These are the slides for a talk I gave at Conquest2007, an entrepreneurship focused event that has held at BITS Pilani (in Rajasthan) , one of India's top engineering colleges. The event was held on 7th April, 2007. The audience consisted mostly of engineering students, their faculty and a few participants from industry, venture capital firms etc It was organised by CELBITS, the student body at BITS Pilani

1. Challenges in Scalability & Globalization of a Web Application Lessons learnt in creating SlideShare

5. SlideShare Lessons in Scalability & Globalisation Experience sharing, observations, unanswered questions

7. Creating a Global Product

8. Is your product truly global?

9. “ Only contestants from USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and India can enter their presentations (sorry, this is due to contest law issues!)." When I saw this I was very sad. Such discrimination! I am from Nigeria. Why was I born...? Contd from prev slide…. FeedBack email

10. Global norms for content acceptability

11. Tagged : swimsuite, porn, soft-porn, sexy, awesome, beautiful “…… .soft-porn? where is porn in this? i dont see any?........” Contd from prev slide….

12. Defining the target user ?

13. Languages : English (42%), Spanish (37%), Portuguese (5%), French (3%) “… .demographics & psychographics vary across continents…” Contd from prev slide….

14. Language barriers separate your users from you

15. “ Hola me gustaria saber como puedo hacer para entrar ala pagina ya que es en ingles y no entiendo nada, me gustaría que me ayuden. GRACIAS!!” “ Hello Amit. It pardons my way to write, I do not speak English (single Castilian) and use the translator of Google for writer…….” Contd from prev slide…. FeedBack emails

16. Operational Challenges

17. Internet traffic does not respect your body clock

18. Hey, (…@msn.com) has contacted us. Below is the message/bug: The problems continue. I solved the username puzzle but now you refuse to send an acknowledgement email this my FOURTH request. My professor is now deducting points and thinks I am a slacker. …… [email_address] Contd from prev slide…. FeedBack email

19. Keeping team engaged

21. Technological Challenges

22. Risk increases with growth

24. Nokia v/s Canon Telecom v/s Skype Disruptive Technologies & Technological Obsolescence

25. Business Challenges

26. smaller, faster competitors

27. David v/s Goliath

28. Raising money can take time and attention away from product development

30. Questions? Slides available on www.slideshare.net/AmitRanjan www.amitranjan.com