I already wrote in my last posts that I am working on a startup project. Over the last months we developed silently a big part of the application and set up Tagcrumbs Limited. I co-founded the company with Sascha (IT) and Ben (Business). A cool team with all core competencies on board so we can exactly design and build the product we love and that is framed in our minds. So far working on this project was fun and I am looking forward to the next months.

From now on you can read more about Tagcrumbs, the startup experience or our mobile lifestyle under blog.tagcrumbs.com. Feel free to contact us if there are any questions related to Tagcrumbs.

“You know the world is going crazy, when the best rapper is white, the best golfer is black, France is accusing the US of arrogance and Germany does not want to go to war.” [Anonymous Internet joke]

Today I heard an exciting farewell talk of a professor for international management about China in the 21st century. This statement was on one of his last slides. It should make you aware of the fact that stereotypical thinking is often misleading. There are always perfect exceptions and different perspectives, so start thinking outside the box and challenge established conventions.

Another finding:
“Thinking outside the box requires different attributes that include:

• Willingness to take new perspectives to day-to-day work.
  
• Openness to do different things and to do things differently.
  
• Focusing on the value of finding new ideas and acting on them.
  
• Striving to create value in new ways.
  
• Listening to others.
  
• Supporting and respecting others when they come up with new ideas.”

[Source: http://www.canadaone.com/ezine/april02/out_of_the_box_thinking.html]

If you want to develop a successful product or application, you have to truly understand the target market, the demands of the users, the opinions of the thought leaders, the market trends and opportunities and the whole ecosystem that surrounds you. This is a hard tasks because there is a wealth of information but a lack of attention. Always getting distracted by the stream of information from various sources is a really tough problem and makes you unproductive.

I won’t present any solutions to this problem but invite everyone who is interested in the mobile space, mobile technologies & applications and mobile entrepreneurship to join a group chat our team just initiated. The Mobile Chat, see below. It is meant as a place for short qualitative announcement messages and a place for interesting discussions with the focus on mobile, the market of the future. It is open to everyone and feel free to participate and add some value.