Writing executive summary for bplan

1) OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

• How would you describe business to potential investor/teammate
• Nature of opportunity

2) PRODUCT OF SERVICE CONCEPT

• A brief concept statement for product/service to be shown to customers
• How product will be used
• USP of products/service

3) VALUE PROPOSITION AND MARKET OPPORTUNITY

• What existing problem u r solving?
• Size and growth of current market
• Economies of the market
• Potential sales/ how they’ll happen?
• Level of expected profits

4) COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

• Your competitors
• What special knowledge of technology you possess?
• Barriers to entry

5) TEAM

• Team background
• Do you need to hire people? Who and why?

6) FINANCIAL PROJECTIONS

• Short/mid/long term plan
• Cost requirements
• Estimated revenue your startup will generate
• Exit plan
• How you intend to pay back investors?

7) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STATEMENT

• Key forms of IP in the business
• IP issues that will come up and how will you address that?

PS: the points have been taken from the 24 hr biz plan challenge by www.startup.org.sg

Startup @ Singapore 24 hr biz plan, NUS MBA

So yesterday we were at startup @ Singapore, in a 24hr

Actually I had a startup competition @ NUS MBA school…in 24 hr we were to come up with startup ideas on cloud computing.

After racking our brains we came up with following ideas

1.       Gaming-as-a-service

2.       Device cloud <similar to idigi.com and twine>

3.       Education-as-a-service

4.       Medical-Management-as-a-service

5.       IDE for cloud computing

We narrowed down on Medical-Management-as-a-service, and prepared an executive summary in 6 hrs.(00:15-6:30)

The pitching was at morning 11. It was a nice and learning experience.

A small Opportunity Statement from executive summary,

“With the advent of technology it is imperative to move beyond the present state of hardware availability and look at how Cloud Computing as a paradigm can be applied to save time, money and resources in an environment like a hospital. To enable small clinics, hospitals to move away from the hassles of maintaining their infrastructure and update the without the requirement for a highly efficient IT department. This would also help the hospital to maintain the patient records and history in a manner requiring the least amount of human intervention.”

Awesome but often unknown Linux commands and tools

Taken from following blog

Believe me these commands are really awesome

http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2011/08/awesome-but-often-unknown-linux-commands-and-tools/

SNIPPETS from Google devfest Singapore

http://code.google.com/events/devfests/2011/sessions.html

Google API

APPS SCRIPT

- javascript in cloud

- http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/

Charts API

Google cloud API by Christian Scalk

Google Cloud SQL

http://code.google.com/apis/bigquery/

https://code.google.com/apis/console

https://plus.google.com/103354693083460731603/posts/R3GMfmxZ2qD

HTML5   by Eric Bidelman

http://ericbidelman.tumblr.com/
Google Identity toolkit

http://code.google.com/apis/identitytoolkit/

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/

https://github.com/PaulKinlan/leviroutes

HTML5 @ google code
http://code.google.com/p/html5/

HTML5 terminal
http://www.htmlfivewow.com/slide32

Cross Browser Problems https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-Browser-Polyfills
CHROME FRAME
to get started wid HTML5  http://html5boilerplate.com/

To get eyballs on web app…use chrome webstore…

Optical Grid Network

A grid, as described by the Open Grid Service Network (OGSA) is “a system that is concerned with the integration, virtualization, management of service and resources in a distributed heterogeneous environment that supports collection of users and resources (virtual organization) across traditional administrative and organisational domains.” . Virtual organizations are set of individuals or organisations having access to the computers, software, data and other resources for collaboration or other purposes. VO provides a mechanism for associating users their requests and a set of resources.  In a grid topology each node can send or receive data to other nodes or share resources with any other node via inter connected links, irrespective of their physical locations. Grid network provides a path to migrate from
cluster networks to a truly distributed and integrated applications. The data travel in multi- hops, through multiple links and nodes. A conceptual view of the grid network is shown in

Fig: 1.

Fig 1: Conceptual View Of Optical Grid Network

Grid network has the potential in executing resource efficient network services with high data rates between geographically widely distributed users. In context to high data rates, optical network comes out as a major potential for the grid. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) has emerged as an attractive core transmission technology for future wide-area backbone networks. It provides enormous bandwidth at the physical layer for applications. All-optical networks can be achieved by using devices such as optical cross connects (OXC).Optical network uses lightpaths to transfer data. A lightpath is an all-optical end-end  communication between nodes or users. It’s a wavelength continuous physical route. Same wavelength is used in all the links and connecting nodes of the path.

Grid Applications
Optical Grids offers various potential applications. In today’s Internet we have a very rich set of application types. These applications can possibly be categorized as follows:
• High Energy Particle Physics
• Very Long Baseline Interferometry
• High Performance Computing and Visualisation
• eHealth applications: proof-of-concept of remote screening
• Logistical Networking
• Grid applications contributing large (or increasing) number of anonymous users

Optical Grid Network Architecture

It consists of 3 layers: an application layer, optical-grid control layer and optical network control layer. There are two
interfaces: application-to-optical-grid interface (AGI) and optical-grid-to-network interface (GNI). The users request for jobs to the network through a Grid User Network Interface (GUNI) along with the characteristics and requirements of the jobs. The application layer requests a set of lightpaths through the AGI. The optical-grid control layer that continuously collects information on network resources and availability from the optical network layer via the GNI, likewise announces their capabilities (storage space, processing power, etc.).

The optical-grid control layer which develops specific topological information separates the request into multiple lightpath requests. Then it sends requests for the establishment of each lightpath to the optical-network layer via the GNI. After the lightpaths are established by the optical-network control layer, notification of the successful requests is sent to the optical- grid control layer, which then also notifies the application layer. After that, the application begins sending the data to the destination end node via the D-plane of the optical network. The network topology, bandwidth and other characteristics will need to be known to the Grid scheduling and/or routing algorithm.

References : IEEE, Wikipedia

Underwater Acoustic Communication

Today I had a interesting talk with a Prof.  Mandar Anil Chitre regarding underwater acoustic communication.

I went for a tete-a-tete regarding project.

Now the first problem with underwater wireless communication is that we cant use MW/radio signals as it gets absorbed by water. So we tend to use acoustic waves which can propogate over large distance. Typical frequencies associated with underwater acoustics are between 10 Hz and 1 MHz. The propagation of sound in the ocean at frequencies lower than 10 Hz is usually not possible without penetrating deep into the seabed, whereas frequencies above 1 MHz are rarely used because they are absorbed very quickly.But the problem does not ends here, you have multipath interference and since the range is long, you get large delays. Large delays are unheard of in wireless.

Then there is various parameters

1) Water temperature

2) Water depth

3) Water motion, ie water at rest or with waves

The water may be in the ocean, a lake or a tank.

There is still lot of research going on, and lets see which way the research goes.

Wireless Startups in India

According to TRAI report India presently has 500 million mobile subscribers and is growing at the rate of 15 million subscribers per month. Indian wireless industry is all set for a meteoric rise.I have been doing research into the startup scene in wireless industry, and I came along these five major players in wireless industry.

 

1) Call graph

 

Call Graph provides recording, transcription and collaboration tools for Skype. The Call Graph client is a free recording plugin for Skype which can record Skype conversations and store it in an mp3 file. Transcripts of the recorded files can be ordered and online storage, sharing and other

Founder :Rajiv Poddar

http://www.callgraph.biz/

 

2) Ozone Network Pvt Ltd

 

O-Zone Networks Pvt. Limited was founded with the aim of providing wireless internet and mobility solutions to the masses across India. O-Zone’s business plan has been to build a wireless broadband entity that is a hybrid of owned, overlay and roaming networks across Tier 1 retail, commercial, leisure, hospitality, transportation and residential locations. The objective is to provide a fully integrated and seamless mobile broadband experience across all of these networks at affordable prices.

CEO Mr. Sanjeev Sarin

http://www.ozonewifi.com/

 

3) Tonse Telecom

 

Tonse Telecom is a recognized leader in India telecom intelligence. Tonse Telecom enables telecom equipment vendors, startups, ISVs, Infrastructure developers and investors for success in the Indian telecom marketplace. We are a research, consulting and advisory services organization providing custom technology research, investment advisory services, strategy, independent reports and marketing services.

CEO Sridhar Tonse Pai

http://www.tonsetelecom.com/

 

 

4) Total Wireless Solution

 

Total Wireless Solutions “TWiSTSoft” has been serving the wireless community since 2003. TWiSTSoft® is the leading developer of Business and Personal Productivity software solutions for Android, BlackBerry®, iPhone, iPad, Windows Mobile and Java Powered mobiles and smartphones.

CEO Avinash Gupta

http://www.twistsoft.com/

 

 

5) Virtual Wire

 

A wireless startup which was incubated in IIT Delhi’s incubator in 2003 by IIT Delhi alumni and faculty. They are building solutions and technologies like wireless mesh, UWB, software defined radio etc. Their customers include telecom and wireless equipment manufactures

CEO Vishal Chandra

http://virtualwire.in/

 

Wireless Mesh Network

IEEE 802.11s

Comparing Wireless Mesh Network

Mesh vs. Ad-Hoc Networks

 

  

Ad-Hoc Networks	WMN
Multihop	Multihop
Nodes are wireless,  possibly mobile	Nodes are wireless,    some mobile, some fixed
May rely on infrastructure	It relies on infrastructure
Most traffic is user-to-user	Most traffic is user-to-gateway

 

 

 

Mesh vs. Sensor Networks

 

Wireless Sensor Networks	WMN
Bandwidth is limited (tens of kbps)	Bandwidth is generous (>1Mbps)
In most applications, fixed nodes	Some nodes mobile, some fixed
Energy efficiency is an issue	Normally not energy limited
Resource constrained	Resources are not an issue
Most traffic is user-to-gateway	Most traffic is user-to-gateway

 

WLAN Coverage

 

	802.11	WMN
Wiring Costs	High	Low
Bandwidth	Very Good	Good
Number of APs	As needed	Twice as many
Cost of APs	Low	High

WRT54G- hardware hacking

The WRT54G has gained in popularity due to the fact that one can upgrade the unit with after market firmware. This is possible because the WRT54G runs Linux and uses other Open Source software in the box. As required by the GPL, Linksys has made available the source code and can be downloaded from the Internet. Hackers picked up this code and created new development branches that added features such as SSHD.

 

The “L” in the model number, WRT54GL, stands for Linux. The previous models of the WRT54G are also powered by Linux (version 1.0 to 4.0). The latest version of the Linksys WRT54G is version 5.0 and runs VxWorks. The move to VxWorks cut the memory footprint in half according to Mani Dhillon, senior manager of product marketing at Linksys. This claim appears to be based in fact because the Version 5.0 model only has 2MB of Flash and 8MB of SDRAM. “We still wanted to have a Linux SKU for the Linux audience,” said Dhillon, hence the WRT54GL.

 

 

Linksys WRT54GL Features

·        Linux Kernel 2.4

·        Based on the Broadcom BCM5352E SoC

·        Hardware design is the WRT54G Version 4.0

·        After market firmware upgrades

·        All-in-one Internet-sharing Router, 4-port Switch, and 54Mbps Wireless-G (802.11g) Access Point

·        Shares a single Internet connection and other resources with Ethernet wired and Wireless-G and -B devices

·        Push button setup feature makes wireless configuration secure and simple

·        High security: TKIP and AES encryption, wireless MAC address filtering, powerful SPI firewall

The Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router is really three devices in one box. First, there’s the Wireless Access Point, which lets you connect to both a Wireless-G (802.11g at 54Mbps) and Wireless-B (802.11b at 11Mbps) devices to the network. There’s also a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100 Switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. Connect four PCs directly, or attach more hubs and switches to create as big a network as you need. Finally, the Router function ties it all together and lets your whole network share a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection.

 

 Basically the board of all WRT54G is same with the following main chips

1) WiFi router processor IC

2) WAN CHIP (Infineon ADM69961)

3) Diversity Chip

4) Flash Memory

5) RAM memory (HYNIX 72BUA)