Movies and real life

Should real life match the life in movies or should the life in movies match real life?

Pitching for funds or wooing a girl? One and the same!

I recently attended a session of the Economic Times Power of Ideas in Delhi in June and while listening to all of the entrepreneurs, whether young or old, there was one thing that continuously struck me. This was that pitching to VC’s for funding is very similar to wooing a girl. I shall elaborate further.

1. Choose the right VC/ Girl
   Choose a VC who is interested in investing in a sphere that you are operating in. Know what kinds of companies have been funded by this VC. Pick a girl who is compatible with you and you actually stand a chance with! Try to know what kind of guys the girl has previously dated or fallen for. For both, the VC and/or the girl thorough research is required.
2. Business Plan/ Life Plan
   Be prepared with a compact, concise and clear business plan. A VC will glance through it very quick and your plan must immediately impress him. You must have your life ahead mapped out. Women should sense that you know what you are doing and where you are going.
3. Presentation style
   You have to be able to sell your business to the person across the chair. You have to be passionate, enthusiastic and full of self conviction so as to make the VC believe in your plan. You have to market yourself in such a way that the girl begins to believe that you are the one stop shop for all her needs.
4. Build Credibility/ Win trust
   Show the results of your organization and make the VC believe that you can continue to perform. Be chivalrous, be polite, be a complete gentleman and be there for her. She needs to know that you are more than eligible for her and can trust her life in your hands.
5. Competitors/ Other suitors
   Never mention to a VC that there are other organizations which are bigger than or capable of quickly overtaking you. Make a girl believe that you are the only one she should be interested her and she shouldn’t waste her time elsewhere. At times, this could involve painting a false picture!

So choose the best fit for yourself, arrange for timely meetings/dates, use appropriate terminology/pick up lines, leave a remarkable first impression, be passionate, sound convinced, behave confident, continue to do what you believe in and you will automatically build yourself an astronomical valuation. And the rest as they say will be history!

Imagine 2020

Why can’t a search engine be developed which offers a much more holistic service to net users than what Google, Yahoo or Bing currently offer. As of now, we type in search terms, sentences or phrases into the search bar and get a few hundred thousand results in less than a second. Great. But why not go a few notches higher? Why

just stick to typing search terms and getting innumerable articles? Here is the plan for “Imagine 2020.”

All of us have those times when we just can’t place someone. We know we’ve seen them around, met them a few times but just can’t pinpoint who they are. Definitely embarrassing. Its even more embarrassing when the other person is a well known personality and you don’t recognize them. On Imagine 2020 you will be able to upload a photo of a person on the search bar and instantly know who they are and what they do or have done. Imagine will start with a database of famous persons, move on to semi-famous persons and slowly but surely have a world wide database. And not just people, it could be the image of any kind of animal r creature or object, and you could get split-second details about it.

On the same lines why can’t we upload a sound clip and get a gazillion results in a microsecond? For example, if there is a bird chirping around me, I should be able to record its chirping with my phone and upload it to Imagine and know exactly which bird species it is, what are the specifics of the sound it makes (wavelength, pitch etc.), whether the bird is a male or a female, the age of the bird and whatever more details you want. Imagine will be on top of this service.

This is definitely the future of search engines. To make us more aware of the universe we live in. To make our lives even easier and faster. To make the world an even smaller and more connected place. Just IMAGINE...