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This is a piece of humour and gender specific,the reason for which be explicit in the paragraphs to come and then you shall concur with me that my decision had been right.` (image credit : wikipedia)

Whenever I read about a Startup being "disruptive", there in only one word which comes to my mind, exactly three words to be precise, "You are toast".

I mean, how "disruptive" you can be, when you can't even find another "disruptive" word.

So, I have been thinking wide and deep and came up with really "disruptive" alternate.

What is a Startup?

A startup is a company designed to grow fast?

What happens, if you grow fast, the way you are designed?

You have sleepless nights !

What happens, if you don't grow fast, the way you have been designed?

You have sleepless nights, again !

So, either ways, whether you go the way, you are designed, or you don't go, one thing is certain, you would be sleepless !

The idea or the startup, or whatever related to be, has to be so mind-boggling, that basically it renders you sleepless, on most of the nights (ie the nights,on which you are not drunk).

Now what happens, when you are sleepless?

There is a famous Hindi movie song, which captures the essence of the state very well (when you are sleepless)

Karvaten Badalte Rahe Saari Raat Hum | Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar | Aap Ki Kasam 1974 Songs

Ok, so lets move ahead !

You are so excited, that you just revolve around that 6X4 ft space whole night (could be larger, in case, you have company) and finally you cant take it anymore, and the only way to go to sleep, is to release all that pent-up energy in the middle of the night by relieving yourself ! (You know, what I mean).

Married men do their way and singles,well their century old way !

Now you would sympathize, why I was gender biased since beginning. Things are sane that ways !

So, in the process of getting relieved and releasing that pent up energy, ultimately something would happen in that 6X4 ft space, on that piece of furniture, energy transformation, and that would result to "Breaking Bed".

So for me, you are not doing right kind of exciting startup, unless it leads to "Breaking Bed" a few times.

People in North India identify with this more closely and we call it, "Palang Tod".

Breaking Bad == Palang Tod

So, I am not interested in your startup, unless it is "Breaking Bed" or "Palang Tod", thats my litmus test or dip-stick test.

Gone are the days of "TC Disrupt", the time has come for "NBW Palang Tod", as it is @ashish has been talking about re-doing the erstwhile, Pluggd.in

Is your idea, Palang Tod?

Is your startup, Palang Tod?

Forget everything else, this is the brutal question, you need to ask your inner self, constantly from now onwards.`

If you have not broken a couple of beds, while doing it, be rest assured, you are not going to be a unicorn !

We dont know, how many "Monthly Breaking Beds" it takes to produce one unicorn,but certainly it should be on the higher double digit side.

Keep track of your MBBs (the only metric, which will now matter) and beat your competition on it.

What about me? So here is mystory (argh, I wish I could have laid hand on that domain,I had some chance of getting funded), I am working on one "Palang Tod" currently.

So all that stuff which you read above, has been a real emotional roller-coaster.

My current MBBs?

That is where I have been really lacking, as at the first signs of "Palang Tod" happening, my mom comes and draws me out to sleep on the floor.

But I have not yet given up, and optimism or pessimism or whatever, God is a bloody witness, I will improve upon my MBB and be a unicorn !

My startup is “Palang Tod” !

30 gems on the future of healthcare - Philips Digital Healthcare Summit

Since Doctors’ Circle works in the space of the marriage of healthcare and digital, the Philips Healthcare Conclave organised by NextBigWhat was a perfect event for me to attend and I come back enlightened on the current state of affairs. There is also the reaffirmation that a lot will happen in the space in the next few years and digital technology is the only way to bridge the current supply…

Microsoft received 416 requests from Indian government agencies seeking information on 683 users between July- December 2013.

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Lessons Learned at Unpluggd Nextbigwhat Event: 

Influenced by a couple of my friends, this time I made my mind to attend Unpluggd Nextbigwhat Event at CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore. 

It was really an amazing experience as I met a lot of new people, sold my business cards ;-) & learnt lessons. Summarizing a few below - 

Being an entrepreneur is exciting but not easy. You'll be up many nights just thinking about your company.

Identify the problem you want to solve & always have an Unique Value Proposition.

Never Forget to focus on "Sales, Sales, Sales".

Treat your customer as "God".

When its time to grow your company [in terms of people], choose the best ones. "Hiring good people is good, if they are good hearted, it's better".

Keep improving your product. Research & Development is very essential. 

Be ready to give real feedback & accept too. Coz' real feedback will help build better products.

When four startups got live-funded in a NextBigWhat event exactly 6 months ago, everyone said the world changed today. But for most people in the community, the change was still too incremental ("they don't move fast enough, you see!"). Not really if look from the perspective of what used to be just 7 years ago.

In April 2006, Bangalore got its first ever Barcamp. By a stroke of luck, I happened to be there. This was the first and going to be the only startup/tech/blogger meetup in Bangalore for next 8 months. And, funding? There were no super angels, handful of Valley-inspired VC firms and to even attempt raising funding you needed 15 years of solid work experience.

                                                       Hotel rooms for few hours during the daytime don't have smartest reputation especially in India. Even though it's quite famous in western countries but whenever we heard the word " Rooms during daytime" , traditionally it raised our eyebrows & we think it's gonna be used for romance but its not the same what it seems and there is a big market apart from sex-traffic where people are using dayuse room or want to use dayuse rooms provided easy to book, options to choose and most important cost effective.

Before starting DayHalt.com, we had done our market research & come to stats that due to change in working style of today's generation and growing trend in Travel & Business Industry, there is a need of dayuse rooms.

There are lot of instances where people can use dayuse rooms apart from romantic liaison like during transit, at religious places, for holding meetings, to freshen-up & to keep luggage, corporate for Hiring candidate, people visiting different cities for 1 day trade Fair etc

  Response from our user Gouthami (at Therodinhood fourm discussion).

I think that there is definitely a market for this. Often when I travel to smaller towns, there is a long gap between flights - Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore - and often I wish that was a comfortable room where I could stretch out a bit or catch up on a nap. I have used the facility in Bangkok and Singapore several times.Or sometimes while making a day trip for a meeting, after the meeting is over, it would be a relief to just relax in the privacy of a room.

Also one of our user "Anshuman"comment on our Facebook page stating, he always wanted service like this as he felt need of dayuse room at Shirdi.

                           Major feedback and pain point what we got from our customers was regarding cost of the room and nasty looks from receptionist. Even though they are using hotel rooms for few hours during daytime and filling empty rooms for hotels, they need to shell out either full night cost or max they get 10% discount which is not value for money. Not only this, whenever they ask for dayuse rooms, looks from people around the hotel its like they had done some crime by asking dayuse rooms.

DayHalt.com arrived into the city with talk of a hotel revolution. DayHalt is an online portal to book hotel rooms for few hours during the day time at 50-60% discounted rates.

Idea is to increase revenue of Hotel by selling unsold inventory and at the same time providing value for money rooms to our customers. We have listing of rooms from luxurious to Budget hotels & apartments across countries depending on our customers need and budget. Each room is rented during day hours and once a day only. 

Before Dayhalt, finding hotel rooms for the day was, if not impossible, very complicated. Availability were uncertain, quality was dubious, and sometimes, you even had to endure nasty looks or comments from hotel staff. Transactions often could only be made at the hotel, in cash. Dayhalt delivers convenience, transparency and ease of use.

  Read an article what NEXTBIGWHAT say about us - http://www.nextbigwhat.com/day-use-hotels-availability-in-india-dayhalt-297/

                              Would you book a hotel room for a few hours?