Daily Archives: September 13, 2015

So what’s a Genie?  You rub the lamp, make a wish and he gets it done? Well, except for the lamps being mobile phones in this case and pinging him on “Whatsapp” about what you want can make Genies possible. Can’t it?

I extrapolated this idea from a small company called Whatsapp Genie, an auto responder app back in India working on getting things done for the consumers without having to move/surf around. It uses Whatsapp as platform.

1. Updates on train routes/delays/schedule ( Indian Railway network is kinda the largest in the world. Well, also dirty and screwed up in a way 😛 )
2. Daily Jokes, quotes and score updates.
3. Desserts, popcorns for movie nights at home.
4. Grocery shopping
5. They are diversifying themselves everyday. There must be more now.

The name  Whatsapp Genie actually got me quite excited. I am imagining a service where one has to just pick the category of service needed and Whatsapp this great Genie about what needs to be done.

1. Hey Genie, book movie tickets for me?
2. Hey Genie, get me pizzas from “$*%*&*%” ?
3. ?  ( ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING)

My opinion: The taxi app “UBER” attracted a lot of users because one could book a taxi with just two clicks. I think that if an idea like this when tracked in the right way, it could become the one of the best startups of the decade.

Please feel free to comment below and let me know your views and ideas on Whatsapp Genie  🙂

Hello everyone,

So, it ‘s Sunday evening and today it’s almost two weeks ago since I entered that classroom for our first entrepreneur class. Since then I’ve had the opportunity to meet and listen to cool entrepreneurs, talk to inspiring people at the SUP46 event and I’ve also been hanging around in cyberspace to find some cool startups and stories and so I did.

I found this interview with Evan Asano, Founder and CEO of Mediakix and he is giving some advices on how you go from being a “wantentrepreneur ” to an entrepreneur. Follow the link below and you will have some inspiring thoughts.

http://www.inc.com/quora/9-reasons-why-you-need-to-stop-dreaming-and-start-building.html

/ Moa

So I visited this Battlehack event after receiving the tip at the lecture last Friday. I had a strong impression seeing all these hackers wanting to create something new and innovating. There were also some interesting presentations on IT innovation from people who encouraged others to make your idea come to reality. I was especially impressed by this small (and new) company called Estimote. They create beacons that you can attach to your daily object to make them a part of your digitalized world.