Last night we went out for St Patrick’s day and I completely forgot that our mobile app was being launched. I woke up this morning to check my feeds and realized that the app had been launched, was generating a bit of enthusiasm, and had been TechCrunched – all while I was sleeping!
This is the day every startup founder lives for – when smart, capable folks are taking the ownership for the app. I am lucky that we have such an awesome team! As you might have read the SlideShare mobile app was a skunkworks project – some of SlideShare team members decided to build a mobile app for Yahoo hackday. They started building it, rest of team pitched in as needed, and pretty soon it was ready to launch.
Thanks Kapil, Prasanna, Mani, Bhups, Cju, Ashwan, Arun and the entire team!
Rashmi, this rocks! I love that your team started something on a lark that turned into a meaningful product and that you’ve delegated enough to a smart team that you could sleep through it.
Dale, it is pretty cool. Especially when I think of all the late nights we have stayed up for other launches :-)
The teams effort will surely see fruitful results. Slideshare has already become a revolution. I have more than 20 slides in my profile and I have created many slides as guest. I really enjoy your posting presentation on slideshare. Great to see the team in action again on new applications.
You are addicted to slideshare.net aren’t you?
I read about you in an italian newspaper and I’d like to add you on my LinkedIn network, but since I do not know you and your email you may add me if you find my profile interesting.
Hey Rashmi,
Read this amazing news about you..and trust me..its a terrific news!! “Rashmi Sinha among America’s sexiest CEO”!! (http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/may/07/rashmi-sinha-among-sexiest-ceos-in-america.htm)
Wow!!! thats a terrific one!! Its rare to find a scintillating beauty and terrific brain together!! No wonder..you are one of them and hence you are rare!!!
Keep rising!!
Amrit
Rashmi
Gr8 news – you have made Indians proud. Best wishes!
Sunil
As an aside, what are your thoughts on scaling up a social startup?
I co-founded a non-profit called FastForwardIndia (http://www.fastforwardindia) in 2006 with an intention to help the underpriveleged children using the motivation of college students. We started a computer literacy project in a small city in India and later expanded it to the local prison (for prisoners). However, we are not quite clear about how to make it scalable and sustainable? Should we build a revenue-generating model that will grow on its own? Not being based in India (I work in the bay area, ca) is another challenge.
Your thoughts would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jitendra
Sorry the complete link (in the above comment) is: http://www.fastforwardindia.org
I love slideshare
i can get many information there
The mobile version is down since at least october 9… more than 2 months !!
http://slideshare.zendesk.com/forums/61518/entries/67559
Very strange for a services that was an important announcement at the time.
I hope it’s not the sign of bigger internal difficulties, because SlideShare can really be credited as transforming Slides into a mainstream media.