Sunday, January 22, 2006

Two Stories & a Little Quiz

Recently  i had a very interesting discussion with a friend of mine who is a Software Engg -turned -investment banker with Goldman . we were discussing  how difficult it is to see a business proposition in a technical breakthrough .To illustrate his point  he told me a story rather two stories  and ask me two Questions . it was fun and surprisingly i answered both of them correctly .
you guys wanna try it . here it is


Ever considered your self as a VC who face  new business idea .you think you can identify next hot application .  then lets test it here are three cases of a techie pitching you his plan to bring next Big thing  on Internet .

Which one you will bet your money on ??

Case #1


" Let's assume there is a graph with more than million nodes in it . all the nodes contains some value in them . value can be duplicate  also . i will write an application to traverse that graph to find out nodes whose value match or satisfy the given criteria and display it . if there are more than one entry  or node who matches the given criteria  i will arrange (sort ) them in the decreasing order of their In degree . i think this programme if it can be written in a fault tolerant ,secure ,scalable and web enabled manner  it will fetch me millions "

Case # 2

" i want to put a java database on Internet where anybody can create an account and gain a limited view base access to read,write retrieve his her information . user can export the view or records in a form where people having an account on other such databases will be able to import it and  read it . it will give a great tool to share information . and i think this programme if it can be written in a fault tolerant ,secure ,scalable and web enabled manner  it will fetch me millions "


so answer me . have you heard of any company who work on this plan .  you can leave your  comments /answer here as comments  .  i prefer them  here  instead of you sending me as email.

looking forward to  your reply

prashant 

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