business-ideas

Evaluate business ideas in software development

What are certain signs to pursue or discard a business idea? ...

Get rewarded for creativity.

I have a software idea that can make my company a large amount of money (but is otherwise worthless to me -- it relies on specific assets the company already owns). I'm sure I could do all of the work myself, in my down time over the next year. How can I maximize my reward for the idea? By reward, I want increased cash flow, extra ben...

iPhone corporate app ideas?

I'm interested in doing an iPhone app for my day job as a pet project to learn iPhone app development. I'm curious how many companies are doing corporate iPhone apps (for internal use or for customer use). Does anyone have examples of how companies are doing iPhone apps? ...

If I were to come up with Twitter idea

I was thinking - What would've happened if I were to come up with the twitter idea - that let's make a bloggin website for very short blogs. What will be the reaction of my friends? I think they would say - "its a crazy idea, not worth pursuing". (Incidentally many of us still don't understand twitter) Even if I created the website, ...

Top k problem - finding usage for my academic work

Top k problem - searching BEST k (3 or 1000) elements in DB There is fundamental problem with relational DB, that to find top k elems, there is a need to process ALL rows in table. Which make it useless on big data. I'm making application (for university research, not really my invention, I'm implementing and trying to improve origina...