyone. Have you ever wondered why you don't get results which link to pages present in people's e-mail account. The reason for this is be</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh72GNeQDHOVfS1DwAVOR4abJZrKIKdM5DtDnJbXDPcIRySLcouZJpl1LUAzHYMgS3vrFsJrZp5oSowIhCr0Gm1Yc-aAo8RiUb7AqSLKUyOwcuq9cOnKSJqqoAa4V1dfADj8qp8/s1600-h/Deep+Web.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 187px; height: 157px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh72GNeQDHOVfS1DwAVOR4abJZrKIKdM5DtDnJbXDPcIRySLcouZJpl1LUAzHYMgS3vrFsJrZp5oSowIhCr0Gm1Yc-aAo8RiUb7AqSLKUyOwcuq9cOnKSJqqoAa4V1dfADj8qp8/s200/Deep+Web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294129990587244242" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">cause all the search engines give out results which link to pages present in the surface web, which forms only a part of the complete web. The part which is not accessible to everyone is called Deep Web. Deep Web includes pages which need authorization, pages which are available to specific users and similar kind of pages. Please suggest an idea which would allow everyone to view pages from the DeepWeb.</span></span></li></ul>If you find any grammatical mistakes or a silly question, kindly ignore. Thank you<br />image courtesy : <a href="http://elzr.com/imagery">imagery</a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34862239.post-88591367309161233182009-01-20T19:28:00.009+05:302009-09-29T22:24:54.654+05:30Forum Nokia Developer Conference<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Sometime in May 2008, had been to Forum Nokia Code Camp @ IIIT-B where I learnt developing basic applications for Nokia S40 based cellphones, You can check out my earlier </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://lakshmansrikanth.blogspot.com/2008/09/nokia-code-camp.html">blogpost here</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">I received a mail from <a href="http://www.forum.nokia.com/">Forum Nokia</a> ,</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">which was an invite to Forum Nokia Developer Conference.It was a paid event. Normally I never attend paid events but I got lucky this time! I received one more mail from </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/kesavareddy">Kesav</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - CEO of </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.numo.co.in/">Numo</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> saying that you have free passes from </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://bangalore.mobilemonday.in/">MOMO</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">. woah! without further delay , i registered for the event! Thanks Kesav and momo!.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"> The event was really great , had the opportunity to listen to some brilliant people from Nokia R & D, CEO's of successful companies and their mind blowing products. It was absolute fun! They discussed about the Mobile Industry in India, specifically VAS -</span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_service"> Value Added Services</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">, apart from VAS they are looking at different marketing strategies , one of their proposed marketing strategy is : " A cellphone user, instead of listening to normal Ringing Tone i.e while you call someone, the service provider(airtel,vodafone....) will play a small AD. This is one of the emerging AD campaigns! ".</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The presentations will be soon available here : </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://nokiadevcon.in/">www.nokiadevcon.in</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">. Check out the website for more details on the speakers and sessions :) .</span><br /><br /></span><center style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><table style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/-6c_OVSt9to_0eQBOyR4gA?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_r5Q242d9Mjs/SXXiBMfIw9I/AAAAAAAAA-U/rO5VwKqKqx8/s400/Image016.jpg" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: right;font-size:11px;"><span style="font-size:130%;">From <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakshman.srikanth/UnConferences?feat=embedwebsite">Un-conferences</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></center><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">yeah I know that's me :P! click on "Un-conferences" for more pics from event.!</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">-- Lakshman</div>Lakshman Srikanth Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229513804594989041noreply@blogger.com81