Thought Clouds

Hey lakshmi,
Nice to hear from you and more for the clarity you provided on spoteasy. Sorry for misinterpreting about the talk I had with you yesterday.
Few more questions if you can answer those for me:
- As I understood (please correct me) product search and recommendations are the key focus. Then why the restriction on India or rather why target India and India alone?
My question is not about supporting more countries. I understand that once the product picks up and has a good framework expansion comes naturally following that. Its more on why did you choose India? Where people are not so net-savvy and it is past the phase of being an early player too.

I would love to check out your recommendation and search over mobile phones. Infact this was something that crippled most of us yesterday with products still under private alpha or pilot states. I shall request for one as you mentioned. Thanks for the offer. :)

Regarding focus in proto.in: I felt that most of the times restricting it to product oriented presentation featuring just the technology or the features doesn't get the point across: be it be for VC's, other entrepreneurs, business folks or techies. With limited time, it would have been great if companies gave a quick view not leaving the audience wonder for the following:
- Why are we in this particular business?
- Who else is in this business or how different is the business being run today?
- What makes us special?
- How do we plan to make money? (Revenue models can change: a initial vague idea, as you said an affliate model for spoteasy)
- What is the barrier for entry ?
- Why do we think or how can we sustain and survive?