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Ankit Gupta

Akshay Kothari

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Akshay Kothari

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In my last quarter (Spring ’11), me and Akshay (my cofounder) took Launchpad at the dschool. The idea was extremely simple – create the best news reading experience on mobile devices. We created and launched an iPad ap (called Pulse) during the class. Got great feedback and have now turned it into a company. Pulse has now grown to 8people with apps on on iPad, iPhone and Android platforms The dschool has helped us tremendously in launching Pulse.

We were working out of cafes while building Pulse. This allowed us to code something up, test it with our users (who were around us sipping coffee) and iterate on the app multiple times a day. Even now, we have multiple user testing/iteration cycles before launching any feature. We haveteam brainstorms around a pov about couple times ever week; coaching new employees on brainstorming along the way.

The idea was extremely simple – create the best news reading experience on mobile devices.

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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2010

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Today, Pulse has been downloaded by more than twenty million people and stands as one of the original fifty apps in Apple’s App Store Hall of Fame. And recently, Ankit and Akshay accepted an offer of $90 million from LinkedIn for the company they built with design thinking.

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Ankit Gupta: I learnt skills like brainstorming, interviewing users, rapid prototyping making mind maps etc. that I could apply to any problem out there and come up with creative solutions. I learnt the importance of executing; getting something out there fast and

iterating on it with user feedback. But, most importantly, I think I learned that creativity is always in hindsight

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#innovationevening Facilitators at 1st Meeting

Photographer Amin Jenab Entrepreneurship Student Soroush Rahimian

Designer Hossein Sepehri Design Student Behzad Moazzami

S.Alireza Kashizad Creativity Researcher