The document discusses exploring opportunities for micro products and innovations. It suggests focusing on challenges like poverty, education, or the environment. It advocates disruptions that make things better, faster, cheaper or different like the iPod or Uber. The document also discusses gaps in existing products or services that could be filled, as well as leveraging technology. It provides overviews of tech trends and programming languages without specifics. It recommends validating trends by following areas like investments, jobs, programming languages, search queries, and Twitter.

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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