This document contains a collection of quotes and passages on various topics including mobile technology, business trends, challenges, and ideas. It discusses how mobile has transformed industries like transportation, banking, healthcare, education, and messaging. It emphasizes that experience is more important than content and advocates for solving real problems with empathy by building prototypes, testing in small communities, and scaling solutions. The document encourages creating the future rather than just predicting it.

2. Get. Set. Mobile!
Valli Lakshmanan
@itsvalli

3. turbulence
/ˈtəːbjʊl(ə)ns/
noun
!
violent or unsteady movement of air
or water, or of some other fluid.
!
a state of conflict or confusion.
During their lifetimes, every man
and woman will stumble across a
great opportunity. Sadly, most of
them will simply pick themselves
up, dust themselves down and
carry on as if nothing ever
happened
Winston Churchill

6. Apple & Samsung
aren’t in this
chart. They have
registered
28-30% & 12-15%
respectively over
the last 4
quarters.

7. Voice 36%
SMS 43%
Data 17%
Others 4%
Where is
Telecom
business
headed?
Q3 2013 IBM Global Value Study

9. Bad debt ratio of
Banks - loans,
credit card,
mortgages?
Healthcare
Insurance
companies’
margin?
Number of
Airline
companies in
Red?
>30% >65% >80%

11. Shrink an inverter down to something smaller than a laptop
(smaller by 10x) and you’ll win a million dollars. And help
revolutionise electricity for the next century.
littleboxchallenge.com

12. It’s not what you look that matters, it’s what you see
Henry David Thoreau

13. Experience is
everything
Mobile as a
product /
service
Let’s
make
things

15. Content ≠ Experience

16. Does it deserve to exist?
How does it make you feel?
Will it make life better?

18. Experience is
everything
Mobile as a
product /
service
Let’s
make
things

19. Transport. Uber. Hailo. Waze.
Banking/Finance. Pingit. Zopa.
Healthcare. Scanadu. WebMD.
Education. Coursera. Skillshare.
Messaging. WhatsApp. WeChat.
Quantified Self. Fitbit. Jawbone Up.

21. Speed of access.
Permanence.
Knowledge.
Personal.
Power.

22. Experience is
everything
Mobile as a
product /
service
Let’s
make
things

23. A good idea today is better
than a perfect idea
tomorrow

24. 1. Solving real problems.
2. With empathy.
3. By building prototypes.
4. And testing in small communities.
5. To learn and apply sooner.
6. Then build and ship.
7. Scale.

25. idea-of-the-day.tumblr.com

26. Best way to predict the future is to create one!

27. Thank You!
@itsvalli