My keynote at Proto.IN, Jan 2009

1. The World
is
Changing
Atul Chitnis
Chief Products Officer
Geodesic Limited

3. A coloured man
with an Islamic name
is the
President of the USA

4. The largest banks
in the world
are collapsing

5. Google
just declared
a loss

6. Microsoft
is laying off
5000 people

7. The Personal Computer
is dying

8. The World is Changing

9. Lessons

10. Lesson #1

11. 1987

12. 1987
Bad old days

13. 1987
Software Piracy

14. 1987
SmartDIR, PAM, DOSutils...

15. 1987
Rs.100

16. 1987
1000's of copies sold

17. 1987
Individuals, companies,
banks, schools...

18. Lesson #1
If the product is good
and the price is right
people will buy

19. Lesson #2

20. 1989

21. 1989
CSI Exhibition

22. 1989
ABB

23. 1989
Rs.1,500

24. 1989
V.Senthil Kumar

25. 1989
Rs.25,000

26. 1989
ABB, ACC, CMIL, CSE...

27. Lesson #2
A product is more than
just code

28. Lesson #3

29. 1990

30. 1990
CiX

31. 1990
Modems

32. 1990
Bad phone lines

33. 1990
Thousands of users

34. Lesson #3
You can create markets

35. Lesson #4

36. 1992

37. 1992
Borland User Meet

38. 1992
Pascal v/s C

39. Lesson #4
It's not the tools you use
It's how you use them

40. Lesson #5

41. I guess we can say it now: The Bubble
has burst, welcome to the year 2000.
Tighten your belts, and get real.
Revenues are back in fashion.

42. http://twitter.com/achitnis/statuses/839386165

43. http://twitter.com/achitnis/statuses/839386165

44. Lesson #5
All lessons will be
forgotten

45. Lesson #5
Those Who Forget History
Are Doomed to Repeat It

46. Hints

47. Today is History

48. Anticipate the future
and build for it

49. Assume Connectivity

50. Local storage
no longer matters

51. Advertising
doesn't
pay

52. Unless you are
Google or Yahoo

53. Small is big

54. The biggest sellers
are mobile products

55. Build products
for your customers

56. Don't build products
for VCs

57. VC Funding
is not
a viable
Business Model

58. Unless you are a VC

59. Thank You
Atul Chitnis
mail@atulchitnis.net