mobME turns two!
Friday, December 12th was mobME’s second anniversary. This day in 2006 marks our transition from Torque Technology Solutions, a partnership firm we started while in our 5th semester in Engineering College to mobME Wireless Solutions (P) Ltd. Back then, we had already got incubated in T-BIC, Technopark & our first round of angel investment had just come in. We had a small but great team & had decided our focus would be the possibilities of combining the power of Mobile & Internet.
Looking back, things have been great. We have grown from a college start-up to a company with 30 employees, a Marketing Office & a Development Center in Cochin and Biz Dev Centers in Mumbai & Gurgaon. Every single day out of the past two years have been exciting & challenging. It’s been a wonderful learning experience and we were successful in creating many profit centers within the company. SMSC Solutions, IVR (In-bound & Out-bound) Services, Online Bulk SMS (www.FastAlerts.in & www.BuyBulkSMS.com) have all grown into steady businesses.
And the 2nd anniversary week was special in more ways than one.
We got featured in the 2008 NASSCOM 100 Innovators list & have also been short listed among the finalists for the award in the start-up category. We were fortunate enough to be listed in NASSCOM’s 2007 list too but this time its much more special as we have been selected for the final presentation at Pune along with 5 other start-ups. Really looking forward to this event on the 23rd of this month. Sanjay & Vivek would be presenting mobME.
The other great news came in the form of an agreement from Vodafone for going on board their network as a peer2peer photo sharing partner. This happens to be the first among several other partnerships being forged between other leading Mobile Operators in the country. Almost half the team is working on this product & we are gonna rock 2009 with this! 
We had thought of having some good getaway for the entire team but that didn’t happen cos Sanjay & Vishnu were stuck in Delhi & Vivek was busy in Mumbai. I just managed to get back to Cochin couple of days before the anniversary after a month long stint at Mumbai. So the celebration had to be limited to cakes for the time being!
