Innovation Seminar: Constraints actually foster Innovation. Aditya Kulkarni, founder of Little Eye Labs, a company which was recently acquired by facebook says entrepreneurs should enmbrace constraints, because that is what leads to innovation and creativity. A person who is stuck in a box is forced to think of a way out of it and that is why he comes up with a great solution. Which is why lack of funds shouldnt always be a problem because frugality makes you come up with an amazing solution.
About the speaker
Aditya Kulkarni is the Co-Founder of Little Eye Labs
Acquisition of Little Eye Labs by Facebook was an Eye Popping event. Their product Little Eye is a Performance Analysis and Monitoring tool that can help identify and fix performance problems in Android Apps. In mere 18 months, the company created a huge impact and got global attention. What is the secret of their success? Is there a magic formula? According to Kumar Rangrajan, Chief Ion at Little Eye Labs, their goal is to build ‘super easy’ to use products. All of us know that’s not easy!! How did they manage it in such short time? Let’s find out answers to all these questions while we hear the exciting story from Aditya Kulkarni, who as Chief Product Ion built Little Eye.
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