If you have had an idea you wanted to test, seeing all mobile phone apps sprouting around you and thinking that you might have missed the bus, here is a chance for all of you.

Nokia is holding an Innovators Contest 2010, and best of all there only three countries get special allocation for generating local content. and Pakistan is one of them. So if you had a great idea you were itching to try out this is your chance and if you have an idea which caters to local needs it will get its own place. Top prize is a lucrative 1,000,000 and you can still be a winner in the global categories as well. So in it will be “Killing two birds with a stone” or in local language you can say “Aik teer sey do shikar ”. Make an application which caters to local needs and you have two chances to win one in the special Pakistan category and other in Global one. Deadline for submission is 18th May so that leaves you about 3 months, for trying out your idea, OVI Store is a newer playing field who knows if this click you get a head start and then there is no looking back. And even if you fail you can still go ahead and place your app in the OVI store so as i see it there is noting to lose and its never to late to have a fresh start.

Details are here for Pakistan

http://www.callingallinnovators.com/pakistan.aspx

And for Global Entries.

http://www.callingallinnovators.com/default.aspx

And if you do enter do let us know

We have not seen a lot of activity on Facebook development end, rarely do I meet or hear about some one who is doing development for Facebook. But then there is always some one waiting to surprise us. White Rabbit an Islamabad based setup has gone ahead and released their first facebook Game Feline Frenzy.

The gameplay for feline frenzy is that you have to throw boots at birds in sky and cats falling from sky, the game is as crazy as it sound yet has a very addictive nature to it. And i loved the tag line.

“ Not all animals are lost, sad, different, suffering from chronic loneliness, ridiculously emo, or begging to be caged in your virtual zoo or barn or farm or island or sock drawer.
No, some animals are uber badass. Beware!”

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This is the first post from Asim Shehzad, He is an undergraduate student of Electronics Engineering at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, I welcome him into green and white and am excited that we have people in the community who can voice and present ideas on behalf of the student community. I am not editing on this post as this gives a great opportunity for the senior members of Green and White to analyze the beliefs and understanding of our Students hold their hand and guide them where their assumptions are in correct.

First develop business model from concept and then write your business plan. Before you model your business plan, first do brain storming, then develop financial model and embed this model in your business plan. Investors usually read financial ratios before they read body parts of business plan, so include investor analysis in your Business plan and executive summary. It is recommended to develop business model first, financial model second and business plan at end.

Second thing that Investors usually address are market risks. So we should accurately determine company’s strategic position in market and then write it in Business plan. If you fail to effectively communicate this part, Investors will not read other parts. This part is intensely scrutinized by VC firms.
Write your executive summary at end. Best sequence of paragraphs in executive summary is written below;

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Every once in a while we receive or get to review some thing which makes Green and White so much worth for the time and effort that we put in to keep this thing up and running.

Yesterday was another such day, I received this link to review a side project that Mr Ghulam Akbar had developed based on google tools and in his spare time. What this does I will quote from his blog here

Dynamic Language Tools lets you type Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Farsi and many other languages on any web-page, plus it also converts any of the these roman languages words on any web page to the corresponding phonetic language words. With this tools you can type comments or write blogs in your native language. You can also convert any existing contents like poems, comments and stories on the web pages to the your language

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This post is more of an open discussion on some events that I have been witnessing in our Industry for some time, and I think they cause some serious road blocks for our new startups to grow from a small startup into a larger entity.

Here is the typical scenario.

A new startup is founded the founders work day and night try to hire the best talent in what ever limited budget constraints that they have groom them, stay up at nights to see the business end while mentoring their young team in day time. After several sleepless nights and frustrating days, things finally start to fall in place, they don’t have to monitor every communication of their team can assign tasks and expect things delivered, repeat clients/projects/products start happening around, the startup starts making some profit, and the founders finally feel that the initial issues are done with, they start thinking about growth new areas to explore…. Then suddenly it starts happening, all their senior team, people who they have taught and built up with start leaving one by one, and the drainage is very rapid with in a couple of months the founding members find the with another group of young (and maybe senior developers if they had funds) who they need to start with all over again, and this cycle goes on and on.

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When i read looked through how rasta.pk solved the issue of finding out traffic congestions immediately in my mind I remembered the saying “focus on the solution instead of focusing on the problem”.

The problem was to identify sources of traffic congestions, providing blocked road info to any medium to road users, solution

“Get the traffic police personal deputed at signals to report congestions through sms”

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