Tuesday, March 20, 2012

How to make a start up success?

To make a start up a success we always think to have a great idea and we go back to school to get one. But that not the real truth to have a success start-up we need to find an area which is large enough to absorb many start-ups so that it can reduce the chance of failure and loss. Like, if we talk about the Internet Sector then e-commerce, tech blog, news may be the area which has the capacity to absorb many start-ups as user base exploring is huge and growing. And Social already captured by Facebook, search by Google and mail by gmail, ymail etc can be a bad idea to enter fight with them who have bigger server and better quality.

Now once you have identified the area, it is important to identify the weak point of the area where others are lacking behind and provide that in your start-up. Like tech blogs are not pure about internet sector where we need more news and more exposure can be a better deal. Similarly, cloud storage Drop-box takes equal space on my laptop as much it takes online so I need a software which is like an online folder and do not save thing on my laptop but it feels to me as if it all resides on my laptop.

Once you identify the area which needs to be improved, we should concentrate to provide a quality solution. Quality is one of the most essential element as its bind the user to your company. Once done that new users will come soon listening about the quality product from others. But if you failed to provide strong and quality solution to the user then you may lend in using users which may not come back soon.

Every time you don't need to be original, sometimes improving on the failed idea of the other and delivering the same idea with a new vision may be a good thing to do.

There is no success mantra for the start-up but its depends upon you and your idea that what you need to make a start-up to a good business.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Major Bug: Folder disappears from mail in.com

Many have seen, many a times (including me) that each time we create a new folder in mail in.com, all the folders and filters created earlier gets disappeared. It seems like they gets deleted and all the mails in them also get deleted. This is the major bug in there mail service.

If they don't act fast on this, then it may lay them to loose trust of users as they are saving several mails in there folder for future reference, loosing which may incur a loss of information. Though its the truth that mail in.com is not the primary mail ID for anyone as still we love gmail, ymail, hotmail and rediffmail more than any other mail service.

Still, I would say that if in.com is offering mail service then they should offer a strong solution and should be serious about that else its like cheating with your users. Same is the case with indiatimes mail which is most of the times out of service and i can't access my mails 24X7.

Such mail service is good for nothing and we need new Indian start-up in the field of mail service else we can be happy using western mail services because they offer a better solution and we can rely on them.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Indiatimes mail down

Today Indiatimes mail is down and still i can see the company working on it. This shows that they are not serious about the business at all. Indiatimes is known for its news as well as entertainment content, gaana.com is a good start in the streaming content, but apart from that they do not seem to be serious about the business. Mail is treated as non-existence part of the company. If its is so they should not offer it as service to consumer.

I am using tumblr account which was registered using indiatimes mail, that also comes to the danger zone due to all this. This is really a bad experience for the user.

Same kind of approach I see among many other Indian mail service providers like in.com, india.com etc. who are bad in delivery of mails. This means I not aware that whether mail will be delivered or not, will I recieve all the mails sent to me or not.

So, if you want to be away from all these, its my recommendation that sign up for mail services like gmail, hotmail, ymail, rediffmail etc. whose main focus is email as they have a separate department in the company which works on this specific product.

Email is an essential solution for any web user and should be build seriously. Each company should have a separate department working on email solution, then only they can give user a better experience and robust system. Never forget email is a big source of revenue on the web.

This brings to the focus of the need of good start-ups in the Indian Internet Industry who can bring innovation in new dimensions like micro-blogging or already saturated dimension like email, social etc or may discover new dimensions. They need to bring !dea as well as polish the solution to be world class. This will not only generate new source of income but also jobs.

Hope, Indian Internet Industry will realize soon and will bring a better ecosystem to fight against multinationals.