May 18, 2012
KEYNOTE CHANGE: Tim Draper to
deliver keynote on 5/19 instead of Carlos
Dominguez.
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Founder & Managing Director
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Tim launched the DFJ Global Network, an international network of
early-stage venture capital funds with offices in over 30 cities
around the globe. He founded DFJ ePlanet (global), Draper Fisher
Jurvetson Gotham (NYC), Zone Ventures (LA), Epic Ventures (Salt
Lake City), Draper Atlantic (Reston), Draper Triangle
(Pittsburg), Timberline Ventures (Portland), Polaris Fund
(Anchorage) and more.
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Today @TiEcon
- We had a great opening Keynote: "Innovation without Disruption" - Dr.
Vishal Sikka, Head of Technology & Innovation,
SAP.
- Breakthrough Thinker - Dr. Deepak Chopra gave an
outstanding talk : "Prosperity and Leadership" in the
afternoon.
- Day 1 of the Conference ended with a powerhouse firechat
session with Keynote - Aaron Levie of Box.net who talked
about : "My entrepreneurial journey in Building an Enterprise
Cloud Company" with R. Paul Singh, Chairman- DocSync.net,
Marketing Chair - TiE Silicon Valley.
- Plus we had powerful parallel sessions
in Entrepreneurship, Social, Mobile, Cloud, Energy, Life
Sciences and TiE Women's Forum.
- #TiEcon was also the trending topic on Twitter
today.
Don't miss TiEcon Day 2!
Banquet SOLD OUT. Online Registration CLOSED. Onsite
Registration available from 7:30 am.
Connect.Innovate.Prosper at TiEcon
2012
 No comments May 16, 2012
This Friday and Saturday we look
forward to seeing you at the largest entrepreneurial event of the
year:
We expect to have over 3,000
registered attendees and 160 speakers! Our speaker line up this
year is extraordinary. In addition to the inspiring keynotes and
breakthrough sessions, here are some tips to make the most of your
time while at the conference.
TiEcon
AttendeeConnect:
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at TiEcon with our TiEcon2012 mobile application. Here is what you
can do with Attendee Connect Mobile application.
- Network with other attendees
- View the full agenda
- Create your own personal
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- Update your status by checking in
to sessions and exhibitors
- See other attendee's updates in
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- Leave feedback by rating sessions
and exhibitors
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Earn points and badges by checking
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How to get the app:
- iPhone: Search
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TiEcon
MentorConnect: If you signed up for this great opportunity
to talk with some mentors and if your application got accepted, you
should have received an email with details. If you didn't sign up
yet, we are atcapacity and can't take new mentees.
TiEcon
InvestorConnect: If you are an exhibitor
in The TiE Innovation Expo, and you signed up to meet with
investors, you should have received an email with details.
TiEcon Social
:
Network on TiEcon Social
Channels and increase your followers and friends:
For latest updates about TiEcon
during the event, follow @TiEcon on Twitter, Facebook and Google+
using the links
Twitter : ( Use #TiEcon to
join the conversation )
https://twitter.com/#!/tiecon
You can also follow or subscribe to
TiEcon 2012 lists at https://twitter.com/#!/TiEcon/lists
that includes a list for all TiEcon 2012 speakers
as well as a list each for TiEcon 2012 tracks.
Facebook:
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TiEcon
Innovation Expo :
This year's Innovation Expo is our
largest yet. Come and see over 120 exhibitors - Large Companies
like SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft, IBM as well as Startups like
eGrabber, Glassbeam,
PubNub, Vigilent,
Wavespot, Dhingana,
Mela.com and many more plus come checkout
IBM Watson and two of the world's hottest new
cars - A Designer's Dream car
- Fisker Karma and The Super
Sports car - McLaren
TiEcon
Prizes:
TiECon attendees have a
chance to win thousand of dollars worth of shopping sprees. Game
instructions can be found on quest.intARact.mobi.
Stop by the Dhingana booth to get atleast one of the
clues and learn more details about the Quest and test your Bollywood moves on
xBox Kinect. Every completed Quest also gets a $25 gift certificate
from Cbazaar (TiE50
Finalist).
TiEcon
Parties:
Come and Party with live band
- Manooghi Hi on Friday evening (no
host bar) and TiEcon Banquet &
Entertainment Gala with Kailash Kher on Saturday. Banquet tickets are sold
out but you can
still get Entertainment
tickets.
Must Attend at TiEcon
2012
Keynotes: Vishal Sikka, Deepak Chopra,
Anant Agarwal, Sam Pitroda, Aaron Levie, Carlos Dominguez
Vertical Sessions: These are
industry specific sessions in Social, Mobile, Cloud, Energy and
Life Sciences which will give you a glimpse into the latest trends,
opportunities and investment focus areas.
Entrepreneurs Track: These
sessions will provide the essential tools every entrepreneur needs.
They have been designed to address the needs at various stages of a
startup. Pick the right session(s) based on your needs.
TiE50 Presentations: This is a great
opportunity to hear from the top startups and learn their secrets
of success. TiE50 winners from the previous two years have already
accounted for over $3B in valuation. The winners this year are no
different.
TIE
Youth Forum: Introducing the TiEYouth Forum at TiEcon
this year. This special event will give the
opportunity for high school and college students to become inspired
by successful entrepreneurs who have plowed their own path and can
now share what they've learned. Don't miss the 2 special sessions
we have in store for you.
TiE Women's Forum:
Building upon last year's success, this year's TiEcon promises 3
inspiring sessions for Women Entrepreneurs of today.
Hope this will be helpful
in planning and maximizing the benefit from the two days of
TiEcon.
Connect.Innovate.Prosper at
TiEcon
2012
No comments May 16, 2012
Satyaranarayan Gangaram Pitroda!
The last name rings a bell. Yes - it is Sam Pitroda, the advisor to
the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure
and Innovation. Sam Pitroda was single-handedly responsible for the
Communication revolution that happened in India and the reason
behind why the Indian economy went on a hockey-stick curve of
growth, technological leaps and bounds evolution, opening up to
globalization and for being where it is today. Meaning while the US
and the world go through economic recession, India is still
booming, salaries still sky-high; despite the 1 billion+
population, the job economy still booming and the Indian stock and
real-estate markets on a steady growth curve every year.
The Rajiv Gandhi era
In 1987, when Rajiv Gandhi became
the Prime Minister, he brought with him young blood and filled the
key roles around him with eager, go-getting ministers and
executives who wanted to change the world - well, India. Among
them was Sam Pitroda, who Rajiv Gandhi appointed as his Technology
advisor. And with that began the modernization and globalization of
India. As technology swept like a wave through banks and
universities, railways and government offices, telephone booths
spread through the country with a viral vengeance and
telecommunications became affordable and accessible to the common
man even in the remotest of villages. As technology became more
accessible, penetrating the poorest strata of society, Rajiv Gandhi
was hailed as the young hero of the nation and Sam Pitroda, the
father of the Communications Revolution.
During this time, Dr. Pitroda
headed six technology missions related to telecommunications,
water, literacy, immunization, dairy and oilseeds and became the
founder and first chairman of India's Telecom Commission.
The Early years
Sam Pitroda had lived in the US
since 1964. He did his MS in Electrical Engineering from the
Illinois Institute of Technology. It was here that he founded C-SAM
and Wescom (later acquired by Rockwell International). He did
research on telecommunications and handheld computing, invented
digital switching and in 1975, invented the Electronic Diary. In
1983, he designed his own computer-themed card game called
Compucards, which used binary numbers instead of decimals.
In 1984, he was invited to return
to India by the then Prime Minister, Smt Indira Gandhi. He came
back and founded 'The Center for Development of Telematics'
(C-DOT), which triggered the Communication Revolution in India.
The Decade of Innovation
Dr. Sam Pitroda's excellence has
been revered by one and all. This was self evident when in 2004,
the newly elected Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan
Singh invited him
to head the National Knowledge
Commission of India
and appointed him as Advisor to the PM of India.
In 2010, the President of India
declared this as 'The Decade of Innovation'. The PM approved
setting up of a National Innovation Council under the chairmanship
of Sam Pitroda. The mission of this council is to develop a
national strategy on innovation with a focus on an Indian model of
inclusive growth.
Awards and accolades
Dr. Pitroda holds close to 100
worldwide patents.
Among the many awards and accolades
he has received, are two honorary D.Sc. degrees by Andhra
University and Sambalpur University, IEEE Communication Society
Award and the Skoch Challenger Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2009,
he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the
Government of India for his contribution to Science and
Engineering.
The Road
ahead
Dr. Pitroda heads today, the Expert
Group for Modernization of Indian Railways - the 4th largest Railways in the
world, which carry over 30 million passengers and
2.8 million tons of freight daily, through a network
of over 70,000 miles, with 1.4 million employees that man it. He is
also the Chairman of the Smart Grid Task Force under the Ministry
of Power and a founding Commissioner of the United Nations
Broadband Commission for Digital Development.
The contributions of Dr. Sam
Pitroda, are priceless and endless. It is no wonder that he has
been talked about by Times of India and others, as being a hot
potential candidate for the next President of India.
Come hear Dr. Pitroda talk
about innovation and revolutions in an emerging, third-world
economy. Could he give us clues on how we could turn the US &
global economies around? Do not miss the Closing Keynote of this year's TiECon 2012 (May
18 - 19, 2012), where you could be hearing the father of the Indian
Communication revolution and possibly the future President of
India, talk about how he changed the course of history and how we
could do it here, all over again.
Posted by: Gargi
Nalawade
1 comment . May 15, 2012
As
you are already aware, on May 18, two big events taking
place in Silicon Valley -
Facebook IPO
and TiEcon.
Which
one are you joining? You have a choice:
You can just watch Facebook IPO from the sideline on May 18th or create a
foundation for IPO of your company by coming to
TiEcon on May 18th and/or
19th.
I
am attending TiEcon 2012 and
speaking at TiEYouth
Session,
working with young and not-so-young alike about how to go about
creating your own big startup and make the world more
prosperous.Needless to say there is lot more that can help you
succeed in your entrepreneurial venture.
TiEcon
is one such event that provides inspiring keynotes, educational
sessions on entrepreneurship and various industry verticals and
offers you the best networking opportunity with fellow
entrepreneurs, investors and your prospects! There are formal
networking events like Mentor Connect,
Attendee Connect and Investor
Connect besides many informal opportunities to
network.
I
look forward to seeing many of you at TiEcon 2012.
Vinod
Khosla
Founder, Khosla Ventures
Use
Promo Code 'TIEBDEAL' for
$150 off Conference and $25
off Banquet Registration price.
No comments May 14, 2012
The topic of TiEchat on Wednesday, 5/10 was "What to expect in
#Social and #Cloud sessions at #TiEcon 2012?" with Manu Rekhi @Manu
, VC, Inventus & Lak Ananth @lananth , Director, Corp Dev,
#HP
To attend and participate in the chat , please use #TiEchat on
twitter.com or go totweetchat.com/room/TiEchat .
Here is the summary of last #TiEchat on 5/10:
Welcome to the #TiEchat about "What to expect in #Social and #Cloud sessions at #TiEcon 2012"
I am Shilpi Agarwal,
marketing manager at TiE Silicon Valley. Host for today's #TiEchat is Anand Akela @aakela
It's my pleasure to welcome
Manu Rekhi @Manu , VC, Inventus & Lak Ananth
@lananth , Director, Corp Dev, #HP, to #TiEchat
Glad to be part of
#TiEchat. I am excited about what we have
lined up for @TiEcon this year
Q> What's the theme of #Social
track in #TiEcon 2012? How did you go about deciding
this sessions for #Social track?
I spent
considerable time with my co-chair @gokulr to narrow down topics in #social. Gaming, commerce and
opportunities in social
Q> I noticed a panel with @arjunsethi @willharbin @pparsons
et al . Is Social Gaming still hot ?
The theme for
the #social track @TiEcon is having engaging discussions
around current and emerging trends around #socialat
Q> What can we expect in the social commerce panel w/
@setlinger @kip @marrc
@joebot @MartyArmstrongDavid F @facebook
#social gaming is going through its next
phase of maturation. Companies like #kixeye are bucking the trend and
innovating
Q> What were the criterion for speakers in the #Social
track?
We selected the
best amongst entrepreneurs and VC's in the #social space to provide a diverse set of
insights @TiEcon.
Q> Emerging Trends & Investment
Opportunities panel @Rajil @joshelman looks interesting. Expecting more
speakers?
We are saving the
best for last in this panel. If you havent registered for
@TiEcon you should.
Q> How did you decide the 3 panels in the #Cloud
track ? Is there any theme ?
For the #Cloud track, we started with where cloud
is today and show where the most exciting opportunities are
We then got the best
possible speakers for the topics. For instance, we have the CIO of
Verizon Business Services on CIO panel
We also have the EVP
of Cloud from VMWare in the Opportunities panel in the #Cloud track
Q> What to expect in Emerging trends & investment
opportunities w/ @raimjlen @shirishsathaye@trailsfootmarks @RMTacc ?
The consumerization
panel in #Cloud addresses public cloud but more
from the perspective of services, not infrastructure
Q> Are you focusing more on enterprise private cloud
or public cloud in your panels ?
The CIO panel and
Opportunities panel in #Cloud will address both private and
public clouds, from infrastructure to SaaS
Q> What is covered in "Global CIO Forum" w/ @dsmoley
& speakers from @Oracle @MorganStanley@BNYMellon @verizonbusiness
#Commerce panel will dive into what makes
social commerce successful, case studies and rise of collaborative
consumption.
Q> How did you decide on the Consumerization in the
Enterprise panel compared w/ other potential cloud related
topics?
Entrepreneurs we
spoke to wanted to build businesses on the Consumerization trend,
they decided for us
@Manu @lananth Thanks for joining and answering
questions in the #TiEChat. I am sure the audience will find
it valuable
The CIO forum is about the "State of Cloud" in the real world.
These CIOs spend real money, can't miss if you want to follow the
$
Join us for #TiEcon 2012 on May 18,19 at Santa Clara
Convention Center. Register today at tiecon.org
Thanks to @aakela and all the audience who asked
questions and are interested in @TiEcon. . See you next friday at the
conference
See #TiE50 2012 winners in #Cloud #Social #Energy #Mobile #LifeScience tie50.net/TiE50Awards/2012
#TiEchat is concluded now. Archive will be
posted at tiecon.community.peersnet.com/Blog
Thanks @Manu @lananth and everyone who participated
!
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'Deepak Chopra? Why is he speaking
at TiEcon?' This wasn't the first time I had heard someone say
this. I was disappointed and at the same time stumped - as to
whether to gawk at the questioner's ignorance, or to marvel at how
narrow and limited was the prevalent understanding of
entrepreneurship, creativity and leadership. 'Dr. Deepak Chopra, is
an adjunct Professor on Entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of
Management'. But saying that alone would not do justice to his
ground breaking approach to Entrepreneurship, Management &
Leadership and his contribution to the world.
Discovering Deepak
Despite growing up in India, I
first came across Deepak's work on Spirituality, Science and
Quantum Physics, only after I moved to the US. Watching his videos
at a Mind, Body Health retreat by Anthony Robbins, on the remote
islands of Fiji, I marveled at how Deepak spun magic out of words
and held scientific and spiritual audiences alike, completely
mesmerized. I saw him thereafter on CNN and I decided I needed to
investigate further. On an impulse I called the Chopra Center in
Carlsbad and the wonderful salesman who turned out to be someone
whose life had been transformed by Anthony Robbins, gave me an
incredible deal to a Chopra spiritual retreat.
On Quantum Physics and
Creativity
There began my journey into
understanding Deepak's mysticism and philosophy. I was fascinated
at how he correlated and logically proved to skeptics like me, that
spirituality was really no different from quantum physics at its
most basic level. An electron, one of the basic building blocks of
matter, is either a particle or a wave of energy housed in the
Heisenberg principle of Uncertainty.
Thoughts, neurologists say, are
brain waves, which again are nothing but neuro-chemical impulses of
energy. And we as humans are a combination of 'Energy' of the
cellular and mental kinds. Both these energies coexist and can
travel through matter or space. Is that what explains why multiple
people in different corners of the globe get the same idea at the
same time? Is that what explains two unrelated physicists getting
the same eureka moment at the same time and hence sharing the Nobel
prize?
"Creativity is a process of
transforming raw energy, information, and material of the universe
into something that has never before existed", says Dr. Deepak
Chopra, MD, Physician and now an Entrepreneur, Mystic, Celebrated
and Widely read Author. " Creativity requires a quantum leap in
awareness or consciousness", he adds. "The more consciousness you
have, the more potential you have to create." Creativity and
Innovation, have been exacted by Dr. Deepak Chopra, to a
Science.
The Soul of Leadership
In his new book "The Soul of
Leadership", Deepak offers an entirely new approach to the exciting
possibilities of Leadership. " Great leaders have a vision and the
ability to manifest it", he says. "A leader emerges from within
himself. He matches his inner perception with outer situation and
finds a way to turn his vision into reality". In this book, he
combines spiritual wisdom with modern dynamic psychology and
fills you with ideas you can put into action to bring out
excellence at every level.
He talks about 7 primary roles of a
leader - a Protector, Achiever, Team Builder, Nurturer, Transformer
and finally a Sage and a Seer whose role is pure light or
enlightenment.
"Deepak Chopra opens the door for
today's leaders to access the secrets of success without giving up
who we are", says Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of salesforce.com.
"Deepak Chopra really gets it - true leadership is not about
popularity, power or profits; but about getting your ego out of the
way so that you can serve the greater good", says Ken Blanchard,
coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Lead with LUV.
Deepak - the Entrepreneur
Dr. Deepak Chopra got thrown into
entrepreneurship when he diverted from his allopathic practice to
become an Ayurvedic mind, body, spirit health practitioner and
teacher and founded the Chopra Institute. In his quest for holistic
universal planetary health, that includes even business,
entrepreneurial and leadership health, he has written over 65 books
with 19 NY Times best-sellers. Wall Street Journal mentioned his
book, 'The Soul of Leadership' as among the 5 best business books of 2011. His latest
foray has been into gaming where his first video game, 'Leela'
(meaning feat), is a groundbreaking concept that combines ancient
relaxation and meditation techniques with technology to bring
focus, energy and balance to your life.
Dr. Deepak Chopra comes, to
enlighten us, to go beyond the boundaries we have set in defining
creativity and innovation. Come hear him speak and take a
boundless, quantum leap into ground-breaking dimensions of
entrepreneurship, leadership and prosperity, at the BreakThrough Thinker's Keynote at this
year's TiECon
2012 (May 18 - 19, 2012)
Posted by: Gargi
Nalawade
No comments May 11, 2012
TiEcon
2012 Speaker Highlight: Cameron Cohen - Entrepreneur
Philanthropist, a Child Prodigy
If there are so many young 11, 12,
13 year old entrepreneurs out there, what's the big deal of yet
another one joining the ranks, you might ask. What
makes Cameron Cohen, the then 11 year
entrepreneur stand out is not so much that he created an iPhone app
and it made money on the app-store. It also wasn't that he learnt
how to write it and built it when lying immobilized in a hospital
bed when recovering from a leg surgery to remove a bone-tumor from
his leg. But what makes Cameron Cohen stand out is that of the
$50,000 the app made, he decided to donate $20,000 to the Chase Child Life Program at the Mattel
Children's Hospital UCLA, where he had his bone tumor surgery. A
noble gesture indeed by a young pre-teen so that the hospital could
purchase MacBooks, iPads, iPods, and video games for teen and
preteen patients to use during their stays.
Come get
Inspired! Special price of only $20 expires this
week.
We will have 2 educational sessions as part of the
TiEYouth Forum.
Badge pickup 1:00PM May
19th with valid student ID. These
sessions are being offered at a
very special pricing
for a limited time and include tickets to the TiECon Innovation
Expo as well.
Session 1: Inspiring Young Entrepreneurs
Society is constantly telling youth
that certain paths will lead to a successful life. The "safe" route
of going to a four year college and finding a stable 9 to 5 job is
usually that path. However, it is now more important than ever that
youth and entrepreneurship become the leading drivers of innovation…
. Learn more
Session 2: Young
Entrepreneur's Guide to Getting Started
Do you have a great idea for a
startup company? How do you make that idea a reality? Hear
successful entrepreneurs who have gone through this experience
personally discuss the steps they took to make their idea come to
life…. Learn more
A few speakers from the
TiEYouth Forum
Annie Chang, Chief
Information Officer, Verizon Enterprise Solutions
+ many more Speakers in Entrepreneurship,
Social, Mobile, Cloud, Energy and Life
Sciences.
Take a look at the full agenda for TiEcon
2012.
Reserve
your seat today!
Tickets:
TiEYouth Forum and Expo Student pass
- $20.00 Valid for:
- Entry to TiEYouth Forum sessions
- Entry to TiEcon Innovation Expo
Restricted to High School and Undergad students.
Must present a valid student ID at the conference.
Connect.Innovate.Prosper at TiEcon
2012
1 comment . May 10, 2012
Introduction:
For communications professionals,
the main event at TiECon2012 -May 18th & 19th in Santa Clara,
CA- will likely be Friday morning's Mobile panel session. The
status and dynamics of the mobile industry will be assessed along
with the key technologies and applications that will impact the
entire mobile ecosystem. Emerging trends, outlook and
opportunities will be identified during what promises to be a
stellar session.
Abstract (by TiE)
2011 has been another break-out
year for mobile -I nstagram, Square, Spotify have achieved enormous
valuations. Android has overtaken iPhone while Apple's iPad seems
to be the only player in town. Windows Phone 8 reviews have been
nothing short of stellar. Operators are experiencing record data
usage and the app economy is as thriving as it has ever been! In
this panel, speakers will explore what's next. How are mobile
operators and OEMs adapting to the new value chain? Where are
venture firms placing bets? What are the key technology choices
going forward? What is the next mobile-first trend or opportunity?
Attendees will gain a perspective on what to expect as mobility
becomes even more mainstream.
Session Chair & Panel
Moderator: Raj Singh, CEO of Tempo AI, Inc
- Anil Doradla, Analyst @ William Blair
- Erik Ekudden, VP Tech Strat @ Ericsson
- Matt Howard, VC @ Norwest
- Lars Kamp, Mobile Strat @ Accenture
- Ben Riga, Evangelist @ Microsoft
http://tiecon.org/agenda/mobile-panel-what-are-emerging-trends-applications-and-opportunities-mobile
Session Preview
The panel will discuss several
themes that are vital to the sustainability of the mobile
industry and ecosystem. These include:
Mobile Network Operators:
Mobile data traffic is continuing
to explode due to video downloads, video streaming, video cam
uploads/downloads, etc. Netflix, Pandora, photo sharing and gaming
companies are attracting new users which then consume even more
mobile bandwidth. HD video is next and with wireless sensor
networks to follow. For sure, the volume of data moving upstream
and downstream is going to continue to grow exponentially.
M2M is causing real painpoints for
operators with millions of requests of small amounts of data. Will
all these different M2M traffic types cripple the provisioning and
authentication systems in wireless networks?
Operator infrastructure costs are
still an all-time high - what's the network upgrade plan? Numerous
data compression companies are helping to reduce the aggregate
bandwidth needed for video, but will that be enough? Are data caps
or throttling (heavy data users) the only way forward? Increased
cell density? Smaller Cells and Heterogeneous networks? Carrier
WiFi Offload? Higher throughput mobile backhaul? What combination
of these will operators fund for their network upgrade plan?
In addition to having to upgrade
their access, backhaul & carrier WiFi offload nets, the
operators need to come up with new sources of REVENUE! The U.S.and
European mobile subscriber markets are saturated at over
100%. In fact, adding new iPhone subscribers actually causes
operators to lose money- due to price concessions to Apple (U.S.
mobile carriers heavilly subsidize iPhone sales, such that the more
of those they sell, the lower their overall profits!)
Clearly, wireless network operators
need to get additional revenue from existing mobile subscribers or
attract new industrial customers, e.g. M2M/Internet of
Things/mobile heath care/other industry verticals.
Having missed out on the App Store
bonanza, there are several path wireless telcos could take:
- Offer QoS/SLA based
premium services (something they've never done before), e.g to
support either low latency or high bandwidth apps
- Go into new markets,
e.g. M2M, connected home (energy management, security, light
control, entertainment, etc), mobile health care, other vertical
markets
- Get revenue with a
device maker that downloads content, e.g. Amazon Kindle 3G
model
Which one's will they select and what's their chances of
success?
Editors Note:
The mobile operators are at the top
of the mobile ecosystem. It is their network infrastructure (cell
towers/base stations for mobile access, outdoor WiFi offload,
wireless backhaul, etc) that supports all the mobile apps, social
networking, on line gaming, virtual goods, e-commerce, mobile
banking, photo sharing, etc. If they don't upgrade their networks
or can't make a decent profit on services, the mobile ecosystem may
whither and die.
Other themes to be addressed by
the panel: (time permitting):
- Monetization & Status of Mobile
Advertising
- Discovery of Mobile Apps for Developers and
Users
- Artificial Intelligence & Cloud Enabled
Apps
- Use of HTML5 to Develop New Mobile Apps
- Smartphones and Tablets- How Many Players Will
Survive?
- Mobile Payments & Mobile Wallets
- Mobile Enterprise, Vertical Industry Apps &
BYOD
- International Markets, especially China &
India
- VC Investment in Mobile Ecosystem?
- Wireless R&D Lab- hardware, software, or
both?
- Time horizon for commercial products &
deployments?
Some provocative comments
from Raj Singh,
Mobile Panel Session Chair & Moderator:
"Mobile advertising continues to
receive significant investment, but app developers are still not
making money. Is iAd (Apple's mobile advertising network) to be
deemed a failure?"
"NFC (Near Field Communications) is
supposed to be the savior for mobile payments, but it seems it is
only used for everything outside of payments?"
"Cellular data traffic (3G, 4G) is
exploding - infrastructure costs are sky-rocketing. Wireless
network operators have been marginalized and continue to see profit
margins squeezed by smartphone/device subsidies. Is net neutrality
going to become the operators best friend, as it promises to hold
new mobile apps hostage to carrier data caps (or overage
charges)?"
"The App Store is Yahoo circa 1997.
The top 200 apps are not sustainable. An app search interface (or
engine) is next, or are we each going to get our own personalized
app store?"
"WinPhone7 is beautiful but hasn't
yet made a dent in the market, despite Nokia's endorsement and use.
There is too much focus on the smartphone, the real battle is the
tablet and iOS is in total domination. Willing inning the tablet
market equate to winning the laptop business too?"
For more information on TiECon,
please visit: http://tiecon.org/
This author will be covering this
panel as well as Cloud sessions at TiECon 2012. Look for future
articles at Viodi.com on those sessions approximately one
week after the TiECon 2012 event.
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Successes such as Instagram, has
got the whole developer community up in restless excitement. At
least 2 developers approached me the day the Instagram acquisition
was announced. And they did their own announcements to me. "Id like
to talk to you about becoming an entrepreneur", one said. "Id like
to know how exactly to become an entrepreneur and what it takes"
said another. ' That looking at Instagram and the 12 people team
that made hundreds of millions in a few months, is giving them a
blood rush.' They need to do something, especially being surrounded
by the startup frenzy in the Silicon Valley.
Entrepreneurship - What it
takes
Many an Engineer have I heard
around me say, "If we don't do this, living here in the Silicon
Valley, abound with all the eco-system, the support-system, the
psychology, the talent - then where else". This is the right
time, the right economy, the right place and everyone wants a ride
on the startup train.
The rosy successes and all
- it takes quite a lot to be an entrepreneur. The startup game
is a game of speed, calculation and timing the judgement calls you
make. What people to hire, who to pick for your founding team, who
to partner with, when & how much to take to market, when to
raise funds and if you are lucky like Instagram & many others
before, when & whether to sell. Do you have what it takes? The Entrepreneurship
panel at this year's Tiecon, gives you
food for thought.
Entrepreneurship for Women
Entrepreneurship, if you ask me,
is perfect for women - whether single or married, with or without
children! And here is why. Well for one, the cliché - that women
are great multi-taskers. The initial stages of entrepreneurship are
filled with long hours and hard work. No different from being an
engineer on a deadline, joining a new company and having to prove
yourself under tight deadlines. But running your startup gives
women a chance to control their own lives, their own time and they
can pretty much choose - when to spend time with children and
when to work.
More importantly, entrepreneurship
for women destroys the myths of the Glass ceiling (A woman Entrepreneur - To be or not to be),
any Gender socialization (Deborah Gruelfeld at Tiecon on Mastering the Body
Language for Power and Influence) and only your technical,
social and business skills are the ones on the line. There is no
limit to your creativity. The market does not see whether the
product has been created by a man or a woman and does not
compensate and discriminate based on gender. It is fair, blind like
the justice goddess and at the same time unforgiving. You reap what
you sow, you are judged and rewarded based on your skill, talent,
business acumen, innovation and speed.
Entrepreneurship - What goes into making your startup a
success
If you are on the entrepreneurial
track, there are many things that go into making your startup or
the one you work for, a success. Whether to bootstrap, or take money from Angels or
VCs for instance. How to take your product to market and create a
buzz, for another. A startup isn't a one man or a one woman
show. It is about a team with the perfect complementary skill-sets
with the right timing that can pull it off. So how do you build your winning team or judge whether
you are part of that winning startup team. Once
your startup is off the ground, does it have the belts and buckles
in place for the journey up the hockey stick curve? Or will it
crash and burn and be left behind by that agile, lithe competitor?
There is a lot that goes into building and driving the explosive hockey-stick
growth. And well - if you are young, right out of or in
school/college and wondering how you could start a company and/or
build a product - there is the Young entrepreneur's guide to getting
started doling out advice on it, at the Tie Youth Forum
panel at this year's Tiecon.
For the Geeks in us
'What if Im not a wannabe
entrepreneur', you may ask. 'What if I love coding and diving deep
down into architectures, building things, designing them and don't
want anything to do with business?' Well, this year's Tiecon fuel's
the developer's passion and knowledge as well. It has the latest
emerging trends and opportunities for everyone - be it Social,
Mobile, Energy, Life Sciences or Cloud.
The Social Panels talk
about the next Frontiers in Social Gaming, how
internet commerce has and can be impacted by Social
media, what are the
emerging trends and opportunities in the Social space?
If you are interested in Mobility,
the Mobile panels talk about the latest mobile trends and opportunities. So
you can go work for the startups in the hottest emerging mobile
areas. You could learn best
practices from other mobile companies for mobile deployments in the
enterprise space.
If you are interested
in Energy, then the Energy panels at this year's Tiecon talk
about the upcoming applications and emerging trends in the
cleantech & energy fields, the hottest
opportunities in the cleantech area, evolution
and emergence of energy efficiency in the automobile
sector.
The Life Sciences Panels
talk about Medical device innovation in merging
markets, opportunities in Mobile health.
The Cloud Panels talk
about how Cloud & SAAS are being used in the
real-world, emerging trends and opportunities in
Cloud, and how
Consumerization in the Enterprise is affecting and driving
opportunities in the Cloud space.
What the Star foretell
And that's not all. This
year's TiECon
2012 (May 18 - 19, 2012) also has some amazing Keynotes.
In one of the Keynotes, Dr. Vishal Sikka, Head of Technology at SAP, talks
about innovation without disruption. Cisco SVP, Carlos
Dominguez, talks about how to survive, lead and thrive in the real
world. In the Breakthrough Thinkers keynote, Dr. Deepak
Chopra, MD, Physician, Founder of the Chopra Foundation and
Senior Scientist at the Gallup Organization talks about Prosperity
and Leadership. And finally, the star Keynote tells the story of how innovation was ignited in
India, which has led to the Internet revolution there and the
new booming economy that we see there today. Telling the story is
Sam Pitroda, Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public
Infrastructure and Innovations.
And this isn't all. At the Tiecon
Expo you will find 100 or so startups displaying their latest
products and innovations. And in the corridors of the convention,
you will find endless opportunities to Network and talk to the
smartest of entrepreneurs, investors, passionate developers who are
on the cutting edge of technology. A boundless, priceless
opportunity to connect, network, learn, grow and prosper…
A blog by Gargi Nalawade, Founder
& CEO of Seplaz
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In Nov 2011, Thomas Suarez, a 12
year old 6th grader, gave a talk at TEDx on how to
develop iOS apps. Leanna Archer decided she wanted to become a
hair-care mogul at the age of 11 and by the time she was 14, her
company had revenue of more than $100,000. 14 year old Robert Nay's
first game hit 2 million downloads within 2 weeks of launch. 13
year old Asya Gonzalez launched a T-shirts & apparel company
with the motto - "Buy a t-shirt, save a child". Entrepreneurship,
it seems, is getting younger by the day. It is these ranks of
young, budding entrepreneurs that Cameron Cohen joined, when at the
age of 11, he created and launched his first iPhone app -
iSketch.
If there are so many young 11, 12,
13 year old entrepreneurs out there, what's the big deal of yet
another one joining the ranks, you might ask. What makes Cameron
Cohen, the then 11 year entrepreneur stand out is not so much that
he created an iPhone app and it made money on the app-store. It
also wasn't that he learnt how to write it and built it when lying
immobilized in a hospital bed when recovering from a leg surgery to
remove a bone-tumor from his leg. But what makes Cameron Cohen
stand out is that of the $50,000 the app made, he decided to donate
$20,000 to the Chase Child Life
Program at the
Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, where he had his bone tumor
surgery. A noble gesture indeed by a young pre-teen so that the
hospital could purchase MacBooks, iPads, iPods, and video games for
teen and preteen patients to use during their stays.
"When I was in the hospital, I had
my computer and iPod Touch to distract me. But I saw so many other
kids who didn't", said Cohen. "The last thing you want to do is
think about what happened or what operation you have coming up. You
want to be distracted. So when I saw money coming in from iSketch,
I thought it was the perfect opportunity to give back."
When recovering from the bone
tumor surgery at the Mattel hospital followed by a nine-month
recovery period in a hip-to-toe brace, Cameron tried passing his
time by using various apps to draw and doodle. When he couldn't
find any good, reasonably priced apps, he decided to build one
himself. But there was a hitch, he had never done iOS programming
before. Well, he was an 11 year old, so no wonder. He asked his
parents to buy him some books so he could learn iOS programming. He
taught himself Objective-C to build the iPhone app and built, what
he later put on the Apple app-store for $0.99 - the app iSketch. He
built and put it up for $0.99 so a lot of kids could buy it, when
the $5 or $10 apps were not something they could afford.
What is admirable about Cameron
Cohen is his industriousness, his fearless attitude towards
learning new things, building and doing something he has never done
before, turning adversity into something constructive, fueling his
growth and learning. And when it happened to make him
some money at that young an age, instead of saving it for his
college tuition, or buying toys and gear, giving it away to the
needy.
Come hear this child prodigy and a
modern-day young Warren Buffet, speak at this year's
Tiecon (2012) at the Tie Youth's forum, where he talks
about Inspiring Young
Entrepreneurs. Bring the
young Entrepreneurs in your home and/or sponsor other young ones in
your neighborhood for just $50. A small investment of $50, that
could create yet another Cameron Cohen, a Thomas Suarez, or a
future Warren Buffet, is a small price to pay indeed.
A blog by
Gargi Nalawade, Founder & CEO of Seplaz
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