Bangalore Entrepreneurs Meetup

Interested in meetup on Entrepreneurial discussions in Bangalore? Look no further than "Bangalore Entrepreneurs Meetup" - we meet every month for an hour of group discussions on various topics on Entrepreneurial topics.

Go ahead & sign-up yourself @ http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/925/

-Bhaskara

Comparing physical & online shopping experience...

Can we learn something by comparing the behavior of people in a physical brick & mortar store with their online behavior, what are the things we can compare ?

• Shopping Cart - number of items a person puts in a basket, removing them off before buying, items they remove at the billing counter
• Duration - amount of time a user spends his / her time in the store & online?
  
• Footprint vs Site usage - number of user entering the store vs visiting the site online

Trends between online & offline can be compared, we can use this comparison in various means - one of main usage could be to make usability improvements on the site to ensure online conversion is higher.

-Bhaskara

Research Paper : Performance Persistance in Entrepreneurship

Found this interesting research paper from Harvard, read in detail... when you have time!
URL: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-028.pdf

-Bhaskara

Future of iPhone Apps

Currently the iPhone apps are standalone, which means a FaceBook or Google app or a video recorder (on Jailbreak phone) work in silos - they cannot latch onto some other application or features of the phone as an add-on.

Imagine...

1. How nice to have an iPhone app that would see the last number you dialed & suggests you to save into your contacts, if that does not exists already.
2. Adding MMS capability to SMS, sadly Apple has still not launched it

Time to think ahead!

-Bhaskara