Vedic Inventive Principles - BarcampBangalore

Karthik made a presentation at the Barcamp held last weekend at IIM on his interpretation of Vedic Mathematics Sutras as Vedic Inventive Principles. The presentation can be downloaded from the link at Crafitti.

The presentation was well received by the audience - the best part was a small exercise on inventing improvements on the - next whiteboard marker. Here with a combination of TRIZ 9 windows and Vedic Inventive Principles - audience were engaged in impromptu brainstrorming session.

Very interesting thoughts came up due to triggers! I thought may be whiteboard marker should be a glove to be worn in the hand and each finger can be a marker of different color and palm is the duster.

Later on I came home and just like that searched the patent data base - lo and behold - Taiwanese Patent number TW265010 describes the invention - substancial part of the invention -

Barcamp Bangalore IIM 14 September 2008

Karthik had registered himself for the Barcamp BCB 7 and was speaking on Vedic Inventive Principles. This was orginally planned to happen on Saturday. I could not attend the saturday event as I had to attend to some personal exigency. But to my good fortune, Karthik attended another event at IIM on Saturday and re-scheduled his talk on Sunday.
This led me to spend my Sunday at the barcamp at IIM.

My Take

• The energy level in the camp - really good!
• The content - could be little more wider!
• The techniness - of how to do things - could also be compensated by more science - why are things the way they are! (May be that is my preference)
• Missing deeper ideas - the real gems are sort of beneath the surface - pure energy without the aspirational and design direction leads to lot of waste and one gets the feeling the wealth of the young minds is being taken away!

The Specifics
1. Making Money by Blogging : I reached half way through the talk on sponsored content on your blog and how to monetize your blog by writing sponsored content. The speaker talked very convincingly about how to earn more and more money by writing the blog for someone's furniture sale and any product review - give in to crap!
The speaker made lot of sense about making money on the fly - however - the utter uselessness of it was missed by many. If some one pays me for my blog - I make money - I would be not only happy - I would like to work that out so that I spent regular hours blogging. However, if someone tell me to write about - a particular store or a particular product and based on number of words I will get so many dollars (USD), I dont think I have the stomach for this. If you need to know - here are his links!
2. Contextualized Location based Mobile Pictures - AirMe's presentation by Apporva was very interesting. The airme's single click contextualized mobile picture upload to flixter and other open picture sites - has the potential to change many of the mobile users usage of cameras on mobile! We thought we will have a discussion with AirMe on some further thoughts! Lets see.....
3. Movie about Start of the Start - A film was made by some budding entrepreneurs or may be students (am not sure) about lessons learned by existing entrepreneurs who has build their business to some extent now
a) http://www.lifeblob.com/ entrepreneur said -

• need to balance finance+ technology + marketing
• Lonliness is part of the start - cope up with it!
• Get a Mentor
• Close a Business - if it is not working - with satisfaction

b) http://www.muziboo.com/ entrepreneur said -

• Word of Mouth has its limitations
• Get Marketing Budget
• Think about Value Proposition

c) http://www.tringme.com/ entrepreneur said -

• Lots of careful planning
• Passion
• If dont want to come out of comfort zone - dont do
• No Distraction - Complete Focus
• Patience
• Believe in your product
• Stay Connected (dont get isolated)
• Be ready for delays of all kinds

d) http://www.redbus.in/ entrepreneur said -

• Life style changes
• Attitude should be to learn
• Biz Ethics
• Ready for Huge Pressures

4. Vedic Inventive Principles - These are the type of topics I would like to see more and participate also, not because Karthik did it, but the fact that it was focussed on doing something at the end - the ideation exercise - that was really the value (I will write a separate post on that next)

5. The Marriage and Relationship - We left this presentation in between - as the four penalists could not decide what the hell they wanna speak about and who is the single speaker! Might have been interesting - but we somehow felt like watching a TV Reality Game Show where the participants fight with each other and the judges as well - Is that staged on TV?

Innovation BarCamp Bangalore

The Innovation Barcamp is slated to happen at Bangalore on 23rd Feb. Prakash, the key force behind this camp calls it the Icamp.

I must congratulate Prakash for organizing it. I know it will be a grand success. We have amazing topics and brilliant speakers spending their saturday together at the Icamp

lets look at Bloggers/Site owners who are speaking

http://www.kenneyjacob.com
http://amitpande.com
http://www.designdrivendevelopment.org
http://www.mocodile.com
http://www.murli.com
http://pavansoni.blogspot.com

Then look at the topics on which they are speaking

Not Decided
HOW are we innovating?
What is the right age to start innovating?
Innovation - Is it an inborn quality or can it be learnt?
How large companies kill innovation and how to revive it?
Is Innovation a new fad - new bottle, old wine?
Is there an emerging model of globalization, complexity and innovation?
Challenges of Intrapreneurship?
Design Driven Development: Art of Innovation
Does process aid or inhibit the creative mind?: A knowledge cafe experience
Does the impact of an idea depend on the now? - relevance or irrelevance of an idea with reference to a time parameter
Top down or Bottom up? Which works for Innovation within an organization?
Innovation - Execution, Challages for a tartup
Globalization and Innovation
Building an Innovation/Creativity/Design Community
Can we develop a knowledge based theory of the firm? Can we audit the knowledge to innovation to ip value chain?
Innovation a Function of Passion
Is Innovation thinking outside the box (or) Figuring out the edges of box in the first place?
Innovation Management: A Formal Course for MBA Institutions

I liked the first topic - NOT DECIDED - Looks like thats going to be the most interesting topic!

I am already looking at 100+ registrations - well - this is way beyond imagination!

Looks like it is going to be one BIG INNOVATION UNCONFERENCE ---- Way to go Prakash!

See you all at the Barcamp!