Comments on: Y! is hiring & Where is the next YouTube going to come from http://codecutter.blogsome.com/2006/10/12/y-is-hiring-where-is-the-next-youtube-going-to-come-from/ Keep coming back, you might find something useful Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:01:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: What-a-kutty http://codecutter.blogsome.com/2006/10/12/y-is-hiring-where-is-the-next-youtube-going-to-come-from/#comment-129 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:42:55 +0100 http://codecutter.blogsome.com/2006/10/12/y-is-hiring-where-is-the-next-youtube-going-to-come-from/#comment-129 Adarsh, coming to think of it .. Google was rumoured to have been planning a BIG sez in hyderabad where they wanted to set up a datacenter .. SO it might just happen that you have a large 200 acre campus betweem bangalore and Mysore which might house a big server farm dishing out www.google.com or www.live.com or www.yahoo.com. cheers Adarsh,

coming to think of it .. Google was rumoured to have been planning a BIG sez in hyderabad where they wanted to set up a datacenter .. SO it might just happen that you have a large 200 acre campus betweem bangalore and Mysore which might house a big server farm dishing out www.google.com or www.live.com or www.yahoo.com.

cheers

]]> by: What-a-kutty http://codecutter.blogsome.com/2006/10/12/y-is-hiring-where-is-the-next-youtube-going-to-come-from/#comment-128 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:39:16 +0100 http://codecutter.blogsome.com/2006/10/12/y-is-hiring-where-is-the-next-youtube-going-to-come-from/#comment-128 I think it is a little bit more than access to markets. I used to work for a startup called Strand genomics and they did have this model where there Sales function ( and to some extent - Marketing ) were based out of US( target market ) and the engineering was done out of Blore. We were successful but no where near where we wanted to be. It is something more than just access to markets. You have had a lot of Indian founded companies that have this Onsite ( marketing and Sales ) and Offshore model ( engineering and customer support ) and are doing well ( Though not on a scale where they become a consumer phenomenon like YouTube or Facebook or so on). Wrt to Indian markets, i think a few concepts like YouTube would make sense only when the Indian broadband consumption has reached certain threshold levels. There are way too many Indians for whom a simple ajax interface itself doesnt work .. forget a video on the internet ( coming to think of it .. during diwali i will have to live off a dial up connection at my native place). An idea's time has to come. Coming to think of it .. what would be the next biggest idea ... any thought's anyone. A good topic for the next post. I think it is a little bit more than access to markets. I used to work for a startup called Strand genomics and they did have this model where there Sales function ( and to some extent - Marketing ) were based out of US( target market ) and the engineering was done out of Blore. We were successful but no where near where we wanted to be. It is something more than just access to markets. You have had a lot of Indian founded companies that have this Onsite ( marketing and Sales ) and Offshore model ( engineering and customer support ) and are doing well ( Though not on a scale where they become a consumer phenomenon like YouTube or Facebook or so on).

Wrt to Indian markets, i think a few concepts like YouTube would make sense only when the Indian broadband consumption has reached certain threshold levels. There are way too many Indians for whom a simple ajax interface itself doesnt work .. forget a video on the internet ( coming to think of it .. during diwali i will have to live off a dial up connection at my native place).

An idea’s time has to come. Coming to think of it .. what would be the next biggest idea … any thought’s anyone. A good topic for the next post.

]]> by: Adarsh Bhat http://codecutter.blogsome.com/2006/10/12/y-is-hiring-where-is-the-next-youtube-going-to-come-from/#comment-127 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:55:36 +0100 http://codecutter.blogsome.com/2006/10/12/y-is-hiring-where-is-the-next-youtube-going-to-come-from/#comment-127 <i>A youtube could have so easily been engineered in bangalore and launched from bangalore</i> But perhaps not hosted anywhere close to Bangalore. A youtube could have so easily been engineered in bangalore and launched from bangalore

But perhaps not hosted anywhere close to Bangalore.

]]> by: Tejas http://codecutter.blogsome.com/2006/10/12/y-is-hiring-where-is-the-next-youtube-going-to-come-from/#comment-126 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:41:14 +0100 http://codecutter.blogsome.com/2006/10/12/y-is-hiring-where-is-the-next-youtube-going-to-come-from/#comment-126 I think the bottleneck is closeness to the markets. Its difficult to come with something that caters to US/Europe markets b'coz our engineering talent doesn't understand those markets. Next youtube/facebook/myspace can be something that developed for the Indian markets. I think the bottleneck is closeness to the markets. Its difficult to come with something that caters to US/Europe markets b’coz our engineering talent doesn’t understand those markets. Next youtube/facebook/myspace can be something that developed for the Indian markets.

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