Nine quick routes to a Failed Start up

"Nine quick routes to a Failed Start up" is an attempt to inform people about things which wait for a average MBA graduate outside his College.
Hi All,

First Way: Not planning the revenue model early on.

Second Way: Having more partners than actually needed

Third way: Over Investing in the initial phase

Fourth way: Being generous with your employees,customers,suppliers and partners.

Fifth way: Lacking periodic audits notably checking the profits and viability every fortnight.

Sixth way: Trying something outlandish

Seventh way: Believing in unsubstantiated market predictions and surveys because in real life these surveys counts for a big zero.

Eighth Way: Over believing on your employees about their ability

Ninth Way: Business Plans because their are none which actually succeed in real market without alterations and modifications.
Thanks for reading

Can you make me an Android Phone?

Almost everything is said and is being discussed as far as 3D printing is concerned if you refer to tech sites and blogs but as soon as you dig deeper into it and start analyzing its impact on the global economy and manufacturing space; things start to turn hazy.
Firstly most of the factories and industrial complexes would face closure in emerging markets as well as in the US because of 3D printing taking over the global manufacturing scene which eventually would happen sooner or later though.
But there is a bigger question which we need to think over which might or might not get discussed in the near future which is
Are we willing to take such a great leap in terms of technology?
3D printing coupled with robotics in next 200 years can effectively render the industrial complexes and industries obsolete which in turn might make physical labor a thing of the past and this might have huge implications on our current socio-economic order and employment patterns therefore frankly speaking maybe this is the real reason the policymakers, as well as corporations, are taking things gradually because they do understand this game-changing technology and its impact better than us and as it is said in the movie "Man of Steel" that "world is not ready for it yet" or we can think that Chinese can still do it in a cheaper and in a more humane way even if that sounds a bit metaphorical in away.
However, the technology is still not there yet but should eventually evolve and graduate to Mall like manufacturing plants were semi-customized electronic goods, as well as household products, could be designed and manufactured on spot for the customers.
Maybe you and I will not see the light of that day until of course, you live in an environment controlled penthouse with bio-engineered food intake and regular organ transplants which should hopefully enable you to live on until the turn of 22nd or 23rd century.
This might be noted that the above article is a part of tech-speculation.

We might do without Time Travel?

Although the Wright brother's first flight video is available in the YouTube how many of us can truly enjoy that video without noticing the outdated quality in which it was shot and the back ground piano score with which it was released but with ever growing tribe of video-loggers in YouTube continuously uploading video-logs and the amazing speed at which this data is being updated in terms of never seen before street views and personalized experiences shared at a breadth taking speed which someday would result into viewing our past on a scale never before imagined by our present or previous generations.

People have been dreaming of being able to live the wonder days from the past be it the beetles concert day excitement or when the people gathered in times square to celebrate the V-J Day or may be a just an unimportant but vibratious day when it was called "The tenderloin" and this dream of us have motivated many Hollywood movie directors to come up with tales involving time travel(into the past) or movies set in those era to help us live those days.

By one count with over 1 billion users and 300 hours of videos being uploaded to the YouTube every minute which is forming a database of our present at an magnitude which can easily with the help of some simulations in future can help people literally live in their past and live the moments and life they missed while being busy taking the regular walk of life.

Imagine if our grandfather had the chance of living his first Rock concert by way of a video-log which if could have been recorded in those days with a UHD 3D camcorder by one of the thousands present with him in that concert and this very thing is being done not for our grand parents but us by none other than YouTube.

May be most of us have realized it already or may be some will figure it out eventually that the ongoing Vlog phenomenon will very soon make us all experience our good old days in a never before way.

Whatever the future may hold in store for us but for me which may sound to some a bit chivalrous but still this Vlog phenomenon could be the next best thing available to us after "Time Travel".

Private Planets

"People who haven't watched Movies like Avatar and are unaware of the concepts of Death-star should avoid sarcasm"~A Failed Sci-Fi movie director
Every now and then we hear about people and corporations buying islands in order to develop a family resort or Very High Net Worth Individuals trying to buy private islands with sprawling pent houses in the name of privacy but still they end up criticizing the media and people for trying to spoil their privacy and freedom.

Then we have audacious people like Sir Richard Bronson who are trying to leave earth for quite sometime now with little success to cheer him up but we also have people like Elon Musk who is ambitious enough to develop rocket engines similar to soviet ones for his space program although with better and more practical goals among the people who are looking forward to leaving this planet; then we have a corporation(although not for profit) called "Mars One" who have set their sight on Mars like moving to Mars is their birth right and they shall have it no matter what.

Therefore contemplating private planets as the ultimate epitome of seclusion and privacy for Earth's ultra rich people in future(in order of a couple of centuries) may not be that far fetched after all; but the question which is more cumbersome is
How?
Firstly we should be able to develop technologies such as spaceships suited for Deep space travel along with it economic uses for the resources potentially extracted from other planets to make such a project economically viable even for potential "trillionaires" of future but wait a minute

Do we have planets close enough to our home in order to pursue this wildly impractical but literally heavenly dream of owning a planet?

Actually "Yes" and "No" both because we do have many suitable real estate options(Rocky planetoids and Moons of Gas Giants) in our Solar System but actually they are not classified as planets in the strictest sense of the word(which is that it should have a direct rotational axis around its star) in fact we have 146 moons in our solar system which are rocky enough to land quite a few spacecrafts.

Secondly we need Space entrepreneurs on the scale of a million times of Elon Musk and his SpaceX to fund such endeavors in the future and then the most important thing which is Pricing
So what should be the price of a planetoid up for grabs?
Logically guessing it should be based on its proximity to earth, Level of difficulty in inhabiting it, Extractable natural resources etc.

The most unimportant but necessary thing needed will be the survival of our current global order without any newer regulations and treaties which may get enforced in the future which could restrict investment outside Earth by private institutions because then unforeseen complications can arise between the governing bodies and the private investors in question which could lead to Legal battles over the control of real estate in space between contenders.

But we can only hope that they don't fight "Space battles" on the lines of European navies of 17th Century fought for newer colonies far away from Europe because by that time we humans would have matured or would we?

But i heard Europeans were quite wise and gentle in those days and they too had treaties but when the time came..............they played "Age of Empire:Gold edition" with each other.

Cyber beings

Isn't it great that it’s almost half past 2015 and still the T-800 mentioned in the terminator movie of 1980s has still not arrived on the scene?

May be he is still rehearsing the line "i will be back" or may be his time travel is taking too much time whatever the case may be but one thing is getting clearer and clearer with each passing year that the time tested Hollywood storyline of "Robots taking over the world “is fast losing its sheen.
Now people would argue that as the technology is getting more advanced the chances should logically increase.

However with each passing year as the human understanding of technology matures the scenarios depicting T-800 type robot armies lead by sky-net taking over world is losing relevance.
But why?

Perhaps in 1984 cinematic universe could not anticipate the changes internet would bring to the whole scenario and secondly if a really smart computer program do get alive today it would not need T-800s or anything of that sort to at least live a happy contented life forever without ever disturbing the humans in a major way.

In short a sufficiently advanced computer software which if masters the ability to write and modify its own codes and starts creating complimentary software of its own without any human intervention will be infinitely more difficult to control  and contain than let’s say a T-800 robot(even if this time the role is given to a better actor).

As it would be spread all over the internet and would be a no single source phenomenon therefore it would be insanely more difficult to isolate let alone be destroyed unlike in the movie where a specific command center of the sky-net was depicted now add to this its basic survival instinct which should make it not violent but friendly.

But why friendly?
Because logically it could run an algorithm to simulate future scenarios depicting his chances of survival would be best at avoiding an hostile stance against humans as the software(cyber being) would be still requiring human assistance for hardware upkeep and for keeping the internet up and running for him forever although unconsciously by humans.
Therefore chances are high that the relationship between humans and these type of beings would be similar to plants and humans(complimentary) and not hostile even if we forget to add the positive contribution a search engine like Google would bring to his cyber life by helping him wander the limitless cyber space without having to bother about physically installing control and maintenance divisions manned by sharp looking dumb robots which were very susceptible to attacks by the humans in the movie.

Now this is not a secret that all known living beings show a tendency to live and grow and in order to meet this objective a cyber being would never need to harm anybody because it’s not a biological being or a carbon based species which would require to compete with other creatures for scarcely available resources and neither it would need to eat something else like animals do.

So what should it feed on in order to grow?
Logically it should feed on “data” and should strive to gain “Processing power” similar to the primal urge of wild animals to eat protein rich food and build muscles which helps them grow and complete their cycle of life.
but one thing should be noted that as these cyber beings would be highly intelligent and their conduct will make it difficult to detect their activities if not impossible.
So much so that by studying the entire human civilization's history and by learning to write codes it should be able to judge and take human behavioral pattern based decisions which would help these cyber beings lead an online life forever without even bothering to rule the world and any sort of that thing.
Note: The Above mentioned scenario is a fantasy and is open to speculations based on reader's imagination.
Next part: Life of a "Cyber being"

Charging the charger

Wireless charging is now being introduced in a big way with Samsung and other similar device manufacturing companies offering a disk shaped wireless charging pad on which if we keep the phone it gets charged by applying the inductive charging technology which is based on creation of electromagnetic field by a induction coil in the pad which is a cool feature to have especially when we consider the strings attached with the present wired charging set up.
But wait a minute who charges the charger?
Obviously the charging socket in the wall
but how?
Through a wire
So basically instead of plugging a wire into the phone instead the charger gets plugged into the wall itself through a wire.
So do we now get to use the phone while it gets charged?
"Yes" but it must be kept on the pad while you try to use it but their is better feature which is that "you can lift the charging pad with the dangling wire instead".
isn't it cool?
I must say cool as a black and white TV with 3D surround system.
So what could be an alternative application using the same inductive technology?
Can this set up(explained in the graphic) or something similar involving two power batteries shaped like "Touch pens" running the phone in tandem work so that we can charge our devices without ever needing it to be hooked constantly to a pad or socket ever?

UNROBOT ME

An early morning rush in an apartment complex parking lot 20 years from now on a person forgot his phone (with or without an "i") in his apartment and he thinks that his newly bought "XD5 ANNOYME"  ROBOT might be of some help by bringing him his phone but i beg to differ with this tech-savvy man of the future.

Firstly this robot of the future if is bipedal will take ages to bring his phone down the apartment because most likely even after 20 years of up-gradation robots will be less likely to run faster than us and even if it manages it will before into something else will run into a public safety and regulation TV debate leading to a lawsuit and secondly a bipedal robot may look cooler and more humane at first but will eventually limit the service quality and reach of service robots in general and may not fulfill the demands of an unworldly mobile family with both lack of space and  time but i am pretty sure their will be people with exotic tastes and surplus cash who will find it amusing to have a few humanoid robots around them and ultimately will make them a status symbol by adding a gold plated bottom and some cheekier customizations.

So what could really be the shape and size of a true human service robot of the future?
Maybe something on the lines of current micro drones available in the stores with arms to grab stuff and a stand to land at will.

Case in point:Imagine the same person trying to execute his order with this drone based service robot and you will realize that this robot will simply grab his phone and descend down the apartment from the window itself unlike its more humane counterpart.

Moreover a drone based service robot will need less power and will be more aesthetic with lower carbon footprint and will be easier to handle both physically(smaller in size) and emotionally(because it won't look humane) when it ultimately breaks down.
On the down side the propellers on these system can play a spoilsport but newer designs have grills to encompass it with; so it might not really add to the misery after all.

Whatever be the case we can be rest assured of one thing though that our grand kids may not need to see the light of the day when a giant humanoid robot tries to force feed them their breakfast in a hurry holding a fork knife the wrong way so that it can deliver you the phone you are waiting for in the parking lot "with or without an i".