Startup Idea: Solution Discovery Platform for Ignored Tech Challenges
Business, consulting and management.
As with so many other things, Google has shaped the way people view the tech industry’s pursuit of the future. As the top Googlers see it, change can be categorized in two ways: small steps and giant leaps — increments and moonshots. Such a world view is useful, particularly if you run a gigantic company that must satisfy billions of daily customers who want steadily improving service, while also exciting investors who want to see that you’re hopping the next wave.
But this model omits a lot of the improvable territory on the tech landscape. It leaves out all those problems that we don’t bother changing because we’ve stopped seeing them as solvable. We’ve accepted them as part of the way our flawed universe works, and don’t even think about what to do to relieve them. Or we just never saw them in the first place. Google - around 14 lakhs per annum for fresh graduates, for seniors - the average salary 25 lakhs per annum. Microsoft - median salary of around 12 lakhs per annum for fresh graduates, for seniors the average salary is 28 lakhs per annum. IBM - median salary 8 LPA, and for experienced senior engineers - 10 LPA. Accenture - junior engineers - around 2-4 lakhs per annum. Tata Consultancy Services - average pay of Rs.3-5 lakhs per annum. A bunch of students are working on a physics problem set in the common room. C and J are done with questions 1 through 4 and are currently working on 5. A just finished solving question 4 and wants to check her work with C and J: "Hey guys, could you show me your solution for number four? I'm not sure I did it correctly."
Joe had just bought a fridge for a dollar from an old lady down the road. Still unable to believe his luck, he wasted no time in setting it up in the corner of the hovel he shared with his brother, Alex. Only after plugging in the fridge did Joe realize that the door wouldn't close properly. He repeatedly slammed the door shut only to have it slowly creak open each time to his chagrin. "Hey, bro," Alex finally said, "calm down. Calm down!" He pulled out a crowbar. "There's a quick solution for this."More than 72 per cent of you chose the wrong answer. Maybe it’s an exaggeration to say that “almost everyone” gets this question wrong but the vast majority of you did! (And that’s not accounting for the fact that many of you who took part are seasoned readers of this puzzle column, and were warned that this question was not all it seemed.).