A talk given during the bootcamp on Microproducts

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Exploring Opportunities
for
Micro Products
Dorai Thodla
Twitter: @dorait
dorait@imorph.com

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Your Opportunity Space?
Your opportunity
space

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Where Do Opportunities Come From?

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Challenges – Pick One
• Poverty and Quality of Life
• Illiteracy
• Education (Current Model Not Scalable)
• Health
• Environment
• Ignorance

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From the Millennium Project – The World Future in Next 25 Years

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Disruptions
• Make things
○ Better,
○ Faster,
○ Cheaper,
○ Different.
• Different
○ What iPod and iTunes did to music
○ What iPhone did to mobile devices
○ What Netflix did to movie rentals
○ What Uber is doing to the taxi service

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Gaps
• Gaps in products, services
• Find gaps and bridge them
• Some examples:
– Job Readiness Training
– Computer Literacy for Senior Citizens
– Learning Using Mobile

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Applications of Technology
• Leverage Technology
• Make something simpler
• Make something cheaper
• Make something faster, better
• Make something that you could not do before

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Trends – A High Level View

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A Few Tech Trends

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Programming Language Trends

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Validating Trends

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Validating Trends
Find the Connections – Follow the Money
• Investment Trends
– Ex: Intel Investments http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20080603corp.htm
• Job Trends
– http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends.jsp
– http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?cat=wiki
• Programming Language Trends
– http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
• Search Trends – What are people searching for
– Google Trends
• Twitter Trends