Manik Gunawardana's cyber space

Since the start in 1998 to this date Google has came a long way becoming a giant in the whole IT industry. This is not just because they are the most visited website but they also were ahead of the rest in innovation. But nowadays Google seems to be losing it's grip on the business with the rest of the players in the game. Google's main revenue comes from advertising, when they started advertising they only had very few competition, when the competition keeps on growing, google obviously lost a portion it's advertising revenue to the competition. Google managed to keep up with the competition by improving their advertising quality and even changing their search algorithms, but when they take the action they were a little late. So is this the only reason why Google is falling behind? Was it really Google's fault? Well... not really, just think of it in this way Google is making the most revenue through advertising, even to this date it has not changed. Which mea...

Recently I was at a meet up, the topic was about "how to create a startup". There were two well-known start up founders who addressed the crowd that day and I was surprised to see that they were just talking about all irrelevant areas without focusing on the most important aspect of the birth of a startup. In modern era there are lots and lots of startups emerging because of the technological advancement of the society. Also most of these startups are technological startups because of the same reason. So can anybody create a startup out of thin air? The answer is no. So how to create a successful startup? Here are some tips. 1) Identify a problem and try to find a solution for that Identifying a problem is crucial when it comes to creating a startup. Just because you have an idea we cannot guarantee that idea will success. So instead of just throwing wildcards to the table it's always better to find a common problem and try to find the solution for th...