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What Everyone in India seems to know about the iPhone and why they aren’t excited by it

February 4, 2009

While visiting India over the last two weeks I had my usual set of shocks and observations. Sometimes they get blogged and they also fit with other contextual things I’m seeing. What surprised me about these observations and comments I heard this time, was who spoke them. From kids to adults they “know” about the [...]

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Bangalore – First Impressions

February 3, 2009

On my recently completed trip to India, I made my third trip to Bangalore. This time, my visit was different and I was there for  a few days.  I’ve written previous posts on India and doing research there. I’ve also encouraged visitors to look beyond the oft traveled routes. If you don’t, you might get [...]

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Slumdog Millionaire

January 21, 2009

It’s probably appropriate that my first viewing of Slumdog Millionaire the Golden Globe big winner took place in the city where it was shot. It was interesting to arrive here and read in the papers that it was just “poverty porn”. After watching it I don’t buy it. It didn’t play on misery, or attempt [...]

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GupShup – Chatter or Twitter for the Masses?

May 21, 2008

Why aren’t mobile operators offering Twitter like services? Probably because they haven’t seen GupShup or it isn’t on their radar yet. Om Malik picked up on it earlier, then he’s connected to the investor. GupShup has over 4 million subscribers. So I’d actually expect it to be bigger than Twitter before too long. GupShup means [...]

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Take Your Team to India

May 21, 2008

Yesterday I posted this blog Emerging Markets and Mobile Impact on the Supernova2008 ConversationHub and I wanted to share it here too. My interest in doing Market Research into Indian opportunities is not limited to mobile, or technology. Banks, Financial Institutions, Healthcare, Consumer Products etc. It just traces to the size of the opportunity and [...]

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Is iPhone Lust Global?

May 15, 2008

While recently in India, Dina and I explored the iPhone factor. We saw it in the wild (eg. people using them) and talked to 18 to 24 year old leading-edge mobile users in Mumbai. We were both left a little shocked! While focus groups aren’t statistical research and Mumbai is hardly an Apple stronghold; the [...]

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Repairs, Tweaks and Choice – Mobile Phones

May 9, 2008

18 months ago I bought my daughter a Nokia n73 in India as a birthday present. At the time it was about the coolest phone I could get for her with a 3mpx auto focus camera etc. She’s a torture test user. The first keyboard lasted one year before the whole joystick and keypad underpinnings [...]

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Emerging Market – Research to Action

May 8, 2008

A few years ago my brother gave me a book Investment Biker. Written by Jim Rogers a VC who took a motorcycle on a tour of the world and then from what he learned made investment decisions. I think we’d both like to follow that dream and ride around the world that way. I know [...]

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Prince A950 — My China Phone – Think Different

May 7, 2008

I’m sure many will ask me why buy the “China Phone” hadn’t I seen enough? Will you ever use one? The answer is simple. It’s a learning sample, an artifact to share, and something I can get a physical reaction and response to from others. Plus it cost me just over $100. And you can [...]

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The Emerging Indian Middle Class

May 3, 2008

I made my first visit to the Dharavi Slum yesterday. Often described as Asia’s largest slum it remains central to Mumbai’s development and thriving economy. I have a few stories and themes that I want to weave together. I cannot help having the stark contrast in mind when we define the US middle class. Recently [...]

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India World’s Fastest Growing Mobile Market

April 28, 2008

I’m in India for a week and one of the things I’m doing is getting an update on the local mobile phone explosion. India just had their single largest month an quarter for new cellphone registrations. India is now the world’s second largest mobile market after China with 261.09 million users. In March 2008 operators [...]

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