It was an eventful day on Thursday 18th March. I had a chance to be part of open house meeting of HubSpot. It was a mix of business networking and chance to meet CEO of HubSpot, Brian Halligan . Brian had some very good points on why one should focus on Inbound marketing these days , citing example of Barrack Obama’s presidential campaign. He also recalled his days when they started hubspot out of MIT and how tough it was in the early days. I really liked his passion of creating an successful company on East Coast , one block away from his Alma matter , MIT.

Brian also held a small contest with all the invitees .  The invitees  will pick a site and if the site rates well on Hubspot Website Grader tool which, the winner stands to win  the book , Inbound marketing authored by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah. Read more…

There had been numerous applications coming for iPhone and had seen people putting some serious effort and great ideas to build these application. I was about programmers from India coming up with a  gaming application and that too for a iPhone . There were 2 reasons

a) Gaming is not much popular in India as it is in Kore, Europe or US

b) iPhone with its very high cost has been out of hands for maximum number of users.

But my doubts were laid to rest when iMo , a 2 person startup from India developed an iPhone/iTouch app that transforms your iPhone into a joystick. This would allow you it to control gameplay. iMo presented this application at techCrunch50 this year.

Judges were also impressed and as Mark Andersson, one of the jduges of techCrunch50 pointed that it can be used by 2 players to play tennis.

Not only was the application interesting , I liked the presentation done by Himanshu.  He showed some real guts.

iMo won the best presentation award at TechCrunch50

Congrats Himanshu.  Great Job.

Ever since the iphone application store has been opened , it has seen tremendous response from the developer community. There had been so many success stories and failure stories..who wants to read a failure story.

But with 55000+ applications in iPhone store , there is a limit to revenues an application can generate. And that too when most applications are free. Read this post by a developer who had launched his application successfully but had to pull out because of lack of revenues.  I liked his reflections on failures and perhaps a lesson for all of us to learn

Why My startup failed