Seattle * Hyderabad * Mumbai

www.MAQSoftware.com

Live on the Cutting Edge!

DreamSpark Yatra

A story of a high-school boy

5 months

ago…

17 year old wrote

small app in 2 days…

November

2009 April

2010 2010

5 months

since

launch 1st month

November

2009 December

2009

500 users

per day

50,000 users/ day

November

2009 April

2010 2010

6 months

since

launch

1st month

500/day 2nd month

Now..

1.5 million users worldwide

November

2009 April

2010 2010

4th month 5 months

since

launch

1st month

500/day

2nd month

50,000/day

Valued at $20 million!

Chatroulette created by Andrey Ternovskiy

Moral of the story

• Living on the Cutting Edge of Technology

provides disruptive opportunity..

• Some other student formed companies…

– Facebook (Marc Zuckerberg)

– Yahoo (David Filo & Jerry Yang)

– Google (Larry Page & Sergey Brin)

– Microsoft (Bill Gates)

Technology Growth: Accelerating Exponentially

• Time for 25% of society to adopt

• Implies you have to be in environment where

you are continuously on the cutting edge

Years to Adopt

Telephone 35 years

Radio 31 years

TV 25 years

PC 16 years

Internet 7 years

Wikipedia

5 years

The Opportunity- Short Term!

Technology Trend Opportunity Potential Money

Cloud Computing • Reduces IT management costs, helps scale

$100 * millions of current apps!

Multimedia • “Video in everything” • Avatar movie type effects

$10 billion +

Mobile • Natural user interface • Mass connectivity • Anyplace / anytime access

$6.2 billion +

Content Management • Everybody is creating content- every day

• More tools to manage

$4 billion +

Database Management • Exponentially increasing data • Better analysis for faster

decisions

$16 billion +

More opportunities

Exponential Trends Opportunity Potential Money

DNA sequencing and human genome project

• Apps to track and manage the billions of sequences

• Each of us and our pets will have 20,000 variables of data

$10 billion

Robotics • In 2007: 2 million personal robots, 10 million enterprise robots

• Doubling every year

$50 billion

Nanotechnology

• Manipulation of atoms, molecules • Apollo diamond carbon to

diamond

High

Bandwidth, storage, processing

• Better every year High

Biotech • Agri, medicine, informatics… High

In a gold rush the safer profit is in building the tools

So What Can You Do?

• Make conscious choices to be on cutting edge

• Always look to learn new technology

- Download beta’s from Microsoft.com

- Build live projects

- Industry orientation program at MAQ Software

Make the Right Choice:

You Have 2 Paths in Life…

Stability

(Village Road)

• Predictable

• Easy

• In Tech= use technology released last year or earlier

Flux/cutting edge

(City Road)

• Less predictable

• Challenging, rewarding…

• In Tech= use tech that is to be released

Why Live on Cutting Edge?

• More profitable

– Best job security= training for jobs of tomorrow!

• More enjoyable

– Cool new phone!

Sample of What You Can Do: Training at MAQ Software

You are Lucky!

• Right country

• Right city

• Right technology

• Right time…

• Start living on the cutting edge!

About MAQ Software

• 10 years of operations

• 70+ projects for product, marketing teams Microsoft (USA)

– Bing, Windows, MSN, OEM, GMO, Office..

• Entire team focused on unreleased or just released versions

– Windows Azure, Business Intelligence, Android, iPhone and Windows Phone

• Worldwide 300+ employees

– Integrated Engineering Centers in Redmond, Bombay and Hyderabad

– Common engineering practices, common tools and common training

• Over 90% of our projects are repeat customers or their referrals

• Ensure faster time to market at a lower cost

• Product Quality Development Practices

– Rigorous code analysis, twice a week builds, extensive testing

359.5% Growth

Fast Growth= More Opportunities

Seattle * Hyderabad * Mumbai

www.MAQSoftware.com

Start Living on the

Cutting Edge!

DreamSpark Yatra

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